TEDxBU 2026

TEDxBU is Back!

Themes and speakers will be announced by March 2026.

TEDxBU is an annual event uniting speakers from within the BU community and beyond to discuss ideas worth spreading. This event is one of 3,000 grassroots events happening throughout the world.

The event will be held on Saturday, April 4th. Doors open at 12:30pm.

** Please arrive on time. If you arrive after 12:30 pm your seat will be given to someone on the waitlist.

This year's theme is "The Search In Identity."

“Affirm your own identity– then look beyond that identity to which we have in common with all life.” – Howard Thurman

From The Search for Common Ground by Howard Thurman.

Our Speakers:

Blake Hanrahan (Where You Don’t Belong is Where You Begin)

Mona Nour (How (and why) to rethink our sense of belonging)

Elaleh Bahari (The Cost of Main Character Syndrome)

Douglas Hannah (The Purpose You Can’t Yet See)

Wen Qi (Why We Tell Stories in This Rapid Age)

Diya Shah (Breaking Brown Silence)

Kilee Simon ( Being Black On Trial: Biases against Black Witnesses and Their Use of AAVE in the Courtroom)

Stephen Murray ( What If Everything You Knew About Drugs Was Wrong?)

Andy Schraegle ( What Murder Taught Me About Love: The Neuroscience of Remembering Our Worth)