OUR SPEAKERS

Be inspired to make change. All our speakers and sponsors are changing the world and fighting climate change, come and discover how are they doing it and what you can do to help.

SOPHIA TREMENHEERE

As a Menstrual Cycle Mentor and Confidence Coach, Sophia helps women have happier, healthier periods. But what she is really passionate about is guiding women to embrace their feminine energy and step into their power. ​

Knowledge is power and, through her work on feminine leadership, Sophia is committed to bring lasting change. She proactively educates people to make informed decisions whilst providing relevant solutions in our everyday lives. 
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Will Rayward-Smith​

As a Director at Deloitte, Will is a trusted advisor to industry and government on decarbonisation, clean technology and new energy. He works to accelerate the transition to net zero, unlocking the most significant opportunities and realising the benefits for people and planet.

Will was previously Founder and General Manager of SunSHIFT, enabling the uptake of renewable energy by large off-grid energy users such as remote communities, construction sites and mines. 
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Lottie Dalziel

In 2018 Lottie made a New Year’s resolution to drastically reduce her waste. It wasn’t until she started this resolution that she realised how hard it was not only to find environmentally-friendly products but also find credible information around waste.

​To date, Lottie has helped over 160,000 people reduce their waste and in doing so created community amidst the bustle of city life, she believes that individuals have the power to create change and together we can all make a difference.
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Tim Noakesmith

Tim is a serial entrepreneur and design professional, recently recognised in Forbes 30 under 30 list.

In 2017 Tim became obsessed with using his human-centred design background to solve the world's most important problems, eventually realising that creating the food systems that will scale to meet an ever-growing population is one of the most important challenges we face as a human race, so he co-founded Vow, a food/biotechnology company focussed on feeding billions of people sustainably. 

ELLIE MOSS

Ellie is a professional contradiction: a marketer who is passionate about the environment, sustainability and being a positive force in the fight against climate change.
 
In her role as Managing & Strategic Director at Focus Creative, Ellie applies marketing and communications strategy to coffee beans, home building and clean energy—often in the same week.

Sustainability frameworks, green comms strategy, and environmental campaigns are what puts a spring in her step. 
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Max Van Biene

In his role as Head of Sustainability Strategy at Edge Environment Max works with organisations of all sizes to develop evidence-based roadmaps that minimise their negative environmental and social impact whilst driving purpose and delivering commercial returns.

​Max also specialises in developing multi-stakeholder, sector level sustainability roadmaps such as the Sustainability Guidelines for the Australian Events Sector. Max is currently leading the National Food Waste strategy to determine how Australia can meet the target of halving food waste by 2030.

Ziggy MarzinelLi

Ziggy is a marine scientist and lecturer at The University of Sydney, where he leads a marine ecology and conservation research group. Ziggy’s research focuses on understanding the processes that generate, maintain and impact marine ecosystems. He uses this information to develop sensible, practical solutions to environmental problems, for example, via restoration of degraded habitats.

​Ziggy has done research in temperate, tropical and polar ecosystems around the world, and is passionate about teaching and communicating his research to the general public.
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emily jateff

Emily is Curator of Ocean Science and Technology at the Australian National Maritime Museum.

 She develops programs and content for the museum’s public-facing activities in ocean sciences, technologies, climate change and sustainability. These include the James Cameron: CHALLENGING THE DEEP and Sydney Harbour Gallery exhibitions, science and sustainability programs along our waterfront (like the new Ocean Lab) and working with global research vessels such as CSIRO Marine National Facility’s RV Investigator and Schmidt Ocean Institute’s RV Falkor during the 2020 circumnavigation of Australia. 
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Helen Redmond

Helen is a rehabilitation medicine physician. As well as her clinical role helping patients recover from illness and injury, she volunteers for public health advocacy group Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA).

​For the last 10 years she has spoken out on behalf of DEA for the protection of our health through care for the environment, raising awareness of the health impacts of fossil fuels and climate change to community and professional audiences, as well as to politicians and government. She has given voice to the health impacts of coal seam gas mining, helping communities successfully resist the establishment of the industry in NSW.