Engineers building a new future!
Here's Daniel Almagor from Engineers without Borders talking about why he thinks the Future Summit is important to help us "engineer a better world":
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Future and the Summit
I was really lucky to be able to attend the Australian Davos Connection's Future Summit 2009 in Melbourne earlier this week.
When I walked into the venue it was a bit intimidating, so many serious looking people in suits. And from the attendee list I knew that many
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Here at the Future Summit 2009 in Melbourne - interesting attendees (lots of people in suits though ;)
You can check out the Flickr photos and videos & see the twitter stream on Twemes
Nurses, naughtiness and women in IT
NetRegistry have raised some ire in some parts by having women dressed as nurses on their stand at CeBIT in Sydney. In some ways this all takes me back to the bad old days when IT was a blokey world and scantily clad women were commonplace at conferences and exhibitions.
Nurses, naughtiness and women in IT
NetRegistry have raised some ire in some parts by having women dressed as nurses on their stand at CeBIT in Sydney. In some ways this all takes me back to the bad old days when IT was a blokey world and scantily clad women were commonplace at conferences and exhibitions.
Social networking & your career
I had the pleasure of speaking, along with Karen Ganschow from Telstra, at the FITT CeBIT lunch today in Sydney. We had a great turnout and there were even a few men in attendance.
It's FITT's 20th anniversary this year - a big milestone for a volunteer
Future Summiteer
~ next week I'm off to the Future Summit in Melbourne on 18-19 May.
The theme for 2009 is Priorities for Australia in the Crisis and Beyond, and there is a really diverse line-up of speakers (pdf list here).
This conference is run by ADC (Australian Davos