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Steve Lawrence is Chief Executive of the Australian Social Innovation Exchange, created to find fresh solutions to Australia’s social challenges through cross-sector collaboration. He also consults in Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
For the last 29 years Steve has been Founder, CEO and Social Entrepreneur with WorkVentures, based in Sydney. Started with a $3000 loan, WorkVentures has annual revenues around $20million and places hundreds of unemployed Australians in jobs each year.
Over the last 30 years Steve has also played a key role in creating over 13 nonprofit organisations. They include JOB futures, United Way Sydney, Jobs Australia, Social Ventures Australia, School for Social Entrepreneurs Australia.
In 2004 Steve received the Social Entrepreneur Of The Year Award for NSW & ACT.
In 2005 WorkVentures and Microsoft won the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership Longevity Award for a 20 year collaboration, bringing technology resources to disadvantaged Australians.
Redirective practitioner working across disciplines to develop more sustainable ways of living and being in the world. Sessional tutor/lecturer in design at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) & University of Technology Sydney since 2004, independent writer and curator, and one half of Makeshift (with Karl Logge) – a collaborative practice spanning sculpture and installation, drawing, printmaking, object and graphic design, writing, curating, teaching etc.
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Digital strategist & sustainability advocate who enjoys the challenge of roles that haven't been colonised before and setting up new ways of working. I thrive on Big Picture thinking, collaboration and am constantly seeking ways of harnessing technology for the greater good.
Educator in design, University of Technology Sydney
I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney
Artistscientist, new media technologist, and innovation strategist
Pioneer prototyping specialist in the development of the first commercial head-mounted display in the virtual environments industry at LEEP Lab Systems in Boston. Contracted with Small Business Industrial Research (SBIR) to co-research and development with NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Langley Research Center. Technical support to the Mars Pathfinder Sojourner Rover team in Antarctica.
New media projects and research presented in U.S., Vietnam, Mexico, India, Ghana, Canada, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Japan, Australia and Monaco.
CEO and founder Cicada.net.au and Reality Learning.org
Penny is a design strategist and independent consultant with over 10 years experience working on social design projects in Australia and New Zealand. Penny works as a facilitator, lecturer and presenter running digital and communication strategy workshops and consults with design and social agencies on the use of collaborative design methods to enable stakeholder engagement. She combines hands on design experience with a knowledge of design research methods to develop stakeholder engagement programs for social change projects. She has developed a number of design training, production and employment initiatives with organisations such as Creative New Zealand, Metro screen and MTC Worksolutions. Penny is currently completing her PhD in participatory design methods for social technologies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Before commencing her PhD Penny worked as the Projects Director/Strategist at Digital Eskimo guiding the user experience design process, overseeing all production and driving their experimental design research program.
I am very passionate about Social Innovation in areas of Environment/sustainability & Social Justice especially in matters relating to Indigenous people.
With experience in the marketing and promotions of Information Communication Technology I am well placed to embrace opportunities presented online with eCommunities especially thanks to Social Media.
I run my own marketing consultancy to help social enterprises raise awareness and build communities for their solutions: http://fulfilthis.com/
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