TEDxMelbourne is an independently organised TED-like experience under license from TED.com. Like TED, TEDxMelbourne is about ideas worth sharing. At our TEDxMelbourne event, live speakers, performers, and the famous TED Talks videos combine to spark deep discussion and connection. Read more about TEDxMelbourne
Some of the frivolities at the TEDActive 2011 Desert Party. One of the most remarkable (and possibly tiring) elements for TED is the sheer number of very engaging conversations outside of the talks. I love it. There is never a shortage of amazing conversations from very intelligent, educated and passionate TEDsters. That doesn’t mean we [...]
I’ve been asked to hold off these photos and videos until TED officially opens today. I was given the chance with the rest of the TEDx organisers to see the back of stage, practice and event locations for TED 2011. Here are some of the pictures. The video will have to wait until I can [...]
Adam Jaffrey’s TEDxMelbourne talk at rehearsal on Monday was incredibly moving and inspiring. Adam is an Anti-Violence Evangelist for the non-profit organisation Step Back Think. For the past three years, Step Back Think has been using their youthful insight to put an end to street violence, in particular alcohol-fuelled violence. The organisation was founded after [...]
20 November 2010 is Universal Children’s Day – and TEDxYouthDay. To celebrate our youth, a series of TEDx events are being held all around the world – events designed to empower and inspire young people. These include TEDxMelbourne: Community & Youth, TEDxYouthBrissie and TEDxYouth@Sydney. From Chris Anderson, TED Curator: “This day started off as an [...]
Thanks to the good people of State Library Victoria, Viocorp and Gary Hegadus Productions, we’ve been able to offer free tickets for the TEDxMelbourne Experimedia Experience. Hosted by the extraordinary Zara and Troy from Humour Australia (“Good Humour is Good Business”), the TEDxMelbourne Experimedia Experience at the State Library will feature: a live stream of TEDxMelbourne straight to a massive [...]
Mike Penrose is definitely one-of-a-kind. To many, including Simon Taylor, he’s something of a hero. With a background in humanitarian aid, Mike has worked in most of the major humanitarian and conflict related crises since his first mission during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. This has included the management of response programmes in over 25 [...]
Experience TEDxMelbourne: Community and Youth in a 3D auditorium with other virtual TEDxMelbourne attendees from all over the world. You will be able to: listen and watch videos of live speakers; be a part of the event by asking questions through 3D chat, and interact with other attendees from around the world using 3D avatars. [...]
TEDxMelbourne speaker Greg Smith is a commodities trader who travels the world for most of the year seeing first hand the effects of our voracious appetite for out planet finite resources. Greg gives a sobering talk that parallels Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth as a wake up call to dire circumstances that require a radical shift in thinking.
TEDxMelbourne will be available around the world via 3D Virtual Conferencing provided by Surround Us 3D Webcasting.
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