TED’s coming to Bondi Beach!

For all TED’s Bondi fans, the press release is just in that global ideas event TED will share the second day of its annual Long Beach, California conference with a live audience at the Bondi Pavilon on Thursday 3 March 2011.

The free event is being organised by TEDxSydney in collaboration with the Bondi Pavilion and the Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company and is open to anyone from the public. The live webstream will commence at the very uncivilised hour of 3:30AM on Thursday 3 March and run through to around 1:45PM on the same day.
 
The US based not-for-profit devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading” is followed by millions of devotees and has a strong Australian fan base. The annual TED Conference in Long Beach is at the heart of the global TED movement. 

Bill Gates is guest curator for Day 2 of the program, with the speaker line-up for the day including Supersize Me’s Morgan Spurlock, Julie Taymor, the Ford Motor Co’s Bill Ford, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi along with a some surprise guests. Click here for the full speaker line-up. 

With a limited capacity in the theatre, seating will be on a first-come, first served basis. Those interested in attending are encouraged to register online.

The live stream precedes local event TEDxSydney on Saturday 28 May 2011 which will showcase Australian speakers and performers at CarriageWorks in Eveleigh. Applications to attend that event will be open in March.
 
Licensee Remo Giuffre says: “TED is a unique learning environment which pays homage to the potency of ideas. There are hundreds of thousands of Australian devotees who follow TED talks on the global website. We jumped at the rare opportunity to create a satellite event to bring this incredible content live a local audience. The event at the Pavilion will be a fun and somewhat surreal experience."