TEDxGrandRapids is about ideas worth spreading, and people worth meeting. Inspired by TED, TEDxGrandRapids invites twelve speakers from around the world to share their best, world-changing ideas. Seven hundred equally fascinating audience members from a diverse cross-section of disciplines, interests and experiences will fill the seats at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre.

In 2012, TEDxGrandRapids explores the theme, "What now?" The open-ended question is an invitation to participants to reflect on the ideas that matter most in our world, right now.