seeing the unseen: tedxmelbourne highlights december 2013

TEDx

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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

http://tedxmelbourne.com/

TEDxMelbourne | Seeing the Unseen

Tim Chan, I CAN Network

Incredible opening keynote

showing how non-verbal autism

doesn’t have to mean ‘I can’t’

1



For years I was trapped in my

own world, but thanks to my

mum I began seeing the unseen



I want people to see the

unseen, to look beyond

the packaging


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

2



New skills are required

for the next generations

Collaboration, Communication

& Creativity

(Not just the Three R's)



Our children will have

6 careers in their lifetime

Our children will live to the age of 120

Our grandchildren will live to 150



By 2055 the number of

Australians aged 100+ will

jump from 2,800 to 78,000



The number of

people living

in cities will

double in the

next 40 years



We cannot walk in to the future

with what we currently

believe, know, & do


Tommy Emmanuel, Virtuoso Guitarist

More than a

performance -

deconstructing

his unique

performance

style

3



Follow your passion

and you’ll be one of

the luckiest people

in the world



He has become one of the

world's greatest guitarists,

without formal training - a self

taught musician, playing 300

events a year



Music goes beyond what we

see, hear and feel



Life is not a rehearsal

so you had better

get on with it


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

4



Power of positive collisions to

increase creativity - speaking

with people who are very

different from ourselves



With One Voice

15 corporate/community choirs

around Australia

Changing the world,

one voice at a time


Dr Keith Joe

Gamification to reduce fear

when kids go to hospital

Turning a visit to the hospital

in to a treasure hunt

5


Sami Shah, Comedian

Thought provoking take on the

status of refugees in Australia

Using humour to

get people thinking

6


Sami Shah, Comedian

‘Warning people smugglers by

sending refugees offshore is

like warning rapists by forcing

women to wear burkas’


Sami Shah, Comedian

Humour reveals our humanity


Jon Osborne, Acoustic Design Engineer

Did you know that

Melbourne Recital Hall

isn't touching the ground?

Aural design for

performance spaces

7



Silence is the blank canvas

with which musicians work



How to measure the success of

a great performance - does it

give you goose bumps?



Music on our MP3 players is

compressed. Compressed music

doesn't give you goose bumps



We live in a noisy world, and

we take this noise for granted


Elizabeth Broderick,

Sex Discrimination Commissioner 8

Focussing on men

to deliver equality

for women


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


Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner

60% of university

graduates are women

but the story is still

very different in the

boardroom


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’


Lisa-Ann Gershwin, CSIRO

Jelly fish are the

ultimate weed

They replicate in

13 different ways

9



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



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


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

10


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

11


Looking ahead to 2014

What can you do

in your business

to see the unseen?


Albert Einstein

Not everything that counts

can be counted, and not

everything that can

be counted counts