There is no central TEDx application. Windows open quietly, every event sets its own rules, and most speakers find the deadline after it has passed. SpeakerRealm tracks the windows, checks the eligibility fences first, and prepares applications that read like the speaker wrote them, because the speaker did.
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A great talk idea can still fail before a curator reads it. The event may be limited to a campus, a county, a student body, or a theme your talk does not honestly fit. Some routes are open calls, some are self-nominations, some are nominations only, and some have no public route at all. Applying everywhere is not a strategy. Applying correctly is.
We track 90 route-verified events and a watch census of more than 1,800 more, with deadlines, themes, and source routes kept current.
The fit gate checks community, student, youth, residency, cooldown, exclusivity, and professional-speaker restrictions before work begins.
Sterling and the SpeakerRealm team shape the idea, prepare the answers from your own materials, and review the pitch assets before anything is filed.
Applications go out under your own identity and are staggered across events. Where an event requires the speaker personally to submit, you receive a ready-to-file package instead.
Deadline alerts for the regions and topics you choose, plus the monthly window picture.
A review of idea strength, TED fit, materials readiness, and the target list worth your effort. Credited in full toward preparation or the Track.
One complete application prepared from your materials: the one-liner, the pitch, every form answer, and a pitch video review.
A six-month season of monitoring, matching, staggering, and up to 12 prepared applications. Founding cohort seats are $1,495.
You have a real idea worth spreading, usable materials, and the patience to apply event by event as the right windows open.
You want a guaranteed stage, a purchased slot, or a talk built mainly to promote a product. TEDx does not work that way, and neither do we.
No. SpeakerRealm is independent. TED and TEDx are trademarks of TED Conferences LLC, and every selection decision belongs to the local event organizers.
No. TEDx applications go out under your own name and your own email identity, with your materials. That is how the events expect to hear from speakers.
No one honestly can. Effort is guaranteed; outcomes are not. What we guarantee is the tracking, the eligibility check, and the quality of the preparation.
Because fences are real, curators talk, and a careless application can burn an idea at the wrong event. The registry exists so each application is aimed.