SEVENTEENx Brisbane 2025

Name: SEVENTEENx Brisbane 2025
Start: 2025-08-20T17:30:00+1000
End: 2025-08-20T20:30:00+1000
Location: Room Three Sixty

Wed, 20 Aug, 5:30pm - 8:30pm AEST

Room Three Sixty

Brisbane City QLD, Australia

SEVENTEEN SDG Events

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Event description

SEVENTEENx is back in Brisbane again for our annual event tour on 20th August with our hosts QUT Business School and Tour Partners Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand. Join us in the highly engaged audience to engage with speakers and the business community with the UN Sustainable Development Goals ; and driving change through business.

What to expect..

The format... well it's simple and streamlined for 2025.

4 x Amazing Speakers
17 minute Keynotes each
Food + Drinks with Networking sessions
Inspired Audience to connect with
Shared Purpose!!!

Who is SEVENTEENx for?

✅ Business founders and leaders
✅ Start up community
✅ Social enterprise founders
✅ ESG/CSR leaders
✅ Sustainability experts
✅ Purpose brands
✅ Impact community

Time: 5:30pm doors open for arrival - 6:15pm Start - 8:30pm Finish.

Venue: Live event held at Room three Sixty - QUT City

Food Catering provided pre-event 5:30-6:15pm

Cash Bar available before, during and after event.

We exist to Educate, Engage and Enable businesses around the world with the SDGs. To inspire us all to take action and imbed the Global Goals and impact into the very core of everything we do.

The Speakers

Each speaker has a 17 minute keynote to share with us how they are using their business to make an impact in the world, and how they align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

All speakers are home grown heroes from the Brisbane area, ready to inspire their community on how to do things a little differently.

SPEAKER LINEUP - (more announcements coming soon)

Heidi Hauf - Global Sustainability Advisor - https://www.linkedin.com/in/he...

Heidi is a globally recognised sustainability leader with over 20 years of experience spanning business, government, and NGOs. Her work has delivered transformative sustainability outcomes across the transport, defence, energy, health, and public policy sectors.

As Boeing’s former lead for sustainable aviation in the Asia Pacific, Heidi advanced aerospace sustainability and built regional capability. She was appointed to the Australian Jet Zero Council and Sustainable Aviation Aotearoa in 2023, and has chaired multiple industry bodies. She is also a non-executive director and was named in The Australian Top 100 Green Power List (2023) for her leadership in renewable fuels and sustainability innovation.

A former Australian Army intelligence officer and graduate of the Royal Military College-Duntroon, Heidi now advises governments, energy and aviation groups, and purpose-driven start-ups on strategic sustainability. She lives in Brisbane on Jagera and Turrbal Country.

Dominiqe Bird - Co-Founder Civik - https://www.linkedin.com/in/do...

Dom Bird is a social enterprise leader with over a decade of experience building ventures that deliver real-world impact. He co-founded Civik, an award-winning civil construction social enterprise operating in Queensland and Victoria, focused on creating employment opportunities for young people facing barriers to work.

A committed advocate for social change, Dom has collaborated with social enterprises across Australia and internationally through his role as General Manager of the Social Enterprise World Forum. He previously served on the education team at Avenues: The World School in NYC, where he helped shape globally focused education models.

Dom holds a Bachelor of Education and an MBA from the University of Queensland.

Gemma Alker - Director Innovation Central Brisbane - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemma-alker/

Gemma Alker GAICD is an internationally recognised executive leader and strategist with over 25 years’ experience creating and scaling revenue-generating initiatives, building innovation ecosystems, and leading complex, high-impact partnerships across sectors.

She is Director of Innovation Central Brisbane, leading the national Cisco–QUT partnership and representing QUT in the National Industry Innovation Network.

Gemma has built a career advancing partnerships across industry, government, big tech, and universities, while designing entrepreneurial education and digital skills programs that drive innovation and job creation. Her CONNECT partnership methodology earned two 2023 International Stevie Awards for Women in Business —Executive of the Year (Gold) and Innovator of the Year (Silver).

A sought-after keynote speaker and communication advisor, Gemma brings deep expertise in stakeholder engagement, reputation strategy, and storytelling. She is known for connecting hearts and minds to inspire meaningful action.

She holds qualiﬁcations from QUT, MIT Sloan School of Management, Australian Institute of Company Directors, and the International Coaching Federation, and serves on industry advisory boards for Women in Digital and Children’s Hospital Queensland.

Dan Leverington - MD of The Ocelli Group - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-leverington/

Dan is the Managing Director of The Ocelli Group, helping organisations build resilience and commercial opportunity through bespoke Sustainability support networks. This 'Impact-as-a-Service' ecosystem consists of sustainability consultancies, data reporting platforms, and communications agencies, ensuring these teams are consistently realising collaborative advantages. Dan has worked in Australia and the US for both publicly-traded firms and early-stage startups, across natural resources, technology advisory, and ESG consulting. He sees collaboration as being the key factor in ensuring all companies, industries, and countries seize the opportunities presented as we decarbonise the global economy.

Dan Leverington uses his 20+ years commercial experience to build a collaborative and innovative world where profit and purpose are entwined.

OUR IMPACT.. we make a difference with your tickets4good!

Our Impact

Our "Tickets4Good" are each connected to amazing impacts around the world thanks to our partnership with B1G1.

Your ticket purchase will contribute to global projects that are directly contributing to achieving the 2030 Agenda for the Global Goals.

1 Ticket4Good will make one of the following impacts in the world:

- 10 Days of education for children in the world

- 100 Days of clean water access for people around the globe

- 2 trees planted in the earth

Thankyou for making this possible.

Our Previous Events

Take a trip down memory lane with some of our speakers from 2019 through to 2024 on our Youtube channel. This will give you a taste of what to expect from this year's event. Bigger and Better than ever!

https://www.youtube.com/@seven...

Any questions please send us an email to connect@seventeensdg.com