TEDxYouth@Sydney 2016 · 25 May 2016
Jodi Rowley’s research strives to gain a better understanding the diversity and conservation status of amphibians in Southeast Asia, focusing on one of the most topographically diverse and populous countries – Vietnam- and to facilitate long-term amphibian biodiversity conservation.
Jodi will be joined by 9 other speakers on stage at the Sydney Opera House on Wednesday 25 May for TEDxYouth@Sydney 2016. Share the experience by following us on Facebook and Instagram.
Jodi Rowley is involved in a global race, where there is no winner but there may be thousands of losers. Globally one-third or over 7,000 species of frogs are...
Andy Thomas creates digital life-forms that respond to archival birdsongs. Director and Producer: Andy Thomas Screened at TEDxSydney 2016
The current biodiversity crisis is sometimes described as the Holocene Extinction or the sixth extinction. By some scientific estimates, 140,000 species are lost every year. Can one person save...
A paddle boarder encounters an unexpected moment of serenity with two whales. Director and Producer: Jaimen Hudson Screened at TEDxSydney 2016
Hong-Kong based photojournalist Palani Mohan spent four years on the edge of the world, photographing the last remaining man who live around the Altai Mountains in North West Mongolia...
In 2013, Ray Dearlove co-founded The Australian Rhino Project which is focused on establishing breeding herds of white and black rhinoceros in Australia as an insurance population for the...
As a farmer, Anika Molesworth understands many of the challenges facing farmers - who are all trying to create more with less. Increasing populations, ecosystem...
One in seven households in Australia has solar panels on their roof - more than anywhere else in the world. But what's actually going on in the shiny structures...
Kirsti Abbott is an ant ecologist at the University of New England and she loves ants. Her work has taken her to islands in the Pacific including Christmas Island,...
Worldwide we currently throw out more than a billion tonnes of solid waste each year. In this talk, Garth Lamb argues there are “better uses for our rubbish than...
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist, engineer, inventor and academic. She’s never subscribed to the idea that art and science don’t mix. Her many extraordinary experiments have a serious intent...
Emily Parsons-Lord asks us to picture the air in our imagination. What do we see? Empty space, clear blue sly or trees dancing in the breeze? We tend not...
Health, inequality, technology, climate change and the future of democracy dominated discussions at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January. In the wake of these discussions, we revisit...
As Dr Suzie Sheehy explains, the conveniences of our modern lives owe much to curiosity-driven research. In this entertaining talk, she celebrates the virtue of seemingly pointless scientific research...
Macinley Butson, describes two of her acclaimed inventions that were both inspired by ancient technology. These include a device that dramatically improves protection for women from radiation during breast...
Tom Griffiths is the most calculating man you’re ever likely to meet. And he wants to help the rest of us become more calculating too. Here’s how...
‘Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become...
Why does quantum physics make most people’s brain want to explode? Before we begin to consider how nanotechnology might be able to positively impact the world, let’s ensure that those of...
Interactive filmmaker Karen Palmer is part of a growing creative movement that seeks to empower game players through radical new approaches to technology and storytelling. To further this endeavour,...
Modern information technology gives us extraordinary power, but the way we build the underlying hardware has barely changed over the past century. What if instead of continuing along a...
As we delve into our first investigation of how ideas spread (see the series intro here), we discover there’s one thing that most researchers seem to agree on...
The search for big primes continues. In earnest. Like the numbers themselves, the search is infinite, unending and altogether fascinating. Huge numbers, all prime in nature and elusive in...
It goes without saying that TEDxSydney talks are engaging, thought-provoking, and enlightening on many levels. Here we bring together the talks that went one step further, and completely blew our minds....
Professor Hala Zreiqat, who has developed a material that can mimic the property of bone, which has the potential to revolutionise treatment for bone breakages, talks with Fenella Kernebone...
Prof Cyndi Shannon Weickert talks with Fenella Kernebone about her TEDxSydney 2014 talk. Prof Shannon Weickert is dedicated to helping those suffering from schizophrenia. She obtained a BA in...
Richard Banati is an internationally-recognised scientist with interdisciplinary research interests in the brain’s innate immune system and the development of advanced medical imaging for the detection of subtle of...
James Byrne is completing a PhD in bacterial pathogenesis at the University of Adelaide. He works as a science communicator for the general public, both online and at the...
Florian Beutler has a PhD in cosmology from the University of Western Australia. He researches general relativity by measuring the gravitational interactions between galaxies.
Medical electronics researcher Deanna Hood develops low-cost diagnostic devices, including a USB stethoscope to infer respiratory rates.
Brad Norman is the CEO of ECOCEAN Inc., a not-for-profit organization that monitors whale sharks. In 1995, he established photo-identification as an accurate tool to identify and monitor the...
Chris Neff is a third year PhD candidate in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He is conducting the world's first doctoral dissertation on the politics...
Adam Spencer, a comedian and radio personality with a passion for mathematics, cohosted the Triple J Breakfast Show and is a patron of various science events and programs.
A special performance by Jess Hitchcock to bring us together. #Yes23 Jess Hitchcock is a Melbourne-based Indigenous singer-songwriter who has stirred the Australian...
One of Australia's youngest and high profile climate advocates, Anjali shares her powerful journey of overcoming the limitations society puts on young people, and women of colour, to...
Electricity and electrification is the efficiency we've been looking for. Inventor, author and founder of Rewiring Australia Dr Saul Griffith shares his vision to Electrify everything with The Big...
It’s a fact that global temperatures have been on the rise with no signs of slowing down. Records show that the Earth’s temperature has risen by 0.08...
In partnership with Standards Australia, TEDxSydney would like to invite you to a special online event, Tomorrow’s Technology: Shaping our Future. Focusing on the...
How is human connection defined these days? Is it the way 100 million Super Bowl viewers can collectively be brought on a unified wave of nostalgia through...
Filmmaker and TEDxSydney speaker Damon Gameau became the highest grossing Australian documentarian of all time at the cinema with his work, ‘That Sugar Film’. His follow-up film,...
Embracing hybrid workplaces Hybrid work refers to people working flexibly from a combination of office sites, their home, or other remote locations. While flexible work arrangements existed pre-pandemic, COVID-19 accelerated the...
The TEDxSydney Main Event for 2021 will be held ONLINE on 26 November 2021. Join us for an inspiring day of Talks, Performance, Films and more; as we will...
Australians have always had a great affinity with wool. As a product and an export, it has been putting the shirts on our backs for decades –...
As shoppers demand sustainability, retailers big and small take note If we’ve learned anything at all from 2020, it is that big change is long overdue....
Four days after the 2020 US Election, without a result annouced, New York Times Australia Bureau Chief Damien Cave spoke to the rise of individualism in America. Cave's career...
AI advocate Jamila Gordon drew on her experience, as a Somali speaking immigrant, working in the kitchen of a Japanese restaurant to found a company that democratises training and...
It was December 9 when the Gospers Mountain megafire first blazed into our watch zone. I know because that’s when I started taking screenshots of the Fires Near Me...
In this super short, very quiet talk and performance, comedian Issy Phillips uses online phenomenon ASMR to look at the devastating impacts of climate change and provoke the need...
The future is created by the decisions we make today. Yikes, that’s a pretty big responsibility, sorry to lay it on you so heavy. But, it’s also...
In business, politics, social policy and in our personal lives, things rarely change until we hitch our wagons to aspirations and intentions - when we are driven...
Every day, across Australia, 2 millions selfies are taken. This pursuit is nothing new. When we feel at our best, we want other people to see it. Ever since...
We're living in a time where sustainability policies have moved past just being a ‘nice to have’ and into a must have. Whether you're an individual or an organisation,...
You’d never think of yourself as lucky just for having access to a toilet. But try living without one, like 13% of Papua New Guineans do.
This series takes you on a journey to uncover and share the key turning points of various TEDxSydney alumni speakers to date. Each of the videos profile an individual who...
The TEDx Sydney 2018 opening video titles explore this year’s topic of Humankind by taking us through the TEDxSydney Museum, where our present and potential future collide with...
The TEDxSydney 2018 titles explore this year’s topic of Humankind by taking us through the TEDxSydney Museum, where our present and potential future collide with the past. Modern subjects...
In this powerful talk, celebrated Australian author and actress Magda Szubanski uses lessons from her Nazi-fighting family to explore where courage originates. She asks if there is such thing...
A Collective Performance pictures numerous political demonstrations occurring in New York City between 2017-2018. This five-channel experimental stop-motion video is a meditation on the current wave of civil unrest...
Indigenous writer and anthologist Bruce Pascoe draws on first-hand accounts from colonial journals to dispel the myth that Aboriginal people were hunters and gatherers and "did nothing with the...
What does a just society look like, and how do we go about creating one? In this compelling talk, Father Rod Bower tackles the barriers everyone must overcome, to...
I am very down with celebrating women. It could be because I am a woman and am rather partial to an enthusiastic hi-five every now and then. It might be...
Antibiotic drugs are essential for saving lives, but we are over prescribing them which leads to superbugs - infection causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Microbiology research scientist,...
In her talk at TEDxSydney 2017, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant, Mariam Veiszadeh described how people with the most privilege tend not to admit, or even...
Shifting the Future Shifting the Future is this year’s theme for TEDxYouth@Sydney, reflecting an optimism that believes that change is possible - that with fresh ideas and new...
Solomon Islands-based diving enthusiast David Power loves turtles and wants to save them for future generations to enjoy, but overfishing, illegal fishing and bycatch are pushing fish stocks to...
"When you discover something unjust, even if by accident, you should have a go at fixing it.” When radiation oncologist, Bronwyn King learned she owned several tobacco companies by...
David Power can trace his love of fish all the way back to weekend family trips to the Brighton Sealife Centre in the UK. At 14, David was hooked...
Babies, says Mariam Veiszadeh, have no bias towards people different to them. “It’s picked up and learned over time,” she says. “It’s taught. So we need to make an...
“Did you ever hear about Alan Johnston?” asks journalist Peter Greste. The name rings a bell, I say. “Alan was a BBC reporter who was kidnapped and held in Gaza...
Nick Schiavuzzi considers the circumstances that led to the election of Donald Trump in light of TEDxSydney alumni Rachel Botsman's recent TED Talk 'We’ve stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers'. Watch...
Last month we launched our inaugural TEDxSydneySalons – a series of intimate events combining talks, films, music and more, presented by Toyota Prius. Our first Salon focused on the...
We are taking you on the road with our alumni speakers as part of the new TEDxSydney Adventures series, presented by Toyota Prius. TEDxSydney Adventures are exclusive field trips designed to...
Tara Winkler speaks out against the spread of orphanages in developing countries, caused by the good intentions of foreign donors, and of harm that comes to children when they...
Clara Vuletich is a designer, researcher, educator and consultant who has worked in the sustainable fashion space in UK and Europe for ten years, and is now based in...
Kyol Blakeney gives a powerful presentation about understanding the concept of systematic oppression and institutionalised racism. This ranged from presenting ideas about the current structure we live under in...
The median house value in Sydney is now nearly $1 million dollars, and Sydney is one of the most unaffordable cities in the world. Unfortunately for non-home owners, no...
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....
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.
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...
Barat Ali Batoor is a photographer, born into a family driven out of Afghanistan during civil war when most of his relatives were massacred. He returned to his ancestral...
Wilderness is untouched by humans and must be kept that way if it is to survive, right? Well, there are fewer people living in Australia's Outback wilderness now than...
Can we really achieve sustainability with plastic if we keep going the way we currently are? In this amazing talk, Richard Banati outlines that without tracing the real...
Barat Ali Batoor is a photographer, born into a family driven out of Afghanistan during civil war when most of his relatives were massacred. He returned to his ancestral...
Barat Ali Batoor is a photographer, born into a family driven out of Afghanistan during civil war when most of his relatives were massacred. He returned to his ancestral...
Kimberley Abbott: Turning Rubble Into Rupees. Kimberley Abbott talks about how innovation can spring from the most unlikely sources. In her case, Kimberley started a social business "Roka" after...
After his amazing Talk on the TEDxSydney 2013 main stage, Danny Kennedy chats with Tim Brunero in The Studio of the Sydney Opera House, about Australia's success in residential...
After their standing ovation in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Jennifer Robinson and Benny Wenda have a chat with Tim Brunero in The Studio.
Paul is the principal architect of a practice based in Sydney working on urban, rural and remote area architectural projects throughout Australia and overseas. He is also one of...
Thirty-three year old Damien Mander served as a special operations sniper and clearance diver for Australia. Whilst deployed in Iraq he project managed the Iraq Special Police Training Academy,...
Big Data isn't just for big business, it's for the people too. Simon Jackman believes that you can apply scientific principles to politics. In fact, he can prove...
Benny Wenda is the face of self-determination and human rights in West Papua. This is the story of him and his people as told by his lawyer and friend,...
To solve global food insecurity, the first step is to know the right question to ask." Bill Pritchard, human geographer, challenges our views on what it takes to create...
Geoffrey Garrett is a political scientist and has held academic appointments at Oxford, Stanford, Yale and the Wharton School. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the...
Glenn Albrecht is Professor of Sustainability at Murdoch University in Perth. He is a transdisciplinary philosopher with a focus on the intersection of ecosystem and human health. His concepts...
Professor Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist trained in philosophy. He is the Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide, and...
Andy Kuper is the founder of LeapFrog, the world's first mcroinsurance fund, hailed by former President Bill Clinton as "The Insurer to the Poor." In this talk Andy presents...
Brett Solomon is the co-founder and Executive Director of Accessnow.org - a new global movement for digital freedom. Before that he was the Campaign Director at Avaaz.org, and before...
Lynette Wallworth brings together technological advances with ancient understanding, new media with the electricity of human touch. Coral Rekindling Venus, a film inspired by the Transit of Venus, is...
John Crawford is a sustainable agriculturalist and Professor at the University of Sydney. His projects focus on soil modeling and the social and cultural systems of food.
Linh Do is the Co-founder of oursay.org, a platform to connect with leaders to make change. She spent two years working with the United Nations Environment Program on youth...
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a marine ecosystems expert, researches coral reefs. He has studied oceans from Mexico to Antarctica and is leading the creation of an online virtual diving experience into...
Chantelle Baxter is the Cofounder of One Girl, a nonprofit that helps girls and women create change. She is working on LaunchPad, a project that sells affordable sanitary pads...
After their standing ovation in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Jennifer Robinson and Benny Wenda have a chat with Tim Brunero in The...
After his amazing Talk on the TEDxSydney 2013 main stage, Danny Kennedy chats with Tim Brunero in The Studio of the Sydney Opera House, about Australia's success in residential...
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Nathalie Mann was successful in her application to be part of the live Bay 17 audience at TEDxSydney, and agreed to tell her story to the rest of us...
As one of the world’s most sustainable higher education institutions, the University of Sydney are pioneering advances in waste management, solar panel and battery technology. As Australia prepared...
Every year, land is degraded as millions of hectares of trees are cleared – and the carbon dioxide they store is released back into the atmosphere. The carbon stored...
The “Yes” posters are going up in the windows of our office this week, physically adding our collective voice to the call that this moment be firmly grasped.
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Today's world is a vast landscape of complex challenges and endless opportunities. We find ourselves at a tipping point, a critical juncture where resilience, adaptability, and innovation have become...
The dawn of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution marks an era of unprecedented possibilities and substantial challenges. The widespread integration of AI across industries signifies not only a...
In a world defined by constant technological evolution, the creative arts and production industry faced its share of challenges and opportunities in recent times, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic....
Nuclear waste can make people feel pretty uneasy. But what if we could recycle it to make clean, abundant electricity? Jo Lackenby is passionate about the environment and low...
Emus can’t fly, but there’s an Emu in the sky. People have been looking up to the stars for a long time, but for how long? Explore a different...
Driverless cars, robots conducting high-level surgeries powered by virtual reality headsets, ultra-fast connectivity presenting unfathomable opportunities; the future of technology is bright. But it’s also incredibly seamless, intuitive...
As humans, when we talk about our relationship with technology, the word ‘transactional’ mostly comes to mind. But, what if our connection to a particular device or...
Reflecting on his experience living with six people in a simulated Mars environment, TEDxSydney speaker James Bevington shared the lessons he learned...
In what could be the first direct link between AI and the human brain, interventional neurologist Thomas Oxley reveals the world's first minimally invasive digital spinal cord. He shares...
Each year, billions of dollars of fertiliser is wasted and much of it ends up in our waterways. Aeronautical Engineer, Anastasia Volkova explains that there is a better way...
Two years ago, when Ivan Zelich was a 17-year-old school student, he co-developed a theorem that took the global scientific community by storm. He believes that the way that...
Elanor Huntington argues that now more than ever we need engineers – as they are the ones who bring together people, technology and society, if only engineers could do...
If you have ever been wracked with indecision over seemingly simple tasks, such as what clothes to wear that day or which restaurant to choose for dinner, then Cognitive...
Talking with TEDxSydney 2017 speaker, Elanor Huntington, was a bit like pairing certain foods together that you think would never work. But when you do, it blows...
TEDxSydney Adventures are unique field trips with our alumni speakers and members of the TEDxSydney community, presented by Toyota Prius. Designed to draw back the curtain on the lives and loves of our speakers, TEDxSydney...
As a neuroscientist, Amy is fascinated with how our brains control our behaviours in our dynamic and changing world. Things we eat, like junk food also affect our brain....
Camera drones are, literally, inverting the way we see the world. But could it be they are also changing the way we feel about the world? Is there some link...
Meet The Speakers - Previewing Our 2016 Speaker Line-up Jordan Nguyen’s mission in life is to improve the lives of as many people as possible and to be a driving...
Associate Professor Michael J. Biercuk is a quantum physicist and technologist at the University of Sydney, and a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for...
As we discussed in the last article in our 'How Ideas Spread' series, our social networks play a critical role in the spread of ideas. Yet it doesn’t stop there,...
Modern life can seem overwhelmingly complex. By uncovering astounding insights into the world we live in from asking three brief questions, Alan shows how sometimes that the best way...
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...
Whether you’re trying to find love, save your relationship or justify that extra-marital affair with Bob (or Barb) from Accounts, the TED community has come up with some pretty...
Richard Banati is an internationally-recognised scientist with interdisciplinary research interests in the brain's innate immune system and the development of advanced medical imaging for the detection of subtle of...
Prof Cyndi Shannon Weickert talks with Fenella Kernebone about her TEDxSydney 2014 talk. Prof Shannon Weickert is dedicated to helping those suffering from schizophrenia. She obtained a BA in...
Performance enhancing has dominated debate in sport the world over. But what about in the rest of our lives? In this thought-provoking talk, Nicole Vincent discusses the fact that,...
At 17, Cyndi watched with disbelief as her twin, Scott, descended into madness. Pained by Scott's schizophrenia and not satisfied with available treatments, she aimed to find a...
Adam Alter, author of the bestseller "Drunk Tank Pink" delightfully explains the effects of subtle cues in the environment on human judgment, decision-making, and behavior. People have the...
After her brilliant talk on the main TEDxSydney 2013 stage, Alice Gorman chats with Tim Brunero in The Studio.
Can we really cure ageing? David Sinclair thinks so, and he's going to try to prove it. David Sinclair is a scientist and entrepreneur working on increasing human health,...
Andrew Parker studied marine biology and physics at the Australian Museum and Macquarie University, and then moved to Oxford University. After founding the 'Light Switch Hypothesis' – that the...
Alice speaks of the cultural and historical significance of what many now call "space junk" currently orbiting around our planet: from the oldest man made satellite in space, Vanguard...
Jeremy Heimans is co-founder and CEO of Purpose.com, a social enterprise that mobilises millions of citizens and consumers to help solve global problems. Purpose has built global movements to...
Tom Griffiths is the W K Hancock Professor of History at the Australian National University and has written a history of Antarctica entitled Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica....
A lot of effort is spent trying to eradicate invasive species. Angela wants us to reconsider our relationship with weeds. She argues passionately that we should learn to tolerate...
Mandyam Srinivasan's research focuses on the principles of visual processing, perception and cognition in simple natural systems, and on the application of these principles to machine vision and robotics.
Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt takes us on a 15-minute tour of the Universe, explaining the thinking that led him and his colleagues to identify a hitherto unknown force: 'dark...
Amanda Barnard is the leader of the Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory at the CSIRO. Her current research includes predicting the properties and environmental stability of nanoparticles, and their interactions with...
Jonathan Marshall is an Australian Research Council supported anthropologist situated at the University of Technology Sydney and has written much about the history of Western science and the occult,...
Drew Berry is a biomedical animator whose scientifically accurate and aesthetically rich visualisations reveal the microscopic world inside our bodies to a wide range of audiences. His...
Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla is the leader of research into Sustainable Materials as the Director of Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT@UNSW) at the University of New South Wales....
Richard Cotton has always been interested in the biochemical genetics of human disease and has recently focussed on mutation. He is particularly interested in improving mutation detection technologies...
After her brilliant talk on the main TEDxSydney 2013 stage, Alice Gorman chats with Tim Brunero in The Studio.
