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Future Life Conference

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Address: 333 Collins street 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://futurelifeconference.com

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25.01.2022 Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on Future Life Conference Under the shadow of COVID-19 we feel that it is important to communicate to you our intentions for the Future Life conference 2020, to be held next month on 24th of April. As the conference date is still over a month away currently WE PLAN TO GO AHEAD WITH THE CONFERENCE WITH SOME STRICT GUIDELINES... Our current stance is based on: * Conference staff/volunteers have not traveled out of the country this year nor been exposed to COVID-19 or to people contracting COVID-19. * All of our presenters are from Australia * We keep the number of attendees (including speakers and staff) under 100 and we will organise the chairs/tables with plenty of space between attendees (the room is able to host 200 people). * The venue will supply hand sanitisers and plenty of soap as well as toilet paper. The Arts Centre will continue to maintain their high level of food hygiene when preparing the food to be served at the event. If you have registered and have either been exposed to someone with COVID-19 or are traveling from a country that is placed on Australia's travel ban list, please contact us and a full refund will be arranged. We keep monitoring the situation and will follow instructions by the Australian Government and the Arts Centre. Please come and support our Presenters and tireless team by enjoying Future Life Conference 2020!

23.01.2022 "The critical role of ‘everyday nature’ for the future of cities" is the title of the speech of Professor Sarah Bekessy at the Future Life Conference. A perfect storm of ideas is generating unprecedented enthusiasm for embracing #nature in cities. Re-enchanting #urban residents with nature can deliver a remarkable range of health benefits, while creating cities that are more resilient to climate change. Creating ‘every day nature’ in cities presents opportunities to reverse ...the fate of many threatened species and connect people with #Indigenous history and culture. But it’s more than just urban #greening; it’s generating daily doses of #biodiversity. The future of #livable cities may well depend on this new conceptualization, but a major shift in the way nature is conceived of and planned for is required. #futurelifeconference #city #greencity #climatechange What do you think, how will #Melbourne look like 30 years from now? See more

22.01.2022 And we have our free ticket winner for February. The winner is Matthew Riley, who shared and liked our posts the most in the month of February. Thank you Matt for your support, we're going to be in touch with the details for the free ticket and looking forward to see you at the event. Thanks to everyone who supported us, it was a close competition, with Jinish and Nayan closely coming in on second and third places. Do you want us to run another free ticket campaign for March? #FutureLifeConference

20.01.2022 Imagine your children being born within the next 20 years. What will be their education look like? How will they find work, when a lot of people fear of losing their job to AI? How will they be impacted by climate challenges? And how does our future looks like in Australia? Join us and a great line of speakers (more experts still to be announced) to listen and get inspired at the Future Life Conference this April in Melbourne. We have an awesome deal of getting two tickets fo...r the price of one, so why don't you get together with a family member, a friend or a colleague and secure one today? https://futurelifeconference.com/2020/

19.01.2022 Beyond Green Design: Living Architecture is the title of the presentation of our newest speaker, Dr Ollie Cotsaftis. Dr Ollie Cotsaftis is a post-disciplinary and speculative designer whose practice sits at the intersection of the human evolution, the built environment and the realm of creative biotechnologies. An RMIT School of Design Industry Fellow and Lecturer, his research addresses climate resilience and social innovation in speculative urban futures. Ollie is also the ...founder and creative director of future ensemble studio, the co-founder of Melbourne Speculative Futuresthe Melbourne Chapter of The Design Futures Initiativeexperiments with new ideas through his visual art practice, and most recently started a column on speculative and critical design for the This is HCD network. #FutureLiving #GreenDesign #BioArchitecture #FutureLife Tickets are available at https://futurelifeconference.com/2020/

19.01.2022 When planning an event, location is key. That’s why it was very important for us to pick the right location and we chose the world famous Arts Centre in Melbourne. The most popular of all of Arts Centre Melbourne’s event spaces, The Pavilion features a spectacular domed ceiling, floor to ceiling windows, gold leaf interiors and wraparound balcony. Hope to see you there at https://buff.ly/2HsPUUx #ArtsCentre #Melbourne #Conference #FutureLife

18.01.2022 We're very happy to announce that our conference has a new date. Mark your calendars, the Future Life Conference will take place in the prestigious Arts Centre on the 15th of October, 2020. All previously purchased tickets are still valid, all of our speakers re-confirmed for this date and we will announce two new speakers in the coming weeks. Thank you for following us and hope to see you at the event.

17.01.2022 "The future of health is in your hand (or possibly inside you)" will be the title of Pete Saunder's presentation at the Future Life Conference. Consumers are inundated with ways to measure, monitor and track their health. Jewelry is used to help you sleep, work and train. Chatbots are providing 24/7 personalised health advice. Futuristic headsets are designed to help you meditate. People are trying to print organs, edit genes and monetize your DNA. But despite this, chronic d...isease rates are on the rise, childhood obesity is now an epidemic and on any given day nearly half a million Australians visit the GP. What is causing this discrepancy? As technology continues to improve and evolve, will the gap widen or narrow? Should we be excited or worried? Are we focused on the right things? This talk will explore the impact of technology, patient experience, value based care and education on our health and what we can do to create a healthy future. #FutureOfHealth #HealthData #FutureLifeConference #PatientExperience #HealthyFuture What do you think? Should we be excited or worried? See more

16.01.2022 While we already have all of the speakers confirmed for the conference on the 23rd of April, would like to hear your thoughts. What topics would be you interested in for future events? Is it a specific technology? Or a topic like how we can battle global warming? Or a specific industry, like the future of food? Please use the comments and let us know. #FutureLifeConference #Melbourne #Conference

16.01.2022 We’re kicking off our March campaign for a free ticket to Future Life Conference. Please share, comment and like the ORIGINAL posts (from March, in March) on the conference page as much as you can to increase your chance! Sharing is caring and sharing will push you higher on the free ticket list #freeticket #melbourne #conference #linkedin #facebook #twitter

16.01.2022 - Hey Viki and Gabor, I've read your post about your conference last week. Can you remind me again, what this event is about? - Well, we organise an event about emerging technologies and how they impact our lives in the future. We focus specifically on Australia and aim to follow the lifecycle of a future child. Our speakers will talk about a range of topics, including the future of education, our work and even our cities. The talks will be short and sharp; coming from acknowledged and well known people. If you haven't done so yet, check our website at https://buff.ly/2HsPUUx and have a look at the line-up. And of course, contact us with any questions :-). #FutureLifeConference #Melbourne #Conference

12.01.2022 One of the most expected talk at the event is "Tesla’s Secret Master Plan" by Tim McBride. Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the worlds transition to sustainable energy. This presentation looks at Tesla’s ‘secret master plan’ over next 10 years & the role autonomous vehicles and distributed energy storage will play in creating a more efficient and sustainable future.

11.01.2022 With a large number of experienced speakers, there will be a lot of lessons learned at the Future Life Conference. At the end of the talks, there will be a panel discussion as well (including one of the speakers, a high-school student and a university student), answer both the audience's questions and summarising some key learnings. #panel #conference What is the question that you would ask the next generation about?

10.01.2022 When we started the conference, we immediately signed up with Diversity Charter (https://buff.ly/2VBHvGD) What about you: do you care about diversity at your workplace? And what are the different forms of diversity you think we need to explore more? What are your suggestion on how we could promote diversity in conferences like ours? #Diversity #Conference #Speaker #GenderBalance #FutureLifeConference

09.01.2022 Due to the current lockdown and the COVID-19 situation we decided to postpone our event to next year. The Future Life Conference will take place at the Arts Centre, on the 23rd of April, 2021 (Friday). 90% of our speakers have already re-confirmed their commitment to speak at the event. https://buff.ly/2HsPUUx #FutureLifeConference #FutureOfWork #FutureOfHealth #FutureOfCities #FutureOfEducation

09.01.2022 Tesla’s Secret Master Plan is the title of the presentation of our newest speaker, Tim McBride. Tim is focused on growing Tesla’s presence in the residential storage market across Asia Pacific. He has spent the last 4 years at Tesla building and supporting a network of Certified Installers across Australia and New Zealand, with a goal of helping their customers transition to solar and battery technology. He has a background in Industrial Design which is where he developed a p...assion for products that have the ability to change the world. Before joining Tesla, he worked at Apple for 8 years in Business Development and Consumer Sales in both Australia and Malaysia. More recently while at Tesla, he has been working on the roll-out of Tesla’s first Virtual Power Plant projects outside of the US. To find out more on what his talk will be about visit our website, https://futurelifeconference.com/2020/ #Tesla #Future

09.01.2022 There is a reason we partnered up with Humanitix to manage the ticket sales for Future Life Conference. Humanitix is a not-for-profit ticketing platform direct 100% of profits from booking fees toward education projects, such as literacy programs for young girls. With your purchase, you also support an education project. https://buff.ly/2HsPUUx #humanitix #futureofeducation

08.01.2022 We are super excited to announce our keynote speaker for the Future Life Conference, Dr Amanda Cahill. Amanda is the CEO of The Next Economy and founder of the Centre for Social Change. She has spent nearly 25 years working with inspiring people all around the world to create positive change on issues as diverse as livelihoods and economic development; health and wellbeing, women’s empowerment; and climate change action. Over the last five years she has been working with co...mmunities across Australia to strengthen regional economies by embracing the transition from fossil fuels to a zero emissions economy. Amanda has a PhD in Human Geography from The Australian National University and is an Associate of the University of Queensland and the Sydney Policy Lab. Tickets to the event are available at https://buff.ly/2HsPUUx #future #conference #socialchange #climatechange

07.01.2022 Nigel Dalton is a luminary at Thoughtworks and a well-known and respected speaker. His presentation, titled "Future Business Strategy: hire a teenager" will be a thought-provoking one, and will make you think hard, how to build the organisations of the future. The arrival of trillion-dollar megabusinesses like Amazon, Facebook and Google on the global business stage represents an immense threat to small and medium-sized organisations around the world. According to the Austra...lian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, 99% of Australian organisations are classified as SME, and they employ 2/3 of all working Australians - there is a lot at stake. Amazon seem intent on steamrollering bookstores, grocery businesses, bricks and mortar retail, tech hosting, healthcare, transport and real estate. Can the minnows co-opt some of their strategies to remain competitive? Nigel Dalton examines the options for Australian organisations in the face of this competition, and reveals a surprising, uplifting twist in the tale. What kind of organisation would you like to work for in the future? #FutureOrganization #FutureLifeConference #BusinessStrategy #Amazon #Facebook #Google See more

07.01.2022 New Year, new posts and new opportunities. As you may be aware we decided to postpone Future Life Conference by a year due to the restrictions around COVID-19. As Melbourne is settling into the new 'normal' we’re kicking off our February campaign with an Early Bird ticket option to the Future Life Conference to be held on the 23rd of April, 2021. Hope you are all starting to feel like meeting in person again so time to take advantage of the deal. https://buff.ly/2HsPUUx #earlybirdticket #melbourne #conference #linkedin #facebook #twitter #futurelifeconference

05.01.2022 In a climate of uncertainty with many unknowns, how can the students of today begin to navigate the maze of life, ready for tomorrow? In her presentation, titled "Students of today, workforce of tomorrow", Sarah-Tilly Brown will explore global trends in what the workforce is looking for, and what you need in your ‘toolkit’ ready to take on the global workplace. What do you think, how will tomorrow's workforce look like? #futureworkforce #futureofeducation #globaltrends #speaker #futurelifeconference #robots #students

05.01.2022 One year ago we had to postpone our conference, but we are back on the 23rd of April. And while this podcast with Brandon Burns and Runway Virtual is about one year old now, it is still up-to-date: https://buff.ly/37NzeEL For our audience we will record the sessions and thanks to Ras there will also be visual notes of every presentation. #FutureLifeConference #Melbourne

05.01.2022 Many predicts that machine (AI) will soon take over our jobs and make us redundant. In his talk "The Future of Workforce = Human + Machine", Agustinus Nalwan will discuss that despite the hype, the current AI technology is very limited to a very narrow task like classifying fruits, recommending a movie, playing Go, etc. However, it fails to perform task as simple as walking from home to school which any 6 year old can do. Given the above, Gus will share with you a totally dif...ferent version of the future where human and machine actually work hand in hand, complementing each other’s strength to increase efficiency and quality. E.g. processes such as farming, shipping, manufacturing and transportation will be far more efficient and cheaper, thus improving our quality of life. What do you think, will AI take over our jobs or is Gus's version more realistic ;-)? See more

04.01.2022 If you want to hear about the critical role of ‘everyday nature’ for the future of cities, Sarah Bekessy will share her thoughts and experience on embracing nature in cities. Re-enchanting urban residents with nature can deliver a remarkable range of health benefits, while creating cities that are more resilient to climate change. Creating ‘every day nature’ in cities presents opportunities to reverse the fate of many threatened species and connect people with Indigenous his...tory and culture. But it’s more than just urban greening; it’s generating daily doses of biodiversity. The future of livable cities may well depend on this new conceptualization, but a major shift in the way nature is conceived of and planned for is required. What do you think, with the current situation, is it more likely that we'll have more nature in our towns or are we going to a more post-apocalyptic scene? See more

02.01.2022 In our last post we announced and introduced our keynote speaker, Dr Amanda Cahill. Today we introduce her topic, which will be the keynote at Future Life Conference. The title of Amanda's talk is Embracing Change: Emerging Opportunities for a Brighter Future. Everywhere we look, there are doom and gloom forecasts of the future that awaits. But what if the disruptions we are currently facing: climate change, global economic uncertainty; environmental degradation and growing ...inequality offered us the opportunity to build a better, fairer and more ecologically sustainable future for everyone? What can we do? And how do we bring others along with us? What do you think? Share your comments here. And to find what Amanda thinks, come along to the conference on the 24th of April at the Arts Centre in Melbourne. Tickets are still available at https://buff.ly/2HsPUUx #future #conference #socialchange #climatechange