Melbourne Conversations
Shaping Knowledge Cities in a digital world: What does this mean for you?
Many suggest that the explosion of new digital sources is influencing and accelerating our sharing of knowledge, modes of learning, our work and how we live. While mainstream and DIY digital subculture users shape the edges of technology and create new opportunities, where do you fit in and will it really change how we live and form our worlds?
Join the conversation as we discuss the new opportunities and evaluate the challenges for our physical and personal landscapes.
Date:Monday 26 November 2012
Time:6.00 to 7.30pm (entry from 5.30pm)
Venue: BMW Edge, Federation Square
Free event. No bookings required.
Panellists:
Daniel Donahoo is the Director of ideas consultancy, Project Synthesis where he works with organisations and companies to bring great ideas to life. This includes designing alternate reality education games for MelbourneUniversity's Graduate School of Education, co-founding edtech start up Better Apps, creating playful meal experiences to promote the value of the local and developing narrative based research projects to discover children's ideas about robots and learning in the future. Daniel is the author of Idolising Children (2007) and Adproofing Your Kids (2010). He currently blogs for Wired.com, Huffington Post and the New Media Consortium and his latest venture is a company called DEEPER RICHER, which is exploring the design of digital learning environments using the internet of things.
AndrewJaspan is The Founder and Editor of The Conversation ( He is the former Editor-in-Chief ofMelbourne’s The Ageand The Sunday Age (2004-2008).He previously editedThe Observer in London, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, and Sunday Herald in the UK.He also worked at The Times and Sunday Times.Andrew'stheAsia-PacificDirector of Innovation Media International, on the Board of theRMIT Global Cities Institute, an observer in the Australian Davos conference, a participant in the 2020 Ideas Summit, and regular contributor to the media.He is Adjunct Professor in School of Media and Communication, RMIT, Melbourne;Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Infrastructure, University of Melbourne.
Marigo Raftpoulos is theCEO of Strategic Games Lab in Melbourne. Marigo is an entrepreneur who develops strategic business solutions using systems thinking, game dynamics, gamification and game-based learning. Her expertise is on strategic and entrepreneurship development for the digital age. Marigo will also be doing a question and answer for those of you who already have plans to start your own digital enterprise.
Sue Roberts is the Chief Executive Officer and State Librarian of the State Library of Victoria, a position she took over in April 2012. Ms Roberts has overall responsibility for ensuring that the Library Board of Victoria’s directions are implemented, for sound corporate governance, and for the management of the State Collection and the operations of the Library. A published author and leading thinker on the changing role of libraries, Ms Roberts’ previous positions include Dean of Learning Services at EdgeHillUniversity in the UK and Director of SOLSTICE, a national centre for excellence in online learning.
Moderator:Antony Funnell is a Walkley award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He is also the author of the newly-released book The Future and Related Nonsense (published by Harper Collins). Antony has been the presenter of Future Tense Future Tense dissects and analyses the social, cultural and economic faultlines arising from rapid transformation, since 2009; prior to that he fronted Media Report. He also presents the monthly education podcast EdPod for RN. Over the past two decades he has worked for many of the country's leading news and current affairs programs, including AM, PM, the 7.30 Report, Background Briefing and Radio National Breakfast. In the late 1990s he was the senior producer for Australia Television News - ABC TV's nightly satellite news service into the Asia Pacific region.
Presentation Partners –Federation Square, Melbourne Knowledge Week and Future Leaders.
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