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TEDxBrighton 2024 was all about changing the world by changing what we pay attention to.
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TEDxBrighton 2024 was a celebration of over 15 ideas that can change the world.
Chapter one: Where is my mind?
An exploration into changing how we think.
Amy Polly
James Dempster
Mark Blake
Kian Bakhtiari
Chapter two: Pixels to Planet
Finding the human connection between Space, Art and AI
Jessica Chaplow
Hady Milani
Natalie Benmayor
Nahum
Chapter three: What would nature do?
Stepping out of our urban lives and communtiies to deepen our connection with nature.
Tansy Dowman
Dean Spears
Oge Ejizu
Tom Morphew
Woodzy
Chapter Four: MOVE
The power of building communties and movements.
Mo Kanjilal
Bud Johnston
Simon Squibb
Gayle Berry
About the Speakers
Simon Squibb
Founder of HelpBnk and a TikTok-famous entrepreneur with nearly 4 million followers. His singular focus is "givewithoutake," helping others without expecting anything in return.
Gayle Berry
With over two decades of experience in changing the world through love, care, and giving, she is on a mission to nurture the future by focusing on the first 1001 days of life.
Bud Johnston
Founder of Boxless, BARCO & Men of Melanin who is on a mission to build a community of happy & effective people
Hady Milani
Bridging Space and Sustainability
Get ready to explore the cosmos with Hady Milani, the Scientific Director at the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability (EIIS).
Mo Kanjilal Williams
Co-Creator at Watch This Sp_ce, Author, Speaker and Campaigner.
Amy Polly
Chief Mindfulness Rebel, International Speaker, Neurodiversity Advocate.
Kian Bakhtiari
Classroom troublemaker turned social entrepreneur. Founder of The People.
James Dempster
Marketer, primary school governor, kids' football coach and public speaker.
Oge Ejizu
Leader at Black Girls Hike, passionate hiking enthusiast and DEI Practitioner.
Woodzy
Award-winning Flo Poet, Writer, Host, Educator and Pokemon Master.
Tansy Dowman
Founder of Tansy in the Wild, Outdoor Life Coach, Mentor and Author.
Dean Spears
Head of Blue Natural Capital, Sussex Bay. Intrapreneur and Geographer.
Mark Blake
Co-founder of Joyfullly Different. Passionate entrepreneur and advocate for neurodivergent individuals.
Natalie Benmayor
Founder and Creative Director of Capsule Eleven Jewellery.
Nahum
A visionary artist known for his artistic space missions with NASA, ESA, SpaceX, and other space agencies.
Jessica Chapplow
Founder, Heartificial Intelligence and Forbes 30U30.
Tom Morphew
Founder of Full Circle Farms, CEO at The Garden Army and affectionately known as Farmer Tom.
HEIGHTS
Self-produced Songwriter who blends 80s new wave with 90s dream pop, sprinkled with 00s alternative indie, perfectly complimented by her celestial vocals.
Your Host & Curators
Host: Dan Sodergren
KeynoteSpeaker, Professional Speaker, Workshop Provider, previous TEDxBrighton Speaker and Author.
Toby Moore
TEDxBrighton's director & curator. Toby has worked on TEDxBrighton for 10 years and has worked on developing 75+ TEDx Talks.
Connect with Toby
Bianca Cefalo
Space Entrepreneur and previous TEDxBrighton Speaker. Bianca is going to be guest-curating our future-focused talks.
Watch Bianca's TEDx Talk.
Sam Zindel
Founder of Low Carbon Leaders and renowned sustainability expert, Sam is going to be guest-curating our What Would Nature Do? talks.
Connect with Sam
Our Partners and Supporters
As volunteer run and not-for-profit event, TEDxBrighton is fueled by the support by our local businesses, media and community.
150+ Free Tickets for the Community.
Every year TEDxBrighton gives away over 150+ tickets to the local community, in order to ensure our audience is made up of a deep, diverse, and beautifully different body of people! This year's community tickets include:
Care Leavers Forum, The Launchpad Collective, Impact Initiatives, The Clock Tower Sanctuary, Southdown Housing, The Girls' Network, Stay Up Late, Young Carers Project, Brighton & Hove City Council, Enthum House, Rise, The Social Society, Free Shop Crawley, The Juno Project, Audio Active, Ferring Country Centre, Butterfly Hope, The Sid Youth CIC, Wildlife Sussex Coast CIC, Jollof Cafe, Abi Saunders Counselling, Man Academy, SPIN (Single Parent Information Network), Brighton Women's Refuge (Stonewater), Just Life, Make (Good) Trouble, Brighton Pebbles, Hangleton & West Blatchington Food Bank, Women Of Colour Brighton, Emmaus Brighton & Hove, Friends, Families And Travellers, Eyestorm Women, Sussex Nightstop
Speaking at a TEDx
Speaking at a TED or TEDx event is a wonderful thing to offer the world. Our team our dedicated to the disocvery to new people, ideas and stories to share.
TEDxBrighton 100% run by volunteers and who give their time and love to the vision of ideas worth speading.
We do recieve hundreds of enquiries and applications, and therefore we can't reply to everyone all year round.
Using the application process on our website gurantees that we can read and reply to your idea.
Applications now closed for 2024.
Unforgettable Talks
TEDxBrighton has be running for over 10 years! Let's look back at some of it's best moments.
Dr James Mannion - 2022
How to Change the World
Tommie Eaton - 2022
How to Create a Circular Waste-Free World
Melissa Thorpe - 2022
The Race for a Better Space
Bianca Cefalo - 2022
Why the Space Industry Needs New Role Models
Lewis Wedlock - 2022
The Crisis of Masculinity
Jordan Stephens - 2016
Everyone Loves an Underdog
Ben Clench- 2017
Follow the Patient
Bella Lack
You Can Solve the Extinction Crisis
Adam Pearson
Removing the Stigma from Disabilty
Margaret Rose-Goddard
Can Anger be good for you?
Junior Smart
Life After Prison
Jake Tyler - 2017
"I'm Fine" - Learning To Live With Depression
Behind the Scenes of TEDxBrighton
Take a look at how TEDxBrighton comes together And meet some of the volunteers who make it happen.
What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxBrighton, where x = independently organised TED event. At our TEDxBrighton event, TED Talks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organised. You can find out more about TEDx events here.