Tag: Mike Lundgren

Union Station, Kansas City

Chiefs’ victory parade forces TEDxKC to call an audible, move sold-out event to June 

By Tommy Felts / February 4, 2020

The sold-out return of TEDxKC will see a delay of game, as organizers push the popular event back four months to make room for the Kansas Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade and rally Wednesday. “For a couple of weeks, we have been doing the calculus on what we would do if the Chiefs won the…

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Popular TEDxKC won’t return in 2018; organizers to focus on women, youth events

By Tommy Felts / May 10, 2018

TEDxKC — one of the largest and most-popular independently-organized TEDx events in the world — won’t be back for 2018. While TEDxYouth@KC and TEDxKCWomen are expected to return in 2018, hitting pause on TEDxKC’s “general ideas” event will allow organizers to reflect on accomplishments, missteps and milestones, said Mike Lundgren, co-founder of TEDxKC. “We asked two…

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Kansas Citians help break TEDx world record for fastest sellout of tickets

By Tommy Felts / July 7, 2017

In the time it takes to walk from Kansas City’s streetcar line to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, TEDxKC sold out. In record time — only four minutes — Kansas Citians devoured hundreds of tickets for the TEDxKC live event on Aug. 18 at the Kauffman Center.   Mike Lundgren, curator and founder…

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