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TEDxAtlanta believes in the power of ideas to build resilient, sustainable communities. We accept applications all year round and applications are kept on file and referenced for a minimum of 36 months.

Application Guidelines

We are specifically interested in nominations related to:

  • Advances and/or new discoveries in health, epidemiology and genomics
  • Inclusive technology especially as they pertain to building sustainable and resilient communities
  • Arts and activism
  • Research on under-served populations
  • Climate and environmental science including breakthroughs in clean water, circularity, etc.
  • Entertainment, design and engineering for social change
  • Ethics in science and technology including artificial intelligence
  • Research in gender and race equality
  • Innovations in architecture, built spaces
  • Breakthrough interdisciplinary collaborations

Application Review Process

We consider each and every application carefully, and due to the large number of inquiries, we are not able to respond to each and every one.

Please do not be disheartened if your application is not among those selected. Fifteen to 16 speakers are featured at a Mainstage Conference and we receive an average of 700 applications each year. 

Criteria

Should your application be accepted:

  • You agree that you will not be paid for your talk
  • You must be able to commit 1 to 2 hours/weekly from the time of selection to the event date
  • You agree to participate in the speaker coaching program provided at no cost
  • You agree to be solely responsible for the written content submitted and affirm the content is not AI-generated

Your application will not be considered if you have given a talk(s) at another TEDx event in the 12 months leading up to, AND/OR have been invited to speak at another TEDx event within 6 months of the TEDxAtlanta event.

Our stage is not for you if you want to speak about a specific book, brand, product, or want to share your personal story.

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Margaret Weniger, Career Story Collector

Margaret Weniger

What if everything you’ve been taught about building a successful career no longer applies?

Margaret Weniger has spent years exploring that question from both sides of the table. As director of entrepreneurial programs for CREATE-X at Georgia Institute of Technology, she helps founders navigate uncertainty while building companies designed for the future. As a technology sales executive, leadership strategist and author of “Broken,” she has interviewed hundreds of professionals, founders and executives to understand why some people emerge from career disruption stronger than before.

Margaret’s work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, leadership and the changing nature of work. Drawing from her own unconventional career and years of research, she challenges long-held assumptions about success, ambition and what it really takes to build a meaningful career in a world that refuses to stand still.

At TEDxAtlanta, Margaret invites us to rethink one of the most familiar ideas about work. The answer may change not only how you think about your career, but also how you approach whatever comes next.