Hot Spots

Tuesday 2nd April (2:00 – 2:40pm)

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1. Lord Adair Turner (UK), Chair, Energy Transitions Commission and Fellow, Institute of New Economic Thinking
   Climate change is a huge threat to human welfare; it could be prevented at low cost – so why don’t we do it?
2. Professor Kathleen Richardson (UK), Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI, De Montfort University
   What happened to the Mother-Goddess? A quick guide to Patriarchy and Feminism
3. Dr Charles Day, CEO, Office of Innovation & Science
   How can we get Australian business to invest more in Innovation
4. Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, Research Leader on Australia’s AI Roadmap and Ethics Framework Project, CSIRO’s Data61
   Strategic foresight – How and why to explore the future with scenario planning, megatrends analysis, horizon scanning and other techniques
5. Paul Cobban (Singapore), Chief Data & Transformation Officer, DBS Bank
   Culture by Design: How do you get people to do what they don’t want to do?
6. Carl H Smith (UK) Director Learning Technology Research Centre, Principal Research Fellow, Ravensbourne University London
   XR for XR: Extended Reality Technologies (XR) for Extinction Rebellion (XR)
7. Professor Toby Walsh, Leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence, University of New South Wales
   How to regulate AI to ensure positive outcomes for all of society?
8. Damien Millen, Senior Manager – Digital Economy | Innovation, Digital and Bio Economy Jobs and Innovation, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions
   Digitisation
9. Dr Simon Longstaff AO, Executive Director, The Ethics Centre
   Ethics for Fools
10. Geoff Mulgan CBE (UK), Chief Executive – National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
    Intelligence Design: How can businesses and public organisations make the most of data, artificial intelligence and human intelligence at scale?
11. Liesl Yearsley (USA), CEO and Co-founder A.Kin
    More than half of the Australian enterprise giants of today will be marginalized and wiped out by AI in a decade – agree?
12. Gregory Denehy, Lead, Defence Research Accelerator, Department of Defence Science and Technology Group
    From Lab to Impact: Applying Lean Innovation in the Research Sector
13. Gayle Milnes, Executive Director, Portfolio Coordination and Research, Department of Infrastructure
    Future of Transport
14. Ashley Gray, Head of Marketing, Bank of Melbourne (Westpac Group)
    Agents of Change: Entrepreneurs vs Intrapreneurs
15. Jacek Jasieniek, Director – Monash Energy Materials and Systems Institute, Monash University
    & Neil Kavanagh, Chief Scientist, Technology FutureLab, Woodside Energy
    Radical Australian New Energy

Wednesday 3rd April (1:30 – 2:10pm)

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1. Kim Williams AM, Former CEO News Limited, Foxtel, Australian Film Commission and Musica Viva
   Disruption and Innovation: How does society’s ecosystem adapt to the velocity of change ensuring inclusion?
2. Professor Rufus Black, Vice-Chancellor University of Tasmania
   Creating a place-based society in a globalised world
3. Jane King, Deputy Commissioner, Design & Change Management, Australian Taxation Office (ATO)
   What does disruption mean in the context of government service delivery?
4. Professor Kathleen Richardson (UK), Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI, De Montfort University
   In a society that is political, is technology always neutral?
5. Dr Richard Claydon (Hong-Kong), Transdisciplinary Behavioural Scientist; Co-founder & CEO, Organisational Misbehaviourists
   A Sense of Space: How workplace design impacts creativity and innovation
6. Andrew Horsfield, Director, Behaviour Innovation
   Leverage Learning: Insights & Ideas into Action
7. Jon Yeo, Executive speaker coach; Licensee & Curator, TEDxMelbourne
   Leading through uncertainty – How to differentiate through times of disruption and decline of trust
8. Dr Etienne Van Der Walt (South Africa), Co-founder and CEO Neurozone
   Decoding high performance behaviours: An informative session with practical tips
9. Caroline Sanz and Kara Prosser, Design Lead & Director, Isobar Good
   Design for Good: Using human centred design and agile practices for impact
10. Natalie Garcia de Heer, Manager, Strategic Policy – School Education, Policy Reform Group, Department of Education and Training
    Future of secondary schooling
11. Rachel Audigé, Engaging Facilitator, Trainer, Coach and Speaker
    Do you want to push your ideas further? Let’s hot spot the characteristics of inventive solutions
12. Sam Mostyn, Chair, Citi Australia; Board Member Mirvac, Transurban and Virgin Australia
    What the Future of Governance looks like
13. Doron Ben-Meir, Vice-Principal Enterprise Chancellery Executive, University of Melbourne
    Are you “investor ready”?