And here are the last of our speakers — someone well known and two less well known, but no less interesting. And, their subject matter is from three completely different places, which makes the TEDxCanberra mix all the better!
With 15 years of experience in the banking industry, Ed Bosworth holds responsibilities at one of Australia’s biggest banks to ensure that Westpac and its customers don’t go down in another GFC. He is involved internationally in managing and designing risk mitigation strategies across the banking industry. In his spare time, Ed dreams of becoming a professional OxFam Trailwalker.
Inspirational dancer and musician, Francis Owusu plans to transform a generation of youth through empowering them to believe in themselves, to take their future into their own hands and to make a difference. He has worked with over 80,000 young people around Australia and overseas since 2006, bringing them the message of Kulture Break.
Mark Pesce is known to many Australians as the cardigan-wearing judge on the ABC’s The New Inventors. But did you know he was also the co-inventor of pioneering 3D language VRML and has been envisioning and thinking about the future of a hyperconnected humanity for just as long?
And that’s it, the entire line-up for TEDxCanberra is now revealed.