in Sydney's Eveleigh on Saturday 22 May 2010 will feature 20 of Australia's leading innovators and thinkers - along with a selection of the best 'ideas worth spreading' submitted in video format by the Australian public.

The free all-day event will be attended by a 650-strong audience of innovators, thinkers, creatives, cultural leaders, and social pioneers - including hundreds of TED enthusiasts selected via an online application process. For those who missed out on tickets, in collaboration with CarriageWorks and Julian Morrow, there is a free live viewing event in the foyer and a live webstream of the event will be viewed by thousands of others locally and around the world. To view the webstream, simply log onto www.tedxsydney.com

Major TEDx partner and sponsor, the UTS Business knowledge hub Business21C, is offering the public a chance to get their ideas onstage at TEDx for the first time through an online video competition. Participants are required to make a 60 second video of an idea and upload it to YouTube - tagging it tedxsydneyideasb21c. For more details on how to upload ideas, visit: www.business21c.com.au/tedxsydney.  The best videos will be selected to be broadcast live at TEDxSydney 2010and their makers will receive an invitation to the event.

"TED is all about ideas, and ideas is what we do at UTS Business. We're excited to be working with TEDxSydney to collect and disseminate Sydney's best and most energetic ideas. I'm hoping that by spreading them through TED they'll become reality," said Dean of UTS Business, Roy Green.

TEDxSydney is being organised by Sydney retail pioneer, Remo Giuffré (REMO General Store) and his General Thinking network of thinkers and collaborators.

"TED is a unique learning environment which pays homage to the potency of ideas," said Giuffré. "Speakers are invited to the stage based on the merit of their ideas and TEDxSydney continues this tradition. For TEDxSydney we felt that we would establish a platform for local thinkers, doers and storytellers. We consider our role to be that of talent scouts; unearthing people from this part of the world, who inspire, and through their ideas and actions, make a powerful contribution to life on earth."

Full speaker details can be found at: http://tedxsydney.com/speakers.

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