Introducing the Short Talks Stage in the SXSW Sydney Conference

This year we’re excited to launch the Short Talks Stage — SXSW Sydney’s hub for concise and impactful ideas.  

The Short Talks Stage is a new feature at this year’s SXSW Sydney Conference, curated to provide a dynamic exchange of ideas, with speakers presenting brief, powerful and inspiring talks on topics across the 23 tracks.

Grouped into similar ideas and conversations, these short talks will last either 15 or 30 minutes each and provide you the perfect opportunity to take a chance on something new, fill in a gap in your schedule, or getting industry-leading thoughts into your day as possible.

The Short Talks stage will be situated in the Exhibition side of the International Convention Centre and will be presented by a hand-picked cohort of emerging presenters include:  

Caris Bizacca, Lee Constable, Harry Jun, AJ Lamarque, Adrian Phoon, Alice Tovey.  

Check out the full schedule online but here’s what’s programmed so far:

Monday 14^th October

• Shaping the Future: The Crucial Role of Gender Diversity in AI’s Success
  With Kim Oosthuizen

• Going Vertical to Solve the Burial Space Crisis
  With Andrew Hoyne

• The Agentic Revolution
  With Daniel Palmer

• Normalising Blackness in Australia - True representation on our screens, stages and pages
  With Simone Smith

• Marketing ZEN: Bringing Humanity Back into Your Business  
  With Shinji Tanaka
• Using AI to tackle ear disease in rural and remote Indigenous Australian children  
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Tuesday 15^th October

• A Tale of Two Carbon Markets
  With Roger Cohen

• You can’t solve the climate crisis until you solve the plastics crisis
  With Paul Riley

• Tokenising Redemption: Confronting the Internet’s Original Sin
  With Mark Monfort, Amy-Rose Goodey, Kate Cooper & Rob Allen

• Restoring Traditional Country with AI Tech and Aerial Data
  With Jamie Woods, Vera Rullens, Mike Roache & M’Shenda Turner

• Employee Equity Ownership Awareness Session
  With Jax Liu

• Would you hire someone with a criminal record?
  With Cameron Smith

• Powering Up Pacific Tech - Responding to a broken system
  With Muliagatele Danny Leaoasava’ii &Jerome Mika

• New technologies fostering community-driven, governed and managed First Language revitalisation, maintenance and teaching
  With Eric Brace, Tom Calma & Glenise Coulthard

• Embracing Audacity VS Seeking Permission: A Business Case for Ignoring Conventional Wisdom
  With Aidan Anderson
• Inclusive Futures: LGBTQIA+ Inclusion in Tomorrow’s Workforce
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Wednesday 16^th October

• Making Good Media: Fostering Positive Climate Action through Irresistible Speculative Design
  With Rebecca Green

• Can we double pet life spans by 2050? - A vision for healthier, longer-living companions
  With Matthew Muir

• How South Korean Tech Ecosystem is evolving?
  With Philip Lee

• Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Steam Age - Now Fusion Age? How Fusion Energy Will Begin a New Fundamental Era
  With Lenka Kollar

• Cyber Security: Do you have what it takes to be a hacker / cyber-criminal?
  With Richard Buckland

• The digital race: giving vulnerable communities a leg up
  With Rick Iversen, Jason-Urranndulla Davis, Margo Stephen & Brad Carr

• Age Against the Machine
  With Melissa Doyle & Naima Brown
• Stem Cells from Promise to Reality
  

Thursday 17^th October

• Quantum communication and encryption
  With Rajiv Shah

• Indigenous Futures in STEM
  With Christopher Lawrence

• The Impact of online abuse on peak performance: Unpacking the Silencing Effect on women in sport, business and beyond
  With Yasmin London & Luke Cook

• Beyond Jurassic Park: how engineering biology could take a bite out of some of Australia’s toughest challenges - but only if we let it.
  With Justine Lacey & Craig Morton

• From Woes to Wows: AI’s Magic Touch in Tax and Finance
  With Angela Shi

• Purpose Aligned Profit: Leading the Charge vs Leading the Change
  With Brooke Roberts

• Former UK Spy Chief, Sally Walker Says Diversity in Australia’s Cyber Workforce is a Strategic Imperative
  With Sally Walker

• Bet on Better Decisions: Unveiling the Power of Decision-Making Psychology for Leadership Success
  With Juliette Tobias-Webb
  

Friday 18^th October

• Game of drones in our biggest cities
  With Tom Caska

• Diversifying Diversity: Beyond Buzzwords Towards Inclusive Innovation
  With Rashina Hoda

• Culture fit: Why migrants and WOC should be founding more companies
  With Samadhi Pelenda, Ananya Sinha & Sandra Suen

• The Future of Tech in 2050: Neural AR and Thought-Powered VR & Haptic Tech
  With Patricia Haueiss

• Why startups fail - lessons and practical examples from working with 100+ founders
  With Michael Batko

• How VR-ready are you: Virtually a new way of working & learning
  With Mimi Lee, Karen Khaw & Rehan Wickremeratne

• Luxury Recrafted Macrotrend
  With Christopher Sanderson
• We have the tools to end HIV, so what's getting in the way?