Viveka Weiley leads the CSIRO Concept Lab, a place to reinvent how science is done through emerging technologies. A veteran inventor and champion of collaborative creativity, he has spent over two decades building tools and communities that help people see and shape better futures together.
His trajectory through Australia's innovation landscape reads like a blueprint for transformative change: he founded the startup that delivered the first high-resolution virtual Earth to the web in 1999, developed pioneering mixed-reality collaboration systems at the UTS Creativity and Cognition Studios, led breakthrough R&D programs at the ABC and CHOICE that made markets fairer, safer and more open, and has advised institutions from Treasury to university schools of Software and Design.
At CSIRO, Viveka and his collaborators are proving that visionary leadership isn't mystical – it's a science. They're developing practical techniques to nurture and amplify collective intelligence, bringing together brilliant minds to imagine and build the future of scientific discovery.
When not inventing futures Viveka practices Japanese woodworking, in pursuit of the understanding that flows from mastering very sharp tools.
