The TEDxBrussels Brain Trust
The Brain Trust brings together members of our community—including former TEDxBrussels speakers—to enrich the discussion around our theme and help curate our event.
It is a space for collaboration and collective intelligence, designed to offer different perspectives, spark new ideas, challenge our assumptions, and explore new avenues.
Brain Trusters are invited to
Share their interpretation of the theme through editorial or artistic content.
Identify the ideas and issues that would be worth bringing to the stage.
Recommend speakers and unexpected candidates.
Challenge our thinking to help us identify our blind spots.
The Brain Trust thus supports the work of our curatorial team—which retains responsibility for the final decisions—with a shared goal: to build a program that is challenging, surprising, and rooted in the realities of our society.
Fatima Zibouh
Fatima Zibouh holds a Ph.D. in political and social sciences; she is a social entrepreneur, speaker, and expert in diversity, inclusion, and civic engagement. Active in civil society for over 20 years, she develops initiatives at the intersection of culture, social innovation, and participatory democracy. Notably, she co-led Molenbeek-Brussels’ bid for the title of European Capital of Culture 2030 and co-founded the G1000 and W100 – Women Bridging Brussels. Named Brussels Leader of the Year 2025, she spoke at TEDxBrussels in May 2022, delivering a talk titled “Toward Radical Inclusion!”, in which she called for a rethinking of how we build a society where everyone can fully find their place.
Serge de Gheldere
Serge de Gheldere doesn't just talk about a greener future, he builds it. As CEO of Futureproofed, he provides cities and businesses with tools to reduce their carbon footprint. But he doesn't stop at the boardrooms. As president of Klimaatzaak, he led a legal crusade against the Belgian government, even filing a lawsuit for concrete CO₂ reduction targets. Trained by Al Gore in 2006, Serge sees the carbon gap not as a challenge, but as a potential source of profit and societal gain.
Jérôme Ralfagram
Ralfagram is a young Belgian artist from La Hulpe who, since 2018, has dedicated his energy to a photographic project aimed at cultivating individuality. Through words and aesthetic imagery, he helps hundreds of people rebalance their self-esteem. Each week, he shares photos of people considered by society to be different. The objective is simply to give as many people as possible the opportunity to better understand themselves and feel less alone in the face of life's doubts and difficulties.