TEDxAmsterdamWomen

Last night was our first - by invitation only - TEDxAW Conversations of 2024. Theme: Back-to-Work - on durable reintegration after stepping out of the workforce Our incredible panel speakers Roos Veldhuijzen van Zanten - Haasnoot, Charlotte Kerkhofs, Eugenie Nunes and Anthony Seger (He/Him) shared valuable insights on supporting returning professionals and challenging the myths surrounding career breaks. Their perspectives on resilience, effective HR strategies, legal frameworks and conscious business practices truly inspired us all. The discussion was lively and a safe space was created where everyone could share their opinions and actively participate in the discussion, thanks to our incredible moderator and TEDx speaker coach Natascha Jacobsz. Thank you to everyone who joined and contributed to the conversation. Big shout out to Sircle Collection, Sir Adam hotels and Kristel Anna Frich for your support. Helen Pink Giorgiana Nuti Selamawit H. Tatiana Burlutskaia

Another throwback on our fabulous Talent Night event, last 6th of June at Club ACE in Amsterdam. Without our partners and sponsors, this event wouldn’t be possible. Thank you again! Check out our memories via the incredible photos made by talented 📸 Marjolein Dunnink ✨. What a vibe!

Last week was our Talent Night. Our year theme: Let’s celebrate 🎉. 10 finalists, 1 winner. We believe these 10 incredible humans are all winners! Let us elaborate on their story, starting with our winner Saraab. 🎉 Saraab Alfar - The winner of the night, who taught us all some value leadership lessons we could all learn from bees with her 'BEE-coming brilliant' speech. 🎉 Ola Helal - A powerful and moving story about her life and the reason why she started working in cybersecurity in the first place and she highlighted the need for more women. 🎉 Karen Wessels - While listening to her story we could hear a pin drop in the audience. Everyone was so moved by her heartbreaking story of losing her daughter through suicide and how it made her decide to make it her mission in life to help others to see the signs before it is too late. 🎉 Jo Sarah - She talked about the 'Orgasm Gap' and wanted to empower and teach us the importance of good sexual education and body awareness for women from all backgrounds promoting her connect, learn and share program. 🎉 Alice Ramsay 🤩✨- She shared her life lessons from the Dutch bike path and the things she herself has learned from the daily connections she made with people while driving her bike and that we should all enjoy and love the simple activities in life. 🎉 Meinke van Oenen - She addressed huge environmental issues by showing us not to rely only on technology when looking for solutions, but just to go look around and look for nature to help us out. The solutions are out there! 🎉 ☀️ Jessica J.J. Lutz ☀️ - She showed the audience the difference between the WE-mind and the ME-mind and she asked us all to embrace them both for a more inclusive society. 🎉 Piet Broenland -'We are all human', he said. Showed us with his own emotional and personal story what biases and prejudices do with us and how he is helping others like him now to change their lives for the better. 🎉 Sandra Chaudron - A strong single mother and balloon artist that showed us how 'Magic Thinking' can change you from feeling a failure to feeling successful and happy. 🎉Willemien de Vogel - van Musschenbroek Greve 🌱 - She showed us that we need to reconnect with nature and start with ourselves and our children, showing us the animals and wonders living in our own backyards and all around us. Thank you to all 10. You were amazing! 📸 Photographer Daria Nelina

Thank you to the organizations that helped make TEDxAmsterdamWomen Talent Night a night to remember! Special thanks to our partners: Deloitte, Henkel, Diageo, Sircle Collection, ACE, Printerette, The Cover, Vermaat, Fever-Tree and FedEx for your continuous support. To Club Ace, thank you for the amazing venue, organization assistance, and creative AI graphics design. Thank you to Vermaat for the delicious food tonight. A huge thank you to Diageo for the amazing cocktails, served by students from Diageo’s Learning for Life bartender training program. Fever-Tree provided the mixers for the cocktails. Thank you for your generosity. Response Network, thank you for your help with the printing. Your generosity and support made this event possible and we are truly grateful.

Please clap your hands for the winner of Talent Night 2024 🎉 We celebrate our winner Saraab Alfar!! Her inspiring performance and idea that changes everything impressed us all about bees 🐝. And what we can learn from these beautiful creatures. We are thrilled to see the impact she will make. All 10 finalists were incredible and we congratulate everyone on this special achievement. Thank you to the judges, moderator Nicolette Lazarus, TEDxAW team and all our partners. 📸 the amazing Marjolein Dunnink #TalentNight2024 #TEDxAmsterdamWomen #Inspiration #Winner

It’s Talent Night rehearsal time! Our 10 amazing finalists are getting ready. Who will become the winner of 2024 TEDxAmsterdamWomen’s Talent Night? Good luck to all: Sandra Chaudron, Willemien de Vogel - van Musschenbroek Greve 🌱, Saraab Alfar, Ola Helal, Alice Ramsay 🤩✨, Jo Sarah, ☀️ Jessica J.J. Lutz ☀️, Karen Wessels, Meinke van Oenen and our one men Piet Broenland. Good luck to our jury. 🎙️Tonight will be moderated by the fabulous Nicolette Lazarus. And a HUGE thank you to our wonderful, supportive partners Deloitte, Henkel, ACE, Diageo, The Cover, #siradamhotels, Printerette, Vermaat, Fever-Tree and FedEx. Team, you’re the best Barbara Rogoski, Helen Pink, Thijs van Dijk, Beau Waasdorp, Tatiana Burlutskaia, Sarolta Nagy, Tiffany Smith, Tiffany Sprague, Karen Oldhoven, Anila Hasani, Franca Cumbo, Selamawit H., Zoë Sabajo, Lies Oudemans, Kim Iglesias Iguacel, Lisa Klop, Danique Verhoeven, Daria Nelina, Marjolein Dunnink We’re ready to celebrate 🎉

Woohoo 🎉, let’s celebrate our 10 finalists who are almost ready to perform. Thursday 6 June it’s their moment. Only a few more days before they share their ideas on the Talent Night stage, but before that we met each other for drinks and to get to know each other at Vooges Strand, Vooges A'dam. It was quite inspiring and fun to see all the finalists. We are looking forward to the finals. Good luck to all of you.

We are super proud of our 10 TEDxAmsterdamWomen Talent Night finalists! Speaker coach Barbara Rogoski presented our 2nd masterclass to talk about storytelling, delivery and audience engagement for their 5 minute talk Thursday June 6th at the Talent Night Finals. We have our first man in the finals Piet Broenland. Our speaker coach is here to help all 10 tell their brilliant stories! Good luck to all 10! We can’t wait to hear your stories. Thijs van Dijk Helen Pink Ola Helal Joanne Smolders (Jo Sarah) Alice Ramsay 🤩✨ Willemien Sandra Chaudron Saraab Alfar Karen Wessels ☀️ Jessica J.J. Lutz ☀️ Meinke van Oenen Tiffany Smith Tatiana Burlutskaia Beau Waasdorp Karen Oldhoven

Such an exciting process to be part of whether it be from the inside of TEDxAmsterdamWomen or from the outside. What amazing people the 250 people are to have applied and been brave enough to step forward with their idea putting themselves out there. Congratulations! And so great that you all have the opportunity to receive coaching from Barbara Rogoski giving everyone the chance to learn new skills. Well done to the 25 who are through to the next stage. Good luck making your video pitch.

Talent Night news 🗞️ is out! Out of 250 applicants, we now chose 25 finalists. These 25 finalists… well, watch the video what happens next with our speaker coach Barbara Rogoski 👀