TEDx Takeaways A taste of TEDxMelbourne | Seeing the Unseen | 3 December 2013
May 09, 2015
TEDx
Takeaways
A taste of TEDxMelbourne | Seeing the Unseen | 3 December 2013
I’ve been attending TEDx events and enjoying
incredible speakers on TED.com for the last few
years. Every time I get fresh perspectives,
insights and inspiration for my business and for
my clients. Each 18-minute TED talk is packed
with ideas worth spreading.
In The Innovation Recipe, we talk about the
power of looking outside your own team and
your own business, for fresh ideas and different
ways to implement innovation. I’ve sliced and
diced my highlights from TEDxMelbourne for all
my clients who couldn’t attend.
So grab a cuppa and take five minutes out of
your busy day for some food for thought.
Warm regards,
Jenny Vandyke, Zumbara Consulting
Author, The Innovation Recipe
Speaker Line Up | Bios are available at http://tedxmelbourne.com/
1. Tim Chan, I CAN Network
2. Morris Miselowski, Business Futurist
3. Tommy Emmanuel, Virtuoso guitarist
4. Tania de Jong, Soprano, Creativity Australia
5. Dr Keith Joe
6. Sami Shah, Comedian
7. Jon Osborne, Acoustic Design Engineer
8. Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commisioner
9. Lisa-Ann Gershwin, CSIRO
10.Plus, special mentions to Aacorn and stellar support acts:
MC Zara Grose and entertainment from Three High Acrobatics
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Tim Chan, I CAN Network
Incredible opening keynote
showing how non-verbal autism
doesn’t have to mean ‘I can’t’
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Tim Chan, I CAN Network
For years I was trapped in my
own world, but thanks to my
mum I began seeing the unseen
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Tim Chan, I CAN Network
I want people to see the
unseen, to look beyond
the packaging
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Morris Miselowski, Business Futurist
Listen to yesterday,
but speak to tomorrow
Sometimes you're
so full of the past
there is no room
for the future
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Morris Miselowski, Business Futurist
New skills are required
for the next generations
Collaboration, Communication
& Creativity
(Not just the Three R's)
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Morris Miselowski, Business Futurist
Our children will have
6 careers in their lifetime
Our children will live to the age of 120
Our grandchildren will live to 150
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Morris Miselowski, Business Futurist
By 2055 the number of
Australians aged 100+ will
jump from 2,800 to 78,000
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Morris Miselowski, Business Futurist
The number of
people living
in cities will
double in the
next 40 years
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Morris Miselowski, Business Futurist
We cannot walk in to the future
with what we currently
believe, know, & do
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Tommy Emmanuel, Virtuoso Guitarist
More than a
performance -
deconstructing
his unique
performance
style
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Tommy Emmanuel, Virtuoso Guitarist
Follow your passion
and you’ll be one of
the luckiest people
in the world
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Tommy Emmanuel, Virtuoso Guitarist
He has become one of the
world's greatest guitarists,
without formal training - a self
taught musician, playing 300
events a year
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Tommy Emmanuel, Virtuoso Guitarist
Music goes beyond what we
see, hear and feel
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Tommy Emmanuel, Virtuoso Guitarist
Life is not a rehearsal
so you had better
get on with it
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Tania de Jong, Soprano, Creativity Australia
Once, everyone could sing,
but today most of us
believe we can't
We are all born creative, but as we grow up,
many of us are told we can’t, and we stop
believing that we are creative
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Tania de Jong, Soprano, Creativity Australia
Power of positive collisions to
increase creativity - speaking
with people who are very
different from ourselves
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Tania de Jong, Soprano, Creativity Australia
With One Voice
15 corporate/community choirs
around Australia
Changing the world,
one voice at a time
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Dr Keith Joe
Gamification to reduce fear
when kids go to hospital
Turning a visit to the hospital
in to a treasure hunt
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Sami Shah, Comedian
Thought provoking take on the
status of refugees in Australia
Using humour to
get people thinking
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Sami Shah, Comedian
‘Warning people smugglers by
sending refugees offshore is
like warning rapists by forcing
women to wear burkas’
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Sami Shah, Comedian
Humour reveals our humanity
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Jon Osborne, Acoustic Design Engineer
Did you know that
Melbourne Recital Hall
isn't touching the ground?
Aural design for
performance spaces
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Jon Osborne, Acoustic Design Engineer
Silence is the blank canvas
with which musicians work
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Jon Osborne, Acoustic Design Engineer
How to measure the success of
a great performance - does it
give you goose bumps?
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Jon Osborne, Acoustic Design Engineer
Music on our MP3 players is
compressed. Compressed music
doesn't give you goose bumps
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Jon Osborne, Acoustic Design Engineer
We live in a noisy world, and
we take this noise for granted
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Elizabeth Broderick,
Sex Discrimination Commissioner 8
Focussing on men
to deliver equality
for women
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Changing the system
from within through
Male Champions of
Change
Champions of Change are
asking how many women
are speaking at an event
before agreeing to speak
Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner
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Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner
60% of university
graduates are women
but the story is still
very different in the
boardroom
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Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination
Commissioner
‘My proudest legacy won’t be the work I’ve
done with the Defence Force, Champions of
Change or Paid Parental Leave. My proudest
legacy will be raising a son who believes in
equality for women’
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Lisa-Ann Gershwin, CSIRO
Jelly fish are the
ultimate weed
They replicate in
13 different ways
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Lisa-Ann Gershwin, CSIRO
Jelly fish are taking
over due to over-
fishing, shipping
transport, pollution
and climate change
Jelly fish are shutting
down ships and nuclear
power plants
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Lisa-Ann Gershwin, CSIRO
The ocean is the world's
life support system
We don't have a fix for
the damage we're doing
But, we do have a choice as to
how far we let the oceans degrade
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Aacorn
Special mention:
Aacorn is an innovative app that
allows non-verbal kids to communicate
at (or near) the same speed as other
kids communicate
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The support acts
Special mention:
Stellar supporting act
from refreshing
MC Zara Grose from
Humour Australia, and
a guest performance
from the talented
Three High Acrobatics
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Looking ahead to 2014
What can you do
in your business
to see the unseen?
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Albert Einstein
Not everything that counts
can be counted, and not
everything that can
be counted counts