Guest Speakers
Andrew McNamara, the inaugural Chair of the Yarra Energy Foundation Limited, a company formed by the City of Yarra to drive greenhouse gas emissions reductions for its 78,000 residents. More about Andrew
August 2010 Guest Speaker: Gilbert Rochecouste
Gilbert is Managing Director of Village Well, Australia’s most respected Place Making organisation since 1992. More about Gilbert
July 2010 Guest Speaker: Kelly O'Shanassy
Kelly O’Shanassy is the Chief Executive Officer of Environment Victoria. More about Kelly
June 2010 Guest Speaker: Simon Holmes à Court
Chairman of Hepburn Wind, Australia's first community owned wind farm. More about Simon
May 2010 Guest Speaker: Liz Minchin
Award winning journalist Liz Minchin from the Age. More about Liz.
April 2010 Guest Speaker: Sarah Phillips
Sarah Phillips from VECCI will be speaking about a new online carbon-reducing initiative for business, Carbon Compass, and also her interest in social media and online communities. More about Sarah.
March 2010 Guest Speaker: Mark Lister
Mark is The Interim CEO for the Australian Alliance to Save Energy and Group Manager Corporate Affairs Szencorp. More about Mark
February 2010 Guest Speaker: Brendan Condon
Brendan is the director of four companies working in the sustainability field. These include Australian Ecosystems, Cape Paterson Ecovillage, Safe Climate Australia and Climate Positive. More about Brendan.
December 2009 Guest Speaker: Dan Atkins
Managing Director of Shaper Group, Dan Atkins
November 2009 Guest Speaker: Kate Auty
Dr Kate Auty, Victoria’s newly appointed Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability.
October 2009 Guest Speaker: Philip Wollen
Philip Wollen former merchant banker and one of Australia's most head hunted executives is "giving it all away". More about Philip
September 2009 Guest Speaker: Jan Owen AM
Jan is the Executive Director of Social Ventures Australia (SVA). More about Jan
August 2009 Guest Speaker: Steve Sammartino
Steve is the Founding General Manager of Rentoid.
More about Steve
July 2009 Guest Speaker: Scott McDougall
Scott is the President of TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc.
More about Scott.
June 2009 Guest Speaker: Monique Conheady
Monique is a co-founder of Flexicar and the company’s CEO.
More about Monique
May 2009 Guest Speaker: Marcus Godinho
Marcus is the Chief Executive Officer FareShare.
More about Marcus. Download the MP3 of his talk (17MB)
April 2009 Guest Speaker: Larry Quick
Larry is the Resilient Futures Network global practice leader and is involved in projects in Australia (e.g. the Future Fuels Network), and in the U.S.A. reinventing Stamford CT, and Resilient Communities U.S.A.
More about Larry.
March 2009 Guest Speaker: Andy Baker
Andy is co-author of the Living LOHAS in Australia report series and co-founder of strategic consultancy Mobium Group. Mobium Group provides market insights to business about issues of sustainability, technology, health and well-being. Andy is a strategic planning specialist with ten years experience in corporate, analytical and consulting roles across financial services, energy, technology, health, agribusiness and other sectors. View the Mobium Group website.
February 2009 Guest Speaker: Dan Atkins
Dan is the co-founder and Director of Business Shaper and has extensive international and domestic experience with corporate and government sectors in Asia, Europe and Australia. Starting his career as a chartered accountant, Dan specialised in understanding the financial implication of sustainability aspects and incorporating sustainability considerations into business strategy and corporate reporting. More about Dan Download the MP3 of his talk (12MB)
