Everything from the stage at Gund Auditorium on August 22, 2026, published to the TEDxHuntingValley YouTube channel. Six student talks, six adult talks, and the complete recording with every introduction and Q&A.
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Chapters
Six students from six schools across Greater Cleveland, selected through an open competition on the strength of the idea alone, and introduced exactly the way every adult was.
Ethan Shneyderman · Junior, Mayfield High School
Six hundred letters from embassies, a Prime Minister, and a grocery store, and why the story was never about who wrote back.
Jackson Sarver · Senior, Aurora High School
A war over bird poop, the chemist who fed half of humanity, and the dark side of the same molecule.
Claire Witalec · Rising junior, Laurel School
The invisible lines on the map that decide elections before a vote is cast.
Priyasha Ghosal · Sophomore, Hawken School
The human labor hidden behind every “place order” button.
Gage Martin · Senior, Louisville High School
Why you mow your lawn every Sunday, and the false needs somebody sold you.
James Mason Jr. · Senior, University School
Code switching, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the cost of hiding your own voice.
Six leaders from Cleveland sports, law, business, hospitality, and the port, sharing the same stage and the same standard as the students who went first.
Nic Barlage · CEO, Cleveland Cavaliers & Rock Entertainment Group
Purpose as the engine, and the bet on downtown Cleveland.
Brandon Chrostowski · Founder, President & CEO, EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute
Same human, same prison, different engine, different result.
Marc Byrnes · Chairman Emeritus, Oswald Companies
Are you a battery charger or a battery drainer?
Laila Edwards · Olympic gold medalist, U.S. Women's National Ice Hockey Team
The practices nobody watched, and the final two minutes of a gold medal game.
Jeff Epstein · President and CEO, Port of Cleveland
An anchor, a jar of river mud, and a ship’s wheel: what the Port of Cleveland is, and what it could be.
Fred Nance · Senior Partner, Squire Patton Boggs
The secret weapon behind the Browns, LeBron, and 40 years of fights for Cleveland.
Ideas worth spreading
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