Gallery: TEDxMechanicsville – Vitality!

TEDxMechanicsville - Vitality! Group Photo

Event Date: 11/01/2025
Organizer: TEDxMechanicsville Volunteer Team

This year’s theme, Vitality, celebrated the energy behind innovation, resilience, and human connection. It captured momentum – the driving force behind personal breakthroughs, thriving communities, and bold ideas.

Run entirely by volunteers, TEDxMechanicsville remained dedicated to showcasing extraordinary individuals and the ideas shaping our world. Our mission was to provide a platform for visionaries, thought leaders, and changemakers to share insights that inspire action.

On November 1st, 2025, at Courts Bayview Yards, we gathered to honour speakers whose ideas ignited this sense of vitality – across the arts, sciences, social justice, entrepreneurship, and everyday life.

Together, with our speakers, volunteers and partners, we continue to build a more just, productive, and joyful world – one talk at a time.

TEDxMechanicsville – Vitality! Speakers & Coaches
Monique Manach, Algonquin Elder, Executive Director – Indigenous Culture and Media Innovations & Kunal Parikh, Core Volunteer & Coach
TEDxMechanicsville – Vitality! Attendees
JOYFUL Stream Speakers – Dale Allen, Alex Keenan, Krista Swanson, Kara Stonehouse, Zen Tharani. Coach – Gillian White
PRODUCTIVE Stream Speakers – Natalia Popowych, Rebecca Aird, Julie Lavergne, Peter Georgariou, Urooj Qureshi Lisa Weagle. Coach – Liora Raitblat
JUST Stream Speakers – Richard Webster, Simon Bell, Emilie Valiquette, Beth Ciavaglia, Jay Smith. Coach – Kunal Parikh

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