Noosa
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Theme: Lands Edge

This event occurred on
May 29, 2015
6:00pm - 6:00am AEST
(UTC +10hrs)
Noosa Heads, Queensland
Australia

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The J
60 Noosa Drive
Noosa Heads, Queensland, 4567
Australia
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Speakers

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Bianca Beetson

Bianca Beetson is an Artist and Kabi Kabi (Sunshine Coast) woman, born in Roma in Western Queensland. She studied a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) at QUT and completed her Honours degree at the same university in 1998.

Captain Paul Watson

Captain Watson is guided by a singular truth: if the oceans die, we die! Humanity and civilization cannot survive on this planet with a dead ocean, and Captain Watson leads a movement that seeks to inspire passionate people to harness their courage, imagination and resolve to defend life and biodiversity in our oceans.

Chris Eigeland

Chris Eigeland is a Social Entrepreneur and has numerous awards and achievements to his name. In 2010 he founded The Schoolbag, a not-for-profit organisation providing supplies to Haitian schoolchildren. He is the Australian ambassador for the One Young World summit; was a state finalist for Young Australian of the Year; and was the founding president of Griffith University Volunteering. He started his first business in Year 6 selling laminated Pokémon posters.

Donna Brien

Donna Lee Brien is Professor of Creative Industries at CQUniversity, where she supervises doctoral and masters students in creative writing and other creative art forms. She has designed and taught programs in the creative arts in Australia and internationally, including in the UK and Hong Kong, and has won national university teaching awards. Donna’s biography John Power 1881-1943 is the standard biography of this creative expatriate Australian. She is also the co-author of the bestselling trade self-help Girls Guide series for Allen & Unwin, and author of more than 20 sole-authored books and exhibition catalogues, and more than 150 refereed journal articles and book chapters.

Jess Abraham

Jessica Abraham is a young entrepreneur endeavouring to highlight the talents of exceptional youth through her Sunshine Coast-based publication, Tidal Magazine. Tidal aims to promote local creatives who are excelling in the fields of surfing, skating, art, fashion and music, and to bring culture to the community through monthly events. Jess has been involved with various ocean conservation groups since she was in high school, arranging monthly beach-cleanups and organising fundraisers; she is also the face of the national ECO. Clean Beach Initiative, a campaign encouraging young people to understand the importance of a healthy ocean and to develop the passion to want to protect it. Jess now works as a marketing director, a freelance graphic designer and in artist booking and management.

Jim Gall

Jim Gall is a Professor of Design at QUT, Director of Gall Architects and Deputy Chair of the Urban Design and Placemaking Panel for Toowoomba Regional Council. Jim is experienced in all areas of architectural work but has worked broadly in sustainability, so appreciates the important relationship between design, culture and environment. Jim’s first degree is in environmental science, which informs his multi-disciplinary approach and ecological view of the world (along with his knowledge of cane toad genetics and plants). While concerned with the impacts of building and built things, he also explores the ongoing social, economic and cultural impacts of the design process, with the aim of providing places that are not just able to be sustained but are also sustaining.

John Cantor

Very few people experience failure on as grand a scale as John Cantor has, and return for more – time and time again. In 2012, adventurer John Cantor set out to achieve a six-year dream of traversing the Brooks Range solo – a 1600-kilometre trek across Arctic Alaska, considered one of the toughest solo expeditions on earth and completed just four times prior. Almost completely devoid of human presence, this environment is full of grizzly bears, wolves and more. Not only did John achieve his goal, but he also smashed the previous speed record by 10 days, completing the expedition in 31 days. John's expedition was featured on the ABC's Australian Story and was the most downloaded episode for 2012.

Josh Jensen

Josh Jensen is a marine biologist and underwater cameraman on a quest to film every species of fish in the world's tropical seas, and to show the non-diving world what is going on below the mysterious blue blanket hiding 70 per cent of the planet.

Karen Gibbs

Karen is an creative artist working across a variety of mediums, a composer, a performer, an animal lover, mother of two, long term volunteer in community based festivals and passionate innovator and visionary. Karen is currently studying and researching Robots in Education, Disabilities and Indigenous Culture. In her spare time she recycles scrap metal to keep recyclable waste out of landfill, sculpts with clay, composes electronic music, bakes, gardens and laughs..a lot.

Kerry Neill

Kerry Neill is a Gubbi Gubbi man from the Sunshine Coast region in South East Queensland. Kerry has been working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in community services, health and education for the past eight years. Kerry has facilitated anger management courses within correctional facilities and schools across NSW, and has been an Aboriginal dancer and didgeridoo player touring all over Australia and the USA. Kerry has also been involved in the writing and delivery of cross cultural communication, dance, health and behaviour management programs across NSW and Queensland. He has had a strong upbringing in his Aboriginal (Gubbi Gubbi) culture and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to cultural awareness training program participants.

Louise King

Hailed by The Australian as a ‘spellbinding musician who exudes a vigorous artistry’, English cellist Louise King, belongs to the latest generation of contemporary classical musicians, who embody passion, drive and vision. Revered for her delicious embellishments and tonal subtleties, telling clarity and incisiveness, Louise’s vivid and imaginative performance style exudes freshness and a rare relish for musical story telling.

Mic Black

Creative technologist Mic Black is the creator and driving force behind Pixel Mosaic, a Sunshine Coast-born digital arts and engagement project for primary to secondary school students. Mic’s very broad skill set and extreme working velocity are the result of founding roles in successful technology startups with aggressive goals. Leveraging off a successful career in software research and development, specialising in user experience, Mic promotes a certain childlike wonderment as central to the work he does.

Peter Pollard

Peter Pollard is a microbial ecologist with a PhD in Chemical Engineering and Microbiology, and a full-time research Associate Professor in the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University. Over the last 25 years his marine and freshwater research has changed the way we see the relationships between microbes — including algae, cyanobacteria or ‘blue-green algae’, bacteria and viruses — and their role in coastal zones, rivers, lakes, wetlands and water treatment processes.

Ryan Delaney

Ryan Delaney is a local singer and songwriter on the Sunshine Coast

Sally Hookey

Sally Hookey is a local small-scale organic farmer, who grew up on a small farm near Canberra that was run on sustainable principles. She studied Hotel Management at Gatton Agricultural College in the 1980s, combining a love of country life with a love of food. Many careers later, Sally and her farmer partner Peter returned to their roots to grow a commercial organic crop on their four-hectare farm in the Noosa Hinterland. Along the way they have re-discovered the joy of farming ⸺ and a whole lot more.

Stephanie Moroz

Stephanie Moroz is the CEO of Nano-Nouvelle, a Sunshine Coast company developing high-performance battery electrodes. Her international career has been dedicated to commercialising new technologies, particularly in the areas of energy efficiency and nanomaterials. Stephanie is a truly global citizen. With her education in engineering physics, she has worked in Canada and then Germany where she led the integration of hydrogen fuel cells into the Mercedes F-CELL vehicle. From there she moved to France, developing systems to reduce the pollution generated by conventional vehicles. Finally, she was lured to Australia by opportunities in nanotechnology: first in solid-state hydrogen storage and now innovative battery materials at Nano-Nouvelle.

Ted O'Brien

Ted O’Brien is the founder and chairman of Generation Innovation, which is taking the Sunshine Coast by storm through its high-profile GI Challenge in promotion of youth entrepreneurship. A recognised community leader, Ted has a unique background. His 20 years of blue-chip commercial experience includes more than a decade with global management consulting giant Accenture, where he was director of Growth & Strategy for Asia Pacific & emerging markets, based out of Beijing and responsible for strategy, mergers and acquisitions and major deals.

Organizing team

Brian
Keayes

Noosa, Australia
Organizer