This year’s festival will see less keynotes and more short presentations, which will give you the opportunity to see other parts of the festival and drop in and out of the presentations space.
All Presentations and Keynotes will be held in Room EG02 at COFA.
10am Welcome
Welcome to Country – Michelle Williams – Social Innovation Sydney
Welcome to COFA – Selena Griffith – Senior Lecturer Design & Live Futures 2020 Festival Co-Director
Welcome to Live Futures 2020 - Janine Cahill – CEO Future Journeys & Live Futures 2020 Festival Director
10.15 am- Anthony Baxter – Google Org
Anthony is a geek who works at Google Australia. Among other things, he works with Google.org’s Crisis Response team on rapid response to disasters. He also tweets @anthonybaxter.
This team has helped out during a number of disasters, for example:
- Japan Earthquake and Tsunami,
- Christchurch Earthquake,
- Brazil Floods and Landslides, and the
- Australia Floods.
Anthony is going to talk about some of the Crisis Response activities, things they’ve learned, and some ways that we can help make the world a better and safer place.
11am – Lightning talks by local activists in social innovation
- Carla McGrath of the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence on Indigenous Innovation & social change
- Kate Harris of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership on social innovation in environment/sustainability
- Karalee Evans formerly of Headspace and influential in the area of mental health & suicide prevention
- Lauren Anderson talking Collaborative Consumption
- Kate Carruthers on Gov 2.0 and new approaches to Government in the Digital Age
- Jess Nichols of the Sydney chapter of The Awesome Foundation talking about giving grants to ‘awesome’ social innovations
- UNSW students & prize winners of global initiative Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) briefing us on their portfolio of social innovation initiatives (this is the student association that helped in Random acts of kindness)
3.30pm – 5pm – Future Kucha Presentations
Julee Cunningham
New integrative approaches to western medicine. What can happen when mind/ body are considered as one, when patient and doctor collaborate in unearthing core emotional disturbances. What are the implications for medicine & economics.
Catalina Vallejos
#DUMPHAUS – morphing an idea into a reality, at will, and ethereally as well. Each instance of #DUMPHAUS begins with an emotional escape into physicality.
http://dumpha.us/
Kelvin Mui
X-rayed – Transform your future through photography
http://www.karasudesigns.com/retouching.html
Penny Elsley
Joining the dots – exploring connections and the spaces in between – developing vision for nurturing sustainability through cross-cultural volunteering
www.joiningthedots.org
Anet Redmer
Future life scenario of the ‘Lowlands’ in the year of 2105
Presented by Anet Redmer, who helps companies evolve and innovate using the ‘tools of a designer’ and building bridges between the creative, the commercial and the future world.
www.redmera.net
