IQONIK Talks
Fall 2026
Is Being Built
Perspectives Worth Shifting.
Where It Started
The origin of a stage
built for expertise.
What is IQONIK Talks?
An independently produced showcase
for ideas worth acting on.
IQONIK Talks is an application-based showcase event where subject matter experts deliver short, high-impact talks built around a single idea worth acting on.
Open to experts across every field — practitioners, executives, consultants, researchers, attorneys, clinicians, coaches. Professional speakers are welcome. The only filter is the strength of your idea.
IQONIK Talks is being built. Applications will open separately. This is your chance to be part of it from the beginning.
The Name
IQ — intelligence, intellectual capital, expert knowledge.
ICONIC — memorable, authoritative, lasting.
Smart people with ideas that leave a mark.
The Stage
Live, in-person. Orlando, Florida. Fall 2026. A curated room — not a convention center. The intimacy is intentional.
The Standard
One idea. Up to ten minutes. No fluff. No pitching from stage. Your expertise speaks for itself.
The Expert Exchange
After each session, speakers take a live, unscripted challenge question. Practitioners think on their feet.
After the Event
Talks are recorded and published to the IQONIK Talks YouTube channel. Your idea reaches beyond the room.
From the Stage
Who It’s For
Every seat in this room
is earned by expertise.
Whether you want to be on the stage, behind it, in the audience, or building it — there is a place for you here.
Speakers
You are a subject matter expert with an idea that deserves more than a LinkedIn post. If your idea is strong and your evidence is real, this stage is for you. Professional speakers are welcome. Career stage is not the filter. The idea is.
Sponsors
The IQONIK audience is a curated room of high-achieving professionals, experts, and decision-makers. Sponsorship at IQONIK Talks is built around access to that room. You are a partner in the experience.
Attendees
You come to IQONIK Talks because you want your thinking challenged — not confirmed. This is a live, in-person experience in Orlando. If you can be in the room — be in the room. If Orlando isn’t possible, let us know. We want to understand where our audience is.
Volunteers
IQONIK Talks is built by people who believe in what it stands for. If you want to be part of making this happen — we want to hear from you. Tell us what you bring and we will find where you fit.
Kelly Charles-Collins, Esq.
Founder & Producer · IQONIK Talks
Kelly Charles-Collins spent 24 years as a trial attorney and law firm partner — in rooms where precision, presence, and the ability to hold an argument under pressure were required, not optional.
She left the law to build on her own intellectual capital. Today she works with established experts — speakers, consultants, executives, and practitioners — helping them position and price what they know at the level it deserves.
IQONIK Talks grew out of a simple conviction: there are experts walking around with ideas that could shift how entire industries think — and no stage built specifically for them.
She is the founder of Speaker Moguls, author of four books, and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, ABC, NBC, and CBS. She has taken her own ideas to the TEDx stage. Now she is building a different one.
Express your
interest.
Be part of it from the beginning — before applications open, before tickets go on sale, before the room fills up.
This is not an application. Submitting your interest does not guarantee a speaker slot, sponsorship, or ticket. Formal applications and ticket sales will be announced to this list first.