TEDxTralee, an independently organised event, licensed by TEDx, returns to Siamsa Tire on Saturday 18th October as TEDx Tralee Women with the theme of “Empowering Resilience”. However the audience is NOT just restricted to Women only!
Launched in 2009, TEDx is a program of locally organised events that bring the community together to share a TED-like experience. Some of the best talks from TEDx events have gone on to be featured on TED.com and garnered millions of views from audiences across the globe with 32 Million subscribers alone on the TEDx YouTube Channel.
Local Curators and Co-Coordinators Bryan Carr and James Finnegan felt that after the stunning successes of TEDxTralee 2021, 2022 and 2024, whose talks have been viewed on the online worldwide TED platform well over four million times, that there was another opportunity to promote Tralee on the International TEDx map with a new series of an eclectic series of talks and presentations from local, national and international Speakers.
In fact, TEDxTralee have been recognized as being in the top five percentile of TEDx Talks Worldwide.
Our selected Speakers come from a variety of backgrounds, experience and expertise all sharing their Stories and Big Ideas. From an initial submission of one hundred and forty-five speakers, these twenty-two individuals were selected
| Linda O’Mahony Logan “An Integrated Life” | Karen Ronan “From Bathrooms to Boardrooms” |
| Deidre Greaney “Clutter Clearing” | Helena Lyne “Compassion as an Act of Radical Resistance” |
| Stephanie Aitken “Gender Equality Broken” | Mary McAuliffe “Revolutionary Women” |
| Susanna Petche “Healing the Shame of Trauma” | Aimee Barnes “The Silent Epidemic of Modern Singlehood” |
| Farzana Maudarbaccus “The Power Within” | Destiny Ayo Vaughan “The Scars That Shape Us” |
| Louise Kelly “Who Turned the Music Down?” | Eileen Hopkins “Breaking Free from Limiting Labels” |
| Eliana Fernadez “Journalling – A Child’s Perspective” | Laura Dowling “Viva La Vulva – A Light on Women’s Health |
| Emer Shovlin “Not Monsters but Masterpieces” | Niamh Devine “The Body Remembers” |
| Jenny Butler “Samhain and the Origins of Halloween” | Kathy Houston “What Lies Are You Telling Yourself?” |
| Shonagh Sullivan “The Perfect Life of a Teenage Girl” | Hilary Rose “The Rest Reset – Rethinking Resilience” |
| Aka Dee “Become the Hero You Admire” | Bettina Gordon-Wayne “How to Get Younger with Age” |
“We are delighted, proud and honored to be able to give these wonderful, inspiring and thought provoking Talks a platform, covering an incredible range of subjects, from the personal to the global perspective” Said Bryan and James “This is our biggest event yet, and we have deliberately promoted a Women Only Speaker protocol this year to give voice to a different perspective, tone and authenticity”
Of course, nothing of this scale can be achieved in isolation, so TEDxTralee gratefully acknowledge the support of all their Partners and those previous TEDxTralee Speaker Sherpas who are mentoring this year’s Presenters. A Not for Profit Company – “Ideas Worth Spreading” – has been set up to augment future events
We look forward to welcoming our delegates from around the county, country and world to a whole weekend of TEDcation activities at TEDxTralee Women 2025
Tickets are available for the Full Day with unique additional benefits, as well as for Half Days Sessions either Morning or Afternoon
Tickets and further details are now available on www.tedxtralee.ie and our social media pages