TEDx Berkshires 2026
Our goal is to bring powerful ideas to an audience that is every bit as interesting as the speakers.
The Berkshire Innovation Center was honored to organize and host the 2023 and 2024 editions of TEDx Berkshires and to do it again in 2025. We converted our main event space into an originally designed and outfitted TEDx studio set. We produced a fun and intimate event of people coming together to hear terrific speakers, and promising stories that we can all feel good about.
2026 Speakers
Stephanie Soetendal
The Soul of the Machine: Building AI Technology for the Highest Frequency of Who we are
Stephanie Soetendal is a 3X tech founder, C-level executive, and ethical AI strategist dedicated to pioneering systems that preserve human intellect and elevate human consciousness.
Currently leading an AI venture in stealth mode, she previously founded Matrix Holograms, a Boston-based EdTech startup- a MassChallenge-IBM spinoff and IBM partner. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post and CBS News, recognized by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs (CSAIL) and the MIT-IBM AI Research Labs, and she was named a US Finalist for the UN AI for Good initiative in Geneva, Switzerland.
A global keynote speaker and interviewee (Davos 2023, SABF 2025, TEDx 2026) and Speaker and Entrepreneurship Mentor for Latinas in Tech, Stephanie is currently a Master’s candidate at the University of Buenos Aires, where her research bridges critical pedagogy and AI sovereignty. She will return to the World Economic Forum in January 2027.
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About TEDx
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx (ted.com/tedx) is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxBerkshires, where x=an independently organized TED event. At our TEDx Berkshires event, TEDTalks ive speakers will combine to spark deep discussions and connections. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.