UOW Big Ideas Festival returns

It will be a thrill to be MC-ing this event along with Professor Tony Oakley of UOW.

Story in the Illawarra Mercury here

Tickets are free here while they last. Please register.

Some of Australia's best speakers right here in Wollongong.

• Professor Jun Chen, Wearable tech: turning body heat into electricity

• Senior Professor Paul Cooper, Living Buildings: Towards a Restorative Future

• Professor Barbara Meyer, The fishy business of pregnancy

• Professor Nadia Solowij, Slender in the Grass: A scientist caught in the maelstrom

• Professor Zenobia Jacobs, Lighting up the ancient human past

• Professor Valerie Linton, IF…? The future of intelligent fabrication

• Professor Pauline McGuirk, How smart are smart cities?

• Professor Maarten de Laat, Using Social analytics to change learning landscapes

• Senior Professor Ross Bradstock, The future of Bushfires: Are we ready for the big burn?

• Professor Nick Zwar, Playing hide and seek: why does it matter in health care?

• Professor Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Extinct & Eradicated: Animal states of Australia

• Professor Paul Gollan, Unheard voices: the need to be heard