fastBREAK - What Now?

The 2010 fastBREAK innovation series an exciting addition to Sydney's event calendar that has sent a buzz through local creative and entrepreneurial communities. The first four sold-out instalments of fastBREAK have injected life, inspiration and a flurry of fastBREAKing conversation into the Powerhouse Museum's best-kept secret, the Boiler room Mezzanine. At each fastBREAK session, on the last Friday of each month, five sharp young industry leaders from various sectors tackle big questions with five-minute responses around themes of creativity, commercialisation, collaboration, connections and conversation. Innovation is the staple of the fastBREAK menu.

At the next fastBREAK the following panel of guests take on the question “What now?”:

• Anna Rose is the 2009 Environment Minister's joint 'Young Environmentalist of the Year' and founder of Australia's largest youth-run organisation, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC). Anna co-authored the book ‘Future by Us’, is a former editor of Australia's largest student paper and is a regular speaker, blogger and opinion writer on climate and energy issues.

• Sebastian Chan leads the Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies department at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. He is a researcher in several Australian Research Council Linkage projects researching social media, museums, and technology.

• Heather Scott started her career as a neuroscientist studying brain degeneration in alcoholics at the University of Texas in the United States. Since then she has dedicated herself to the study of brain degeneration in late-onset diseases, earning her PhD from the University of Queensland in 2008 for investigations into the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease.

• Lauren Anderson is a Communications Manager for a national architectural practice. Lauren is passionate about the development of the social innovation landscape in Australia. Her latest project is Gennio.org, a web-based social enterprise generator and marketplace.

• Steve Crombie has created adventures covering over 40 countries across the planet for Lonely Planet, Discovery Channel, Yamaha, Honda and various magazines/websites – and somehow squeezed out an MBA. At the age of 21, he realized that the only way for him to pursue his passion was to go out there and do it. His adventures thus far have seen him starving and dehydrating in the Las Pampa Desert; evading pumas in Guyana; dodging bullets in Nicaragua; sidestepping elephants in Himalayan foothills and paddling a few laps in the Arctic Ocean. He also writes, produces and presents award-winning documentaries for Lonely Planet, Discovery Channel and the BBC. #stevecrombie

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