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The Sustainable Futures Forum will be followed that evening by an inspiring dinner attracting a senior line up of Government official, ICT Industry heads and key decision makers from numerous vertical sectors. AIIA VIP-ICT Industry
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To his fellow Australians he is much more. Recently (August 25) appointed Melbournian of the year 2008, primarily for his charity work, John is a now considered a Melbourne Icon He is the Australian who skippered the winged keel Australia 2 to victory over Dennis Connor’s Liberty to win the 1983 America's Cup, breaking 132 years of American domination and in the process, breaking the longest-running record in the history of modern sport. The comeback from 3-1 down and the final race victory, billed as the race of the century, transfixed the nation. Australia's prime minister of the time, Bob Hawke, declared the win to be "one of the greatest moments in Australian history." In the bi-centennial year of 1988, the Confederation of Australian Sport voted the Australia 2 victory as the “greatest team performance in 200 years of Australian sport” A World Champion and Olympic medallist, John represented Australia in five America's Cups and two Olympic Games. In over 25 years of America’s Cup campaigning, he was involved in all areas of activity…from skipper of Australia 2 to Chairman of OneAustralia. Australia conferred a Member of the Order of
Australia (AM) on John in 1985. His biography published in 1985, was at
the time the largest-selling biography in Australian publishing history. John is chairman of Sport Australia Hall of Fame of which the Prime Minister is Patron-in-Chief, chairman of selectors of the Australian Olympic Sailing Team and chairman of the Alannah and Madeline children’s Foundation of which Princess Mary of Denmark has recently become International Patron. John holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Monash University and a Master of Science degree from MIT in Boston.
" Executive Director, Centre for Sustainability Leadership 2008 Australian Young Environmentalist of the Year Larissa Brown is the 2008 Australian Young Environmentalist of the Year. She is the founder and executive director of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership, a non profit organisation dedicated to supporting Australians to make their communities, workplaces and sectors more sustainable. She is the recipient of the 2006 British Council award for Communicating Climate Change and the 2006 Brian Robinson Fellowship. Larissa has personally interviewed 100 of world’s greatest sustainability leaders across twenty countries and 5 continents on what it take to cause real systemic change towards a sustainable world. Larissa was named as one of Melbourne 100 most influential people and one of Melbourne’s ten most influential environmentalists by The Age Magazine in 2007. She is a board member of Environment Victoria, Victoria’s peak environmental group, was selected represent Asian and Pacific youth at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali in 2007 and will be attending the negotiations in Poland in November 2008. She is a judge in the Eureka awards for Youth Leadership on Climate Change, a member of the Ministers Reference Council on Climate Change Adaptation which advisors the state Environment Minister and participated in the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit in 2008. Larissa has worked as a research scientist at the Australian National University, studying the extinction event of Australia’s megafauna, helped save a forest by creating an ecotourism lodge in Costa Rica, rehabilitated endangered primates and big cats in Bolivia, taught snowboarding in the USA and spent a year as a high school student in Japan. Ticket Prices - click here to register now! Dinner only tickets:
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