TEDxParkCity founder Teri Orr is ready to take the town “Back-to-TED.”

That’s the title of the season kickoff on Thursday, Oct. 30, that will feature an evening of curated TEDx presentations, culled from the 2025 TEDx Conference that was held in Vancouver, at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts.

“I’m still curating, and it’s been painfully hard,” she said. “It all depends on which of my darlings I choose to kill.”

So far, Orr promises an evening that will feature speakers Sam Altman of OpenAI, investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres.

“Carole was at TEDxScotland with us a few years ago, and she broke the Brexit story and talked about the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica (scandal) and why it was such a big deal,” Orr said.

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