Date:
21 May 2015
Venue:
Sydney Opera House
1 Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
TEDxSydney 2015 took place on Thursday 21 May 2015 within the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House before a live audience of 2,300. It was also streamed live to a worldwide audience … viewing from home, the workplace or one of our many satellite events. As with our four previous TEDxSydney events, the full day of programming blended talks, performances and specially produced films.
Photo: Katie Barget for TEDxSydney
Want to know how to become a Satanic Overlord? Michael Hing tells us all the steps to take in this humorous look on "advice". Michael Hing is a Sydney-based...
Tega Brain is an artist working at the intersection of art, ecology and engineering. Creating eccentric engineering, her work reimagines quotidian technologies to address and reveal their politics. Her...
As TED's Fellows Director, Tom created and runs the international TED Fellows program, with 378 Fellows from 86 countries among other responsibilities. He is TED's resident satirist, a role...
Alec is a descendant of Waanyi, Garawa and Gangalidda tribes from the Aboriginal community of Doomadgee in the Gulf of Carpentaria QLD. He was born and raised on the...
The king of the compost toilet, Hamish Skermer knows a thing or two about how to deal with human waste. The Australian entrepreneur invented his own environmentally friendly dry...
Munjed's ambition to become a world leader in osseointegration surgery started when he was a young child watching "The Terminator" movie. How to combine robotics and humans? This passion...
Julian Burnside, lawyer, speaks passionately about the need to do something in the face of injustice. When you see something, what will you do? In 2004 Julian Burnside was...
Prof. Stephanie Trigg is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Melbourne. She is also interested in the long afterlife of medieval literature and culture and has...
Chris Darwin, the great, great grandson of Charles Darwin, wants to complete his ancestor's work with his "big hairy audacious goal" to prevent the Global Mass Extinction of Species....
Charlie Teo is an inspirational neurosurgeon, pushing the boundaries to the point where the medical fraternity shun him. He gives people hope, time and life. Charlie is an internationally...
Remote Aboriginal communities are the last place you might think a transgender superheroine would find true acceptance. Trans woman Starlady is a youth worker and LBGTI advocate in some...
Dictionary editor Susan Butler follows the changing language, documenting it as objectively as possible. There are those who want the dictionary to censor aspects of language that they deem...
Transcendent Arc is a guided improvisation that explores and celebrates the poetic, calming and uplifting beauty of breath and melody. Sandy Evans OAM is an internationally renowned ARIA...
Live performance of The Sticks debut single out through Broken Stone Records. The Sticks is a futuristic live electronic act revolving around a new custom-built gestural electronic drumkit called...
Silo Bangoura is a Guinian musician. While playing the Kora, Sibo sang a traditional West African song, Nan Fulie, about the importance of the Griot people - the...
At turns delicate and dramatic, Of The Fields connects the dynamism of Taikoz' taiko with Lingalayam's blend of Bharatha Natyam and Kuchipudi dance forms. Since 1997 Taikoz has...
Sensei Nadine Champion is a martial artist with almost 30 years experience. An undefeated fighter and inspirational teacher, she is dedicated to applying what she has learned in and...
Tea Uglow has worked at Google for nearly 8 years, starting Google's Creative Lab in Europe and, since 2012, building a Creative Lab in Sydney, Australia. Her team work...
Richard Bourke works in Louisiana – America's Deep South – as a Death Row lawyer, defending people who are facing or have already received a death sentence.
Jack Ladder (real name Tim Rogers) is a singer / songwriter / composer based in The Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Since 2005 he has released four albums: Not...
Dylan Alcott OAM is a Paralympic gold medalist, World Champion, Grand Slam champion and world record holder for both wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis. In 2008, Dylan won Gold...
Frank Yamma is a traditional Pitjantjatjara man from Australia's central desert and speaks five languages. An extraordinary songwriter and an exceptional guitarist frank has been on the stage since...
In her years as an international human rights lawyer, Helen Durham has learnt that even in the worst conflicts, basic human values can prevail. In this passionate talk, Dr...
One man, two tennis racquets, much hilarity. Captain Frodo is a third generation showman. He spent his childhood on the road as an assistant in his Dad's Magic...
Director, International Law and Policy, International Committee of the Red Cross
