2025: Shaking The Rules

Some rules are made to be followed.

Others are meant to be challenged, reimagined, or reshaped.

Thankfully, Akron is a city of rule-makers, breakers, benders, and—most importantly—shakers.

This year’s TEDxAkron event invites speakers who have questioned the status quo, redefined boundaries, or seen the world through a different lens. 2025’s “Shaking the Rules” isn’t just about rebellion—it’s about vision, exploration, and the courage to ask, What if? From bold innovations to quiet revolutions, from rethinking history to redesigning the future, our speakers will explore the gray spaces where transformation happens. Because sometimes, progress isn’t about breaking the rules—it’s about shaking them.

• Are you shaking at the possibility of speaking in 2025? We want to hear from you! This year the TEDxAkron team will be directly curating some speakers and securing others from our open call. Learn more here to consider if this year and this theme is the right fit for your TEDxAkron speaker interests.
  

• Are you interested in becoming a 2025 Shaking The Rules Sponsor? Become one of the leading companies, businesses, or individuals who are excited to support one of the brightest events of the year, celebrating Akron’s big ideas in 2025. Learn more here to help us make Akron a bigger, smarter, more wonderful place to live.

Are you ready to Shake The Rules, Akron?