In the spirit of ideas worth spread­ing, TED has cre­ated a pro­gram called TEDx­. TEDx­ is a pro­gram of local, self-organised events that bring peo­ple together to share a TED-like expe­ri­ence. Our event is called TEDx­Can­berra, where x = inde­pen­dently orga­nised TED event. At TEDx­Can­berra, TEDTalks video and live speak­ers will com­bine to spark deep dis­cus­sion and con­nec­tion in a small group. The TED Con­fer­ence pro­vides gen­eral guid­ance for the TEDx­ pro­gram, but indi­vid­ual TEDx­ events, includ­ing ours, are self-organised by unpaid volunteers.