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Adelaide Town Hall
King William St
Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Australia

Adam Page

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, music educator and record producer

Known widely for his critically acclaimed solo multi-instrumental looping performances, Page has carved his path internationally as a composer. He has written major works for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (which he has also conducted), the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Wellington, Zephyr Quartet and has collaborated with John Psathas, NZ composer of the 2004 Athens Olympics ceremony music.

Alan Noble

Serial entrepreneur and founder of Australian Ocean Lab

Alan Noble is a serial entrepreneur, founding numerous tech ventures which have been acquired by larger organisations such as Nokia and Riverbed Technologies. He is currently the Engineering Director for Google Australia and New Zealand, a co-founder and director of StartupAUS, and on the board of the South Australian Museum. Earlier this year he founded AusOcean, with a mission to develop and apply technology to learn more about our oceans.

Andrew Barker

Community activist and gardener

Andrew Barker had almost finished his PhD when he left the academic world to live in a tent on a farm well beyond the city limits. Every day on the farm he ate fresh food grown with a lot of love and care. As Andrew learned just how good recently picked, organic food could be, he became concerned by the struggles of many families to source wholesome, nutritious food. He then founded Grow Free, a community network that doesn’t just want food to be nutritious, but free.

Annie Harvey

Mindfulness coach

Annie Harvey works with children and adults to build emotional resilience using the tools of mindfulness and laughter yoga. Her focus is on dealing with the ‘noise’ that can obscure our purpose.

Audrey Mason-Hyde

Actor

If you met Audrey Mason-Hyde, you might think she was a boy, which isn’t quite correct, but calling her a girl doesn’t feel quite right to her either. At 12 years old, Audrey is already an accomplished actor with film and TV credits to her name, including 52 Tuesdays, a film that won the Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival and the Crystal Bear, judged by the youth jury at the Berlin International Film Festival. With a fierce intellect and a unique sense of style, Audrey has plenty to say about our gendered world.

Brad Chilcott

Community leader and activist pastor

Brad Chilcott is the founder of Welcome to Australia, a pastor and progressive thinker. His work has seen him engaging with many different cultures both locally and around the world and has seen the rise of activism that achieves real change for vulnerable communities.

Dominic McAfee

Marine ecologist

Dominic McAffee is a marine ecologist working on an ambitious restoration project to bring back a reef habitat that once covered much of the world’s coastlines; a habitat that is now all but extinct. Though initially indifferent to studying oysters, Dominic was soon smitten by these ‘ecological superheroes’. Dominic’s research focuses on how the humble oyster can reduce the impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems. With plenty of oyster optimism, Dominic is keen to get the word out on these magnificent molluscs.

Flavia Tata Nardini

Rocket scientist and entrepreneur

Flavia Tata Nardini is an Italian rocket scientist and entrepreneur. As CEO of Fleet Space Technologies she is building a nanosatellite network to connect the Internet of Things from space and enable the fourth industrial revolution.

Greg Ingleton

Environmental scientist

Greg Ingleton is an environmental scientist who challenges the way we think about and use water, especially in Australia, one of the driest places on our planet. Part of Greg's work for a large water utility is to identify and develop opportunities to use ‘wastewater’ in ways that provide social, environmental and economic benefits.

Heather Smith

Community energy advocate

Heather is an engineer and energy specialist who has spent her career working with energy users and policy makers. She is also a Churchill Fellow and had the opportunity to see first hand the community energy systems and energy transitions that are making news around the world.

Jacinta Koolmatrie

Archaeology student

Jacinta Koolmarie is an Adnyamathanha and Ngarrindjeri person who grew up in Port Augusta. Last year she won the Flinders University’s Ken Wanganeen Medal as the most outstanding Indigenous student for her studies in archaeology. Jacinta is currently working on her Masters thesis, researching Adnyamathanha yura malka (rock art), with a focus on centring Indigenous knowledge. At the beginning of 2017, Jacinta began working at the South Australian Museum with the aim of changing the way museums portray and work with Aboriginal people.

Joseph R Campbell

Business and brand development

Joseph Campbell migrated from the United States to Adelaide, a simple process that involved a bit of paperwork. The reality turned out to be a bit more complicated. Ten years as an expat from Chile to Malawi to Adelaide has him now wondering about our place in the world as advocates.

Louka Parry

Educator

Louka Parry is an award-winning educator and hyperlearner who speaks five languages, holds two Masters degrees and has traveled to over 50 countries. After growing up monolingual in the city of Adelaide, Australia, Louka moved to Europe and uncovered a passion for languages, culture and learning. He returned to Australia to become a teacher and began his career in a very remote Aboriginal community, now working globally to help transform schools and learning. He continues to accumulate languages and advocates for all of us to step into the unknown to grow, connect and thrive.

Sarah K Reece

Artist, writer, trainer, community development consultant

Sarah K Reece is an artist, writer, trainer, and community development consultant, managing or contributing to projects with a wide range of communities such as prisoners, rural carers, queer youth, and psychiatric inpatients. Sarah specialises in working with people who are vulnerable due to experiences of adversity or diversity, and has founded local and international networks that support more than a thousand people.

Shalom Almond

Documentary filmmaker

Shalom Almond is a passionate Australian filmmaker whose documentaries follow memorable characters on transformative journeys and grant unique access inside closed worlds. In addition to writing, directing and producing, Shalom shoots most of her own films, resulting in close, direct relationships with her subjects and their environments. Shalom’s work include films about girls living on the streets in Vietnam, Kayan women in Thailand who wear brass neck-rings, and controversial embryo screening for genetic conditions. Her latest project looks at unconditional love in the most unlikely location.

Tarik Sammour

Surgeon

Tarik Sammour is a surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and an Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide, specialising in advanced bowel cancer surgery, patient outcome centred research and robotics. Throughout his training, Tarik has been privileged to work in a wide variety of healthcare systems, from the smallest general hospital in rural New Zealand to one of the largest medical centres in the United States, giving him a unique first-hand insight into what works well for patients and what doesn’t. One of the reasons he eventually chose to settle in Adelaide was because he saw the city’s potential as a leader in healthcare delivery and innovation. With an ageing population and spiralling healthcare costs, he has some ideas to solve problems that are relevant to us all.