A Special Thanks to You, the Audience and Supporters, on Behalf of the TEDxAuckland Team On behalf of the TEDxAuckland organising team, thank you for coming along to the 2012 event! As you’ll know, we filled the Aotea Centre and the buzz in the room was incredible. Despite there being over 2,000 people in the …
I wasn’t involved in the final few days of lights, camera, action, and so on the actual day I had the pleasure of being in the audience and watching the magic come alive. And it blew me away. Of course I was also simultaneously extremely relieved. This is the first TEDxAuckland event with this team, …
SESSION 1 – Please be seated by 9:50am Andrew Patterson (MC) Andrew has been a TED junky for years and is possibly one of the hardest working people on New Zealand radio. He is on-air six days a week hosting RadioLIVE’s DRIVE Show during the week and Sunday Business on the weekend. Michelle Dickinson: Nanogirl …
Booktrack melds together the two things that spark me up like a fire cracker: words and music. And at the beginning of this year when I heard that the prolific composer John Psathas had scored the music for Salmon Rushdie’s short story In the South, in that moment I knew the people behind Booktrack had …
TEDxAuckland is shaping up to be a complete sell-out with only a handful of tickets still available for the October event. With the event now just weeks away, TEDxAuckland is pleased to announce the names of the inspiring New Zealanders who complete this year’s impressive speaker line-up. Event organiser Elliott Blade believes the high calibre …
The Last Ocean, directed by New Zealand film maker Peter Young, is a heart-wrenching documentary that has a deadline with the planet – and you. It’s a journey to the ravishing Ross Sea in Antarctica; home to penguins, whales, seals and the richest diversity of Southern Ocean fishes and animals many of which are found …
TEDxAuckland is shaping up to be a sell-out event with the main floor of the ASB Theatre reaching full capacity less than two weeks after the first speakers were announced. The October event will present a diverse range of speakers that will ignite conversation, encourage new thinking and expose attendees to world-changing ideas from the …
“When I was a kid I wanted to be a superhero. I wanted to fly like superman. I wanted to climb stuff like spider-man.” I meet Michelle Dickinson’s grin from across the table. She’s animated, just like a superhero. And I’m hanging on every word, just like a kid. “But then I grew up and …
Last year Architect Andrew Patterson’s firm Patterson Associates Ltd was named by the world’s most searched Architectural Journal; World Architecture News as one of five worldwide “set to influence global Architecture”, so how did that happen? He tells me he grew up with a lot of Māori influence, but that his breakthrough emerged when he …
