NZ Prof Jim Flynn NZ to speak at TED 2013

Today 70+ speakers were announced for TED 2013 to be held at the end of Feb in Long Beach. “This line-up features the largest number of speakers in TED’s history — more than 70. That’s because many of the talks this year are shorter. Often 12 minutes...

Talent Search -TED@Sydney Videos

Back at the end of May I got to see these people all pitch 6 minute talks at Talent Search -TED@Sydney. All of them were good and I did like the Whale Shark guy but we had to try and vote for who we really, really responded to on the day. My top picks were Chantelle...
TEDxSydney 2012 – the musicale

TEDxSydney 2012 – the musicale

Yesterday I was at TEDxSydney live at the Carriageworks and it was a completely mind-blowing, epic, energising and surprisingly musical day. Unusually for me I left my twitter off and instead plugged straight into the equivalent of an 829 brain mega parrallel organic...

The Future of (everything) My TED story

Last week I heard a fascinating story about a project where conservation staff have developed a remote controlled microphone to record bird calls especially Kiwi in the wild. What was really interesting to me about the story was how they wrote some software to scan...
TED 2012 the remix

TED 2012 the remix

Ever since Brian Sweeney and Remo Giuffre told me about TED back in the early 90’s or maybe before that (TED started in 1984) I have been a huge fan. Brians 7×7 events in NZ were inspired by TED and they still resonate even though today we have TEDxSydney,...