This table will let you understand what’s on the schedule and why you want to be at Spark The Change Melbourne. It’s also available as a PDF.
Why is Spark the Change for me?

Schedule
08.45 Acknowledgement of Country and RMIT Welcome by Peter West & Noeleen Carey – Organisational Development Manager
09.00 MC Adrian Fittolani Framing the day
09.10 Opening Keynote Rebecca Tapp ‘The Dawn of Purpose’ Additional Resources for Attendees
09.50 Mel Flanagan ‘Transparent Government: The Stories We can Tell with Data’
10.10 Richard Tri Parton Takeaways
10.30 MORNING TEA
11.00 Victoria Plaksin ‘Conscious Capitalism – a bold blueprint for a new system of doing business’ Presentation Slides
11.15 Peter West RMIT – Towards shared futures; reconciliation as an activity for all
11.30 Ben Peacock ‘Write, fight, unite. Finding your inner changemaker’
11.45 Q&A for Victoria, Josh and Ben – facilitated by Rebecca Tapp
11.55 Applying the day’s learnings
12.05 LUNCH
13.00 Zandy Fell ‘How to have Conversations that Spark’ Presentation Slides
13.30 Dr Agustin Chevez ‘Iguanas and Approaching the Human Asymptote’
13.50 Charlie Simson ‘The Conditions for Thriving (and how to create them)’ Presentation Slides
14.20 Applying the day’s learnings
14.35 AFTERNOON TEA
15.05 Angel Dixon Fireside Chat
15.30 Leigh Barnes ‘Using Leadership & Purpose to Balance Sustainability & Profit’
15.45 Closing Keynote Adam McCurdie ‘The Humanitix Story – transforming an idea into a business’
16.10 Applying the day’s learnings/Where to from here?
16.35 Finish Letter to Self
16.45 Conference Close/wrap up
17.00 NETWORKING EVENT- Drinks/Nibbles
Speakers
Thought provoking presentations from this great lineup
Our content curation team has been working to put together a lineup of compelling story tellers. Here are the first announced speakers. Watch this space, as we will continue to add to the lineup.

Zandy Fell
Director Zalt Group

Victoria Plaksin
Board Director/Deputy Chair Conscious Capitalism ANZ

Richard Tri Parton
Director Liminel, Founder Organisational Agility & Positive Psychology Meetup

Rebecca Tapp
Optimism Director at Future Crunch/Host of the Decoding Purpose Podcast

Peter West
Lecturer, Media and Communications, RMIT University

Mel Flanagan
Creative Director, Nook Studios/Open Government Advocate

Leigh Barnes
Chief Purpose Officer at Intrepid Group

Dr Agustin Chevez
Senior Researcher, Hassell Studio

Charlie Simson
Director Plucky Frank & Facilitator Thrive Global

Ben Peacock
Founder, Republic of Everyone

Angel Dixon
2019 QLD Young Australian of the Year/CEO Attitude Foundation Ltd

Adam McCurdie
Co-Founder and Director, Humanitix
Content curation and MC

Adrian Fittolani
MC
