What we're about
Design Thinking is a human-centred approach to innovation and solving complex problems – it’s as much about doing as thinking.
The vision for the meetup is to build a community and ecosystem of people from a diverse range of design practices, industries, contexts and roles… to learn and share. To find their tribe. To get exposed to what others are doing and be inspired. We have a strong focus on using design to have a positive impact on people, our planet, and business.
We’re proud to see this in our community – our members are anthropologists, experience designers, chemists, architects, researchers, engineers, service designers, mathematicians, consultants, app developers, project managers, medicos, startup founders and many other roles.
We keep it pretty casual with plenty of time for networking, talks and panels on a broad range of topics, and a healthy Q&A that often turns into a group discussion.
About the Event
Our October meetup is part of Spark Festival - a celebration of entrepreneurship everywhere. It brings together all walks of the startup world who share a common goal: to imagine and bring to life exciting, valuable, and successful ventures. Spark's mission is to drive prosperity for all Australians via the growth of thriving new economy businesses.
We're also partnering with some key supporters of the social enterprise ecosystem for this one... the Social Enterprise Council of NSW & ACT (SECNA), Dynamic4 & StartSomeGood.
SPEAKERS
Naomi Tarszisz
Founder & CEO, rePlated
Naomi packed in a perfectly enjoyable career leading digital transformation for brands like Qantas & Westpac because she wanted to live with purpose. It led her to startup rePlated which is looking to fix the problem of single-use around takeaway food. They are currently a top B Corp for Environment and their first product, the rePlated Mealbox, recently won Gold in the Good Design Awards.
It's been a long journey through product development and she is passionate about great design, the circular economy, local manufacture, and supporting women on their startup journey.
More speakers coming soon...
COVID
We're obviously still in the middle of a pandemic and attendance means complying with NSW State Gov and venue covid restrictions. If you're not feeling well on the day please stay at home.
EVENT SPONSOR
Thanks to Thoughtworks Sydney for hosting us and providing refreshments.
New members are welcome! If you’re not a member already, feel free to join our community. Each meetup audience is curated to a degree to make sure we have a mix of new people, as well as the committed regulars.
We’d love to hear from you if you’re keen to speak – or if there’s someone you think we should invite to speak.
