Read all about the NEW TEDxtra event and our webstream below.

Why

TEDxSydney 2010 will provide a platform for Australia’s leading visionaries and storytellers to speak to an energised group of thinkers, as well as to the world at large. At this invitation-only event, a curated group of changemakers, innovators, thinkers, creatives, cultural leaders & social pioneers will witness a back-to-back schedule of talks, performances and other multimedia surprises showcasing “Ideas Worth Spreading” from a carefully selected coterie of presenters whom the event organisers (and their networks) feel have something valuable to contribute.

When

Saturday 22 May 2010 from 9:00AM (Registration from 7:30AM)

Where

TEDxSydney will take place inside and around the Bay 17 theatre space at CarriageWorks. CarriageWorks is housed in the old Eveleigh Rail Yards at Wilson Street, located within the emerging Redfern Waterloo precinct. Starting with the cathedral-scale foyer, the physical beauty and scale of CarriageWorks is inspiring with a scope that is particularly suited to TEDxSydney. The distinctive nineteenth-century industrial atmosphere of the former railway carriage and blacksmith workshops have been retained, with many heritage iron and brick details featured in the regeneration of the building. There’s no other place like it.

What

A full day’s worth of speaker presentations and live performances will be simulcast to a larger audience within the CarriageWorks foyer where the TED theme of Ideas Worth Spreading will also be manifest by various displays and selected entertainment options. A live webstream will be available to online individuals and self-organised groups located throughout Australia, and indeed the rest of the world. Everyone involved (live participants, simulcast watchers in the CarriageWorks foyer, and remotely-located webstream viewers) will be encouraged to discuss the ideas and themes that develop throughout the day. These will be documented in real time and online via aggregated social media commentary.

Each presentation will be filmed by our Major Partner the ABC using multiple cameras for editing and uploading to various video content websites after the event. The best of the presentations  will be submitted to our partners at TED in New York for consideration as TED Talks and potential posting to TED.com, translation into multiple languages for the fast-expanding and global TED.com community.

TEDxSydney will establish an ongoing pipeline for the propagation of Australian “Ideas Worth Spreading” to the widest possible global audience.

For Whom

Attendance at TEDxSydney will be free but by invitation only. Only a relatively small number of people are able to participate as members of the Bay 17 audience. That application process is now closed, and an initial group of people will soon be invited to participate from within the room.

The TEDxSydney Forum

Our vision for TEDxSydney is an event that’s even bigger and broader than the Ideas Worth Spreading you’ll see on the main stage.

The interest in TEDxSydney has been overwhelming and it’s literally not possible to contain within the four walls of the Bay 17 theatre space at Carriageworks.

But you’re still invited! Come along on Saturday 22 May to be part of a special live community event in the CarriageWorks foyer, produced for us by The Chaser’s Julian Morrow, that we’re calling the TEDxSydney Forum.

The Forum will be:

+ open to everyone
+ free, and
+ a unique opportunity to experience TEDxSydney and interact with the speakers, as well as
+ a  standalone program of thought-provoking creativity and entertainment.

During the pauses in the speaker program, the Forum stage will come alive.

The Forum program includes:

• interviews with TEDxSydney speakers by Craig Reucassel
• a Q&A session, which is the only chance to engage directly with the speakers
• live poetry readings from The Red Room
• live music and performances
• original animation and video created especially for TEDxSydney.

TEDxSydney starts at 9am on Saturday 22 May and runs all day. We’d love you to join us.

The event starts at 9:00AM. Bring a cushion and a blanket. Food options aplenty on site.