The e-Festival of ideas is a Vibewire’s online youth conference that takes place on vibewire.org over 7 days, from May 4th – 10th.

We have several topics on an online forum discussing various aspects of Politics, Human Rights, the Economy and Gen Y.

In Portal, each panel topic is supported by articles, podcasts and vodcasts by young writers and media makers exploring the ideas which will be discussed in more depth in the e-Festival of Ideas online forum.

The e-Festival of Ideas has eight topics bursting with experts – check out the full list of Panel Guests.

Live Events
Don’t forget to join us in our live events, including our Networking Night, Fast Break breakfast conference and Serious Games, all from the 6th to 10th of May.

Click here to head to the e-Festival of Ideas Forum

e-Festival Topics:

The topics we’re covering in the e-Festival of Ideas include:

UPSIDE OF THE DOWNTURN
Fred Benenson – Creative Commons, New York
Tim Longhurst – Media futurist
Traci Fenton – Founder and CEO of WorldBlu
Reenita Malhotra – Editor for the Inspired Economist
Jessica Coates – Creative Commons Australia

GENERATION Y OR G
Maryanne Conlin (MC Milker) – Writer for the Ecopreneurist
Tim Martyn – Resource Economist
Lynn Thompson – The Oaktree Foundation
Jessica Kiely – CEO, The he Frank Team
Ruby Murray – Editor of the-democracy-project
Jasmine – Editor of the-democracy-project
Liz Moorhead – The Oaktree Foundation
Kate O’Toole – Triple J presenter of Hack
Daniel Mackey – Fairtrade Labelling Australia and New Zealand
Donnie MacLurcan – Project Australia

PROFILE OVERLOAD
Meghan Kathleen – Blogger
Zoe Scamman – Digital Media Blogger
Adriano Farano – Cafe Babel
Gavin Heaton – Writer of the Servant of Chaos blog
Jye Smith – Social Media Strategist for Switched on Media
Aileen Bautista- Youth Entrepreneur
Meaghan MaCormick – Social Media strategist
Zac Martin – Marketing Blogger

DOES AUSTRALIA NEED A BILL OF RIGHTS?
Kate Temby – Acting Director, Human Rights Unit, Australian Human Rights Commission
Vanessa Lesnie – Director, Strategic Projects, Australian Human Rights Commission
Goranka Slavujevic – Rotary World Peace Fellowship Recipient

NAME YOUR PRICE
James Arvantakis – PhD lecturer, Writer of the Cultural Commons of Hope

SOCIAL MEDIA MAKING A CHANGE?
Shaun Matsheza – activist, Zimbabwe
Erin Riley – Political blogger
Fatan Abdallah – Connecting Women Radio, USA
Sam Para – Obama 08′ organiser West Virginia
Ross McCulloch – Development Manager and Founder of Third Sector Forums, UK
Tom Dawkins, Change Manager, Digital Marketing Strategy, Ashoka, USA
Todd Pitt, Social Media Consultant, USA
Stacey Monk, Founder, EpicChange and Tweetsgiving, USA
Peter Dietz, Founder, SocialActions.org, Canada
Richard Graves, Founder, Fired Up Media, Blogger, Itsgettinghotinhere.org, USA
Natasha Judd, Marketing Manager, YouthNet, UK
Nathaniel Whittemore – Founder, AssetMap, Blogger, Change.org, USA
THE POWER & POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Anna Rose – Founder, Australian Youth Climate Coalition
Wenny Therasia – Nature Conservation Council
Larissa Brown – Centre for Sustainability Leadership
Naiomi’s Bisram, Founder socialearth.org, USA
Richard Graves, Founder, Fired Up Media, Blogger, Itsgettinghotinhere.org, USA
Emily Gertz, Journalist and Editor, Climatechange.change.org, USA
Mark Schapiro, Environmental Journalist

YOUTHQUAKE
Katie Bradel – Invisible Children
Richard Graves, Founder, Fired Up Media, Blogger, Itsgettinghotinhere.org, USA
Alex Steed, Milennials Changing America, USA
Kjerstin Erickson , founder of FORGE, USA

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