TEDxMelbourne

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 [...]

This is one of the best TED Talks I’ve seen. Sublime mix of fascinating research results and theory on our thoughts and behaviour, shared by using wonderful heartfelt stories with the most delightful sense of playfulness. It will give you good cause to pause and reflect – and it will most certainly make you smile. [...]

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 [...]

Lucinda’s run through at rehearsal on Monday was pretty impressive. A very creative presentation and amazing stories. Trained as a landscape architect, Lucinda Hartley, 28, spent two years working in slum communities in Vietnam and Cambodia before launching Community Oriented Design –[co]design studio. Selected as a 2010 Youth Action Net Global Fellow, Lucinda has been [...]

On Monday we had the opportunity to speak with some of the speakers and performers after their rehearsals for this Saturday’s TEDxMelbourne: Community and Youth. We certainly enjoyed the opportunity to meet them, and we thought you would too, so we decided to video a quick introduction. First cab off the rank was Chuck Berger. [...]

In this poignant TED Talk, novelist and poet Chris Abani deftly weaves humour and compassion into stirring stories about people reclaiming their humanity. It’s “ubuntu,” he says: the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

Albert Einstein once said: “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” Chip Conley believes that we need to think about what we count. In 1987, at the age of 26 and seeking a little “joy of life,” Chip Conley founded Joie de Vivre Hospitality by transforming a [...]

Based on the legendary TED talks of Sir Ken Robinson, this RSA Animate conveys his insights in a fun and fascinating way.