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
Dr. Catherine Sanderson
The Myth of the Happy Person
Dr. Catherine Sanderson, the Poler Family Professor of Psychology at Amherst College with degrees from Princeton and Stanford, is a sought-after keynote speaker and author whose talks translate cutting-edge psychological science into practical strategies for thriving at work and in life.
Author of The Positive Shift and Why We Act and creator of the popular Introduction to Psychology course for The Great Courses, Catherine delivers research-based keynotes on happiness, mindset, emotional intelligence, and moral courage — helping leaders, educators, and organizations create lasting change.
TEDx Berkshires 2025
TEDx Berkshires 2024
TEDx Berkshires 2023
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.