Bright Sparks - an Amplify Festival event
Join us at The Basement as 20 of Australia's brightest PhD students battle it out for a $5000 first prize ... in just 150 seconds.
Featuring
Ben Haines
VP Corporate Applications & Platforms Yahoo!
A transformational technology leader, Ben is focused on liberating companies from the legacy world of expensive and unproductive enterprise software and technology. At Yahoo Ben leads multiple teams responsible for all of Yahoo’s internal end-user ...
Read MoreElizabeth Isele
President Senior Entrepreneurship Works
Since January 2012, Elizabeth has become the go-to person for all things regarding senior entrepreneurship (research, programs, policy and capitalisation) for the White House, the US Congress, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI-America), the Federal Reserve, the ...
Read MoreStuart Candy
Director, Situation Lab OCAD University
Stuart Candy is a pioneer of experiential futures - a unique combination of strategic foresight and design that brings future scenarios to life in order to make them more compelling, concrete and actionable today. He is currently Director of the Situation Lab and ...
Read MoreSanjay Purohit
CEO and Managing Director EdgeVerve Systems Ltd (InfoSys)
Sanjay has 24 years' experience in leading strategy, innovation, market development, business operations, and people development. At EdgeVerve Systems, he works closely with the C-suite of the world's corporations in co-creating tomorrow’s enterprise ...
Read MoreStephanie Preston
Behavioural Neuroscientist University of Michigan
Since 2005, Dr Stephanie Preston has been Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and head of its Ecological Neuroscience Lab where she applies an interdisciplinary blend of cognition, evolution, social behaviour, and neuroscience to study ...
Read MoreHeather McGowan
Transformational Change Activist Confidant
Heather is the Cofounder of Confidant, a consulting firm advising higher education leadership in the United States. Heather advises senior leadership to make the transformational changes necessary to thrive in the post-massification of higher education. She ...
Read MoreSimon Wardley
Geneticist, Economist, Technologist CSC Leading Edge Forum
Simon Wardley is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditisation, innovation, organisational structure and cybernetics. He works with CSC’s Leading Edge Forum, a global research and thought leadership community ...
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