Arnoud Raskin: Boost your Street Skills
According to Arnoud Raskin we need ‘Happy Streetwise people’. He connects his 15 year experience with homeless children and living on the street with social-economic trends. Todays crisis does not make things easier. Still there is room for paradigm shifts and a focus on new opportunities.
Ben Heywood: Patients Like Me
Inspired by his brother Stephen’s battle with ALS, Ben Heywood set out with his brother Jamie, and long-time friend Jeff Cole to enable patients to share their health data so that they can achieve the best possible outcomes.
Diane Bell: The Manifesto for the River Murray
In this talk, academic, advocate, activist and anthropologist Diane Bell enlightens us with her insights on the perils of negotiating for freshwater flows for Lakes Alexandrina and Albert, the Murray Mouth and the Coorong, the pursuit of solutions reflecting sound science, ethics and equity and the Murray Mouth Manifesto.
Dominic Muren: The Humblefactory
Dominic’s organisation, ‘The Humblefactory’ champions ‘makers’, craftspeople who form the cottage industries of the world. His online platform helps empower these makers, linking them up with markets through co-manufacturing and product design strategy.
Claire Griffin & Weston Whitmire: Muddy Sneakers, The Joy of Learning Outside
Weston Whitmire and Claire Griffin speak about the benefits of hands-on learning. They use their experience with ‘Muddy Sneakers’, an outdoor learning curriculum that leverages the grandeur of nature to teach science to school age youth, to advocate for greater use of applied, immersion learning.
