Ideas Festival sessions bring together great minds to consider the big issues for Queenslanders. For more information and booking details for each session, click the session title.

9:30am       McMansion to micromansion: How can you challenge the great Australian dream?
10am           Future Thinking: The final pitch
10am           From the noughties to 2011: What sort of tweenie is Australia?
11am            People’s Question Time
11am            Returning to Iceland: Is there a geography of happiness and does it bring you home?
12pm           As One: How do you get 1000 people to actually work together?
12:30pm    Radical health: How can we meet the needs of communities following natural disasters?
12 :30pm   The sky is falling: What is the line between prepared and panicked?
12pm           Homelessness in Brisbane: Is poverty a necessity?
1:30pm       Crowd sourcing: How do you engage those on the edge?
2pm              Through the storm: Are we ready to face the uncertainties of the future?
2pm              Feeding the World: What will be on Queensland’s plate in 2050?
2:30pm       Carrots and sticks: Are we managing ourselves to death?
3pm              Global problem solving: Can small x many = BIG?
3:30pm       Brisbane 2.0 – Is this a good time to re-imagine our city?
3:30pm       Suburban tales: From ordinary to extraordinary
4pm              ABC NewsRadio: Outside Broadcast
4pm              Environmental triage: We can’t save everything, so do you prefer wallabies or wombats?
4:30pm       Repeat conversations: Is gender back on the agenda?
5pm              Raising the bar: Does it take a whole community to educate a child?
5:30pm       Documentary screening: My Happiness
6pm              The 2011 Griffith Lecture with Noel Pearson
8pm              Human longevity: Is the face of survival changing?