Adam Garone: Redefining Charity
To date, over a million moustaches have been grown for Movember, raising more than $178 million to change the face of Men’s Health. In 2004, Adam and the other Founders established Movember as a Not for Profit entity and chose Prostate Cancer as the cause, so that men were given an opportunity to support a […]
Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish: I Shall Not Hate
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is a well-known Palestinian gynecologist who has spent years working in one of Israeli’s main hospitals. He crossed into Israel daily through the Erez checkpoint from his home in Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. On January 16, 2009, a day and a half before the official end of the war, Dr. Abuelaish’s […]
Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humour)
Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, she creates high-tech art installations: a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen. They put a playful spin on ordinary objects and interactions.
Team AWE: Able Women Empower
Tricia Downing (paratriathlon/rowing), Ryan McLean (swimming), Hannah Pennington (skiing/paracanoe) and Carrie Willoughby (cycling) are collectively Team AWE. Conceived over a latte and some warm conversation, it was immediately evident that what these women each lacked on their own, could be found when uniting together.
Guy Kawasaki: The 12 Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs
Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, author and Apple Fellow. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984, later going on to found Garage Technology Ventures.
