TEDxLakeheadU 2026: Ideas that grow — G.R.O.W.T.H.

On May 23, 7 speakers took the TEDxLakeheadU stage in Thunder Bay. Their ideas are now online for the world to watch, share and build on.

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Date: Sat · May 23, 2026
Venue: The Outpost, Lakehead U
Lineup: 7 speakers · 1 performance
Theme: G.R.O.W.T.H.

Global✕Renaissance✕Opportunity✕Wealth Creation✕Transformative✕Home to All✕

Now streaming

The 2026
Talks

From paralysis recovery to quantum computing, watch the ideas that took the stage on the official TEDx YouTube channel.

All talks on YouTube

Co-founder of ReYu Paralysis Recovery Center · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Stephen Ritz
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Saturday, May 23, 2026

The day,
hour by hour

Full agenda

09:32
Opening ceremony
Opening remarks and a smudging ceremony set the tone for G.R.O.W.T.H.
10:06
AI, with a human
James McCormack on where healthcare must keep a human in the loop.
11:24
Connecting the dots
Dr. Chitra Anand on intrapreneurship and systems thinking.
11:38
When one door closes
Brian Lenahan takes a packed room from AI to quantum.
12:00
Growing the future
Stephen Ritz brings the Bronx's edible classrooms to Thunder Bay.
12:35
Workshops
Two hands-on sessions turned ideas into action.
13:20
Duelling pianos
Danny Johnson kept the lunch hour loud and crowd-voted.
14:18
Frictionless?
Arron Lin on the hidden cost of making everything easy.
14:30
Social erosion
Ava I. Coyne on how our identities are being weathered.
15:08
The panel
Speakers came back together to debate the day's ideas.
16:05
Thank you
Closing remarks, flowers and a full stage of people who made it happen.

May 23, 2026

Thank you,
Thunder Bay.

To everyone who filled the seats, asked the hard questions, volunteered behind the scenes and backed us as a partner: you turned one Saturday into a day of ideas worth spreading. Rooted in Canada's north, built by students, and home to all.

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