Tuesday 16th November
Speakers 2021
Natasha Mitchell
Australian Journalist, Host, Audio Producer, Podcaster
Binary Shift 2021 host Natasha Mitchell is a multi-award winning journalist, presenter, audio producer and podcaster. She is the presenter and producer of the award-winning weekly culture and science show, Science Friction. She was host of the flagship daily social affairs program on ABC Radio National, Life Matters, and founder of the internationally acclaimed mental health and psychology program and podcast, All in the Mind. Natasha served as vice president of the World Federation of Science Journalists, Her recognitions include the prestigious MIT Knight Journalism Fellowship, and the New York Radio Festival’s Grand Prize. She currently serves on the founding committee of the new Science Journalists Association of Australia.
Adam Jahnke
Umps Health, CEO
Adam Jahnke, CEO of UMPS Health, is paving the way for people to live safely and independently in older age. Early in his career, Alan worked with Cochlear China where he developed partnerships with enterprise and government stakeholders to make Cochlear implantation accessible to disadvantaged and remote communities, then with Ericsson to develop digital transformation projects across Australia and Southeast Asia. Inspired by supporting his grandpa (nicknamed Umps) to live safely and independently at home, he founded UMPS Health. Join us to learn more about Adam’s innovation journey within the aged care industry and become inspired by how he’s solving an important issue in society.
Andy McCarthy
RACV Solar, CEO
Andy McCarthy is a lifelong advocate for renewable energy. He founded Gippsland Solar with his wife and built one of Victoria’s largest and most reputable energy businesses. He played a lead role in accelerating energy transition in the Latrobe Valley, working with state and federal politicians and the private sector to deliver positive outcomes for a region in flux. Andy will be discussing the challenges of building a renewable energy business in the heart of the coal-fired power industry, exploring the future of energy, and the economic opportunities that will open up as a result of energy transition.
Alana Johnson
Voices 4 Indi, Founding Member
Alana Johnson has been an influential leader in one of contemporary rural Australia’s most significant social changes: the increased representation and recognition of women. Alana’s life-long commitment to gender equality is reflected in her extensive personal, business and organisational commitments. She has been instrumental in pioneering the Rural Women’s Network and is a founding member of the peak national advocacy body, Australian Women in Agriculture. She is also a founding force behind Voices 4 Indi, one of the most significant community democracy movements in contemporary Australian politics, finding new ways to empower communities and harness grassroots power.
Duncan Bentley
Federation University, Vice Chancellor & President
Federation University's Vice-Chancellor and President believes a dual-sector regional university sits at the heart of a community, playing a core role in a region’s prosperity and growth. Throughout his career, Professor Bentley has supported universities to grow through design thinking, digital innovation, deep community engagement, and long-term global partnerships. Growing up on coffee plantations and game reserves in Africa, he champions adoption of technologies to support sustainability.
Phoebe Gardner
Bardee, Co-Founder
CEO & Co-Founder of Bardee, Phoebe Gardner is transforming the agriculture sector by using insects to transform food waste into high-quality protein for animal feed and rich organic fertiliser. Every tonne of protein produced by Bardee offsets 100 tonnes of C02 emissions, equivalent to planting 1,600 trees. In 2019, Phoebe was awarded the Emerging Leader in Agriculture Award by the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. Come along to Binary Shift to hear how Bardee is using innovation to revolutionize the agriculture industry, and the future of farming insects as a sustainable source of protein.
Sponsors
OUR SPEAKERS
Prof Duncan Bentley,
Vice Chancellor, Federation University
Emerging technologies and the future for regional areas
Co-presented with Sallyann Williams
In this fireside chat, hear from two of Australia’s top futurists about the future of regional areas, and how emerging technologies can be instrumental for positive change within our communities. If you’re a regional business leader, social entrepreneur or student, you’ll want to be at this opening keynote!
Sally-Ann Williams, CEO, Cicada Innovations
Emerging technologies and the future for regional areas
Co-presented with Prof Duncan Bentley
In this fireside chat, hear from two of Australia’s top futurists about the future of regional areas, and how emerging technologies can be instrumental for positive change within our communities. If you’re a regional business leader, social entrepreneur or student, you’ll want to be at this opening keynote!
Adam Jahnke, CEO Umps Health
Innovation in aged-care
Adam has designed technology within the aged care sector to empower independence for older Australians. His inspiration for developing this technology was founded for his grandfather who he lovingly called “umps”. Come along to hear Adam’s personal journey of creating innovative technology to solve real problems that he saw in the world around him, to support his grandfather and others like him with ageing within the home.
Andy McCarthy, CEO RACV
Innovation in energy transition
Andy’s story of building and growing one of Australia’s largest solar companies within a coal mining region is both inspiring and empowering. He will be exploring his passion for energy resilience, economic opportunities and the future of energy. He discusses the challenges of building a renewable energy business and the ups and downs he has dealt with along the way.
Philip Mulvey, CEO Carbon Count
Democratising carbon farming and enabling farmers to benefit from transition to a carbon neutral future
Carbon farming lets any farmer get involved in tackling climate change by growing crops that take carbon out of the air, provide a new revenue stream for farmers through selling carbon credits, and improve soil quality on their farm at the same time. Carbon Count is a Victorian startup aiming to make it easier for farmers to get started with carbon farming and enable every farmer to make a difference to this major global problem.
Alana Johnson, Founding Member, Voices for Indi
Innovation in civic engagement
Alana has been instrumental as a founding member of Voices for Indi in building a community democracy movement, empowering the community's voices to be heard and creating change in the way people engage with democratic processes around Australia. Hear Alana’s story of tackling one of the most complex social challenges, and reigniting civic engagement in a disengaged community.
Phoebe Gardner, CEO Bardee
Reshaping the global food system
Bardee is reshaping the global food system by using insect farming to transform food waste into protein and fertiliser to sustainably feed the world. Phoebe explores how she started a business to address the environmental impacts of food waste and livestock farming, a massive and overwhelming problem. Through hustle and creative thinking they have been able to overcome barriers associated with costs and how to get started addressing such a massive problem.
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