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Students & Educators Day 2025
What If… students and educators could experience TEDxPortsmouth for FREE?
On Thursday, May 8, 2025 you can!
Seacoast area educators are invited to bring groups of engaged students in grades 8-12 to the first ever TEDxPortsmouth Students & Educators day at The Music Hall. Here you’ll get a unique, behind the scenes viewing of TEDxPortsmouth during our full dress rehearsal, the day before the main event.
Taking TEDx to the Top! How They Sold Out Tickets In 25 Minutes
In this episode of Granite Goodness, we meet Anna and Kaarin, the self described locomotive management duo behind TEDx Portsmouth. Anna (the freight train) and Kaarin (the brakes) share their...
Anna Goldsmith on Creative Leadership, Partnerships and TEDx
Anna Goldsmith, the producer and licensee of TEDxPortsmouth, was recently featured on the Authentic Leadership For Everyday People podcast.
Anna Goldsmith is the founder of The Hired Pens,...
Three “Big Idea” Mistakes to Avoid on Your TEDx Application
In this article from Lioness magazine, our producer and licensee Anna Goldsmith shares her tips on what to avoid doing on your TEDx application.
It’s the first and most important question...
What Does Style Have to Do with Sharing Your Big Idea on Stage?
Anna Goldsmith, our TEDxPortsmouth producer and licensee, was featured on the podcast Ms Tammy Hickey - Your Authentic Ally. Anna walks us through the TEDx audition process:...
Where are our TEDxPortsmouth speakers now: Catching up with Kartik Sakthivel
Sakthivel’s 2019 talk (“The Technology Age – Thriving Through Disruption”) focused on the profusion of technology, its never-ending and ever-quickening development, and the need to adopt a “learning mindset” to thrive in this environment, if not just to keep pace. It turned out to be a timely theme – within six months of Sakthivel’s talk, the Covid pandemic upended everything we knew.
Sponsor Spotlight: With Kennebunk Savings’ Community Relations & Social Responsibility Manager, Liz Torrance
At Kennebunk Savings, being ‘purpose driven’ isn’t a mere marketing tagline — it’s a business philosophy that has the bank deeply rooted as an active member of the southern Maine...
Important Update on TEDxPortsmouth
TEDxPortsmouth is pressing pause on its 2020 event, originally planned for September 25 at The Music Hall in Portsmouth due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Last year, as a true community-driven event,...
TEDxPortsmouth Update: COVID-19 Response
At its heart, TEDxPortsmouth is about stories — stories of lives lived, and lessons learned. Stories of technology and innovation, of personal connection and humanity. Stories of revelation and discovery,...