Festival of Ambitious Ideas

We will be celebrating some of the emerging start-ups and entrepreneurs, innovators and inventors working on interesting projects from a range of different sectors – technology, social enterprise, creative industries, health and more.

Speakers will discuss their passion projects, plans and ambitions for 2020, followed by a networking opportunity. The event is designed to be fast-paced, fun and informal. It follows the Ignite format where speakers each only have 5 minutes to tell their story and ‘ignite’ the audience.

Speakers include:

• Kate Freeman from The Healthy Eating Hub – “The Power of Incremental Change for Diet”
• Dr Andrew Horsley from Quantum Brilliance – “Quantum computing with diamonds”
• Rachael Coghlan and Kate Nixon from CraftACT – “Design Canberra Festival”
• Linda Cavanagh from Canberra Cyber Security Innovation Node – “Police, Hackers & Cyber: The National Missing Persons Hackathon”
• Olga Imbriano from Bellelis – “How a passion and dreams turned into a business”
• Brad Butt from Mens Health Downunder – “Lifting the kilt on men’s health”
• Jennifer Edmunds from Place Logic – “The Silent Majority”
• Emma Hamilton from YouGoCo – “Resolving Problems in Business”
• Dr Omar Zuaiter from Dentroid Technologies – “Dentroid®: Needleless, noiseless and pain-free dentistry on-demand”
• Lisa La Maitre from Therapy Masters – “Be All of Me”
• Stephen Trowell from PPB Technology – “Evolution is cleverer than we are – adventures in building better biosensors”
• Jess Barnes from Feather and Barb – “A New Kind of Fit”
• Phil Preston from Smart Blox – “Replacing the chain: Putting renewable energy in the right hands”
• Kathy Ehmann from Community Toolbox Canberra – “A library of things”
• Shannon Pickles from Lightning Rock – “’Metaphysica – Changing the world through Virtual Reality’”

The Essentials

What: Festival of Ambitious Ideas brought to you by Lighthouse Business Innovation Centre and the Canberra Airport
Where: Brindabella Conference Centre, 33 & 35 Brindabella Circuit, Canberra Airport
Date: Friday 29th November 2019
Time: 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Cost: $38.01 (student and group tickets), $59.11 (general tickets)
Includes: Presentations, networking, drinks and canapés
Registrations: https://betafestival.eventbrite.com.au