TEDxTralee Announces Speaker Line-up for October 2021 Event

TEDxTralee will take place on the 15th of October at Siamsa Tíre Theatre from 9am – 9pm. The independently organised event, licensed by TED, will feature local and national voices and TED Talks videos under the theme of ‘New Beginnings’. 

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.

TEDx Tralee will feature Foyer activations, short Films and main Stage presentations from an eclectic group of Speakers from a variety of backgrounds and unique experiences all sharing their Stories and Big Ideas. From an initial submission of forty six, the following seventeen speakers have been selected and have been, over the past number of weeks, been workshopping their scripts for presentation in October.

Speakers at TEDxTralee include:

• Alan Carrigan – Challenging your perception of Disability

• Anthony Garvey – How to Present……”Naked”

• Breanndan O Beaghlaoich – Protecting Our Unique Heritage of Language

• Caroline Reidy – The importance of Asking the Right Questions

• Chris Barrett – The Greatest Inspiration comes from Nature

• Christine Duff – You don’t need to live the diagnoses

• Ciara McCullough – One Decision Away from the Life we were Born to Live

• Donal O’Leary – Poet, Philosopher, Thinker with a unique view of Life

• Edel Lawlor – Remembering and Releasing the Child Within

• Grett O’Connor Buckley – The Lens is your Friend

• Jeff Colley – Treading lightly on the Earth with Sustainable Building

• Jennifer Maher – Finding Your Buzz

• Kate Moore – The Power of Creativity

• Ken Gibson – The Mission to finally eradicate a Biblical Disease

• Liam Moggan – “It Depends” There is more than One Right Answer

• Nadia Ramoutar – The Art of Living as an Art Form

• Stephen Treacy – Integrating and Inviting the Global Diaspora back Home

Speaking at the Launch of Tickets going on Sale; Curators Bryan Carr and James Finnegan thanked all those who applied for the event, and hoped that this will be the first in a legacy of TEDxTralee events. “We are delighted, proud and honored to be able to give these wonderful, inspiring and thought provoking Talks a platform, not only to Tralee, but they also demonstrate and present the Best of Kerry and Ireland to the Worldwide TED audience.”

Tickets are currently available for €80 at www.siamsatire.com for TEDx Tralee’s 12 hours of inspiring talks from the 17 Speakers. For more information about TEDxTralee, please visit www.tedxtralee.ie or our Facebook page TEDxTralee. 

About TEDx, x = independently organized event.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organised events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organised TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organised. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

About TED

TED is a nonprofit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes on a diverse mix of topics. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The TED2014 Conference takes place in Vancouver, British Columbia, along with the TEDActive simulcast in neighboring Whistler. 

TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed; and TEDBooks, short e-books on powerful ideas. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

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Tickets Available at Ticketsolve - Siamsatire 

Website: www.tedxtralee.ie