Before TEDxBrisbane, we were TEDxSouthBank…

TEDxSouthBank held its first event in 2012 as TEDxSouthBankWomen under founding licensee Laura Stokes.

TEDxSouthBankWomen ran again in 2013. Then in 2014 broadened its scope to the wider community and changed its name to TEDxSouthBank.

TEDxSouthBank founded the TEDxSouthBank community. This community considered their local TEDx as not simply an event dedicated to the sharing of ideas worth spreading — but an opportunity to build a connected and inspired local community that could put those ideas into action.

In 2015 founding licensee Laura Stokes, and Executive Producer and co-licensee Shayne Herriot moved to London to pursue exciting, not-to-be-missed career opportunities. The license was succeeded to Juanita Wheeler, who had been involved with TEDxSouthBank since its inception, as an audience member, a volunteer, and a speaker.

In 2016, TEDxSouthBank was held for the first time with Juanita Wheeler as licensee and organiser.

TEDxBrisbane

In February 2017, the opportunity arose for the TEDxSouthBank team to change their license name to the city-wide license: TEDxBrisbane.

Having enjoyed amazing experiences, and forged a strong and connected community as TEDxSouthBank, the whole team jumped at the chance to adopt a citywide identity that reflected their strong ties with the greater Brisbane community.

TEDxBrisbane also reflected the team’s mission to bring global ideas worth spreading to the entire Brisbane community and to showcase Brisbane’s most innovative, remarkable and potentially world-changing ideas to the world.

TEDxSouthBank and its history will always be close to the hearts of the team and the people who engaged with it.  It is where the team first came into contact with live and local TEDx events, and forged many of the values and priorities which still underscore the work of TEDxBrisbane today.

In taking on the new name, the team was also able to reach out and welcome individuals who had previously attended TEDxBrisbane events between 2010 and 2014, under the stewardship of its previous licensees. In essence, bringing the two communities together.

TEDxBrisbane acknowledges and thanks the previous licensees of TEDxBrisbane, Carl Lindgren and Paul Fairweather, who were pioneers of the TEDx movement in Australia.