Community Partners

Aspen Properties

Starting in Fall 2022, Aspen Properties is providing TEDxCalgary with event and office space in The Ampersand and other buildings within its Calgary-based portfolio for the coming couple of years. This provides the TEDxCalgary team with a beautiful community space within a world-class building and business hub.

Aspen Properties is a privately-held, boutique real estate company that owns and manages commercial office space in downtown Calgary and Edmonton. Aspen focuses on creating welcoming work spaces where people feel connected, get inspired, and know they belong.

​Together with their investment partners, Aspen Properties owns and manages approximately 3.8 million square feet of office space in Calgary and Edmonton (plus nearly 3,500 highly sought-after parking spaces in downtown Calgary and Edmonton). Their current assets comprise 14 buildings—eleven in Calgary, three in Edmonton and development sites in each city.

University of Calgary Alumni

For 2019/2020, TEDxCalgary partnered with the always-amazing folks at the University of Calgary Alumni Association to offer discounts to the many tens of thousands of UCalgary graduates living around the city, and across the globe. We look forward to future collaborations as things start to resume post-COVID!

Kaizen Institute (Canada)

Kai = Change | Zen = For the better

The Kaizen Institute's mission is to improve the World with Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day — The KAIZEN™ Way.

The insitute helps leaders to achieve dreams of performance improvement and build a sustainable KAIZEN™ culture, transferring their expertise and skills to deliver two digit results year-over-year.

Calgary Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber is here for you, helping to build resiliency and keep business strong. We are your Podium of Record – where you can come for trusted and valued business advocacy and support. Our power to convene brings Calgary's business community together, regardless of industry or size.

We’re not in it for ourselves, we are 100% member founded and funded, and we operate with our members’ best interests at heart. Business has built this city, making it an incredible place to live and work, and the Chamber is here to build business. The Chamber is Calgary’s champion, at the heart of Calgary’s business community since 1891 (3 years before Calgary became a city). We Nourish, Power, and Inspire to build an environment where business can succeed.

Nourish – The Chamber creates the foundation for businesses to thrive.

Power – When businesses thrive, they power the city to greater heights.

Inspire – Building the spirit that inspires greater success.

Red Point Media / Avenue Magazine

We’re always hunting for new stories and interesting facts. We dig flawless design and beautiful imagery. We’re energized by a challenge, invigorated by new connections and always inspired to create great work.

We are one of the largest magazine publishers in Western Canada

We’ve been crafting compelling content for almost 30 years

We’re celebrated annually by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Awards

Keyera

From Alberta to the world

The energy found in Alberta is essential to improving the lives of people across the globe. As one of Canada’s largest independent midstream businesses, Keyera plays a crucial role in processing, transporting and marketing clean-burning natural gas that fuels modern life.

Calgary Public Library

Our deepest appreciation to the Calgary Public Library for their encouragement and ongoing support of our programming efforts in so many different areas. They have been am excellent and steadfast partner since our very early days.

Special mention has to be made about our community salon series. Pre-COVID, three times a month, nine months out of the year, we held small gatherings of curious Calgarians at library branches in downtown (New Central Library), the Southeast (Fish Creek Library) and the Northwest (Crowfoot Library). We watched a pre-recorded TEDTalk together, and dove deep into conversation on what it means for us as engaged citizens, and the wider context of Calgary. For us, that was a fundamental building block of our helping to build community.

As we slowly emerge from COVID, we hope to resume a new series of programming opportunities with the Library. Stay tuned in 2023!

Platform Calgary

The Platform Innovation Centre, located in the heart of Calgary's East Village neighbourhood, is a hub dedicated to supporting startups and entrepreneurs at all stages of their journey.

The Innovation Centre provides a single point of access to resources, supports, programming and events to help startups successfully launch and grow their business. And, based on its location beside City Hall, the Central Library, and Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre — the Platform Innovation Centre will help create connections for local innovators, driving new economic growth and job creation in Calgary.

As a programming partner, TEDxCalgary is pleased to be getting ready to help Platform generate new ideas and tell the stories of some of the emerging innovators from the space whose ideas are worth spreading.

Dark Horse Fortune Cookies

Dark Horse Fortune Cookies was forged from a passion to surprise, delight and intrigue. The first cookies were created as an unexpected delivery method to inform close friends and family members that we were expecting our first child. From there it became evident that the artisan-style fortune cookie could be harnessed to deliver a range of messages from highly personalized to funny, cheeky, romantic and more.

​We also understand that finding unique gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and other special occasions can be difficult. It's the surprise and often hilarious reactions from people when they open and enjoy our handcrafted cookies that keep the embers of our passion for this company burning.

We are based in Calgary and are locally-owned and operated. We pride ourselves on small batch quality (hand-made to order) while catering to individuals and groups of all sizes from all walks of life.

Devour Catering

Devour nourished our bodies with scrumptuous food for lunch and refreshment breaks at our 2023 "Yes, and..." event, but went above and beyond to seek out environmentally friendly packaging for our hundreds of meals from Earthware, and partnered with Annex Ales to provide our participants with flavourful sodas!

Kate Rhodes Photography

Kate Rhodes is our lead photographer, guiding our team of photo volunteers and lending her own uniquely talented eye to capturing the spirit of our events. 

Calgary on Purpose

Hidden Story Productions

An event like ours lives on beyond the day through the recording of the talks and their publication to the TEDx YouTube channel. That just wouldn't be possible without the amazing team at Hidden Story Productions, who have been lovingly recording our talks for most of the last decade. Chris, Martina, and the entire team are true craftspeople when it comes to the camera, and we owe them a debt of gratitude that goes beyond words.

MySimplifyCoach

Having a professional coach on board as an ongoing partner is always a benefit to an all-volunteer organization like ours, especially when it's the dynamic and always-practical voice of Marcel Hertzfeldt that's involved. He is our super-hero Chief Operations Officer by night (and many times by day!), and keeps us on track with a smile and sounds words of advice.

Shutterstock

As a member of the TEDx global partnership marketplace, Shutterstock helps TEDx speakers world-wide with making the most impactful presentations possible, providing access to their collection of images.