TEDxAmazônia 2026
Where everything connects
Previous editions of
TEDxAmazônia brought together voices,
reconnected ancestries, and began to recover possible futures. In 2026, Ecuador opens a new chapter: looking at the living system as a whole.
The Amazon begins in the Andes, in the glaciers that feed the rivers that form forests, communities, and ways of existing. Mountain and forest are a single body. What happens thousands of meters above sea level shapes what thrives at sea level. We have always inhabited an interdependent system.
Flying rivers demonstrate this clearly: vapor currents that distribute rain across the continent. They are not a metaphor—they are climate infrastructure. Deforestation impacts rainfall patterns. Economic decisions reverberate through ecosystems. When cultures are erased, knowledge systems are also lost.
Today, these flows are under pressure. Parts of the Amazon already emit more carbon than they absorb. Rivers reach historic lows. The crisis reveals the interdependence we have ignored for so long.
Therefore, this edition asks:
how do we live interdependence in practice? How do we build economies that operate with living systems? How do we transform regeneration into concrete action?
We seek voices that work at the intersections—science, indigenous knowledge, economics, art. People willing to confront essential questions: is it possible to thrive while maintaining the balances that sustain us? Can we act with the necessary urgency?
TEDxAmazônia 2026 is an invitation to face what interdependence demands of us—with responsibility, imagination, and collective action.