The way you see everything is about to change. Join us at the Albuquerque Railyards for a full day of ideas, art, and conversations that challenge the way you think about the world — and yourself.
Early bird pricing ends August 1st — save over 20%
A BUILDING
THAT'S ALREADY
A REFRAME
We're taking over the Albuquerque Railyards — one of the city's most iconic spaces — and filling every corner with ideas worth spreading. This isn't a conference. It's a happening.
The newly renovated main stage. Where the big talks happen and ideas land.
Immersive experiences, exhibits, and programming in a raw industrial space.
Where the city comes out to play. Pop-up interviews, food, and open air.
19 VOICES.
19 REFRAMES.
Each speaker arrives with a reframe — of health, identity, justice, science, creativity, and what it means to be human.
NASA-funded solar physics researcher who will change the way you think about that star you've been ignoring your whole life.
Reframing how we look at the sun.
How does a piece of merchandise transform a community's identity — and what does it have to do with the future of space?
Reframing space from a destination to an economy.
Forget surveys. AI and facial recognition are quietly revolutionizing how we understand audience experience.
Reframing how we measure engagement.
Reclaiming your health isn't just physical — it's the most direct path to reclaiming who you are.
Reframing identity as something you can take back.
A young person teaching other young people that STEM isn't for someone else — it's for them, right now, wherever they are.
Reframing who gets to be a STEM role model.
Sexual violence isn't a women's issue waiting for women to solve it. It's a men's issue — and it's time men stepped up.
Reframing sexual assault as everyone's responsibility.
Failure is funny. Failure is human. And failure might be the most honest thing we have in common.
Reframing failure as connection.
An Air Force engineer with a simple, radical idea: stop putting boys ahead of girls and start walking beside them.
Reframing gender equality from institutional to cultural.
What if healing from trauma isn't about going back to who you were — but integrating who you've become?
Reframing trauma recovery from restoration to integration.
A radical approach to love: drop your expectations entirely, and replace them with something more powerful.
Reframing relationships from expectations to appreciation.
The skills forged inside a gang and prison system — leadership, strategy, resilience — are exactly what communities need. Who decided otherwise?
Reframing a criminal record from life sentence to leadership training.
You don't need an ocean to explore one. From the desert, a scientist ventures into the twilight zone — and brings us with her.
Reframing ocean exploration: no coastline required.
Gaming has always been about community. A brick-and-mortar shop in Albuquerque is proving it — one controller at a time.
Reframing gaming from isolation to connection.
A schizophrenia diagnosis is a label. But a label is not a person. It's time we learned to see the difference.
Reframing disability: a complete person with an incomplete label.
Writing a psychological thriller taught her that the quirks she'd been editing out were actually the source material for her best work.
Reframing your limitations as your greatest creative resource.
Introversion isn't stage fright — it's a superpower. And for performers, learning that changes everything.
Reframing introversion from liability to strength.
What if medicine asked not just what's wrong with you, but why — and looked east for the answer?
Reframing medical practice through curiosity and eastern medicine.
The "good girl" persona is one of the most quietly suffocating identities a woman can wear. What happens when she takes it off?
Reframing self-authenticity as the most radical act of all.
AI in medicine doesn't have to mean treating illness after it strikes. What if we used it to stop illness before it starts?
Reframing AI in healthcare from treatment to prevention.
CHOOSE YOUR
EXPERIENCE
Full day access to all talks, exhibits, the bookstore, food trucks, and every curious engagement we've cooked up.
- All talks + programming
- All exhibits and experiences
- Bookstore access
- Food trucks
- Full day (10 AM – 5 PM)
Price increases Aug 1
- Priority entry
- Reserved seating
- VIP-only areas & amenities
- Special surprises
- Exclusive VIP After Party
- Mingle with speakers & board
No early bird — limited availability
- All talks + programming
- All exhibits and experiences
- Bookstore access
- Food trucks
- Full day (10 AM – 5 PM)
Available through event day
We believe ideas belong to everyone. Reach out to your student coordinator for access to student tickets.
YOU COULD KEEP SEEING THE WORLD THE WAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE.
Or you could show up on August 29th and let it surprise you.
Get Your Tickets NowTEDxABQ is a volunteer-powered movement inspired by the global TED mission. Encompassing the greater Albuquerque, NM metro area, it aims to fulfill its mission as a dynamic platform that unites diverse thinkers and doers across the region.
TEDxABQ invites Albuquerque into a playground for curiosity, where diverse ideas collide and charge our city’s future.
We want to create a thriving ABQ+ where ideas, creativity, and collaboration fuel innovation and transformation.
We do this by celebrating curiosity as a journey, and inviting our community along for the ride! —fostering an inclusive space (everyone’s welcome!) where diverse thinkers connect, explore, and share powerful ideas that create ripples of local and global change.
Our Team
Since its inception in 2010, TEDxABQ has always been a volunteer-driven organization. Our volunteers do everything from speaker selection, event coordination and volunteer management to marketing, fundraising, and graphic design.
OrganiXers
Alex Andrego Adams
Lead OrganiXer, Curator, & President of Curiosity, Inc.
Meghan Pickard
Lead OrganiXer, Curator, & Vice-President of Curiosity, Inc.
Lisa Heldt
OrganiXer & Treasurer Extraordinaire
Nando Betancur
OrganiXer & Investment Lead
Miranda Andrego
OrganiXer & Chronicles Keeper
Dovya Friedman
OrganiXer & Brand Strategist
Angie VanArsdale
OrganiXer & Volunteer Cultivator
Nina Martinez
OrganiXer & Community Connector
John-Mark Collins
OrganiXer & Creative Lead
John Grassham
OrganiXer & Connector
Kalina Schulz
OrganiXer & Connector
Jonathan Perno
OrganiXer & ChefAdviXers
Tim Nisly
AdviXer
Bill Meador
Advixer
Amanda Bergamo
AdviXerCuriosity.
Connection.
Catalyst.
TEDxABQ is committed to collaboration and partnership with our own New Mexico community. YOU are our speakers. You are our volunteers. YOU are our connectors. YOU are our supporters. I think you can tell, we can’t do it without YOU.
Partners & Affiliations
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
Address
PO Box 26231
Albuquerque, NM 87125