Theme: Tech for Good

Technology is transformative. For individuals, for industry, for educators, for society as a whole.
Our exciting speakers all have a ‘tech 4 good’ story – whether that be using the power of digital tech to crowd fund social causes, to create life changing tech for people living with a disability or to teach today’s kids how to learn in a computational world. Join us and be inspired.

The Landing
L4, 400 George Street
Sydney, New South Wales, 2000
Australia

Jordan Nguyen

Entrepreneur

Dr Jordan Nguyen’s mission in life is to improve the lives of as many people as possible and to be a driving force behind positive human and technological evolution into the future. He designs life-changing technologies focusing on intelligent, futuristic and inclusive technology for the disability sector. He believes the relationship between humanity and technology is constantly changing and its role in our lives is becoming more integrated, leading us to a future that is ‘Beyond Superhuman’. A passionate advocate for social change Jordan follows the mantra “One Life, Persist to Improve Many”; he believes each life has the capacity to improve many others, and that this simple idea can change the world.

Kelly Tagalan

General Manager

Kelly Tagalan is a California native who came to Australia as a tourist, then decided to make it her new home. A year later, she helped a plucky do-gooder Annie Parker of Telstra, start Code Club Australia. Kelly is passionate about education, and in her nine years of experience working with after school programs and education non profits, she learned to ditch the lesson plan books and create student success with her students, rather than for them. Kelly Tagalan is the General Manager of Code Club Australia, a network of coding clubs run by teachers and educators looking to give kids the skills, confidence and opportunity to shape their world though collaborative computer programming. So far, she is working on fleshing out a thesis into a talk. The theme is How Children are Motivated to Learn- nothing of my own research

Rob Caslick

Project Engineer, Medland Metropolis

Rob Caslick believes that food is more than food. Six years ago he set up an organic soup kitchen in Kings Cross. His mission is to use food as a way to show dignity and demonstrate worth. The kitchen has expanded into a rooftop garden, a cooking school for young mums and now a social enterprise that has served almost 10,000 meals to domestic violence shelters and soup kitchens throughout Sydney. He credits the growth of the organizations to a crowdfunding platform called Chuffed.