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About TEDxKingsPark
So it’s odd that the organ we tend to think least about is our own brain. It’s just... there. Clearly, we shouldn’t take our brain for granted, yet that’s precisely what we do.
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And maybe it’s because our brains are so complex, and so poorly understood, that thinking about them is in the “too hard” basket.
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This is what has inspired us tonight. Neuroscience is making real, if you’ll pardon the unintended pun, headway. So let’s put on our thinking caps and celebrate the expertise and cuttingedge research from right here in Perth.
We exercise to look after our heart. We try to eat well to look after our digestion and weight. We wear glasses to correct our eyesight.
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Perhaps it’s because we’re so close to our brain that we can’t tell where its influence begins and ends. Or maybe it’s because it’s locked away in our skulls – it’s not like we can poke it!
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About TEDxKingsPark
We spread fresh ideas that are exciting, thought-provoking and potentially transformative for our community. Our outlook is local, national and global. We’re interested in the best ideas that excite and benefit our community from wherever, or whomever they come. We actively invite young people to participate – all are involved, heard, valued and empowered.
Our TEDx talks are made available online, for Environmentalfree.responsibility is demonstrated through our actions, as well as our words. Our events are carbon neutral. We are values and volunteer-driven and TEDxKingsPark is not for profit.
18 months ago, our talks have been watched over 120,000 times. Please make time to thank our speakers and all our volunteers. We also thank our friends at Murdoch University for being our Principal Partner. Without them this event would not be possible; it is a joy to work with such enthusiastic and dedicated people. Pawsey, Accenture, Cundall, Carbon Neutral, Hewshott, PAV and others are making notable contributions to make this event the best it can be.
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The team and I look forward to seeing you soon!
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Each speaker is giving their time and ideas freely and, in doing so, contributing to a global library of thousands of talks presented online, for free. Indeed, everyone at TEDxKingsPark is a volunteer, all skilled people committed to our City and our community. Since our first event, just
Finally, thank you for being part of the TEDxKingsPark community. Our next three events are already in production and, between them, offer something for everyone. Identity, part of Pride month, Justice in early 2023, and the incredibly popular TEDxYouth@KingsPark 2023
Welcome to our third event of 2022. Our events are a celebration of ideas worth spreading and tonight we showcase another five brilliant experts from Perth and share their ideas with the world.
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Part of WA Pride month
23 November 2022
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This will be a gorgeous evening of celebration, thoughtfulness, and maybe some soul-searching, as we try to understand ourselves, and each other, a little better.
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Identity will be a journey through four, thought-provoking and challenging speakers, each with their own moving, unique and beautiful perspective on what makes us… us.
The rainbow flag promises a spectrum of identity, but it has only been in the last few years that the true breadth of personal identity has begun to bloom.
Yet, until that moment, justice is a concept we blithely assume is a given.
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But whatever our role, it’s essential to our society – and that’s why in 2023 we’ll examine Justice in its many forms.
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You know the feeling of hot indignation, frustration, and maybe anger, when you receive an injustice.
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Some of us fight for justice, for ourselves, and others. Some of us are unconscious contributors to another’s injustice.
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An award-winning radio astronomer, Natasha is passionate about understanding the Universe, and bringing the beauty of astronomy to the world.
Rob has been involved in the TEDx movement since 2012, having curated TEDx events across Perth including at Perth Concert Hall, Perth Observatory and the Parliament of Western Australia.
Since graduating in Computer Science and Physics, Rob has worked for many years in theatre and cinema management in the UK and Australia. He is currently Manager of the University of Western Australia’s public venues, including the Octagon Theatre, Winthrop Hall and the Somerville RobAuditorium.singswith
After obtaining her PhD in radio astronomy from the University of Cambridge in 2010, she moved to Australia to help commission the Murchison Widefield Array, a lowfrequency precursor to the Square Kilometer Array. Using this telescope, she created a panoramic view of the Universe at low radio frequencies: the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA Survey (GLEAM). Natasha’s 2016 TEDxPerth talk How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies has been seen more than 1.5 million times.
Natasha is a Senior Lecturer at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. She is a TEDx speaker alumnus, Guest Curator and TEDxKingsPark Board Member.
Perth Pride Choir and is a Judge for Creative Edge, the young people’s creative challenge program. Rob is the Licensee of TEDxKingsPark.
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Natasha has a passion for outreach, talking to kids about careers in science, appearing on radio and TV, speaking at events such as Pint of Science and Astrofest, WA’s largest public astronomy event.
Named WA’s Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year for 2017, and one of the ABC’s Top 5 Scientists for 2018, Natasha is an ARC Future Fellow. Her research has uncovered a new kind of repeating radio source unlike anything astronomers have seen before.
Your Curators & Hosts
Kevin Shah Mansouri
He is President of the UWA Chess Association and a Residential Advisor at St Catherine’s College. He hopes to help people pursue a life that is meaningful to them, whatever that may look like.
Ope is a Digital Marketing Specialist at NGIS Australia. He aims to meet interesting people and work with them to achieve exciting results.
Kevin is a Medicine and Computer Science student at The University of Western Australia.
His strength is the ability to connect disparate ideas, distil them and communicate them in an engaging way. He uses this skill to help speakers take their life experiences, condense them and translate them for an audience so they can get their ideas out into the world.
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He is excited about the opportunity to help proliferate the big ideas that could help shape the next generation of our City.
As an avid problem solver, you’ll find Kevin spending his time playing chess, coding and reading. He loves to learn and share interesting ideas, and firmly believes that writing and public speaking are some of the best ways to achieve that.
Shiv Akarsh Meka is a Principal Data Scientist at the Royal Perth Hospital. He is passionate about employing mathematical methods to improve patient care. In his current role, he develops predictive algorithms to make timely predictions of patient deterioration and provide useful, realtime information to clinicians.
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close to a decade in the States, Akarsh also had the opportunity to work at various labs and universities on a variety of problems – from developing computational methods for accelerating materials discovery to building high resolution scientific visualisation walls. He has published various research articles on applied machine learning, semiconductors, and optimisation.
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that intrigued him; that materials used in electrical engineering were a given and unchangeable. This sparked his interest and led him to become a materials scientist. He moved to the US to pursue an advanced degree in materials engineering where he researched various materials for semiconductor
Prior to joining Royal Perth Hospital, he was WA Health’s Lead Data Scientist where he applied data science practices to a range of health care applications from anonymising health data to determining an individual’s identity from sparse information. Akarsh spent most of his childhood in India where he also received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. There was something about materials science
Dr Kristin Barry is a research fellow at the University of Western Australia, with her career keenly focused on investigating the changes that occur in the brain after traumatic sound exposure. Kristin was drawn to this area of research by her fascination with the phenomenon of phantom limb perception. When reading that tinnitus occurs as a similar phantom perception, but for hearing, she chose student research projects in this area, and has never abated in her pursuit of understanding how the brain perceives sensory input.
Kristin is currently ten years deep into an academic research career as an auditory neuroscientist. The big result from her PhD research was finding
She has also investigated drug treatments, biomedical implants, and the use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, in the treatment of hearing loss and tinnitus. Kristin also frequently drags her students to accompany her on vital bubble tea runs that help fuel her research.
Your Speakers
Kristin Barry
that regions of the brain thought to have no involvement in hearing are functionally connected to auditory areas of the brain, and despite having no clear involvement with hearing, the connections between these disparate regions can be damaged after exposure to loud noise trauma. This connectivity has served as a possible therapeutic target for the treatment of hearing loss and tinnitus.
Australia's most powerful supercomputer, Setonix, will enable science and accelerates discovery at scale.
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Housed at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Perth, Setonix helps Australian researchers solve pressing problems in every field. From unlocking the secrets of the stars, to pioneering life-saving interventions,
He migrated to Australia from his native Canadian province of Québec more than twenty years ago, and has since kept his passion for the mystery arts alive through study, performance and community engagement. He works from an understanding that magic as a performance art is a powerful communication and expression medium, based on ancient, yet reliable, scientific and psychological principles.
Pierre calls himself a Magician, and he fully accepts everything this name might conjure. Pierre’s remarkable ability to amaze relies on our brains being easier to fool than we think – as he demonstrated on Penn & Teller’s Fool Us in 2020.
Your Speakers
Pierre Ulric
Involved in the craft for over 30 years, he has been fortunate enough to receive a few accolades in recognition of his private, corporate and festival performative and educational efforts. With an academic and professional background firmly anchored around scientific disciplines, a multicultural heritage and a penchant for obscure information, his performances have been described as amazing, exciting and insightful.
He also leads the Consumer Research Lab at Curtin University, which specialises in the use of biometric measures such as eye tracking, facial expression, and brainwave analysis to conduct consumer research. He is passionate about solving industry challenges and marketing problems with digital technologies, data, and consumer insights. His research and industry consultancy have informed the design of effective marketing communications, product design, corporate social responsibility initiatives, behavioural change techniques and teaching innovations.
Since 2022, the Consumer Research Lab has partnered with Metrix Consulting to offer evidence-based consumer biometric testing for commercial partners across Australia.
Notably, his research engagement and impact have been recognised by national and international awards including the WA Young Tall Poppy Science Award and the ANZMAC Emerging Marketer of the Year Award.
His research to date has been based on the study of emotion and the application of consumer neuroscience methodologies in multiple disciplines including psychology, marketing, health, nursing, and robotics.
Billy Sung
Dr Billy Sung is an Associate Professor at the School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University. He specialises in consumer research, neuromarketing and consumer biometrics, consulting for many local, international, and multinational industry partners.
Jennifer’s research focuses on investigating the causes of, and treatments for, sleep disorders including obstructive sleep apnoea and insomnia. Since 2016 her research has included investigating the use of medicinal cannabis for the treatment of sleep disorders.
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Jennifer coordinates several postgraduate courses in sleep science and dental sleep medicine at CSS and has contributed to the training of more than 200 sleep scientists, sleep physicians and dentists who have completed these Jennifercourses.regularly consults on sleep health to a range of organisations including schools, private and government organisations, and community groups. She is a Board member of the Australasian Sleep Association and is a proud and active member of the Australian Sleep Health Foundation.
Dr Jennifer Walsh leads the research and education teams at the Centre for Sleep Science (CSS) at the University of Western Australia and the sleep physiology research team at the West Australian Sleep Disorders Institute at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
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Murdoch University research is leaving an indelible mark on the world around us. Our researchers focus on the significant social and scientific challenges of our time, including climate change, environmental sustainability and adaptation, food, water and biosecurity, as well as human and animal health and welfare. Often working with key corporate, academic and government partners, our research is underpinned by a deep understanding of politics, governance and international affairs, helping translate outcomes into murdoch.edu.au/imprintimpact.
Principal Partner
From our beginnings as a free-thinking university to the global centre for learning, teaching, research and industry we are today, we have never lost sight of our purpose. With more than 24,000 students and 1,700 staff from across 90 different countries, we are proud to be recognised for the impact that our free-thinking graduates, life-changing research, and innovative campus and industry developments have made – both in Western Australia and around the world.
Accenture is a leading, global, professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
The Centre supports science of national and international importance, such as the Square Kilometre Array precursor projects, ASKAP and Murchison Widefield Array telescopes.
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is home to Australia’s fastest public research supercomputer, named Setonix, after the scientific name for Western Australia’s iconic quokka. Supercomputing pushes human knowledge beyond its frontiers. It lets us map the ocean and make an atlas of the stars. It can trace the change in our climate, unravel the wind and predict tremors in the earth.
Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions, underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network, Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders.
With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives.
Major Partners
Pawsey enables science, accelerates discovery and, with its partners –Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and WA’s four public universities – helps scientists address tomorrow’s challenges with answers today.
Give It Forward
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Every $2 makes a difference and 100% of every contribution goes into the scheme, with no administration fees deducted.
people, the ticket price remains a barrier. Our Give It Forward initiative is here to ensure that young people, selected by partner charities, can attend TEDxKingsPark events for free. There are three ways you can help:
At TEDxKingsPark we work hard to keep our ticket prices as low as possible. We’re here to spread great ideas, not to make money.
Don’t feed the fill! When you recycle your containers it’s easy to donate all those 10c to Give It Forward
Three ways to empower young people
Our partners help us and so do our entire voluntary team. However, there are bills to pay and, for some young
We thank everyone here at Brain who made a contribution.
At the recycling centre simply use the code C10411059 or scan the QR code printed on the back of your lanyard. Again, 100% of your refund will go to Give It Forward, with nothing lost on administration. Thank you!
The Give It Forward initiative is one of our great partnership opportunities. We invite the brightest and best to partner with us for mutual benefit, and to make a positive investment in the city we love. Our Partnerships team are experienced professionals with a deep appreciation of commercial realities, so speak to them today, or hello@tedxkingspark.orgemail
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Alex Pecoraro Lead Photographer
Natasha Hurley-Walker Board Member
Lexi Prichard Panellist & Youth Ambassador Om Sharma Panellist
Kevin Shah Mansouri Curator Marketing and Communications
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TEDxKingsPark is driven by a team of professionals. We are volunteers united by the power of ideas.
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Bethany Hunt Panel Deputy Chair & Youth Ambassador Fariha Asha Panellist Maggie Leung Panellist
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Marilyn Schmidt Youth Engagement Manager
Jane Ong Senior Volunteer Coordinator
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Katie Hunt Company Secretary
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Head of Website and IT Lydia Setiadi Finance Manager
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Koshina Yong Partnerships Manager
Cameron Munro Stage Manager
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Anika Hannington Videographer Minh Hoang Event Coordinator
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Maggie Gordon Curator
Stephanie Puttick Photographer Alan Rogers Photographer
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Gavin Buckley Speaker Coach Lisa Evans Lead Speaker Coach
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