TEDxCharlotte is a licensed TED event aimed to inspire, educate and bring together TED followers and other innovative thinkers in Charlotte and the surrounding area.

Dressed to the nines and  barefoot on stage, Manny Ohonme, Sports Hero & Founder of Samaritans Feet’s stage presence is larger than life. “I want to challenge you to keep risking and keep dreaming large because each one of us has what it takes to be the power of one.” He urges the crowd to [...]

Loan described herself as a person that used to take a seat in the midst of chaos… until 2009, when she met a group of people that changed her opinion on taking that passive seat. “No one person is just a person. We carry around backpacks that identify us, that we care about, and that [...]

Susan Harbage Page, Artist
, grew up in Charlotte. She’s been making art for a really long time. When she was 10, her mom packed her and her three sisters and took them camping for 3 months in Europe. 23 borders crossed! They were stopped and held at gunpoint in Romania and she’s never been the [...]

Mark just guaranteed the audience that they’d have said “what?” at least once during his talk. His talk is about the frontier of personal flight… yes, personal flight. Dr. Moore opened his talk by comparing personal flight to automobiles – suggesting that the next generation will be just as accepting of personal flight as we [...]

David Johnson, photographer and Founder of Silent Images, appears as a very approachable man with a kind face. He starts out by saying; “We are the ones who were staring out the window, dreaming. We’re a kindergarden teacher’s worst dreams. Yet, here we are, shaking up the world. In 2006, David was a tennis coach [...]

Charla opened by saying that her memoior launched her into the two worst experiences of her life, including Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey. “I’m the gal that had the wacky idea of giving her husband intimacy every day for a year in honor of his 40th birthday.” Charla never intended to write a book about [...]