TED Live

Overview

You probably already know about TED. Influential invitees pay to listen, question and chat to interesting speakers from science, theoretical physics, technology, the humanities ... anything. If it has a cutting edge, people talk about it at TED. The talks are engaging and addictive. In 2006, TED began to open up its conferences to outsiders. First making streamed and podcast videos available of the main California event, then acting as a bright, forward thinking umbrella for satellite TEDx conferences around the world. TEDx Sydney itself got going last year. In the small hours of the morning, TEDx Sydney is screening the second day of the main California conference live at TED live for free in the Bondi Pavillion Theatre.

Speakers include Supersize Me's Morgan Spurlock, often richest person in the world Bill Gates and director of Frida and a new effects-heavy version of the Tempest, Julie Taymor. Also speaking are Sydney local and big historian David Christian and Nigerian development worker Amina Az-Zubair. And in the middle of it all we are promised a surprise guest. So if you can do your deep thinking at three in the morning — or wish you could — watching TED by the beach is the place to be.

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