Canada’s second-largest student-led TEDx returns to Kingston’s Isabel Bader Centre on Jan. 24.
TEDxQueensU returns to the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Jan. 24, bringing eight speakers together to explore connection and collective impact.
Now in its 16th year, TEDxQueensU is Canada’s second-largest student-led TEDx event and the largest of its kind in the country. The 2026 theme, Orchestrate, focuses on how different voices and perspectives can work together to create meaningful change.
One of this year’s speakers is John Edward McGraw, a multicultural workplace expert and founder of Hiyaku Coaching. McGraw will speak about unspoken cultural expectations that can cause diverse teams to struggle, leading to missed opportunities for both workers and employers.
“When newcomers miss out, businesses miss out,” McGraw said in a statement.
The lineup also includes award-winning speaker Lindsy Matthews, surgeon and leadership expert Dr. Nina Ahuja, Shelter Movers founder Marc Hull-Jacquin and Queen’s alumna Abigail Lee, a spacecraft deployment engineer.
The event runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with tickets priced at $35.
Story by Alyssa Brush
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