WHAT'S NEXT AT TEDXOMAHA?
The call for speakers for TEDxOmaha 2025 is now closed.
NEXT is more than just a word—it’s a challenge, an opportunity, and a question waiting to be answered. A simple four-letter word packed with infinite possibilities. It embodies progress, anticipation, and transformation, yet it can also signal uncertainty, disruption, or the unknown.
For some, NEXT is the future—breakthroughs in AI, medicine, and space exploration. It’s the next innovation in sustainability, climate solutions, or urban design. It’s the discoveries in science, art, and education that will reshape how we live, work, and connect.
For others, NEXT is deeply personal—the next chapter after adversity, the next step in growth, or a reinvention of identity. It’s about cultural shifts, societal change, and the evolving story of humanity. It sparks tough questions: What’s next for democracy? For inclusion? For ethics in the digital age?
But what stands in contrast to NEXT? Is it stagnation, resistance, or nostalgia? Sometimes, standing still is a choice. Sometimes, looking back is necessary before moving forward. NEXT dares us to reflect, reimagine, and take action.
TEDxOmaha is seeking bold, thought-provoking voices from diverse industries, disciplines, and perspectives to explore what’s NEXT—expected or unexpected.
Applications are now closed for 2025
TEDxOMAHA Salons return to KANEKO for a regular Monthly Salon, starting at 6:00 PM.
Join us at KANEKO on Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. as we welcome 2024 main event TEDx Omaha speaker David Joel Thomas to explore the art and act of improvisation and creating. Artists tend to be driven more by method than by personal expression and predetermined ideas. Improvisation is one such method. We generally think of improvisation as spontaneous or unprepared creation. While it can be this, it is also, more technically speaking, a creative activity that lies somewhere within the interpenetration of creation and preservation, tradition and novelty, remembrance and imagination.
In this interactive discussion, David Joel Thomas, introduces you to Ancient Mesopotamian architectural typologies, in particular the urban and domestic plans of Ur (ca. 2000 BCE), that serve as the material basis of an improvisatory design exploration of lost forms and preferable futures.
📅 Date: Thursday, April 24
📍 Location: KANEKO
🎟️ Secure your spot now!
KANEKO is located at 1111 Jones Street in Downtown Omaha.
PARKING: There are a few metered spots alongside the building on Jones Street. Please enter through the Library entrance.
