Introducing the ALL-NEW Short Talks Stage at sxsw sydney conference

Get ready for an exciting new addition to SXSW Sydney 2024 – the Short Talks Stage, your one-stop shop for bite-sized brilliance and game-changing ideas.

The Short Talks Stage is a fresh addition to the SXSW Sydney Conference, carefully curated to ensure a dynamic exchange of ideas. Expect speakers to deliver impactful, brief talks across all 23 tracks, covering everything from innovation to creativity.

Grouped into thematic clusters, these 15 and 30-minute intellectual shots of espresso are your golden ticket to serendipitous discovery. Whether you're filling a schedule gap or up for taking a chance on something new, the Short Talks Stage has got you covered.

Short Talks will happen daily on the Exhibition side of the International Convention Centre and will be presented by a hand-picked cohort of emerging hosts including Lee Constable, Harry Jun, AJ Lamarque, Adrian Phoon, Caris Bizzaca, and Alice Tovey. Get ready to have your mind blown in record time at the Short Talks Stage – where big ideas come in small packages.

Here's a taster of what you'll find, with more to be added:

Monday 14 October

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

• Going Vertical to Solve the Burial Space Crisis | Favourite this session
  With Andrew Hoyne

• The Agentic Revolution | Favourite this session
  With Daniel Palmer

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

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

• Marketing ZEN: Bringing Humanity Back into Your Business | Favourite this session
  With Shinji Tanaka

Tuesday 15 October

• A Tale of Two Carbon Markets | Favourite this session
  With Roger Cohen

• You can’t solve the climate crisis until you solve the plastics crisis | Favourite this session
  With Paul Riley

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

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

• Employee Equity Ownership Awareness Session | Favourite this session
  With Jax Liu

• Would you hire someone with a criminal record? | Favourite this session
  With Cameron Smith

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

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

• Embracing Audacity VS Seeking Permission: A Business Case for Ignoring Conventional Wisdom | Favourite this session
  With Aidan Anderson

Wednesday 16 October

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

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

• How the South Korean Tech Ecosystem Is Evolving | Favourite this session
  With Philip Lee

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

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

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

• Age Against the Machine | Favourite this session
  With Melissa Doyle & Naima Brown

Thursday 17 October

• Quantum communication and encryption | Favourite this session
  With Rajiv Shah

• Indigenous Futures in STEM | Favourite this session
  With Christopher Lawrence

• The Impact of online abuse on peak performance: Unpacking the Silencing Effect on women in sport, business and beyond | Favourite this session
  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. | Beyond Jurassic Park
  With Justine Lacey & Craig Morton

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

• Purpose Aligned Profit: Leading the Charge vs Leading the Change | Favourite this session
  With Brooke Roberts

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

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

Friday 18 October

• Game of drones in our biggest cities | Favourite this session
  With Tom Caska

• Diversifying Diversity: Beyond Buzzwords Towards Inclusive Innovation | Favourite this session
  With Rashina Hoda

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

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

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

• Luxury Recrafted Macrotrend | Favourite this session
  With Christopher Sanderson

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Keep your eyes peeled for more exciting additions to the Short Talks program.

The countdown is on! Download the app and start building your SXSW Sydney experience today.

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