Ethical Fields presents:

In Transit Series Webinar with Dr. Jose Ramos and Moira Were (AM)

With special guest Adam Leggett as they discuss how can high tech industrial innovation combine with the need for radical sustainability and what does this mean in the Australian context?

Season 1: Webinar #4

3 June 2020, Wednesday

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Join the questions and conversation exploring the themes, barriers and opportunities of transition. Jose and Moira will have a far reaching conversation challenging assumptions, used futures, gender, age demographics, post COVID industrialisation, new economy matters and everything in between!

Provoke and poke their discourse with your questions.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Adam Leggett

Growing up immersed in sustainability thinking and practice, on an Australian organic farming, living with an off-grid energy system in a low impact development, set Adam on a lifelong path of exploration. His early experience highlighted the significance of industrial production, arrangement of cities, new technology, market and community factors, and government in achieving a sustainable society.

After completing degrees in chemical engineering and science, with honours from the University of Melbourne, he has developed over twenty years’ experience working with government, industry, universities and start-up enterprises. This has provided the opportunity to deeply investigate approaches to technical and commercial innovation and new venture creation, advanced technology, design and solutions in sustainable industry and built environment development, emerging practice in transition management and market transformation, and corporate and government strategy and complex organisational change. Today, Adam combines strong technical knowledge with commercial and system considerations to advise on strategy, implementation and lead the delivery of sustainable development, organisational change and market transformations. He is on the Advisory Board of Cleantech Innovations Geelong, a technology, business and market development innovation fund, supported by the Victorian Government and co-chaired by the City of Greater Geelong and Geelong Manufacturing Council. He holds a key position in a new industrial start-up venture establishing an advanced manufacturing facility for a new energy technology. For the past 18 months he has been leading change for the Australian government within the National Disability Insurance Agency, which is delivering a world first transformation of the disability sector and demonstrating delivery of mission-orientated innovation, policy and strategy.

Moira Were

Moira Were (AM) has worked from the kitchen table as a direct service social worker through to the cabinet table as a Chief of Staff to a Minister. She has extensive strategic and operational experience in the not-for-profit sector and in government at state, regional, national and international levels.

She has served and led in governance on statutory and regulatory bodies (including Medical Board of SA and the South Australian Emergency Services Commission), not for profit boards (including Social Impact Investment Network of SA, Southern Domestic Violence Service, Issues Deliberation Australia/America) as well as providing executive and strategic leadership roles including as CEO of Volunteering SA & NT Inc. and Global Executive Director of International Association of Public Participation (IAP2).

She is a Director of Scope Global, an Australian specialist international project management company with people as the focus of its program delivery. Moira is a member of the core team for Collaboration for Impact, Australia’s premier company doing systems change at scale.

Dissatisfied with the lack of gender equity in investment and contribution women led start ups, entrepreneurs and social enterprises get from the market, she founded Chooks SA, in 2017, a movement to foster gender equity for women innovators and entrepreneurs. With over 3000 members she is now developing a new incubator model for women excluded from the economy under the auspices of a co-operative called the Hen House. Moira received an Australian honour in 2019 (AM) for her significant service to the community of South Australia.

Dr. Jose Ramos

José Maria Ramos has been a foresight researcher and practitioner for the last 20 years, is Senior Consulting Editor for the Journal of Futures Studies and is Senior Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He has taught and lectured on Futures studies, public policy and social innovation at the National University of Singapore (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy), Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), Leuphana University (Germany), the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia) and Victoria University (Australia).

He has over 60 publications in journals, magazines and books spanning economic, cultural and political change, Futures studies, public policy and social innovation. He has also co-founded a number of civil society organizations, a social forum, a maker lab, an advocacy group for commons governance, and a peer to peer leadership development group for mutant futurists.

He holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature, a Masters degree in Strategic Foresight and a Ph.D. in critical globalisation studies.

Of Mexican ancestry, he was born in Oakland, California and grew up in a very multi-cultural suburb of Los Angeles. After living in Japan and Taiwan, where he studied Japanese and Mandarin, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to be with his wife, De Chantal. They now live in Central Victoria with their two children, son Ethan and daughter Rafaela. He has a passion for the coupling of foresight and action, alternative globalisations and writings and research on cosmo-localization. This line of work connects him to the truth that we are all brothers and sisters inter-dependent on our planet and each other for our survival and wellbeing - our shared commons.

He is a director with Ethical Fields.

Contact the host of In Transit (3/6/20)