THE HUMAN ADVENTURE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY TEDxPerth acknowledges the Wadjuk people of the Noongar Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which the city of Perth and metropolitan region is located. We recognise their continuing connection to the land, waters and community of this area and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. It is an honour for us to be meeting here today.
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR DAY
PUT YOUR SCREENS AWAY We love our technology, but the TEDxPerth speakers are worth your attention. Screens are distractions for you and those around you. To preserve an immersive experience, we ask you to silence your mobile phones when in the hall and leave devices in your bag. If you wish to tweet or blog during the event, please sit in the back rows of the hall.
ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT If you have any questions or problems, visit the registration desk or ask anyone wearing a TEDxPerth shirt.
VISIT PARTNER SPACES TEDxPerth is possible thanks to the commitment of our wonderful partners. Take time during the breaks to visit their spaces, thank them for their support and have a conversation around their ‘ideas worth spreading’.
TALK TO SOMEONE NEW The TEDxPerth audience is every bit as extraordinary as our speakers. Serendipitous encounters here can lead to new perspectives, friendships and collaborations. You never know what a new connection might lead to!
SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH OTHERS If you blog, take photos or tweet, help us spread the word by using the #TEDxPerth hashtag. Take photos (please, no flash inside) and share your experiences with friends and family.
VISIT OUR INSTALLATIONS All the installations, across the different levels of Perth Concert Hall, have been carefully chosen and organised to bring you fresh ideas and perspectives. Please pay them a visit – you will find some pleasant surprises!
PROGRAM SESSION 01 9:30AM Daniel Midgley Jessamine Soderstrom Parys X Marcelle Riley Fadzi Whande
AFTERNOON BREAK 45 MINUTES
MORNING BREAK 45 MINUTES
SESSION 03 2PM Jacqueline Alderson Danail Obreschkow Craig Challen Kirsty Pratt
SESSION 04 4PM
AFTER PARTY 5PM
Performance Rick Webster Owen Merriman & Michael Gatt Yoke Mardewi Pankaj Sharma
Tickets are available on the door
SESSION 02 11:45AM Simon Amos Silvia Lozeva Samantha Grover Paul Iskov
LUNCH BREAK 1 HOUR
Please note that start times may change
FOYER STAGES
FIND LIKEMINDED PEOPLE… Everyone here is hopeful for the future and knows we’re stronger together. Identify your passion and come to the 100 St Georges Terrace area and meet our facilitators. We’ll help you find your tribe.
…TO COLLABORATE, AND COMMIT? We hope you’ll have a powerful conversation with others who, like you, want to get stuff done. If you can, why not commit to continue your journey with your new friends?
START TIME
HEWSHOTT RIVER STAGE
100 ST GEORGES TERRACE STAGE
11:05am
Daniel Midgley
Marcelle Riley
11:25am
Jessamine Soderstrom
Find your tribe
START TIME
HEWSHOTT RIVER STAGE
100 ST GEORGES TERRACE STAGE
1:10pm
Simon Amos
Silvia Lozeva
1:35pm
Samantha Grover
Find your tribe
START TIME
HEWSHOTT RIVER STAGE
100 ST GEORGES TERRACE STAGE
3:15pm
Craig Challen
Brian O’Brien
3:35pm
Jacqueline Alderson
Kirsty Pratt
MEET THE SPEAKERS Deepen your engagement by participating in Q&A sessions with our speakers. They’re here to answer your questions and help you dive deeper into their expertise and passion.
MORNING BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON BREAK
Times are approximate
100 St Georges Terrace Stage
TERRACE LEVEL
Stage
Info Station Complimentary Refreshment Stand Water Refill Station Barista Brewed Coffee (AM) Installations Registration VIP Registration
Balcony
Food Zone
Concert Hall
Hewshott River Stage Sit Relax & Play
Auditorium
Special Dietary Food Station Complimentary Refreshment Stand Water Refill Station Barista Brewed Coffee (PM) Installations Beyond the Comfort Zone Take a Photo on the Red Dot
Auditorium
GROUND FLOOR
Food Zone
Box Office
Meet & Eat Installations can also be found on levels 3 & 4
TEDXPERTH
Our event is called TEDxPerth, where x = independently organised TED event. We seek to spread the best ideas in our community to the widest possible audience. We are nonprofit and driven by a team of professionals, all volunteers, deeply committed to ensuring that our city and State may participate in and benefit from the internationally-acclaimed ideas-platform created by TED. TEDxPerth talks are professionally filmed and presented online, for free. Our talks have been viewed over 7,500,000 times.
WELCOME The Human Adventure is where we release our creativity, share our stories and experience awe. Showcasing ideas and stories from Western Australia’s brightest minds, today we take you on an adventure to think bigger, to connect with like minds and to reach for new solutions. TEDxPerth is an act of generosity. Speakers are giving their time, sharing their ideas, insights and stories freely and openly. We are a team of talented volunteers, committed partners and expert contractors, all focused on making TEDxPerth the premier platform for sharing the best of Perth and Western Australia. Once again, our curators have sought out and assembled an exceptional group of speakers, filmmakers and performers. For the second year, TEDxPerth is presented with Auslan translation and we are also delighted to be working with the Youth Affairs Council
of WA and Reconciliation WA to extend the accessibility of this, our annual Flagship Event. As always, today’s talks are being filmed for publication, adding to the extensive library of TED and TEDx talks available online, for free. Our speakers will again show the extraordinary contribution that Perth and its people are making. Our community continues to grow. TEDxPerth Salons sell out in hours and I’m excited about our plans for 2020. However, that’s a story for another time. For now, thank you for being active members of our community. The conversations, ideas and actions we take away today have potential for great and positive change. Welcome to The Human Adventure. GAVIN BUCKLEY CHIEF EXECUTIVE
YOUR HOSTS
GAVIN BUCKLEY MAIN STAGE
ANTHONY HASLUCK HEWSHOTT RIVER STAGE
JULIA WILSON 100 ST GEORGES TERRACE STAGE
Gavin is a consultant and coach with over twenty years’ experience in corporate partnerships, leadership and board positions with peak bodies in the UK and Australia.
As a communications consultant with more than 25 years’ experience in a wide range of industries in Australia and internationally, Anthony has a deep knowledge of Western Australia, its communities and the local business sector. He co-founded Clarity Communications in 1999.
A television presenter, producer and MC, Julia has worked in the media industry for a number of years with WINTV, Telethon, RTRFM and most recently as a presenter for Channel 7’s lifestyle show Home in WA.
He arrived in Perth in 2012 and has been involved with TEDxPerth from the start, first as Speaker Coach and Host and, since May 2018, as our CEO. Gavin’s work with TEDxPerth was recognised recently when the City of Perth awarded him Community Citizen of the Year 2019. Gavin lives in Fremantle running his own consultancy helping people communicate with authenticity and impact.
Internationally, Anthony has worked in the UK in the construction, engineering and energy sectors where he was responsible for media activities across Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is a winner of a 40under40 award and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
Born and raised in Europe, Julia spent many of her formative years travelling the world before she came to live in Western Australia. This has engendered an enthusiasm for meeting new people and experiencing new environments. Julia is passionate about design and creative expression, which has come from working with designer, fashion and interior brands throughout her career.
YOUR CURATORS ROB LINES LEAD CURATOR
JOEL MILLER CURATOR AND LICENSEE
Rob has worked for many years in theatre and cinema management in the UK and in Australia. Perhaps because he comes from a family of toymakers, Rob loves board and video games. He is in awe of the enormous diversity of remarkable people he has the privilege to meet as Lead Curator.
Joel believes today’s most pressing issues are best tackled with great design and a culture of empathy. A product designer/engineer and co-founder of the current TEDxPerth creative team, he studied mechanical engineering and psychology at the University of Western Australia.
SUZANNE WALDRON CURATOR
EMMA GIBBENS CURATOR
Suzanne works in behavioural change and is an artist. Her love of creativity and humanity propels her to uncover incredible people in WA and showcase our homegrown talent that inspires action in our community.
Emma is a political campaigner by trade and has built grassroots movements in communities across the world. She believes every person has a story to share, and feels honoured to apply her curiosity to find ideas worth spreading.
ROSIE COOPER CURATOR Rosie coordinates the Graduate Program for the WA Department of Health through the Institute for Health Leadership. Her personal mission is to build and empower the next generation of leaders and forge opportunities for collaboration across the public sector.
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
Change is hard. Change is scary. Change is necessary. Today we come together to join a global movement, helping Perth and WA celebrate remarkable home-grown achievements and to dig deep into the challenges we face. But we recognise that actions always speak loudest. As individuals, and as a community, we know that we change the world by changing ourselves. So, today, we are all challenged to make a commitment to ourselves: not just to think differently, but to live differently. Today is a great day to start. You are surrounded by likeminded people who, like you, passionately believe that things can be better. So find your tribe, make plans and take action. Whatever you commit to today, do it proudly and do it publicly. Your commitment will inspire others to do the same. Our human adventure begins today.
FOOD STORY Eating is a huge part of our lives; it is not possible for us to live without the sustenance that food gives us. However, consuming food is no longer just about its necessity for survival: there are tangles of memories and senses to be stimulated and different parts of the world to be explored from your plate. We hear the term foodie used to describe people that love food but, in reality, we are all foodies. Our unique likes, dislikes, allergies and dietary requirements make us the individual foodies that we are.
Today we want to take you on an adventure, something a little mysterious and play a little game. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea all have a theme – perhaps you can spot it? As you enjoy the culinary offerings of the day between each session, we hope it fuels your own adventure for the day – meeting someone new, asking a burning question, connecting with a familiar face – whatever adventure means for you!
KABIR RAMASARY FOOD CURATOR Kabir is a foodie at heart. Learning to bake with his mum at a very young age encouraged him to continue cooking as a teenager and adult. If he is not out tasting the best Perth has to offer, you will often find him in the kitchen cooking for friends and most likely sharing the worst dad jokes you have ever heard.
DESIGN STORY We are all on an adventure in one form or another. Whether that means discovering a new coffee shop in a new neighbourhood, climbing Mount Everest, taking the plunge and starting a business or even learning a new language. Adventure means something different to everyone. But one thing’s for sure, it’s an experience that’s shared by all of us throughout our whole lives on many different levels. The word adventure sparks thoughts of physical triumph, exploration and
achievement. What often doesn’t spring to mind are the escapades our own thoughts and feelings take us on every single day. This year’s visual identity expresses The Human Adventure by highlighting the connection between the physical form and the cognitive or emotional essence of being human. There are a series of illustrations, each one symbolising a trait that makes us uniquely us. So look closely, tilt your head to the side, scratch your chin and see if you can figure out the story each illustration tells.
DANIEL JACKSON DESIGNER Daniel is an experienced designer, creative director and brand strategist. He has worked with a wide range of brands, businesses and organisations from across the globe. He now runs a creative agency in Perth after making the move from the UK three years ago.
SPECIAL GUESTS RICK WEBSTER Rick has always had an interest in the guitar, attending his mother’s guitar lessons from a young age. Rick began playing the guitar at age 10 and earned himself a music bursary at Christ Church Grammar School. Continuing to the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Rick completed his studies in 2008 with a degree in Jazz Performance and a diploma of contemporary music.
recognition overseas, winning a trove of US and UK songwriting competitions, as well as being runner-up in Dallas’ coveted MASC Awards. Back at home, Rick has received four WAM nominations (including Best Jazz Artist and Best Jazz Composition), written and performed an album’s worth of jazz for ABC National Radio and released four albums of his own.
Having won the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Awards, Rick has found further
BRIAN O’BRIEN Born in Sydney in 1934, Brian’s PhD in Physics took him from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions to the State University of Iowa where his small team built Injun 1, the first satellite to use digital telemetry. In 1963 as Professor of Space Science at Rice University in Houston he built a new space science laboratory, launching nine auroral rockets and satellite Aurora 1. His Dust Detector Experiments were successfully deployed
on five Apollo missions, including Apollo 11, with the last experiment switched off by NASA in 1977. He is the only Principal Investigator with Apollo experiments in two different disciplines, Radiation and Movements of Dust. He was the first Australian to be awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. Since 2009 Brian has been Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Western Australia.
FILM PROGRAM
COUNTDOWNS
UN-TREASURES A whole new perspective on the city we love.
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Michael Titter
Rosetta Stone, Mona Lisa, T-Rex. But history isn’t built from a select number of high-profile artefacts – it’s the many small pieces that build a picture of how the world was. With thanks to the State Library of Western Australia.
DIRECTED BY:
Steve Browne & Cody Cameron-Brown
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Michael Titter EDITED BY:
Saxon Wright
STEVE BROWNE FILM CURATOR Steve Browne is a Perthbased illustrator, painter and film-maker who focuses on mural installation, story boards for film and commercials and commission work. He also works with young people and young people at risk, running art and film workshops to inspire change and highlight the ability to make positive choices through self expression.
QUOBBALITJ WANGKINY (BEAUTIFULLY SPEAKING)
FIRE AND EARTH Len Collard’s career, dedicated to translating the original Noongar language of South Western Australia to South Western Australia Australian English, has gifted us a unique opportunity to hear universal phrases spoken like they never have before.
SINGING FOR OUR TRUE HEARTS
With thanks to Professor Len Collard, School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia.
DIRECTED BY:
Steve Browne
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Michael Titter EDITED BY:
Saxon Wright
Stewart Scambler is one of WA’s most respected ceramicists. Stewart wood-fires his work using only sustainably-grown hardwood with the intention of having them be a product of the environment in which they were made.
DIRECTED BY:
Steve Browne
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Michael Titter EDITED BY:
Saxon Wright
MUSIC AND SOUND BY: Lance Robinson
For 25 years the Gay & Lesbian Singers of Western Australia has been a place of celebration, refuge and hope for the LGBTQIA+ community.
DIRECTED BY:
Directed by Helena Cohen-Robertson & Poppy van Oorde-Grainger
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Poppy van Oorde-Grainger EDITED BY:
Frances Elliot & Saxon Wright
MOTION
FRAGMENTS OF BEAUTY Sam Price is a multi-disciplinary designer and director from Perth who creates at the same pace as constantly evolving technology. Always on the search for new ways to communicate ideas and share stories, Sam’s work has been shown all over the world including The Museum of Modern Art PS1 space in New York.
DIRECTED BY:
Sam Price
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Sam Price EDITED BY:
Saxon Wright
ANIMATIONS BY:
Sam Price
PARALLEL HARMONY Two-time winner of the Diamond Skull Commercial Photographer of the Year Award, Matsu has a love for visual storytelling and giving back to WA. Matsu has supported organisations like RTRFM, Community Arts Network and The Arthritis Foundation and worked with artists including Flume, ShockOne and Taku.
DIRECTED BY: Matsu CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Matsu EDITED BY:
Saxon Wright
What happens when multiple timelines come together as one? It’s not what happens, rather how it feels, that you’ll never forget. With thanks to Zenith Music.
DIRECTED BY:
Cody Cameron-Brown
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Michael Titter EDITED BY:
Saxon Wright
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THE HUMAN ADVENTURE
SESSION ONE
DANIEL MIDGLEY Daniel is a linguist and science communicator, with deep ties to language education. Daniel can be found teaching linguistics at the University of Western Australia, where for years he has trained future teachers with the grammar knowledge they need to elevate grammar literacy among their students. His latest project is the development of a high school linguistics curriculum, in conjunction with secondary teacher Amy Ward. Since 2009, Daniel has been a presenter on the RTRFM podcast Talk the Talk, a show about linguistics – the science of language. From its humble beginnings as a short, weekly segment, the show has expanded into an hour-long show of its own, with listeners all around the globe. It counts linguists and non-linguists among its fans.
Photography by Richard Watson
Daniel is also the voice of the Speakeasy on ABC Perth Radio with Breakfast hosts Nadia Mitsopoulos and Russell Woolf. He takes language and grammar questions live from an engaged (and occasionally enraged) radio audience. He is the proud father of four delightful children: two fine adult men, and two little girls. The two youngest are currently contributing data to Daniel’s informal study of child language acquisition.
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JESSAMINE SODERSTROM A self-professed nerd with a desire for a sedate life in an adrenaline-fuelled environment, Jessamine is an Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist at Royal Perth Hospital and a Clinical Toxicologist with the National Poisons Network. She has been privileged to work with an amazing team of researchers and clinicians, taking the seed of an idea and developing it into the project it is now. It is the recognition and respect of each other’s strengths and qualities that have enabled an environment where innovation can thrive.
Photography by Andrew Kilburn
The aim over the next few years is to foster relationships between the Poisons Centre, sentinel hospitals and forensics laboratories around the country with the view of developing an early warning system around drugs of abuse. She is a single mum of two boys with a devoted extended family who enable her to juggle family life and the joys of the intellectual challenge of her work. Her family is her anchor in a world of chaos and gives perspective of what is truly important.
PARYS X
Parys X is a music producer, speaker and visual artist. He has performed and spoken to over 35,000 people across Australia and has been featured in The West Australian, Business News and on Channel 9. Born and raised in Perth, the only child of an artist and fashion designer, he grew up around creativity. Through his teen years he got heavily caught up in drugs and crime and ended up in prison just before the age of 21. Whilst in prison he came to the realisation that if he didn’t change the direction of his life he would either end up dead or back inside.
Photography by Andrew Kilburn
He then spent the next five years re-educating himself, developing his creativity, fixing destroyed relationships and changing his perspective on the world. In all that he does he aims to uplift and inspire people to see the capacity that they hold within themselves to re-write their own story and to consciously create whatever life they want for themselves.
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MARCELLE RILEY Marcelle sees the power of using her Noongar culture as a way of healing, both for herself and for others. She works as a Noongar Artist running workshops all over WA, using her skills in doll-making, weaving and eco-dyeing. She was born in Moora and grew up in the small country town of Pingelly on her mother’s country, and now lives in Narrogin with her father’s family. Her journey had highs and lows and, along the path, she made her own story doll. Marcelle now facilitates others to make their own story dolls, usually from cloth dyed using the local
Photography by Steve Marijanich
vegetation. She uses the dolls for healing – by telling stories through the dolls, makers find new ways to articulate their thoughts and feelings. Marcelle’s own story doll is more famous than Marcelle. Her name is Bibool Yok (Paperbark Girl) and has recently returned home from Queensland, after being selected as a finalist in the prestigious 2017 National Self Portrait Prize. She was one of thirty self portraits selected for the by-invitation only prize, hosted every two years.
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FADZI WHANDE Fadzi is an award-winning Global Diversity and Inclusion Strategist and Social Justice Advocate. Her background ranges from launching telecommunication networks to addressing social disadvantage across government, business, not-for-profit and educational institutions in Africa, Australia, United Kingdom and USA. She currently works as Principal Consultant for Workforce Diversity at the Public Sector Commission. She is a skilled facilitator in the areas of gender inclusive leadership, racial equity, unconscious bias and human rights. Her work primarily focuses on addressing systemic and institutionalised barriers held towards historically underrepresented groups. Over the course of her career, she has been named an Australia Day Ambassador, 2018
Photography by Richard Watson
Western Australian of the Year finalist, a recipient of the 2016 International Racial Equity Leadership Award in the USA and a 2016 finalist for the Australian Human Rights ‘Racism it Stops With Me’ Award. Fadzi sits on the Board of Volunteering WA, the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance and is an Ambassador for 100 Women. Fadzi was selected to participate in the 2017 HIVE Global Leadership Program held at Harvard Medical School and the 2017 Leadership WA Signature Program where she was voted valedictorian. She holds an Executive Master in Business Administration and Graduate Certificate in Social Impact from the University of Western Australia.
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THE HUMAN ADVENTURE
SESSION TWO
SIMON AMOS Simon has been in the construction industry for over 30 years. He has predominantly worked with large head contractors delivering commercial buildings such as office developments, hospitals and shopping centres. He is a strong advocate of leveraging data to be the single source of truth in construction, particularly in trying to bridge the gap between design and site execution. Simon has been cycling for many years and has regularly been seen as a MAMIL (Mature Aged Male in Lycra) on the road river circuit on weekends around Perth. He has participated in numerous charity rides, the most
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challenging of which was the 1,000km ride from Esperance to Perth for Teen Challenge where he learnt that wind is the cyclists’ arch enemy. Simon has also been learning to play tennis for the past 13 years and has been playing with the same group of ‘die hards’ at Robinson Park Tennis Club, rain or shine.
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SILVIA LOZEVA Silvia is value-driven with a strong sense of social justice. She has worked in advancing equity and diversity initiatives in the higher education sector and lead campaigns on prevention of violence against women. Currently, Silvia is serving on the Board of Directors at Multicultural Futures and on the International Political Science Association (Migration and Citizenship). Silvia is a life-long Go player and an aspiring Go scholar. Silvia has lived and worked in New Zealand, Australia, Bulgaria, Russia, the UK and Central Europe. Since the fall of the iron curtain, Silvia has developed a research interest in migration and citizenship and has an academic background in sustainable development, gender studies and politics. Silvia completed her PhD in Migration and Sustainable Development in 2014. Since
Photography by Richard Watson
then she has applied her professional knowledge to advance equity and diversity initiatives, including gender equity, addressing violence against women, managing student equity projects and advancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Reconciliation. She has organised the first academic Go Symposium in Australia (Sydney, 2018) and has continuously applied the art, science and game of Go to her own research, teaching and community engagement. Silvia is the Founder and Director of Institute 361, aiming to gamify strategic thinking. Silvia is also an award-winning radioproducer of a science-fiction audio novel, produced in Wellington, New Zealand.
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SAMANTHA GROVER Samantha’s personal and professional mission is to apply soil science to help people to better steward our home, the Earth. Samantha is a soil scientist and lecturer in Environmental Science at RMIT University. She leads the Land-AtmosphereAnthroposphere Group, whose research aims to overcome the biophysical and socioeconomic challenges of reversing climate change and ensuring food security through innovative soil stewardship. High-carbon peat soils, agricultural soils, sportsground soils and home composting are current research interests in her group. A Certified Professional Soil Scientist and Accredited Partnership Broker, Samantha collaborates with industry, NGOs, government, university researchers and land managers to co-create knowledge with end users and ensure impact.
Photography by Jacinta McInnes
Inspired by the UN’s 2015 International Year of Soils and her own children, Samantha has authored a children’s book Exploring Soils: a hidden world underground, commended as a “Notable Book” by the Children’s Book Council of Australia under the Eve Pownal Award for non-fiction and shortlisted for the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award for Children’s Literature in 2018. Samantha is the President of the Victorian Branch of Soil Science Australia. She has been instrumental in repositioning Soil Science Australia to take a more outwardfacing and active public role in advocating for sustainable use of soils in Australia. Internationally, she contributes to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Mire Conservation Group.
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PAUL ISKOV After growing up in Perth, Paul followed his passion for surfing and moved south. He worked on a friend’s farm until the work ran out, which is when he started working at a nearby restaurant. He thought it was the perfect job as he could surf during the day and work at night. Over the next few years he finished his cooking apprenticeship and ended up back in Perth at Restaurant Amuse, under chef Hadley Troy. This is where he really fell in love with cooking. Whilst at Restaurant Amuse, he did a few stints over East and, in 2012, decided to embark on a yearlong global journey, where he had the opportunity to work in some of the world’s most acclaimed kitchens, such as D.O.M (Sao Paolo), COI (San Francisco), Pujol (Mexico City) and Noma (Copenhagen).
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During his year abroad, he often pondered the question of why we aren’t using more Australian ingredients? Surely, they must be out there? So, after a year of in-depth learning and research, he returned to Australia inspired to learn more. And thus, his quest for a deeper understanding began. Paul established Fervor in 2013 with several aims: to respectfully learn about food of the world’s oldest living culture, to educate diners about native food and to provide a ‘culinary experience you can’t get anywhere else’. Since 2013, Fervor has toured northern Western Australia and, in 2017, it expanded to include the Northern Territory. Paul published his first cookbook, Fervor, in 2018.
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THE HUMAN ADVENTURE
SESSION THREE
JACQUELINE ALDERSON Jacqueline has always been curious about movement – whether it be helping surgeons make best practice decisions for their patients, helping AFL and Australian Hockey players avoid knee injuries, or advising the International Cricket Council on who might be “chucking” – you’ll find her somewhere close with a camera. She holds a Bachelor of Science with first class honours and a PhD in biomechanics and is currently an Associate Professor of biomechanics at the University of Western Australia and an Adjunct Professor of human performance and innovation technology at Auckland University of Technology. She is a fellow of the International Society in Biomechanics in Sport, an executive council member of the International Society of
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Biomechanics and has a wide and varied research history in clinical and sports biomechanics. From the role of deep brain stimulation in modulating movement, understanding the loads causing injury in athletes, to capturing circus performers falling from the roof of her lab, she now travels the world speaking about her current passions – human engineering, wearable tech, artificial intelligence and its role in tracking and analysing and intervening in the human condition. Would she do anything differently if given a second chance? Yes. Exactly the same thing but with animals, especially dogs – because we all know that dogs are the best kind of people.
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DANAIL OBRESCHKOW Danail is passionate about science outreach – his Cosmic Eye video has been watched over 200 million times and shared over a million times. Born and raised in Switzerland, Danail discovered his love for science tinkering with every electronic item in his reach and stargazing with his dad. He later studied physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. After completing his master’s degree on quantum information theory, he was awarded a Berrow Foundation scholarship for doctoral studies at Oxford, where he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in astrophysics in 2009. Danail then briefly interrupted his academic career to develop clean energy solutions in the private sector.
In 2011, he joined the University of Western Australia node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research as a full-time astrophysicist to conduct fundamental research related to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. His professional interests lie in the evolution of galaxies and the cosmic large-scale structure. Danail also has a heart for flying and spaceflight. He obtained his private pilot license during his doctoral studies and has been regularly involved in experimental research in microgravity with the European Space Agency since 2004. He has flown on eleven suborbital microgravity flights aboard the A300 zero-g, each offering about twelve minutes of microgravity. Privately, he enjoys spending time with his family, climbing and hiking, playing music and, occasionally, dancing a bit of salsa.
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CRAIG CHALLEN Craig Challen is an Australian technical diver and cave explorer from Perth. A veterinary surgeon by profession, he was a joint founder of the Vetwest Animal Hospitals (later Australian Animal Hospitals) in 1993 and managed it until retiring in 2017.
Craig also has an avid interest in shipwreck diving and has explored sites over the last 15 years in the South China Sea, Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Mediterranean Sea, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
After commencing cave diving in the 1990s he was an early adopter of then rapidlydeveloping technologies such as closedcircuit mixed gas rebreathers.
Craig is an enthusiastic helicopter and aeroplane pilot.
Notable cave explorations include the extension of Cocklebiddy Cave on the Nullarbor Plain of Australia in 2008 and the Pearse Resurgence in New Zealand over the last 10 years. He has explored caves throughout Australia and New Zealand and in China, Thailand, Vanuatu and the Cook Islands.
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In 2018 Craig participated in the Tham Luang cave rescue of 13 people in Thailand. For his contribution he was awarded the Star of Courage and the Medal of the Order of Australia. He has been named as the 2019 Australian of the Year jointly with his longstanding dive partner Richard Harris.
KIRSTY PRATT Driven by an overactive sense of justice, Kirsty has been an advocate and political activist in support of survivors of childhood sexual abuse for many years. She now applies these reforms in her role as specialist Law Clerk for local law firm Bradley Bayly Legal, bringing justice to abuse survivors. Her team at Bradley Bayly has been awarded for “always sticking up for the little guy” and through this work, she once briefly shared a podium with fellow Law Clerk, Erin Brockovich. Kirsty’s passion is the survivor voice. She wants to change the public discourse around childhood sexual abuse: to focus less on the predators, redirecting the narrative to how we can support survivors.
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With a strong connection to her community, Kirsty is active in voluntary roles on various committees and is the long-term foundation chair of a local school board. In leadership, she is passionate about honest, respectful communication and evidence-based decision-making. Outside of work and volunteering, Kirsty loves spending time with her husband and daughter, attending the cricket and football or watching science documentaries together.
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SESSION FOUR
OWEN MERRIMAN & MICHAEL GATT Michael has spent his adult life in the pursuit of creativity. From graphic design, to art facilitation, artistic direction and even a short-lived stint on radio, Michael’s happy place is when he is able to take an idea from the depths of his imagination and bring it to life, whether it be an advertising campaign, a redesign of a broken lamp or a Fringe Show. Owen suffers from a terminal affliction of reckless optimism. Saying yes to more things than practically possible has led him to a vast array of extracurricular activities. From elite-level obscure sports, to politics, to air guitar championships, to hosting Q&As with astronauts.
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Owen and Michael have been friends since their early twenties. Although focusing on different careers, they discovered a shared passion and excitement for creative outlets and bringing projects and ideas to life. Over the years, they have collaborated on a string of “creative side-hustles”, from stand-up comedy, to charity events, to an app they thought would rival YouTube. In 2017, after an absence of working on projects together and while living in other cities, they decided to reignite the creativeside-project spirit and create a Fringe show.
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YOKE MARDEWI Coming from diverse careers in both fashion and finance, Yoke took the plunge and decided to work on her first love and passion – the making and sharing of food, in particular sourdough breadmaking and fermentation. She works her passion by running classes around Australia and writing books on sourdough. She has featured on Western Australian TV, ABC Radios and in various food and health websites and blogs, newspapers and magazines including Vogue Entertaining, Gourmet Traveller, Scoop, SBS Feast, and Baking Business. Yoke feels it is a huge blessing that she is not classically trained as a baker, so she can spread the sourdough revolution to home bakers everywhere, including gluten free sourdough! She was featured in
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SBS magazine as one of “Australia’s Bread Stars” and has been named as the Queen of Sourdough in Australia by many magazines, publications, and blogs. She has published three books, Wild Sourdough: The Natural Way To Bake, Sourdough: From Pastries to Gluten-free Wholegrain Breads and Wild Sourdough By Hand. Her first book has been reprinted many times and has published the ebooks Wild Sourdough by Hand and Wild Sourdough For The Thermomix. Yoke graduated with a Master of Business Administration from the University of Melbourne as well as a Bachelor of Fashion and Textile Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. However, she is selftaught when it comes to anything sourdough!
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PANKAJ SHARMA Perth was not a planned location for Pankaj to settle down when he and his wife moved from Mumbai in 2013. However, the beautiful laid-back lifestyle of Perth mesmerised them after their super-hectic lifestyle in Mumbai. They now call Perth their Karmabhoomi, a Sanskrit word which loosely translates to Your Place of Action. Pankaj has worked for some of the biggest multinational media and advertising companies in India, most recently with a film production company where he was part of more than 30 Bollywood movies.
In 2015 he and his wife Kim started Toast My Curry as their version of Karma: Do good to do good and not to expect anything back. Toast My Curry was thus born as a social impact enterprise using the model of Buy One – Give One. For each sale, they donate a meal to support the education of street kids in Mumbai. They hope to take this social enterprise, and their project, around the world.
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NATASHA HURLEY-WALKER TEDXPERTH 2016 TALK: SEEING THE SKY WITH RADIO EYES
Natasha Hurley-Walker’s remarkable talk delighted our audience with the world-first look at her true-colour, high-resolution radio picture of our universe. Her talk went on to global recognition and has now been viewed over 1.3 million times. Sometimes I’ll say “yes” to things, and not worry too much about them. They are for “Future Natasha” to deal with. Most weeks I think to myself: “Past Natasha has a lot to answer for!” In 2016 I was speaking about astronomy to a local crowd; in the friendly chat afterwards, a TEDx talent scout asked me if I had ever considered speaking at TEDxPerth. A few weeks later, I gave The World’s Least Rehearsed TED Talk to the TEDxPerth curators. Despite the talk’s lack of any discernible narrative structure, and my nervous swaying habit that Rob, the Lead Curator, charitably described as “like a swinging pendulum”, they saw a gem of promise. A few rehearsals later, and they told me I’d be opening the event. And a few rehearsals after that, I found myself walking on stage in front of 1,700 expectant people and thinking: “Past Natasha seriously has a lot to answer for!” Fast-forward two years and I’d say Past Natasha had exactly the right idea. Speaking at TEDxPerth has increased my passion for outreach: I’ve taken on numerous
public speaking opportunities such as bringing astronomy to the Scinapse festival in Geraldton, talking to high schoolers about careers in STEM at Science Cafe, and discussing at the WA State Library’s Disrupted Festival how astronomy and sustainability intersect, and at four events during National Science Week 2019. My engagement work has led to being named the 2017 WA Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year, an ABC Top 5 Scientist in 2018, and a Superstar of STEM in 2019. A followup interview to my TEDxPerth talk aired on National Public Radio and I’ve received emails from listeners all across the world. I’ve heard from school children who have seen my talk and built their own radio telescopes, and artists inspired by my visuals to create new works. The images themselves have been projected into planetariums, science museums, and even cathedrals. Last year the BBC came calling, and we filmed a special “Outback Astronomy” for the world’s longest-running TV show, The Sky at Night. I’m proud to share my passion with the world. The talk shows people one of the most beautiful works of astronomy I’ve ever made, and has been translated into 20 languages, reaching people all over the world. I’m really glad I signed Future Natasha up to walk on to the TEDxPerth stage, as I knew she would step up to the challenge.
JOSHUA PORTLOCK TEDXPERTH 2018 TALK: ELECTRIC AEROPLANES MAY BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK. HERE’S WHY.
Last year Josh Portlock amazed the audience with a vision of environmentallyfriendly flight using super-efficient, electrically-powered, ducted air propulsion. Since sharing my vision and passion for a sustainable aviation future at TEDxPerth in 2019, the additional exposure and awareness of my mission has helped our team accelerate our electric aircraft development activities. It also gave me greater confidence to push forward and commit even more of my time to Electro.Aero. This contributed to raising capital from one of Australia’s most successful tech entrepreneurs, Dr David Warren, co-founder of multi-billion-dollar ASX listed electronics design software company Alitum Ltd.
Josh riding WaveFlyer
I also connected with some great people during and after the event, including our now lead Digital Designer Naomi Gunton. Naomi made a very positive comment on social media after my talk, which caught my attention enough to invite her in for an interview to join our team. Naomi shares our environmentally conscious mindset and can relate to our passion to make a positive difference with our technology. Naomi and I wouldn’t have known we were such a good fit to work together if it weren’t for TEDxPerth. Richard Watson is another great team member who I met from him editing my TEDxPerth talk for YouTube. Not only did he do a great job with editing the talk, but he also expressed interest in working with us and has been a great contributor to our
team and mission since. It is rare to find an electrical engineer who has such good videography skills, making Richard extremely versatile while we’re still a growing team. One of the most exciting developments is that we have expanded our electric propulsion technology focus from aircraft to watercraft. We applied our knowledge of electronic systems and fluid dynamics to develop the world’s first personal watercraft with an actively stabilised hydrofoil electric propulsion system, that we call the WaveDrive. The hull can lift up above the waves while the propulsion system flies underneath the water, reducing the power consumption by up to 75%. This means either four times more endurance, batteries four times smaller, twice the speed for
a given power, or some combination of all three benefits. We believe our WaveDrive propulsion technology will revolutionise watercraft, because it is completely silent, extremely efficient, produces no emissions and gives the amazing sensation of smoothly flying over the water.
STEVE WILTON TEDXPERTH 2016 TALK: CAN A DRUG CURE A GENETIC DISEASE?
Professor Steve Wilton spoke at TEDxPerth 2016 about his life’s work developing a world-first therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This muscle-wasting disease almost exclusively affects boys, giving an average life-expectancy of 26. The title of my talk was Can a drug cure a genetic disease? and the answer has to be an unequivocal NO! The treatment developed for Duchenne muscular dystrophy was never expected to be a cure, but if you ask “is it making a difference in slowing disease progression?” the answer is YES! Since the US Federal Drug Authority (FDA) gave accelerated approval in September 2016, the drug Eteplirsen has become available to hundreds of children in the USA and there are trials all over the world, including Australia. Although this is a firstgeneration drug, there are remarkable stories of boys and young men living longer and doing things that had been very difficult or impossible a year or two before treatment. One such young man, Billy, was an early recipient. Now aged 18, Billy graduated from his senior high school in June this year, confidently ascending and descending the ramp onto the stage to collect his diploma.
According to statistics, Billy should have stopped walking around 11 years of age. One of the many challenges with this type of personalized medicine is that the drug has to be tailored to the specific spelling errors in the dystrophin gene that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Eteplirsen is applicable to about 13% of patients and two other “gene patches” directed at different mutations are in advanced Phase 3 trials: the FDA is expected to hand down their decision on Golodirsen this year and a new drug application for Casimersen should be submitted before year’s end. While it is incredibly gratifying seeing the differences being made with the boys and young men receiving these compounds, there is still so much to do: improve the potency and efficiency of these first-generation drugs and roll out more compounds to treat as many different Duchenne muscular dystrophycausing mutations as possible. We anticipate that some of the rarer mutations will respond better than those in the immediate clinical pipeline, but this will require fundamental shifts in trial design and regulatory approval. The future is certainly going to be very busy.
Billy graduating from senior high school last year.
ALICIA CURTIS TEDXPERTH 2017 TALK: YOU CAN BE A PHILANTHROPIST TOO!
Alicia Curtis’ 2017 TEDxPerth talk showed that by aggregating their resources, even people of modest means could achieve great things.
philanthropy is unattainable to the everyday individual and showcase the incredible impact you can have when smaller donations are pooled together with a common purpose.
It’s been an exciting two years for 100 Women since I spoke about the power of everyday philanthropists. It was such an honour to start a conversation about philanthropy and share how we founded a collective giving movement that ignites women as philanthropists while funding high-impact projects supporting women and girls, locally and globally.
The feedback from my talk was really encouraging. People were touched by the grant projects we’ve funded and the ripple effects they created. Best of all, it inspired people to action – men and women – who joined 100 Women and people who have come to our events and shared the idea of collective giving with their own communities. We couldn’t be happier with the response!
While it was a little nerve-wracking walking out onto the famous red dot on the Concert Hall stage, I needn’t have worried, the audience was so warm and encouraging. My aim was to change the perception that
TEDxPerth is an important amplifier of great ideas in Western Australia. The diversity of ideas and presenters, as well as the atmosphere and community it creates, is such a gift for our State. In these times of
increasing polarity and even loneliness, we need to keep cultivating spaces for discussion, community and connection. TEDxPerth holds a very special place in 100 Women’s history. The TED talk is a conversation starter, it gives us a platform to enhance the credibility of our idea. It opens doors, it invites people to find out more and it connects us with a community of change makers. 100 Women continues to expand, we keep building our membership, enhancing our governance and we have plans to grow across Australia. Thank you TEDxPerth for helping us share our ideas!
The Restore Rose project in rural Cambodia
TEDXPERTH ALUMNI We are proud of the wonderful people who have generously shared their ideas, stories and talents with TEDxPerth audiences. Their contributions remain part of the growing catalogue of ‘ideas worth spreading’, available freely online, accessible across the globe. TEDxPerth talks have been viewed over 7,500,000 times.
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Andra Kins Coming out – public art in Western Australia Andrew Jaspan A new way to do journalism Bernadette Jiwa The secret to spreading ideas Boom! Bap! Pow! Suit and My World live Brad Norman Whale sharks and citizen science Carmen Lawrence Why protect the West Kimberley? Cat Hope and Decibel New music on iPads Geoffrey Drake-Brockman Created beings James Trevelyan Ending poverty – what engineers can do Jonathan Holloway The 10 traits of a 21st century festival Kate Raynes-Goldie What games can be Lucky Oceans Improvisation Martin Hagger Sport psychology – inside the mind of champion athletes Melissa Langdon Transforming slacktivism into action Steven Tingay Science, art, reconciliation Tasha Broomhall Are you blooming?
Adam Johnson A world without waste Andrea Gibbs The power of storytelling Andrew Walsh Could we make beer in space? Ernesto Sirolli Enterprise facilitation Heidi Stieglitz Ham A sustainable living community for adults on the autism spectrum Ingrid Cumming Two worlds James Fitzpatrick Close the gap Michelle Sandford Where have all the girls gone? Neville Bruce Education for world futures: that future is now! Peter Newman Sustainability – are we winning? Rabia Siddique Courage under fire Renae Sayers Science communication is a tool for empowerment Sarah Pellicano Performance Sash Milne Nothing new
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Annie Fogarty Let’s create the educational village Carina Hoang Being a refugee is not a choice Cathie Travers and Glenn Rogers Live performance David Joske Bringing humanity to healthcare Griffin Longley Let kids take risks Hamish Jolly A shark-deterrent wetsuit Kylie Sturgess Superstition ain’t the way Lilt Performance Mat Welch Life inside the beehive Miles Burke 11 lessons learned through mistakes Nik Zeps Don’t let genetic discrimination condemn the genetic revolution Patrick Hollingworth Climbing Everest Sam Perry Live looping – Only Love and Aladdin Shani Graham Take a street and build a community Tim South Performance: Bach cello suite no.1 – Prelude
Amanda Ridley Why are we altruistic? Ben Sharp The future and fungi Callum Ormonde Unboiling an egg Danielle Caruana (Mama Kin) David, my inner tyrant David Ritter The key to government accountability and social change Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse Kalyakoorl and Boorda Jo McDonald Our rock art, our heritage Kevin Vinsen How we can all help solve science’s most difficult questions Ky Sinclair The carpark classroom Laura Boykin How supercomputers are improving global food security Ochre Contemporary Dance Company Performance: Within Space Paul Stone aka Future Dynamic Performance Paula Constant The power of enough Peter Sharp Dare to be vulnerable Prue Cormie A new contender in the fight against cancer
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Adrian Petersen Blockchain, the future of trust Akram Azimi Social hope on Struggle Street Alexandre Da Costa A case for classical music Cally Jetta Australia, we need to talk Gary Cass A toast to the future of fabrics John Robertson Question everything Kia Dowell The solution to indigenous disadvantage Lindsay Miles The non-disposable life. Meg Travers Trautonium. Saving digital knowledge from technology obsolescence Michael Sheldrick Can a digital movement end global poverty? Natasha Hurley-Walker Seeing the sky with radio eyes Steve Wilton Can a drug cure genetic disease? Rachel Claudio How to translate feeling into sound Simon Phillips A full-band solo musician
Amanda Lambros Date night is cheaper than divorce Ben McAllister Why dark matter matters Charlie Mgee More than a tune: make music with purpose, change your world Claire Vanderplank Damien Norris It’s time to re-wild your body Danail Obreschkow Daniel Midgley Dave Wild Drisana Levitzke-Gray Put your hearing privilege to good use Elise Reitze and Rosie Taylor New sounds in music: what are we missing? Garth Illingworth Gitte Heij Glenn Murray Cybercrime can kill you Gretchen Benedix Hannah Moore Data is best disinfectant Helen Street Wellbeing is not a competition Joshua Portlock Electric aeroplanes may be closer than you think. Here’s why Kai Lovel Turn setbacks into opportunities in three easy steps Kate McIvor Start somewhere. Anywhere Kruger James Mathas Rap and the music of social change Pete Byfield Calling all cultures to country Ron Bradfield Jr Rory Moke A Haka from the Heart Simone Pettigrew Do you already own the last car you’ll ever buy? Simone Vitali The silence of extinction Zenatalla Ibrahim The woman behind the hijab
2017 Abdul-Rahman Abdullah Trevor is a goat – Trevor has something to say Alan Harvey Your brain on music Alicia Curtis You can be a philanthropist too! Anas Ghadouani How to eat yourself out of a water shortage Charlie Bass We can’t roll sixes forever: what comes after the resources boom? Claude Woodward Performance: The Sonic Manipulator Emma Gibbens Making social change stick Esther Onek How to be stubborn Fred Chaney Jr Learning to live cooperatively Ian Dunican Sleep in… and win! Jesse Oliver Performance: Wake up! Josh Byrne How cities can be good for the planet Kelli McCluskey The revolution needs your participation Kelwin Wong Film: #PosterChallenge Lucy Peach The power of the period Noelle Martin Sexual predators edited my photos into porn Ray Willis The future is what it used to be Rob Lines Film: The Soldiers of Barrack Street Scott Ludlam Ecology or economy? Why not both? Sheila Humphries My stolen childhood, and a life to rebuild
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SHORT BATCH PRINTING CO. Short Batch Printing Co. is a locally-owned and operated screen printer, specialising in handcrafted printed garments. Every piece is precision printed by hand, delivering a finish second to none. Uniforms, band merchandise, a clothing label or a sports team – whatever you need, we can craft the ultimate garment that people won’t want to take off.
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THE BIRD The Bird on William Street offers a mix of great food, live music and an eclectic range of wines and beers in one of Northbridge’s most popular venues.
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OTHERSIDE BREWING COMPANY Born in Fremantle, Australia – the birthplace of Australian craft brewing – Otherside was started by a bunch of music industry mates who love good beer without the BS. Our beers are pretty straightforward; they’re brewed with the best of ingredients and are naturally preservative-free. Basically, we make beers we want to drink and then we share them with the world.
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VINACEOUS The Vinaceous Wines story began in 2007 as the movement for contemporary Australian wine producers emerged. Drawing on 50 years industry experience, our vision was to create a unique Australian wine company that hand selected the best regional Australian vineyards and pockets of fruit, crafting varietals we love and showcasing the capabilities of Australia’s finest wine regions.
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PAY IT FORWARD Pay It Forward means members of our community help make TEDxPerth accessible to some of those who otherwise couldn’t attend. Our mission is to spread great ideas. Whilst all our online talks are free, there is no substitute for being here in person. We are non-profit and work hard with our partners to keep ticket prices to a minimum, however, price remains a barrier for some. This year we have partnered with the Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia (YACWA) and Reconciliation WA, two charities making
a big difference for young people in our community. Thanks to the generosity of members of our audience, our team and the City of Perth, we are delighted to welcome over 20 guests from our Pay It Forward partner charities to TEDxPerth, The Human Adventure. TEDxPerth is keen to expand our Pay It Forward program and is seeking partners to help us include more young people in the future. Let’s talk: partnerships@tedxperth.org
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