Join the Creative Revolution! Hundreds of creative leaders, tech pioneers and disruptive entrepreneurs from around the globe will once again gather at...

REMIX Sydney 2015 Summit - Culture, Technology, Entrepreneurship

Location:

483 George Street
2000 NSW
Australia

REMIX Sydney 2015 Summit - Culture, Technology, Entrepreneurship

Featuring

Tom Dawkins

Tom Dawkins (2015)

Tom Dawkins, Co-Founder and CEO, StartSomeGood.com

For over 15 years Tom Dawkins has been exploring how technology and culture can be harnessed as tools to create a more democratic and participatory society.

Tom is the co-founder of social change crowdfunding platform StartSomeGood.com, which supports social entrepreneurs to raise the funds and mobilise the community they need to make a difference, and the Director of the Australian Changemakers Festival.

Tom previously founded several non-profits including Vibewire Youth Inc. which he led from 2000-2008. Achievements included the 2002 launch of the youth culture website Vibewire.net, opening the first  co-working space in Australia, sQuareOne (now the Vibewire Innovation Lab), in 2006, and embedding the first youth reporters with candidates as part of the electionTracker project covering the Federal election in 2004 and 2007.

From 2008-2010 Tom was the first Social Media Director at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, with the mandate of using social technologies to help create an Everyone a Changemaker World. While there he grew Ashoka’s Twitter following to over 300,000 and launched one of the first regular Twitter chats, #SocEntChat, which continues to this day.

Tom has been recognized with numerous awards and fellowships and has been a regular speaker at conferences, seminars and workshops for past 14 years, including SXSW, the World Summit on the Information Society, Connecting Up and FWD.

Tom is a passionate advocate for the power of technology and social media to build community, inspire changemakers and empower all of us to change the world. 

Event Details

Join the Creative Revolution! Hundreds of creative leaders, tech pioneers and disruptive entrepreneurs from around the globe will once again gather at REMIX Sydney to explore the intersection of culture, technology and entrepreneurship.

WHAT IS REMIX?

REMIX Sydney is part of a series of summits taking place in leading creative capitals including London, New York and Dubai investigating the big ideas shaping the creative economy, creative cities and culture. Previous contributors include Mike Bloomberg, 108th Mayor of New York, Glenn D. Lowry, Director, MoMA, Adam Williams, Managing Director, Spotify and Louise Herron, CEO, Sydney Opera House. Summit partners include Google, Bloomberg, Mindshare, VICE, Time Out and The Guardian.

WHERE IS REMIX TAKING PLACE?

Held at Sydney Town Hall, 2-3 June 2015. 

WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT AS A DELEGATE?

Whether you’re looking for fresh inspiration or you have ideas you want to share, REMIX Sydney provides the perfect forum for creatives and companies from different sectors to exchange insights and work together. An extensive social and networking programme curated by Time Out exists alongside the event to facilitate conversations between attendees including delegate receptions and our Ideas Brewery.

WHAT DO PEOPLE SAY ABOUT REMIX?

“Hundreds of people eager to learn how culture, technology and entrepreneurship oppose, attract or mesh together and create business value” Huffington Post

WHO IS SPEAKING?

Be inspired by 75 creative pioneers including:

- Karen Stocks, Managing Director, Twitter 

- Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, MCA

- Ian McClelland, Managing Director, The Guardian Australia

- Katrina Sedgwick, Director, ACMI

- Helen Souness, Managing Director, Etsy

- Kim McKay AO, Director & CEO, Australian Museum

- Katie Rigg-Smith, CEO, Mindshare Australasia

- Ed Harrison, CEO, Yahoo!7

- Michael Brand, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales

- Seb Chan, Director of Digital & Emerging Media, Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

- Royce Akers, Editor, VICE

- Rish Mitra, CEO & Co-Founder, Blippar

- Riley Batchelor, Regional Director, General Assembly, Asia-Pacific

http://www.remixsummits.com/syd

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