TEDxSydney 2010 happened at CarriageWorks on Saturday 22 May and featured a selection of Australia's leading visionaries and storytellers showcasing their Ideas Worth Spreading LIVE to a group of thinkers ... as well as ONLINE to the world at large. Here are some of the videos. We are uploading more talks as they become ready. Please keep checking back for more!
In this video Robert Scoble of Scobleizer blog fame is taken by TED’s June Cohen on a nice inside tour of the the offices in New York. The 40 minute video includes a nice mention for TEDxSydney by TEDx suprema Lara Stein at around 4mins in. Lara had just returned from her visit to these shores, so we were fortunately fresh in her memory.
Here’s a treat. You may have noticed an illustrator set up with a white board in the foyer at CarriageWorks. His name was Gavin Blake aka Fever Picture and we retained him for the TEDxSydney 2010 Forum as someone to visually document each speaker presentation. Here’s what he came up with … each done in real time during the talk. Each graphic references the entire presentation. Check out the slide show below or at full screen HERE … and cross reference them with the videos of the actual talks. Great work Gavin. You can come back in 2011.
Sometimes magic happens … as it did at TEDxSydney on Saturday 22 May at CarriageWorks.
Almost 30 live speakers and performers presented on the main stage with the Bay 17 theatre before a selected audience of 700 … many of whom had flown in for the event from other parts of Australia. All of the speaker and performer videos have been uploaded to the TEDxTalks channel on YouTube and can be viewed HERE.
Some highlights:
+ Jon Jureidini’s thought provoking talk on the danger of compromise and the fallacy of the middle ground
+ Nigel Marsh’s humorous observations about work life balance
+ Rachel Botsman’s compelling presentation on global trends in collaborative consumption
+ Brett Solomon’s talk on citizen journalism and the democratisation of news coverage
+ An earthy Missy Higgins performance that included two new songs never before recorded
+ Andrew Kuper’s presentation on microinsurance and its burgeoning role as “The Insurer to the Poor”
+ A presentation from Rob Adams, the chief city planner from Melbourne on why denser cities are better cities
In parallel to the live event within the theatre, there was a live community event called The Forum in the CarriageWorks foyer where a further 1,000 or so people watched a simulcast on a jumbo LED screen provided by one of the many TEDxSydney in-kind sponsors. The Forum was open to everyone and free. During the session breaks, the second stage in The Forum was used to interview the TEDxSydney speakers … enabling the audience to interact with and question the speakers. The unique content developed especially for The Forum included poetry readings, pre-recorded videos and rapidly edited audience grabs from the day. Some even rated it as a superior experience to the theatre event.
The full schedule was filmed by Major Media Partner the ABC (Australia’s public broadcaster) and streamed live to individuals and viewing groups located throughout Australia and the rest of the world. Demand for the stream was higher than anticipated, and this resulted in some server issues. Lessons were learned for next year. Even so, thousands were able to watch the livestream from home.
Local feedback was very positive, and the organisers received dozens of emails from grateful attendees e.g. this from the owner of an influential marketing blog: “Just a note to say I’ve been in Australia for about four years now, and TEDxSydney was the best event I’ve attended in that time. Everything about it was brilliant.” The archival twitstream tells a similar story HERE. Finally, check out these blogged summaries by:
+ Business21C < an excellent summary of the day
+ Pia Waugh < the most retweeted blog posting so far
+ Patty Huntington < includes good documentation of the UTS Zone cubes
+ Josh Capelin < 3 memorable points
+ Daniel Boud < lots of great photos here
+ _technoist_ < this blogger was early out of the gate
+ iThink.com < he really loved Nigel Marsh’s talk
Finally, we were also happy that Lara Stein was able to make it to TEDxSydney … on the tail end of a trip that took in TEDxTokyo and TEDxGreatWall. Lara and Remo have known each other for over 20 years, and this was a great way for them to reconnect. Lara promises to stay for longer than 24 hours next year!
Maybe you attended TEDxSydney as part of the live Bay 17 audience; maybe you took part in The Forum; maybe you watched the livestream at home. Whatever … we’d love to know what you thought of TEDxSydney 2010. Please use the comments feature attached to this post to tell us something of your experience. It will help us understand what you care about (*and what you don’t particularly care about). Cheers.
TEDxSydney 2010 is a wrap … and what a day it was. A bunch of images are up on flickr and you can check them out for yourself below or HERE. Also, view the archival #tedxsydney twitter stream HERE. We’ll be editing everything over the coming week or two and presenting them here at TEDxSydney.com. Set out below is an edited selection from our flickr account. Cheers.
TEDxSydney happens TODAY. Check out this great image of the TEDx logo made up from the faces of TEDxSydney 2010 Participants. Pat Clair is working with us on some cool elements for The Forum. Come back here just before 9:00AM AEST to view the whole day LIVE. We’ll be streaming continuously from 9AM until after 6PM. You’ll witness the entire day. The 4 x 90 minute sessions along with everything that goes on in the breaks during The Forum.
Today is rehearsal day, and there’ll be lots happening at CarriageWorks. The big day is tomorrow! Be sure to come to CarriageWorks if you’d like to be part of the audience in the Forum. Or return to this page from 8:45AM AEST tomorrow morning for the LIVE webstream. We’ll be streaming all day, thanks to MOB our Technology Partners, the ABC, Haycom and our Streaming Partners Viocorp & Akamai. See you back here!
In case you didn’t see it, we’ve posted an interactive version of the Day’s schedule HERE. Chock-a-block! Are you coming to CarriageWorks to be part of the Forum? It’s open to everybody and free. Alternatively, return to this URL on Saturday morning from around 8:45AM AEST to watch the webstream. Thanks to our technology partners MOB, the ABC and our streaming partners Viocorp and Akamai, we’ll be streaming all day … not just the main stage sessions, but also the goings on in the Forum during the breaks.
We’re thrilled to be able to announce our line up of performers for TEDxSydney on 22 May at CarriageWorks. Our Musical Director Anton Monsted has been charming and cajoling now for many weeks. Set out here are the fruits of his considerable labours. Performing for us all at CarriageWorks in support of TEDxSydney and Australian Ideas Worth Spreading will be: William Barton, Bobby Singh with Damini Darbor, FourPlay String Quartet, Mr.Percival, Missy Higgins, The Bonettes, Mahalia Barnes + The Soul Mates. Slowly but surely, the program fills for the big day.
Words Worth Hearing
The TEDxSydney program continues to grow …
TEDxSydney is very pleased to announce that dynamic local poetry organisation The Red Room will co-ordinate an engaging series of poetry readings for the TEDxSydney Forum.
The Forum will feature four very different Australian poets brought together by Red Room Artistic Director Johanna Featherstone.
Jill Jones, Lionel Fogarty, Lisa Gorton and Benezra will each present an original poem, as well as discussing their work with Forum host Craig Reucassel.
The Forum program is public, open and free; so join us at CarriageWorks on 22 May from 9am.
More info about the Forum poets and the Red Room:
Jill Jones’ most recent book is Dark Bright Doors (Wakefield Press, 2010). She won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in 2003 and the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. In 2009 she co-edited with Michael Farrell, an anthology, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets (Puncher and Wattmann). She lives in Adelaide.
Lisa Gorton lives in Melbourne. Her first poetry collection, Press Release, was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award and the Mary Gilmore Award, and won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. Lisa completed a doctorate at Oxford University on John Donne’s poetry and prose, winning the John Donne Society Award for Best Publication in Donne Studies. She received the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. Her novel for children, Cloudland, was one of The Age 2009 books of the year.
Lionel Fogarty is Murri man and a leading spokesman for Indigenous rights in Australia, particularly deaths in custody following the death of his brother, Daniel Yock, at the hands of police in 1993. His poetry expresses the need for innovation and urgency. In doing so, it is sometimes surreal, sometimes confronting and includes large amounts of Bandjalang dialect and vernacular.
Benezra is a prolific poet and songwriter, and has recently released the vinyl Purple Rouge with his band The Broadside Push. He has performed around Australia, including at the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Festival and a solo show at the MCA.
The Red Room Company
Poetry is alchemy; it transforms us. The Red Room Company reconnects groups and individuals to the play and rhythm of language, creating projects that explore all dimensions of the articulated self, the material world and the written word. We reawaken imaginations and invite established and emerging poets, and new audiences to collaborate with us on this adventure.
