Get to know the UTS speakers who are taking part in SXSW Sydney 2023 through a series of panel discussions, workshops and masterclasses. 

Meet the speakers

  • Manisha Amin
    Dr. Manisha Amin
    CEO, Centre for Inclusive Design; UTS Alumna

    Panel: Walking in two worlds: The space between two cultures.

  • Professor Larissa Behrendt
    Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt
    Director - Research, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research

    Keynote speaker

  • Fang
    Distinguished Professor Fang Chen
    Executive Director UTS Data Science

    Panel: It's 2050 and the robots are among us.

  • Bilquis Ghani
    Dr Bilquis Ghani
    UTS Alumna

    Panel: Walking in two worlds: The space between two cultures

  • Dr Liz Giuffre, UTS Senior Lecturer
    Dr Liz Giuffre
    Senior Lecturer

    Panel: Juggling family and work/life balance in the music industry.

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    Mikaela Jade
    Entrepreneur, Advocate and UTS Alumna.

    Keynote speaker.

  • Professor Sarath Kodagoda Director Robotics Institute
    Professor Sarath Kogoda
    Researcher

    Panel: It's 2050 and the robots are among us.

  • Elaine Laforteza-1
    Dr Elaine Laforteza
    Equity & Diversity Project Officer (Cultural Diversity), UTS

    Panel: Walking in two worlds: the space between cultures.

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    Yiying Lu
    TEDx Speaker, Adobe Global Creative Ambassador & UTS Alumna

    Keynote Speaker: What 12 Years of Experience at SXSW Taught Me
    Tumbalong Park: Power of Culinary Delights

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    Alison Page
    Associate Dean Indigenous Leadership, Design Architecture, and Building

    Panel: The next 60,000 years of design.

  • Ed
    Edward Santow
    Director - Policy & Governance, Human Technology Institute

    Panel: It's 2050 and the robots are among us.

  • Julia
    Julia Scott-Stevenson
    Chancellor’s Research Fellow

    Panel: The myth of the single user: how XR can help us embrace diverse minds and diverse bodies.

  • Deborah Szapiro
    Deborah Szapiro
    Lecturer

    Panel: It's 2050 and the robots are among us.

  • Nicole Vincent
    Dr Nicole Vincent
    Senior Lecturer

    Panel: Lab to lift - Social Impact-driven biotechnology

  • Professor Glenn Wightwick
    Glenn Wightwick
    Deputy Vice Chancellor Enterprise, UTS

    Panel: Screw Silicon. Welcome to the Global South.

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    Theresa Winters
    Alumni Programs Coordinator, UTS; Dean, Awesome Foundation

    Panel: Microgiving
Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.