Will McIntosh
Open Data Lead, City of Melbourne
Specialty areas for questions:
- City of Melbourne Open Data Platform
- Open data API (Socrata)
- Dataset integration
- Waste datasets
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Victoria Clarke
Coordinator Waste and Amenity Programs, Waste and Recycling, City of Melbourne
Specialty areas for questions:
- Strategic resource recovery projects
- Circular economy principles
- Complex city systems
- Waste and recycling management
Phil Ore
CEO and Co-Founder at 25eight Group. Co-Founder of Entrepreneurs&Co. Pitch Mentor for Startup Victoria
Specialty areas for questions:
- Strategy
- Marketing
- Pitching your idea
- Humanising technology
Darren Sutton
Founder of The Common Purpose Collective, leading circular innovation leader and strategic designer of the Infiniti Canvas
Specialty areas for questions:
- Circular economy principles
- Circular innovation and product market fit
- Systems design and scaling
- Circular commercialization strategy
Diletta Legowo
Marketing & Partnerships Coordinator, SPARK Deakin
Specialty areas for questions:
- Partnerships with local organisations
- Life in Indonesia (cultural aspects, values, public opinions)
- Tech innovation
- Creative economy
Ghian Tjandaputra
Partnerships Coordinator, The Australia-Indonesia Centre
Specialty areas for questions:
- International engagement
- Program management
- Marketing
Adrian Sulaeman
Managing Director, 11th Space
Specialty areas for questions:
- Accounting & financial reporting
- Financial analysis
- Business process & operations
- Business development
Kennie Kurniawan
Marketing Manager, 11th Space
Specialty areas for questions:
- Marketing strategy
- Brand management
- Market research
- Digital marketing
Kaitlin Reid
Director, Reground
Specialty areas for questions:
- Social Enterprise, innovation as a small business
- Practical behaviour change
- Designing and providing a service for small business and working with councils
- Waste systems and behaviour in businesses
Tim Bright
Events Manager, Melbourne Accelerator Program
Specialty areas for questions:
- Events
- Project management/operations
- Partnerships/marketing
- Product/digital systems and platforms
Abena Ofori
Social Impact Manager, Melbourne Accelerator Program
Specialty areas for questions:
- Social impact
- Early-stage venture validation techniques
- Pitching
- Project management/operations
Suneel Jethani
Engagement Manager and Research Fellow, Open Data, Digital Design and Innovation, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victorian Government
Specialty areas for questions:
- Data storytelling
- Open data Platforms and portals (Vic Gov)
- Qualitative research methods
- Data ethics and governance
Simon Lockrey
Senior Lecturer - School of Design, RMIT University, Executive Director - Glowpear, Project Lead - Fight Food Waste CRC Project 1.1.1 (DIRECT Commercialisation), Board Member - International Sustainable Development Research Society, Vice President - Automotive Historians Australia
Specialty areas for questions:
- Sustainability strategy
- Innovation
- Co-design
- New product development
Dr. Husam Wafai
Programs manager and technical advisor at Hatch Quarter
Specialty areas for questions:
- Fibre-Composite materials
- Data Science and predictive modelling
- Numerical simulation - Finite Element Method.
- Mechanical behavior and Materials science of structural and functional materials
Melanie Oke
Circular Economy Lead at Sustainability Victoria
Specialty areas for questions:
- Circular economy concepts and models
- Waste avoidance and recycling
- Community and stakeholder engagement
- Sustainability Victoria’s programs
Laura-Lee Innes
Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering at Monash University
Specialty areas for questions:
- Waste contaminants and waste management
- Infrastructure and technologies
- Waste pathways to environment and human health impact
- Waste and contamination policy, legislation and regulation
Sam Pinner
Founder of Can-i-Park and overall winner of the Open Innovation Competition 2019 on Safe Mobility
Specialty areas for questions:
- Ideation
- Prototyping & validating your idea
- Submitting your idea
- Pitching your idea
Sam Amirebrahimi
Developer and Community Relations Lead, Oceania, HERE Technologies
Specialty areas for questions:
- Location/spatial data management and analysis and visualisation
- Innovation and web application design & development
- Project management
- Pitching and presentation