Theme: When Dark meets Light

Our goal is to bring people together to share ideas, to inspire and inform, create opportunities to discuss some of the most simple and complex issues facing our community and society today. We hope it will be a mixing pot of decision makers, solution designers, and people in the frontline of their industries as well as the general community who are curious and open to learning. We are committed to creating an event where participants, speakers and attendees are challenged to communicate their passions in an exciting and engaging dialogue.

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Ormond Esplanade
Melbourne, Victoria, 3184
Australia

Alice Morell

After a long career in finance that moved her from the UK to Australia, the turning point for Alice came when she had a baby. She realised the extent of the role of mothers in our world and how little that is acknowledged, celebrated and supported. She started The Mother Movement that runs projects to empower all mothers. Street Gangs build local community networks for mothers and their families. Tough Mother is an annual campaign launching this year that puts dads into the shoes of mums for the weekend before Mothers’ Day, so that they can experience the role of motherhood.

Danny Blay

Danny Blay is a qualified Men’s Behaviour Change Program facilitator and counsellor. His key achievements included the contribution to an expanded and coordinated approach to family violence in Victoria, the development of innovative training on family violence prevention for the community sector and fostering formal working relationships with other aligned organisations and stakeholders. Danny has made significant contributions to the development of improved and innovative ways in which family violence is addressed in Victoria, including the training of sector workers. In a previous life Danny has been a youth and parenting support worker and has had a long association with community radio.

Dr Devi Stuart-Fox

Devi Stuart-Fox is a biologist with a passion for colour. She has travelled the globe to find out how and why nature’s diversity of colour evolved – and for this quest, she has chosen to focus on lizards – from colour changing chameleons in South Africa to Australian bearded dragons. She is currently an academic at the University of Melbourne and won the 2013 L’Oreal-UNESCO ‘In the footsteps of Marie Curie’ prize for women in science. Subscribe to TEDxStKilda for ideas worth spreading, produced by Geonewmedia. www.tedxstkilda.com

Dr Stefan Fothe

Stefan is passionate about learning. As a Learning and Development specialist he shapes and designs learning experiences in corporate environments. He works with thought leaders from different domains and geographies to make their expertise accessible to others. Stefan holds a PhD in Business Education. His research has focussed on how people confuse knowing with knowledge, and the dramatic implications this has for ‘knowledge management’ and beliefs about corporate training. Stefan is a proud local of St Kilda.

Dr. Jeanette Pritchard

Jeanette joined the Monash Vision Group in August 2010. She has twenty years’ experience working in medical device development, over twelve of which have been in the biotechnology industry in the UK and Australia. She completed her doctorate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), during which she developed a clinical device for use in hospital emergency departments to diagnose patients experiencing heart attacks. Jeanette is from Manchester in the North West of England. She relocated to Melbourne in 2006 to a role in a Victorian state government funded organisation that was investing in commercial nanotechnology developments. When the opportunity came up to join the Monash Vision Group, Jeanette was ideally placed to manage the project as, in addition to her professional expertise in medical device development, she has family members in the UK with retinitis pigmentosa and so has a personal interest in bionic vision technologies.

Jeannette Pritchard

Jeanette joined the Monash Vision Group in August 2010. She has twenty years’ experience working in medical device development, over twelve of which have been in the biotechnology industry in the UK and Australia. She completed her doctorate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), during which she developed a clinical device for use in hospital emergency departments to diagnose patients experiencing heart attacks. Jeanette is from Manchester in the North West of England. She relocated to Melbourne in 2006 to a role in a Victorian state government funded organisation that was investing in commercial nanotechnology developments. When the opportunity came up to join the Monash Vision Group, Jeanette was ideally placed to manage the project as, in addition to her professional expertise in medical device development, she has family members in the UK with retinitis pigmentosa and so has a personal interest in bionic vision technologies.

Jeremy Limpens

Jeremy Limpens has spent close to twenty years working in health care as a senior manager, emergency and remote area nurse specialist, and paramedic across fifteen countries. This included the Arctic Circle, aboard merchant ships, and maximum-security prisons. Regardless of the location, he noticed the same pattern of conflict and frustration amongst health care staff, patients and their families. He also noticed an unwillingness and inability to do something different. With is extensive experience, along with his postgraduate studies in health sciences, business and organizational behavior, conflict and restorative practice, he is dedicated to improving leadership, communication and reducing conflict within the health care sector.

Jeremy McLeod

Founder and director of Breathe Architecture, Jeremy McLeod is an architect and activist with contagious enthusiasm for a sustainable and ethical future. Jeremy approaches the built environment from a holistically sustainable perspective, attempting to reconcile ecological and social design impacts within the current economic climate. Since establishing Breathe in 2001, Jeremy has cultivated his small practice into an efficacious tool for design, planning and policy. He has directed his team in the execution of award-winning projects that span domestic and commercial scopes. Jeremy consistently presents quality architecture with renewable materials, passive solutions and low embodied energy. These priorities both underpin and characterize his work that continues to stimulate the emergence of architectural trends. Breathe’s recent multiresidential work has gained national acclaim, earning both residential and sustainability awards.

Joel Cohen

Joel Cohen is a social entrepreneur based in Melbourne, Australia. He is a science graduate from the University of Melbourne who now spends most of his time starting and publishing new citizen journalism publications around Australia. He is also the co-founder of the St Kilda-based Red And Nearly Ginger Association (R.A.N.G.A.), which is the peak special interest body for ginger issues. He is a proud inheritor of red hair.

John Englezos

John has been making a fool of himself on the stage and the page from a fairly young age. He has said of his own art that he is not a perfectionist but more an expressionist. A writer and performer since his teenage years, John has moved from music and theatre to poetry and is a regular contributor to Melbourne’s Spoken Word scene. Allowing others the opportunity to express themselves is equally important, so John is also a freelance photographer. He works with the credo “It is a privilege to be let into someone else’s world”. This love of dialogue and story-telling has led to the creation of “People I Wish You Could Meet”, an ongoing photo project of those who are seeking to make a beautiful difference. John is also one of the top five huggers in the world.

Sally Tonkin

Sally Tonkin has been CEO of St Kilda Gatehouse for seven years. Sally’s great passion is working with women who are facing hardship, assisting them to create hope and opportunity. St Kilda Gatehouse has been operating for over twenty years, providing support to those involved in street sex work as a result of hardship. It works to address the issues that lead to and keep individuals involved in street based sex work. These issues include family violence, drug addiction, homelessness, poverty, mental health and social isolation.