Blog Archive

An interview with Emma Rogan - Creativity, Resilience, New Beginnings

Do you know about the NZ graphic designer who inspired thousands of people around the globe to get creative? From 2011 to 2018, the ‘100 Days Project’ saw over 5000 people from all over the world e...

Karl Sheridan: Experimenting with Auckland's art scene

Karl founded his own film production agency, Monster Valley in 2011 which drives commercial content through art. Out of this, ‘The Experiment’ was born. An annual event where Auckland’s alternative...

An interview with Paul Wood - Masculinity, Prison, and life after TEDx

TEDxAuckland speaker, Paul Wood took the stage in 2012 with his talk, ‘What’s Your Prison?’. Since then, Paul has gained a huge amount of attention connecting with people from all walks of life. 7 ...

Nathan Joe: Identity, Race, Representation - from Book to Film to Stage

Nathan Joe is a Christchurch born, multiple award-winning playwright who captivates Auckland with vivacious and experimental theatre. His show ‘I Am Rachel Chu’ (based off the hit film ‘Crazy Rich ...

Fathe Tesfamariam: Communicating Through Music And Movement

Fathe Tesfamariam is an Auckland based, Sudanese born musician who plays African centred rhythms with elements of traditional North African Percussion. This, combined with western instruments has b...

Whoa! Studios: Meet the team making magic

We’d like to give a big thanks to Whoa! Studios and The Grounds’ for hosting our first TEDxAuckland event of the year. Due to their unique setting and incredible hospitality, the night was a huge s...

Ben Bayly: The Mind Behind The Menu

Ahead of our first TEDxAuckland event in May, we caught up with multi-award winning chef, Ben Bayly who has created a four course menu for speakers and guests to enjoy following the talks, at his r...

What does “Too Touristy” mean?

‘Tourist’ seems to be a dirty word. I’ve travelled before, but it was only on my most recent adventure that I came face to face with what it means for something to be ‘too touristy’. (read_more) ...

How to Find Your Ikigai

Cindy Leong is a contributor to TEDx and recently joined the Marketing Communications team. She has a background in marketing & photography with a passion for creative expression. I first ...

The social media of TEDxAuckland 2018

What is it like running the social media for a major event like TEDxAuckland? It has been a wonderful year for the TEDxAuckland community. With the success of the event behind us, I’d like to giv...

Food For Thought: The food & drink of TEDxAuckland 2018

TEDxAuckland isn’t just about the talks… Every year, we aim to showcase local food and drink companies that are innovating and creating amazing products. Our friends at Sour Heart Productions spe...

FAQ: What is the Speaker Curation Process?

A question that is regularly asked to us at TEDxAuckland is “how do you select your speakers?”. It occurred to us at TEDxAkl that many people had the wrong idea about how much work was involved in...

Auckland Puppy Rescue - A Puppy-Playpen at TEDxAuckland 2018

We have some ideas about where you’ll be between speaker sessions at this year’s TEDxAuckland. We’re guessing you’ll be at the puppy-playpen, meeting a handful of playful puppies who will be there ...

An interview with Pete Ceglinski - CEO and Co-Founder of the Seabin Project

An interview with Pete Ceglinski, CEO and co-founder of the Seabin Project on the challenges and opportunities we face together as a global community to solve one of the most vexing environmental i...

David Downs Returns To The TEDxAuckland Stage In 2018

As a platform that values the spreading of unique and new ideas, we aren’t typically keen on repeating speakers in the lineup of our annual event. So then what does it mean when a speaker from even...

An Interview With Elliott Blade - TEDxAuckland Licensee

“A good idea is something that makes you look at the world differently . . . it puts you in someone else’s shoes or opens your mind up to something you hadn’t thought of or experienced before.”  E...

TEDxAkl 2016 Food Story Video

Food. It’s an essential ingredient to life, growing ideas, people and #TEDxAkl. Check out our Food Video from last years Long Lunch. To attend TEDxAuckland 2017 and this years amazing Long Dinner ...

TEDxScottBase Auckland viewing party

We’re joining over 50 other TEDxOrganisers around the world to bring you a special Viewing Party for TEDxScottBase, our Facebook Event here. DATE: Sunday 22 January 2017 TIME: 3:00pm - 7:00pm...

Speaker Update | Cori Gonzalez-Macuer

Billy T award-winning comedian, actor and writer Cori Gonzalez-Macuer hit the TEDxAuckland stage at Flipside in May 2016. As someone who makes a living talking to crowds and making people laugh, t...

Speaker Update | Georgia Lala

19-year-old Georgia Lala has made sustainability the name of her game. The teen plans to challenge the way individuals and companies look at adopting sustainable approaches to both production and ...

TEDxAuckland 2015: The Food

We collaborated with The Food Truck this year to make a healthy delicious lunch at TEDxAuckland 2015.

The Scope

TEDxAuckland Returns with another Stellar Line-Up for 2015 Wednesday, 11 March 2015, 11:04 am Press Release: TEDxAuckland TEDxAuckland Returns with another Stellar Line-Up for 2015 TEDxAuckland...

Matt Stone. The Master Chef of Sustainability.

One of Matt Stone’s favourite TED Talks is by Sir Ken Robinson, ‘school is killing creativity’, and so it’s not surprising that Australia’s hottest young chef has been working in the industry since...

Mike Allsop, on running out of oxygen

By Jamie Joseph I clicked the transmit button on the control column to tell the Coast Guard pilot, ‘This is it, we’re going in!’ The words never came out. Instead what emerged was a sound I had ne...

Urzila Carlson. The accidental comedian.

Originally from South Africa, Urzila Carlson is the accidental comedian who stepped up to the stage for the first time in 2008, and then went on to win best new comer award. At the time she was emp...

Scaling the unknown with Rebecca Mills, Sustainability Strategist

Rebecca Mills comes from a big family. When she was a little girl she would sit under the dinner table and observe everyone, always acutely aware of what was going on around her. When Rebecca was ...

Robert Oliver: “Homelessness was bizarre to me!”

I recall a dinner I had with chef and author Robert Oliver a few days before he took to the stage at TEDxAuckland and presented his blueprint for food tourism culture. We share prawn starters whil...

Helen Clark: I advocate for women in leadership

Words: Jamie Joseph The only 2013 TEDxAuckland speaker that sent a smiley face via Facebook as confirmation that she would speak, was ex New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. Helen Clark became...

Robyn Paterson: Zimbabwe is not black and white

It all came to a dramatic halt about ten minutes into Robyn Paterson’s talk at TEDxAuckland on Saturday 3 August. I was backstage sitting next to one of our crew that was managing the cameras and s...

Professor Richard Faull: The accidental brain bank

Just as I was heading over to Auckland University for my interview with brain scientist Richard Faull, a fellow colleague stopped me at the lift. She told me that she had recently attended a Huntin...