Adelaide
x = independently organized TED event

Theme: Discovering Adelaide

This event occurred on
November 21, 2015
10:00am - 4:00pm ACDT
(UTC +10.5hrs)
Adelaide, South Australia
Australia

Following the success of previous TEDx events in Adelaide and a demonstrated interest for more, we’re bringing TEDx back to this wonderful city in 2015. With an exciting new venue in the heart of the city, involvement from community entrepreneurs, professionals and Uni SA students, TEDxAdelaide 2015 was an incredible event.

Adelaide Town Hall
King William St
Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Australia
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Speakers

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Amanda Daniel

Food Consultant
Amanda has spent more than 30 years at the sharp end of the hospitality industry in Australia and overseas. A graduate of Le Cordon Bleu school in London, and ex-CEO of Australia’s leading farmers’ market organisation, Amanda has been a cookery lecturer, restaurateur, chef, food stylist, business owner, writer and event manager. She brings a business mind to menu design and a global eye to menu development. Specialising in regional food, she is currently, amongst other projects, delivering a regional dining strategy for the Barossa and Light Region.

David Paton

Conservationist
David Cleland Paton has devoted his life to science and educated many hundreds of South Australians who work in conservation. His passions are many, though it is the ecology and behaviour of birds that drives him. David is an Associate Professor of environmental science; chair of Birds SA, one of the state’s largest environmental NGOs and a Director of a BioR, a community enterprise that enables people to cheaply offset their ecological footprint and re-establish biodiverse woodlands.

Elizabeth Grant

Architectural Anthropologist
Dr Elizabeth Grant is an architectural anthropologist at the University of Adelaide and an international expert in the design of prisons. She has been involved in many prison design projects, nationally and internationally with the aim of reducing ‘the pains of imprisonment’ through good design.

Huu Kim Le

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Advanced Trainee
Dr Huu Kim Le is an Australian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Advanced Trainee. Kim recently conducted an investigation at the Institute of Mental Health in Singapore on Internet gaming. This work aligns with his passion for helping others enjoy gaming in a healthy way, something central to the clinic and website he has established to increase Internet gaming and health awareness. Growing up, Kim loved computer games. A meeting with a mentally ill patient that shared their illness behaviour with their avatar inspired Kim to become a psychiatrist, including study at the University of Adelaide, before he went on to work in teenage internet gaming addiction clinics in Asia. Kim wants to spread the idea that regardless of the real world or the online world, the worlds of children matter. He would like to share his experience of working with children to ask the provocative question “Do babies really need the Internet?”

James Muecke

Eye Surgeon
James is an eye surgeon based in Adelaide. James has a special interest in blindness prevention in the developing world and is Chairman and co-founder of Sight For All. He received an ‘Outstanding service to the prevention of blindness’ award by the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology in 2011. He was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2012 and received a South Australian Community Achievement Award in 2013. In 2015, James was the national recipient of the Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award. James will be talking about the beauty of our sight and how saving sight in the developing world can help to save lives and break the circle of poverty and accelerate economic development. Importantly, he will share his unique ideas on how we can achieve this.

Karen Nelson-Field

Marketing Researcher & Strategist
Karen is the Director and Associate Professor of the newly established ‘Centre for Digital Video Intelligence’ which is an industry-supported academic research centre dedicated to the fast growing ad:tech sector, operating within the University of South Australia. Karen has a PhD in marketing science and is a global authority in digital advertising and media strategy. Her work has been noted in Forbes, Bloomberg, Fox Business, CNBC and many others and she has spoken at some of the most prestigious conferences in the world including Cannes Film Festival, New York AdWeek and Festival of Media Global.

Kaurna Cronin

Musician, Performer
Recently awarded the 2015 Folk Alliance Youth Award, along with the prestigious 2014 APRA-AMCOS Emily Burrows Award, recipient of Best Acoustic Act at the Fowler’s SA Music Awards and nominated for Best Male at the 2015 SA Music Awards. This wandering storyteller is on the cusp of a new breed of Australian DIY folk artists, reimagining and redeveloping the way music is shared, written and enjoyed across the globe. Kaurna will be performing by local thoughts, global travels and musical growth. Experience grows strong in the heart of the wondering traveller, as distant roads create life’s tantalizing memories and moments that are transfixed into the solidity of song and melody. No passage is truer than in the presence of Australian singer songwriter Kaurna Cronin – With grand story-telling, folk jams and a lyrical sincerity beyond his 23 years, Cronin’s unique folk blend and moving performances have been capturing audiences throughout Europe and Australia.

Luke Broomhall

Psychologist
Luke has a background in forensic psychology and organisational consulting. He provides expert medico-legal reports and testimony in criminal matters and has given evidence in the Supreme, District, Federal Magistrates and Youth Courts of South Australia.

Maddie Kelly

Social Justice Coordinator
Maddie Kelly is the Social Justice Coordinator at St Aloysius College, working with students who are committed to making a difference in our community. She is passionate about communication and strives to tell human stories in a way that empowers and motivates others to take action against injustice.

Mary Freer

Healthcare Changemaker
Over many years Mary has contributed to Australia’s national health and social care reform agenda through her work with government agencies, including in senior leadership positions with national government and not-for-profit health care and social welfare services. Mary is also the founder of Change Day Australia. Mary was recently named by The Edge (NHS) as one of the top 100 Global Health Leaders to follow on Twitter @FreerMary.

Matt Anderson

Founder, Social Capital City
Matt has worked in social impact for almost 20 years – as an organisational development leader, network chair of various cross-sector collaborative efforts, and as an NGO executive. He has worked at both the grassroots level as well as in a national and international capacity – including with one of the world’s largest civil society organisations, World Vision. Matt understands the synergy between social vision and commercial acumen – as well as the broad collaboration needed across multiple sectors to achieve outcomes of significant scale and scope.

Mel Grieg

Radio & TV Personality
Mel was a teen runaway who struggled with peer pressure after moving from the farm to the city in South Australia at the age of 12. Mel has worked for the biggest radio networks in Australia as an announcer, producer and voiceover artist over the past 15 years. She was co-host of the nation’s most popular night program ‘The Hot 30 Countdown’ both on radio and television. It was on this program she became involved with the ‘Royal Hoax’’ phone call which she describes as a “life-changing experience”. Mel is very passionate about online trolling, an issue that greatly affects the mental health of many people in our community. She will be using her personal experiences to discuss the ways in which people are being subjected to trolling online, the current laws and guidelines surrounding the issue, as well as her ideas around what we can do to combat the issue.

Mickey O'Brien

Kaurna & Narrunga Culture Lead
As an Aboriginal person and descendant of the Kaurna (Adelaide Plains) and Narrunga (York Peninsula) peoples, providing cultural advice has been a responsibility passed down to Mickey by his father, well-known Kaurna elder, Lewis O’Brien. Mickey has been representing Aboriginal cultural issues for a number of years now, and it is a position he honours and respects, delivering with honesty and a balanced approach.

Oliver White

Musician, Performer
Oliver White is the solo project of Angela Schilling, a musician, producer and feminist from Adelaide. One third of minimal pop trio Swimming, Angela is motivated by lyricism, textures and spaces within sound. Oliver White’s debut recording was released in October 2015 under Melbourne label Healthy Tapes. Oliver White is a project that revolves around energy and power, both losing and gaining. Angela will perform two songs that talk about these relationships and the vulnerability of being a tiny part of nature.

Peter Drew

Artist
Peter Drew holds a Masters Degree from the Glasgow School of Art. His artworks have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Australia, though his most prominent work is installed on city streets.

Raymond Spencer

Entrepreneur
Mr Raymond Spencer was born in Adelaide and studied at the University of Adelaide. Raymond has extensive business experience derived from living and working in the USA, India and 16 other countries. Raymond has advised corporations and not-for-profit groups on organisational, cultural, and leadership initiatives and is currently the Chair of SAHMRI, the SA Economic Development Board, Capgemini’s Financial Services Global Business Unit and he remains a director of Rubicon Technology. Raymond’s idea is based from his international business experiences and that the model for the future city is to benchmark at a global level. He in interested in how this relates to us all as we consider that our competition in business is not around the corner, it is from everywhere and anywhere.

Richard Turner

Entrepreneur
Richard Turner is a serial entrepreneur, having founded four successful companies across completely different industries. Using these entrepreneurial skills, he has taken ZEN through two years of 600% growth during the Global Financial Crisis, building the business from a start-up into Australia’s leading renewable energy company with specialist divisions in Residential, Business and Utility-scale Power Systems.

Tanya Monro

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research & Innovation, UniSA
Professor Tanya Monro is Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation and an ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow at the University of South Australia. Tanya was the inaugural Director of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) from 2008 to 2014 and was also the inaugural Director for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) at the University of Adelaide. Tanya obtained her PhD in physics in 1998 from The University of Sydney, for which she was awarded the Bragg Gold Medal for the best Physics PhD in Australia. In 2000, she received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in the UK. She came to the University of Adelaide in 2005 as inaugural Chair of Photonics. She has published over 500 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and raised over $140M for research. Her talk will be on the intriguing topics of beauty and science.

Organizing team

Kristin
Alford

Adelaide, Australia
Organizer

Robin
Freeth

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Co-organizer
  • Alison Kershaw
    Production
  • Sarah Brown
    Marketing/Communications