One City. Two Stages. One Unforgettable Month of Mindset-Shifting Ideas.
This November, Lausanne becomes a launchpad for vision, action, and reinvention — with not one, but two TEDx events that invite us to think deeper, connect wider, and lead braver.
TEDxLausanne Countdown and TEDxLausanneWomen — two bold, distinct gatherings united by one mission: shaping the future of climate action and elevating perspectives to reimagine what’s possible.
TEDxLausanne Countdown 2025 – Rethinking the System for Climate
Where systems meet solutions and climate action becomes a collective movement.
TEDxLausanne Countdown is Switzerland’s only TEDxCountdown Anchor Event — a high-impact initiative to transform narratives and propel innovative solutions for a sustainable future.
This year’s theme, “Rethinking the System,” invites scientists, creatives, entrepreneurs, and citizens to explore how we can reshape energy, resources, governance, and economics in the face of climate urgency.
From interactive workshops and think tanks to powerful evening talks, you’ll walk away with new tools, allies, and ideas you can act on.
“This is where Switzerland gets real about climate. Not just talk: strategy, action, and community.” — Damien Gauthier, Curator
When: Saturday, November 8, 2025
Where: UNIL Amphimax, Lausanne
Bilingual event English and French
TEDxLausanneWomen — Look Up
Eyes to the skies… TEDxLausanneWomen is back!
This is your invitation to Look Up — because that’s precisely where progress starts.
Every moon shot. Every fresh track. Every broken glass ceiling. Every act of courage. Every impossible made possible — starts with a glance upward.
On November 21, global and local changemakers will take the stage to inspire rebels, dreamers, pioneers, disruptors, and YOU.
“Look Up is for the dreamers, the builders, the ones who see beyond the status quo. This year will elevate our audience’s perspectives to reimagine what’s possible.” — Ashley Puckett, Curator
When: Friday, November 21, 2025
Where: SwissTech Convention Center, Ecublens
English-only event
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We handpicked a selection of speakers and artists to highlight this year, addressing education, information technologies, society, science…
We expect inspiring talks and performances over the evening and will be posting the details about our line up progressively in the upcoming weeks.
Stay tuned!
(credit photo Odile Meylan and 24 heures)
Join us to redesign our future
Innovation, digitalisation and technological progress are transforming, reshaping and challenging life as we know it from every angle - and at accelerating speeds.
So what does that mean for our future? While we can't know for sure, we do know that one of the best ways to predict the future is to create it.
TEDx Lausanne's speakers are exploring the ideas, innovations and knowledge that will shape our future in new and exciting ways.
Great ready to dream, explore and reimagine our future.
What is TEDxLausanne
Since 2010, the TEDxLausanne community seeks to extend the TED experience at a regional level.
TEDxLausanne has hosted 18 events, given the opportunity to more than 100 amazing people to share their ideas through outstanding talks, thanks to the work of more than 200 volunteers and leading to hundreds of thousand views of our videos across the world.
Our mission
We are a team of passionate volunteers who are curious about everything and aim to promote ideas worth spreading in Lausanne and in Switzerland.
We celebrate human inventiveness, creativity, and resourcefulness while promoting a well-intended, positively oriented mindset.
By supporting TEDxLausanne, you contribute to create synergies between innovators, forward-thinkers, and agents of change in Lausanne and everywhere in the world, inspiring positive actions to change our lives for the better.
What is TEDx
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
Our event is called TEDxLausanne, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxLausanne 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-organized.
This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED
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