Founding Partners Wanted
TEDxAmes is building its first sponsor and partner circle. Help bring the TEDx experience to Ames from the ground up.
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November 6, 2026 · Ames, Iowa · Theme: RENEW
TEDxAmes starts here. RENEW starts now.
A new TEDx stage is coming to Ames. On November 6, 2026, 100 people will gather around one idea: nothing alive stays alive without renewing itself. Original talks, real conversation, and ideas ready to travel beyond Iowa.
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A First Stage, Built Around RENEW.
TEDxAmes 2026 is the community's first independently organized TEDx event, built around a simple idea: everything alive has to renew itself, or it starts to die. A cell does it. A person does it. A community does it too.
It is built for the people shaping Ames: educators, entrepreneurs, students, makers, researchers, civic leaders, artists, and neighbors with ideas worth spreading.
Founding sponsors and partners will help create the platform, fund the production, welcome the audience, and make sure the talks live far beyond event day.
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A Founding Opportunity
Sponsors and partners needed.
As a first-year event, TEDxAmes needs mission-aligned organizations to help build the room, support speaker preparation, and bring a world-class idea platform to central Iowa.
View Sponsorship DeckWhy TEDxAmes?
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Local Signal
Ames is full of research, creativity, civic energy, and lived experience, ideas that are already renewing this community from the inside. TEDxAmes gives them a focused stage.
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Global Reach
Every recorded TEDx talk can move from one room in Iowa to viewers around the world. Local ideas deserve that kind of life.
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Shared Investment
Sponsors, volunteers, speakers, and partners make the first event possible - and help establish a tradition Ames can build on.
What's Happening
Speaker Curation Coming Soon
The first TEDxAmes speaker slate will spotlight original ideas with local roots and global relevance.
Learn MoreFirst TEDxAmes Event
A one-day, 100-seat gathering for original talks, conversation, and community momentum in Ames, Iowa.
Event DetailsHelp Build the First Room.
Before the first speaker steps on stage, TEDxAmes needs partners who believe this community is ready to renew how it sees its own ideas.