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!
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.
I was lucky enough to be in the live Bay 17 audience and I loved every minute of it. Fantastic venue. Brilliant musical acts (I especially loved bringing the different acts together to jam). Personally my favourite speakers were Brett Solomon, Justice Michael Kirby, Rachel Botsman, Lars Rasmussen and HG Nelson. I also thought Craig Reucassel did a fantastic job of caring for the TEDxiles in the foyer and Julian Morrow wrapped up the day beautifully. The hard work and innovation that went into planning this event showed. I’m grateful and inspired. See you next year!
It was a great day!
Eager to see some of the videos of the talks and performances, think they will be up soon?
Absolutely brilliant. I haven’t stopped talking about it to everyone I know – I’m really glad the talks are starting to pop up as I’ll just be able to forward the links on. A huge thumbs up to all of the coordinators, organisers, contributors. It was an incredibly smooth day.
The highlight of my year so far! Cannot wait till 2011 – will have to watch every TED talk on the net till then.
Fantastic day and a great way to immerse oneself in new ideas and endless things to learn alongside like minded people.
Well done to all involved. It was a very well organised, well curated event. Can’t wait till 2011 !
What a fabulous event. I loved the speakers, the buzz, the chance to be part of a TED tribe for a day. So well-organised, so inspiring, brilliant venue, just great. Thanks to everyone involved, it was a privilege to be part of the audience.
The ideas weren’t half bad, either
Loved it. very stimulating. beautifully executed. wonderful balance of art, issues, and heart. probably the best live event i have ever been to. i left buzzing, and brimming with confidence: Sydneysiders and Australians are a bright, deep and respectful bunch. i particularly liked the way the indigenous people were honoured… as a maori i say to you Australians: looooooong overdue, and a loooooong way for you to go… before balance is restored… and Indigenous Australians are understood and valued by Australians at large.
I was thrilled to be part of the live audience in Bay 17. It was a really wonderful day. For years I’ve wanted to attend a ‘big TED’ , & the day at TEDxSydney felt just like I imagined attending one would be like.
Speakers highlights for me included Michael Kirby, Rachel Botsman, Nigel Marsh, & Brett Solomon, plus musical highlight Mr percival. Every detail of the day was great. It wasn’t just the fabulous speakers & musical acts: every element came together so well: from the choice of venue, to the interesting audience attendees to chat with, to the flawless technical production, to the generous hospitality in terms of food, drink, afterparty, & goodie bag (love the kindness cards idea). Thanks to everyone involved for a really inspiring day.
Despite the rain and the interesting logistics of carrying two European pillows, a picnic blanket and a quilt while juggling an umbrella and being almost 29 weeks pregnant (with pelvic pain, I might add!), I really enjoyed camping out in The Forum at TEDxSydney. I was only able to stay for the morning (and I staked out an excellent spot–right up against the wall, which gave me terrific back support while I was there). But the talks I heard were stimulating and interesting, the presentations were professional and engaging, the tech was impressively smooth, and I really wished I could have stayed for longer. (My husband would have come too but he was feeling sick.)
A few other comments that may or may not be helpful:
* I wasn’t sure but it seemed like there were programs of the day’s schedule floating around somewhere. Were these available to people in The Forum? It would have been nice to have one if there were. It would also have been helpful if the day’s program was also up somewhere near the screen as well as near the door to Bay 17.
* I enjoyed what I heard of the Q&As, although the extra people in the foyer sometimes meant that sometimes my view of the dais was blocked. At one point, I went away to get some food (and there was no one with me so I just left my stuff thinking that no one would want to steal two European pillows, a quilt and a picnic blanket), but when I came back, there were people blocking my view. They looked like Bay 17 attendees, which kind of annoyed me as they were already getting the best view. I think perhaps Carriageworks could have set up designated thoroughfare areas as the place where I was (against the outer wall) was a great place to sit, but a lot of traffic came through there, and people would stop to strike up conversations right in front of me, thus blocking my view again.
* It was lovely to see Remo MC-ing, but to me, he seemed a bit nervous doing it. Was that because things were already running a bit late and he was conscious of all the background stuff, given that he was so much a part of the organisation of the whole thing? Perhaps for future TEDxs, someone else could take the MC duties off him, or he could be freed up to not worry about everything else.
TEDxSydney was a fabulous event, and it all went off without a hitch! Congratulations to Remo and every one of his crew.
My only criticism would be that the conference might have benefited from a few more “Ideas Worth Spreading” and a few less “Barrows Worth Pushing”.
Nevertheless, I look forward to TEDxSydney 2011 with heartfelt enthusiasm.
What a great day! I couldn’t stay for all of it but the energy and buzz that was created in the forum was fantastic. I loved that anyone could just wander in to the space and be exposed to brilliant ideas before they even knew what was happening! It was fantastic to be there, especially after watching so much online. Well done!
I thought the day came together beautifully. The balance of spoken word and music; the different ways the speakers approached their presentations; the contrast between the sense of order in Bay 17 and the controlled chaos of the live event in the foyer; the knowledge that everybody contributing was a volunteer and yet it still came together with the highest degree of professionalism – it all added up to something quite unique.
I want to pay tribute to David Glover as Event Director. A couple of nights before the event, he went out of his way to help me resolve some issues with a video I had submitted as an entry in the ‘My Big Idea’ YouTube challenge. I can’t believe that forty eight hours before the big day he didn’t have more important things to do. But the energy and focus he gave to helping me solve that problem was beyond the call of duty and much appreciated. His thoughtfulness in those circumstances sat well with my experience of the whole event.
Congratulations to all of you who believed it could happen and made it happen.