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TEDx PowerSt ARISE is a pioneering TEDx community and stage 100% community-curated and created by the new generation of Asian-Australian possibilists and global citizens to amplify ideas, perspectives, stories, voices, and talents.

You're invi-TED to spend an evening with our dynamic multi-disciplinary TEDx speakers and our TEDx community on the 54th Floor VIP Lounge of Melbourne Square with spectacular 270 degree night views over Melbourne city, the Yarra, Botanic Gardens, and beyond.

Arrive before 5 PM for dinner first, we've curated conversations for you to connect and converse. Sama-Sama restaurant just downstairs @11 Bale Circuit (self-pay, see menu )

6:00 PM Welcome, proceed lobby of Melbourne Walk 18 Hoff Boulevard and head up to our 54th Floor lounge

Talk+Eat-Drink Community Party
- Dessert and Drinks (alcohol and non-alcohol, hot and cold)
- Connect and converse with our inaugural TEDx speakers
- Meet and mingle with diverse and multi-disciplinary Asian-Australian thinkers and doers

- Updates: Since launch, we have curated and platformed 8 pioneering TEDx speakers, hosted national online TEDx conversations, most recently on Asian parenting, and TED HQ has uploaded our inaugural TED Talk by Qin Qin, author of "Model Minority Gone Rogue" which has been chosen as The Age's Top 10 books of 2025

- Launch of our TEDx ARISE Partnerships program for corporates and communities to engage and contribute

- We are amidst community-curating our first 28 TED speakers and performances.

- Launch of our pioneer TEDx ARISE Idea and Community Ambassador program that will span diverse Asian communities, professions, and cities across Australia. This Ambassador program is opened to Asian-Australian thinkers+doers and community leaders.

- Experience attending a TED Conference: watch TED 2025

- Come dressed in TED colours: Red, white, and/or black

- Recommend tram #58 and #1 mere 3 mins walk. Parking is also available all around, and underground.

It's time for TED!

Dave Lim-Light

Steward and mentor on behalf of the curatorial team of TEDx ARISE

TEDxARISE@ideasworthdoing.org