PAUSEFEST

DESIGN CONFERENCE PROMO

What is Pausefest?


Pause Fest brings together people from all over the world, to Australia’s digital industries to discuss the future in design, business and technology.

The festival has attracted a powerful mix of industry professionals, startups and early adopters from a broad range of digital disciplines. The event presents an unparalleled opportunity for people to connect, collaborate and launch creative digital projects alongside global leaders and visionary brands.

Focussing on "making ideas happen". Presentations and panels discussed the importance of fostering creativity and innovation, and how tech and creative could work together.

Samantha Burner

28

Web Developer at Fluid

San Francisco, CA

Currently has no children. Owns a raspberry pi. Uses Android phone with route access. Makes experimental work ranging from web apps to interactive art installations. Secretly is into My Little Pony, and is S-M-R-T. TV: Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Documentaries (all on Netflix)

“People are still confused about what we do and why we do it, but innovation is confusing, it’s not pretty and you don’t know what the outcome will be but something amazing and magical always happens at the end,”

– founder George Hedon

Rationale


Embracing ‘innovation is confusing’ with experimenting with unconventional edits, collage of video, and 3D elements. An interplay with evolution of exploration from adolescence to adulthood, tools, toys, and – even as adults, how playing teaches. Growing in complexity over time would be a strong visual metaphor for growth of popularity Pause fest, Australia’s digital scene, and innovation that’s fostered at this event.

Guest Speakers


Kevin Kelly

Editor

Is Best known for founding executive editor of Wired magazine. Kelly, is admired for his new visionary perspectives on digital technology. Experienced, he brings valuable insight into the meaning of cultural change that explores the phenomenon of technical and biological creation. He will discuss the exploration of the world’s most secretive Hyper Vision of Virtual Reality (VR) future.

Jeff Woods

The Grid

Jeff is a nationally recognized commercial photographer with passion to equip small businesses with the tools needed to grow in today’s marketplace. He has been a featured speaker for Canon and Adobe and has presented seminars on design, business marketing and photography throughout China, Brazil, Ireland, Canada and US. Expert field: Design, Photography, Filmmaking.

Tan Le

Entrepeneur

The founder and CEO of Emotiv, a bioinformatics company that's working on identifying biomarkers for mental and other neurological conditions using electroencephalography (EEG).

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