Leisle Grant: Women In Film & TV

Leisle Grant began her TV career in front of the camera as co-host of the successful Channel 31 (C31) Sydney show Chaos TV. She moved on to produce and present weekly comedy segments for Chaos as well as a weekly C31 show, ‘Community Focus’ highlighting people doing inspiring things in their local communities.

Sugata Mitra: New Experiments in self-teaching

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education, the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionise how we think about […]

Jacqueline Novogratz: Inspiring a life of Immersion

We each want to live a life of purpose, but where to start? In this luminous, wide-ranging talk, Jacqueline Novogratz introduces us to people she’s met in her work in ‘patient capital’, people who have immersed themselves in a Cause, a Community, a passion for justice. These human stories carry powerful moments of inspiration.

Keith Newman: Journalist

Keith Newman is the author of ‘Ratana Revisited’, ‘Connecting the Clouds: The Internet in New Zealand’, ‘Ratana: The Prophet’ and ‘Bible & Treaty’. He has established himself over the past 20 years as one of New Zealand’s foremost Technology Journalists writing for mainstream media about telecommunications, computing and the Internet.

Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind

Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he’s a scientist: “Once I do something, I want to do something else.”

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