TEDxJohannesburg partners.
At TEDxJohannesburg, we know that bold ideas need strong partnerships to thrive. Every year, we bring together thinkers, doers, and dreamers to imagine better futures—and it is our partners who help make this possible. By contributing their skills, creativity, and resources, they extend the reach and impact of the platform, ensuring that ideas from Johannesburg resonate across the globe.
For brands and organisations, partnership with TEDxJohannesburg is more than visibility; it is alignment with a trusted, global movement that believes ideas change everything. It is an opportunity to stand at the intersection of innovation, culture, and community, and to help shape conversations that matter.
Explore our partners below.
Ronald McDonald House SA
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Ronald McDonald House South Africa supports families with seriously ill children receiving hospital care, helping them stay close when it matters most. Through accommodation, meals, emotional support and a welcoming home away from home, the House eases some of the practical burdens families face during a child’s treatment. As a supporting partner of TEDxJohannesburg Salon: The Care Economy, Ronald McDonald House brings family-centred care into a wider conversation about the systems and relationships that sustain us. Together, we explore what becomes possible when care is recognised not as an afterthought, but as essential infrastructure for healthier families, communities and societies.
WeWork South Africa
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WeWork South Africa is TEDxJohannesburg’s official workspace partner, providing the professional environments that power our year-round operations. With beautifully designed hubs in Sandton, Rosebank, and Cape Town, WeWork offers our volunteer team the flexibility and infrastructure to meet, plan, and produce world-class experiences. Their support enables us to gather, create, and collaborate with purpose, transforming ideas into action. Visit WeWork South Africa to learn more.
KuMo&Co
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KuMo&Co is a creative strategy and experience design studio that helps people and organisations shape meaningful ideas, stories and encounters. Working across narrative strategy, curation, facilitation and programme design, the studio creates spaces where complex questions can be explored with imagination, rigour and care. As a creative partner of TEDxJohannesburg, KuMo&Co supports the development of programmes that bring diverse voices and perspectives into conversation. Together, they create platforms where ideas can be tested, shared and transformed into new possibilities for people, communities and society.
Lush
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Lush supports TEDxJohannesburg as a brand rooted in ethical production, environmental justice and unapologetic advocacy. Beyond its products, Lush invests in campaigns that amplify grassroots movements and advance human rights. Its partnership reflects a shared belief that commerce and conscience need not be adversaries, and that business can be a platform for principled disruption and ideas worth spreading.
Gautrain Management Agency
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The Gautrain Management Agency (GMA) plans, manages and oversees the Gautrain system, connecting people to economic opportunities, essential services and one another across Gauteng. Working at the intersection of transport, infrastructure and public service, the GMA helps shape a more accessible, integrated and sustainable province. As a supporting partner of TEDxJohannesburg Women: Blueprint, the GMA helps create a platform for women whose ideas, experiences and leadership are shaping our world. Together, we explore what becomes possible when women are recognised not only as participants in the future, but as its architects.
