by JAK | Sep 8, 2012 | big ideas, culture, TEDx
Over in Canberra it is almost time for TEDx – the full programme is here Sessions are split into 4 sections, Observe, Consider, Decide and then Transform – nice 🙂 Great to see that Nobel prize winning wine maker Brian Schmidt is doing another talk. I was...
by JAK | Jul 31, 2012 | culture, development, TEDx
At TEDxSydney back in May of this year one of the quiet understated surprises was this geopolitical assessment of the changes to China, Australia and US foreign policy and economics and the background thinking that can help us make more sense of what this means in...
by JAK | Jul 18, 2012 | industry futures, TEDx
Talks from TEDxSydney are now up. Two of the most exciting ones for me and anyone interested in education thinking are the talk by Evan Kidd. And the talk by Chris Anderson which starts out “Teachers are heroes..” “Evan (Kidd_ argues that we need to...
by JAK | Jul 5, 2012 | big ideas, TEDx
TEDxDunedin was held tonight at the Apartment. Thanks to organisers and helpers – Jason Leong, Stuart Barson, Sam Schuurman, Luke Thompson, Michael Barker, Andy Weston and all the others who helped to make this a great evening for thinkers and change agents....
by JAK | Jun 7, 2012 | big ideas, culture, music, TEDx
Yesterday New Zealanders had an extremely rare chance to watch the planet Venus in transit across the face of the Sun on Wednesday the 6th of June. This opportunity will not occur again for 105 years. “From 10:15am until 4:43pm, viewers will be able to observe a...
by JAK | Jun 6, 2012 | big ideas, music, TEDx
I heard Linh speak in Sydney a week or so back and she is now 21 and still going strong. Here she is at TEDxChCh – Linh Do – Defying Social Norms for Social Change – from Oct 2010. “In this talk, Linh Do asks some important questions: What is...
