Ideas Highlights Catch up on sessions and ideas you might have missed or want to be reacquainted with. Selected session papers, audio grabs and reports are available online.

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The 2003 Ideas at the Powerhouse program was built on the success of the inaugural event in 2001, presenting provocative ideas from the broadest range of speakers and responding to new issues and new ideas.

The dynamic, accessible program offered interactive and unique encounters and experiences for diverse audiences. Ideas at the Powerhouse was comprised of four major elements: Ideas speakers; the Ideas Bazaar; Ideas Online and Kids Ideas.

Ideas speakers

The four-day program featured over 50 leading national and international speakers and commentators presenting their ideas for the future. Ideas Sessions included panels, lectures, discussions and debates.

Ideas Bazaar

The Ideas Bazaar was a marketplace of ideas, innovation and invention. For the four days of the festival the Ideas Bazaar presented demonstrations, exhibitions, performances, soapbox sessions and installations providing real samples of ideas and innovation in action.

Kids Ideas

The Kids Ideas program was devised to directly relate to the content and topics of the Ideas speakers and encourages 4 – 8 year olds to think about ideas, to discuss and generate ideas and to create new ideas. Kids Ideas reflected the Ideas at the Powerhouse belief that everyone has ideas and that everyone has ideas about ideas.

Ideas Online

Ideas Online was the online element of the Ideas Festival. Ideas online included: full biographical details on ideas speakers, past papers and research documents of ideas speakers, suggested links for further reading, ideas questions and answers, event information and an archive of event sessions.