Bo Parfet
How Do You Light Your Soul on Fire?
Ideas worth
spreading.
One independently organized TED event each year, salons all semester, and a competition that puts a student in the spotlight.
Who we are
TEDxPurdueU is the official TEDx chapter at Purdue University.
We organize an official TEDx conference every year with 300+ attendees, curating six speakers from all across the world to share their ideas with the Greater Lafayette community. Past speakers have included Las Vegas headliners, researchers, and founders.
What we do
01
TEDxPurdueU: Unseen
The Annual TEDx Conference.
02
Salons
Small events for the community bonding, free to attend.
03
Student Speaker Competition
An opportunity for Purdue students to give an official TEDx talk while still in college.
Odyssey 2026 Talks
Every talk from our stage lives on the TEDx YouTube channel.
Watch the talk
Prady Modukuru
From Building to Founding
Aastha Patel
To Learn a Language is to Live It
Chase Boehringer
How to do impossible things
Nicole Johnston
When Being 'Too Much' Is Actually Just Enough
Sid Thatham
Energy for AI and Everybody Else