From a blog post by Drew Buddie:

A note about the name ‘Orenda’: All of the BETT or EDU/teaching/learning-related name suggestions I came up with were rejected by TED, and locations such as Olympia and Kensington would have been totally meaningless. The word ‘Orenda’ is found in Howard Rheingold’s excellent book ‘They have a Word for That’ and is a Huron Indian word which is the opposite of ‘fate’ in other words it well describes how we influencers are not accepting ‘the way things are’ but are innovating and leading by example. So although ‘Orenda’ may be unknown word ‘wiki’ was once when I was using it to people 6 years ago Also because the name is not location- or event-specific I am happy for anyone else to hold a TEDxOrenda in the future whenever and wherever they want – as long as they clear it with TED first.

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Here’s the TEDx Orenda Logo if you want to use it.