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What is Talent Night?
Every year TEDxAmsterdam Women hosts Talent Night where we want to give the stage to individuals with little or no experience in public speaking. Coming from all walks of life they are given the opportunity to present their ideas on stage in 5 minutes. During these 5 minutes they strive to convince the jury and the audience of their TED-worthy speech. The winner will then get the chance to stand on the main TEDxAmsterdam Women stage. Each year Talent Night and Main Event have a theme, where we look for great ideas relating to this year’s theme Decoding the Future.
In addition to the theme we look for talks that touch on one of the TED pillars – Technology, Entertainment, Design, Global Issues, Business / Entrepreneurship, Art & Music, Science or Sustainability. Please note that TEDxAmsterdam Women is a non-commercial, non-political organization, so it is not permitted to refer to a commercial business – there will be no selling from the stage, no political agendas, no proselytizing – only reliable, good science.
Your idea should be new or surprising. It can challenge a pre-existing belief. Or it can be a great basic idea with a compelling new argument behind it. An idea isn’t just a story or a list of facts. A good idea takes evidence, and observations and draws a larger conclusion.
Do you have a groundbreaking, heartwarming, or innovative story that you would want to share? Apply for this year’s Talent Night and get a chance to stand on the famous TEDx ‘red dot’.
Winner Talent Night 2022
On September 30th, 2022 we hosted our fifth edition of Talent Night. Where our 10 finalists presented ideas relating to our 2022 theme: “Press(ing) Issues: fact or fiction” Our winner Malou van den Berg presented on the Main Stage on the 1st of December 2022.