TEDxChange, an official TED satellite event, took place in Berlin, Germany; here in Christchurch, we got together with our amazing TEDx community to watch the show, discuss its big ideas, and enjoy each other’s company.
TEDxChChChange was on Saturday, April 7, 2012 in the seriously cool venue The Park at The Tannery. Around 100 TEDxers rocked up -- many with beanbags! -- to enjoy the livestream from Berlin, as well as an amazing live performance from Mandy and Jason Pickering.
On May 21st, 2011, we hosted a very special event: TEDxEQChCh: The Re-Imagination of Christchurch. This one-day event was focused entirely on the future of the city and featured speakers like Art Agnos, the former Mayor of San Francisco during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and Cameron Sinclair, the CEO of Architecture for Humanity.
Click here to visit the TEDxEQChCh website and find out more.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxChCh, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxChCh event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
John Hutchings, GM of sustainability for Fonterra is committed to further embedding sustainability concepts into Fonterra’s decision making. He prioritises carbon footprint/climate change and water quality issues by focusing on-farm. John was a key contributor to Fonterra’s 18-month Carbon Footprint study with the University of New South Wales. John has primary responsibility for the “Dairying [...]
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Sebastian Sylwan is Chief Technical Officer at Weta Digital. His role takes him from internal R&D discussions that will drive the future of film making to industry events where he swaps ideas with some of the world’s top creative professionals. He has a superb, TED-like outlook on life, saying “I have been successful in applying [...]
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Paul Dunn is chairman of Buy1Give1 and a former business heavyweight. He’s also passionate about making and sharing money. “Businesspeople are in a unique situation to make a huge difference,” he says. “Buy1Give1 was created to help them change the world.” To combat the fact that “guilt-based tin-cup rattling is an unsustainable way for non-profits [...]
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Grant Ryan, the creator of the YikeBike an electric bicycle that weighs just over 10kg, folds into itself in 15 seconds, and goes 25kph. If you are seduced by words, you’ll enjoy UK Journalist Simon Usborne’s description of the YikeBike as “the extraordinary lovechild of a Segway and a Penny Farthing with dwarfism.” Grant has [...]
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James is a Christchurch native, although he’s called other cities home from time to time. To pay the bills he works with local government coordinating the long-term growth and development of Greater Christchurch over the next 35 years. Urban environments are where most people around the world spend their lives, and James believes that New [...]
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Shanghai-based Peggy Liu is Chairperson of JUCCCE and a Time Magazine Environmental Hero. As China emerges as an economic powerhouse, its energy use is shooting through the roof; the country opens a new coal plant every week. The resulting pollution is a global problem – a third of particulate matter pollution in California can be [...]
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