Tickets for TEDxCanberra will be priced at AU$65 each.

This amount, coupled with the support we’ve already received will allow us to cover our show costs including catering, film crew, printing and the like. In accordance with TEDx licensing conditions, we’re keeping this cost to an absolute minimum. There’s no fat in that number.

Here’s how the ticket release will go. There are two possible scenarios.

1. If the number of people on the early notice list is less than the number of available seats at 9:00AM on 13 September, people on our early notice list will receive an email with information on purchasing a ticket. They will have 24 hours to purchase their ticket before general, public release of tickets.
2. If the number of people on the early notice list exceeds the number of available seats at 9:00AM on 13 September, we will randomly select people from that list to receive a notice email. If there are tickets remaining after the initial 12 hours, any people who missed out from the ballot will receive an email giving them the chance to purchase their ticket before general, public release of any remaining tickets.

Given the expected demand for tickets, there will be a few conditions:

• At 9:00AM on 14 September, tickets will go on general public sale.
• The public sale of tickets will be announced on Twitter and Facebook only.
• You will be able to purchase a single ticket only. There will be no multiple ticket sales.

For the moment, it looks like scenario 1 is the more likely (and obviously, the most preferable).

We’re holding the first of our salons, hosted by the Canberra office of our friends at Stamford Interactive, on 16 September at 6PM, just a few weeks out from the big day.

If you’d like to come along, please register.

With 15 years of experience in the banking industry, Ed Bosworth holds responsibilities at one of Australia’s biggest banks to ensure that Westpac and its customers don’t go down in another GFC. He is involved internationally in managing and designing risk mitigation strategies across the banking industry. In his spare time, Ed dreams of becoming a professional OxFam Trailwalker.

Inspirational dancer and musician, Francis Owusu plans to transform a generation of youth through empowering them to believe in themselves, to take their future into their own hands and to make a difference. He has worked with over 80,000 young people around Australia and overseas since 2006, bringing them the message of Kulture Break.

Mark Pesce is known to many Australians as the cardigan-wearing judge on the ABC’s The New Inventors. But did you know he was also the co-inventor of pioneering 3D language VRML and has been envisioning and thinking about the future of a hyperconnected humanity for just as long?

And that’s it, the entire line-up for TEDxCanberra is now revealed.

The final announcements go live in another blog post tomorrow morning (by which time we hope our malware issues are solved – we’ve had several attacks in the last month), but you can get a sneak peek at the full TEDxCanberra lineup if you download our flyer.

We’re very pleased with the range and quality of presenters we’ve been able to attract and think they should make for an amazing day.

And, unannounced until now, the flyer has the date that tickets will go on sale.

Remember, if you’d like advance notice of ticket sales, you can join our expression of interest list and we’ll let you know 24 hours ahead of public ticket sales.

We’re pretty excited about how the line-up is going and think 23 October is going to be quite the big day. Hopefully, you’re as excited as we are.

So, without further ado, here are eight new speakers for TEDxCanberra!

Former commercial pilot, human factors expert and semi-pro skeptic Ash Donaldson wants us to understand how it is we’re fooled into believing things are good for us when they aren’t. If you listen in to him and take away his message, you’ll be better equipped to make informed judgments on influences in your life.

Dawn O’Neil has been the CEO of Lifeline for 10 years. In that time, her work on mental health and suicide prevention has made her a powerful voice in changing societal attitudes and ensuring that people at risk are able to access the services and assistance they desperately need.

His passion for good food, sourced from local providers has made Jared Ingersoll and his Danks Street Depot restaurant a highlight for lovers of quality food. He wants us all to be more aware of where our food comes from, both in terms of geography and in the way it is farmed.

Space is the final frontier for Marco Ostini and the team at the Lunar Numbat Project. They’re aiming to get a small, Australia-New Zealand built vehicle on the moon. In doing so, they hope to answer some big questions.

Mitchell Whitelaw spends his days dreaming up new ways to visualise cultural information so that it makes sense to people. As an advocate for open government data and the release of cultural visual material under open licenses, his work is recognised internationally.

His work on imagining a better society has made Pete Williams an acknowledged authority on building a more open, accepting and better managed world in a time when as-usual thinking results in more of the same. He has been a critical part of rebuilding Flowerdale after the Black Saturday fires.

Simon Taylor will make you think as you realise what you see, isn’t actually what’s happening. He has a background in psychology but fills his time as an illusionist who exposes the lie in our perception of the world. Depending on how you look at it, that makes for hilarity or something pretty scary. At TEDxCanberra, we hope it’s the former.

His work in South-East Asia has brought clean drinking water to many in Laos since 2008. As the driving force behind AbundantWater, Sunny Forsyth is empowering local people to ensure they and their families are able to access clean, safe wateer in places where, in the past, this has been a real challenge and a major public health issue.

After messing around with lots of options and coming to the realisation that simpler is, in fact, better, we have today launched our open application process for TEDxCanberra 2010.

Anyone at all can come along to TEDxCanberra on Saturday 23 October.

In collaboration with our Venue Partner, the National Library of Australia, we are planning an amazing live event that will utilse several parts of this iconic building. It should be incredible fun and hugely stimulating.

However, due to space constraints, just 297 people will be able to be in the audience. We’re keeping it relatively small for 2010 so that we can manage and so that the event doesn’t get over-crowded.

That means that, while we hope everyone who wants to can come, that might not be possible. So, you should register your interest now.

Applications close at Midnight AEST on Monday 13 September.

So, we’re running a competition that’s open to senior high school students anywhere!

You can get all the details on the competition page.

It’s long, at 40-odd minutes, but it is an interesting look inside what goes on. And there’s an interesting chat with TEDx manager, Lara Stein, at about 3:47.

Enjoy!

Enjoy.

It’s for this reason that we are absolutely delighted to announce that Professor Pat McGorry, the 2010 Australian of the Year, will be a speaker at TEDxCanberra 2010 on 23 October.

Professor McGorry has a long history of leadership on the issues and facts surrounding those suffering from mental illness and acting as a strong advocate for them in matters of policy reform.

He has been especially outspoken since being named as Australian of the Year, including several media pieces detailing his views with respect to government inaction on mental health reform and taking part in the GetUp! campaign, Health Matters.

At TEDxCanberra, we’re really looking forward to Pat taking the stage and bringing the issues of mental health reform to the forefront of our audience’s attention.