Gabe Zichermann: Gamification
Gabe Zichermann is an entrepreneur, author, highly rated public speaker and gamification thought leader. He is the chair of the Gamification Summit and Workshops, and is co-author of the book ‘Game-Based Marketing’, where he makes a compelling case for the use of games and game mechanics in everyday life, the web and business.
Jamie Fitzgerald: Whatever You Do, Keep Rowing
Jamie Fitzgerald and his teammate Kevin Biggar set out to row 5,000 kilometres across the Atlantic and learned that not making progress is still better than going backwards. How did they deal with it, how did they deal with difficult situations like that? They focused on where people that succeeded, had succeeded in the past and what […]
David Le Page: A Case for the Maximum Wage
David Le Page is a sustainability Journalist and Editor living in Cape Town. In his talk, David explores how across the world, and in South Africa particularly, extreme and growing inequality is one of the greatest root causes of economic, environmental and political destruction and instability. We claim to hate poverty yet shrink from understanding […]
Tristram Stuart: The Global Food Waste Scandal
Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible but because it doesn’t look appealing. Tristram Stuart delves into the shocking data of wasted food, calling for a more responsible use of global resources. Tristram Stuart sounds the warning bell on global food waste, calling for us to change the systems whereby […]
John Egenes: The Folk Process
John Egenes is a musician from Port Chalmers by way of Santa Fe and Los Angeles. He teaches Digital Music culture. As a fashion designer, he dressed Naomi Campbell. In this talk he discusses the cultural impact of the ‘the folk process’, looking at how releasing your intellectual property into the world and opening it up […]
