Ideas Worth Doing

We have pioneered a TEDx community and stage 100% community-curated and created by the new generation of Asian global citizens and possibiists to amplify ideas, perspectives, stories, voices, and talents

What are our hopes and dreams?

What are our passions and purposes?

What do we deeply care about within ourselves and in our communities?

What is our vision of ourselves, the world, and the future?

What challenges do we face, and how could we act?

What are our latent possibilities?

What are our Superpowers?

What is your ONE WISH for ourselves and our children?

Read what the community wished for

WHAT WE BELIEVE

Be authentic

Be empowered

Believe in our possibilities

Build a better future for us all

OUR PURPOSE

TEDxPowerSt ARISE celebrates our creativity, contributions, and cultures.

Inspired by TED's 2026 theme, our theme for 2026 is ARISE: All of Us!

JOIN US AND ATTEND ONLINE for our regular series:

- Conversations with our SHEroes and HEroes: Insightful and intergenerational conversational interviews, sign up with your email to get your invitations.
- IdeasWorthDoing conversations and actions: Guest conversationalists discuss important and meaningful issues and ideas and ideate action, sign up with your email to get your invitations
- Early Dec IdeasWorthDoing: 'Wellbeing Requires Wellbeing' featuring Jane Chen, TED Fellow and social impact entrepreneur of Embrace, and author of Like Wave We Break and other social entrepreneurs Find out more here.

More coming up in 2026, to get your invitations, sign up with your email.

- John Wang, author of Big Asian Energy.
- and many more being curated, stay tuned.

TO DO

Watch our inaugural TED Talk by Qin Qin, author of "Model Minority Gone Rogue" selected as Top 6 Book of 2025 in Australia by The Age “a searing analysis of changing Asian stereotypes in the West” HERE

We've hosted numerous community conversations and tutorials, read the insights and notes:

Conversations with our SHEroes and HEroes: THRIVE! featuring Qin Qin author of Top 6 and Top 4 Books in Australia by The Age and ACT

Asian Duty and Desire: How to reimagine how we love? Hear and speak with empathic psychologist Christine Yeung SEE NOTES

To be or not to be a Model Asian / Minority? Join us to discuss expectations, stereotypes & what it takes to find & walk your own truth. " with author Qin Qin SEE NOTES

Asian and Female: Not here to be pretty, quiet, or good. Reimagine our power and pleasure with relationship and intimacy coach Susie Kim SEE NOTES

Luanna's viral Harvard speech: Learn how to make Impact and Inspire whenever you speak and present SEE NOTES

Bringing up East+West Conversations with and for Asian parents SEE NOTES

Asian Reimagined featuring 8 ideas and perspectives from 8 diverse Asians SEE NOTES

Ideas Worth Doing to Advance Being, Belonging, and Bridging featuring 5 multi-disciplinary thinkers and doers across anthropology, sociology, psychology and more SEE NOTES

Ideas Worth Doing to Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion featuring Karen Loon, 5th generation Asian-Australian and author of Fostering Culturally Diverse Leadership in Organisations: Lessons from Those Who Smashed the Bamboo Ceiling SEE NOTES

Inspired by TED 2025 theme 'Humanity Reimagined', our theme for 2025 was ARISE: Asians Reimagined! We asked you 'How would you like Asians to Reimagine themselves?' READ WHAT PEOPLE WROTE

Share your inspirations and ideas for topics, issues, speakers and performers you want to see on our TEDx stage HERE
Propose to share your idea, perspective, or performance on our TEDx stage HERE

HOW DO WE CURATE? MIX=MAGIC

Overall, there’s 4 categories of ideas, perspectives, stories, and talents that we seek to platform and amplify:

Our Creativity: Amplify multi-disciplinary Asian talents, especially emerging ones: Architects, animators, authors, actors, visual and performing artists, game designers, comedians, etc
Our Contemplations: Spread the perspectives and ideas of Asian from diverse professions eg. Science, technology, social innovation, education, environment, entrepreneurship, economics, society, academia, etc (excluding politics and religion disallowed by TED)
Our Champions & Celebrities: Who are your Asian HEroes and SHEroes? Sportswomen and men, celeb chefs, actors, and also long-standing Asians sharing their experiences and wisdoms.
Our Challenges: Surface and explore issues of importance and interest to Asians. These TED talks can be given by anyone from anywhere in the world.

JOIN US :

1. A Community-of-Communities To be inclusive, we invite Asian community groups (both ground-up and formal) all around Australia to represent your city and community, email us CommunityCare@IdeasWorthDoing.org

2. TEDx partners and patrons are believers in our purpose, collaborate and co-create with us in numerous ways for mutual impact and benefit, write to us PartnershipCare@IdeasWorthDoing.org

3. TEDx team members are passionate and purposeful thinkers and doers. If you are Asian and are inspired contribute your talents and superpowers, write to us TeamCare@IdeasWorthDoing.org

4. Find out what and who we platform and nominate someone for our TEDx stage, here

TEDxPowerSt is initiated by THE ARiSE INITIATIVE. Discover the wisdoms, insights, and actions that inspire everything we do, here.

Report abuse