TEDxMelbourne

On Sunday 23 September 2011 Tracey (MizTee) Habron attended a private lunch in honour of Captain Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. Tracey is one of our TEDxMelbourne organisers who can usually be seen at the front of house for events – first on the registration desk with her team and then organising [...]

In the lead up to our Future Leadership event on August 24th, we will feature blog posts from various leaders talking about their passion and expertise. Today’s article is written by Peter Cook, a best selling author, speaker, trainer and mentor who is passionate about helping people and organisations implement projects that matter. Peter is passionate about [...]

In the lead up to our Future Leadership event on August 24th, we will feature blog posts from various leaders talking about their passion and expertise. Today’s article is written by Mark Thomson, a registered architect and Corporate Sustainability Principal of the Schiavello Group of Companies. Cardboard Capers was conceived as a repurposing process. The idea [...]

TEDxMelbourne is growing… fast. It was only a few years ago that this non-profit was first founded.  Today we have over 1200 people attend our annual events and our online community  reaches over 10,000 people. Our goal is to become the premier event in Melbourne for thinkers, leaders and change-makers to meet and create action. The [...]

We’ve hooked up with The Awesome Foundation for something really special, and quite frankly, awesome. Not sure who The Awesome Foundation is? Really? They’re devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe, and they distribute a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators.  The Foundation provides these grants with no strings [...]

Our first event in 2012 was also our first ever purely social event with no speakers, performances or videos – just an opportunity for the TEDxMelbourne community to get together. The evening proved to be an inspiring way to ‘leap’ into the year, with attendees enjoying the view from The Deck at Mercantile Place as they shared their big [...]

How does the collective power of social media help spread ideas worth spreading? Oh, only in like, a hundred different ways! In fact, the simple act of you taking a couple of minutes to read this blog is contributing towards the online buzz around TEDxMelbourne. And because of people like you, we’re thrilled to report [...]

Monique is a co-founder of Flexicar and led the business as CEO from its early days through to its sale to Hertz in December 2010. She grew up in the Mallee (northern Victoria), where her family still lives. Graduating with honours from the University of Melbourne in both Engineering and Arts, Monique previously worked as [...]

Annalie Killian is Catalyst for Magic at AMP. She brings creativity and innovation to business by cultivating a culture of collaboration, championing the exploration of trends, and fostering experimentation with new ideas and emerging technologies. Annalie founded AMP’s crowd-sourcing innovation programme for employees, which grew from a grassroots movement in 2003 to a company-wide programme by [...]

Technology entrepreneur Evan Thornley is Chief Executive of electric car network Better Place Australia. The former Victorian MP also co-founded and served as chairman and CEO of internet search advertising company LookSmart Ltd, one of the few Australian technology companies to be taken public on the NASDAQ Stock Market. Evan has worked as a management [...]