Join us for a power breakfast of insights, innovation and inspiration – it’s food for thought.

The 2010 fastBREAK innovation series showcases fresh perspectives and provocative ideas from some of Sydney’s brightest young thought leaders. Innovation is the staple of the fastBREAK menu. On the last Friday of each month from 7:45am-9am, the Powerhouse Museum’s best-kept secret, the Boiler Room Mezzanine, comes to life with a flurry of fastBREAKing ideas and conversation. At each fastBREAK event, five sharp young industry leaders from various sectors tackle big questions with five-minute responses around themes of creativity, commercialisation, collaboration, connections and conversation. Following the five presentations, participants are invited to share ideas and experiences in conversations with the five speakers over breakfast.

The next fastBREAK on Friday 26th March, 2010 asks ‘Are you ready?’

This is a great opportunity for conversations outside the ordinary, for professionals from any industry to hear from emerging young entrepreneurs, and for young entrepreneurs to network with leaders from corporate and non-profit organisations. The fastBREAK program is insightful, multi-disciplinary, participatory and generative. fastBREAK gives young achievers a platform to share insights into their recent projects with an audience that has an appetite for innovation and craves change.

fastBREAK is a limited capacity event. Tickets to the launch event last month sold out in less than a week. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this leading edge conversation.

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fastBREAK Dates and Topics for 2010

Friday, 26 March: Are you ready?

Friday, 30 April: Are you alone?

Friday, 28 May: Are you satisfied?

Friday, 25 June: What now?

fastBREAK Speakers:

Raul Alberto Caceres has travelled extensively in the past few years working on a number of social entrepreneurial projects around the world. Raul’s after-hours online networking has created projects with real-world results for some of the globe’s poorest communities. Raul also works independently as a consultant and is currently involved as a volunteer in projects helping farmers in Kenya and finding ways to decrease gender-based violence in Latin America.

Ruchir Punjabi is the Managing Director of Langoor Pty Ltd and a nominee for the University of Sydney Senate. Ruchir is a former president of the University of Sydney Union and the Australia India Business Council Young Professionals’ Chair. Ruchir is perhaps best known for his work for International students’ rights in Australia. He has played an active role in the campaign for transport concessions for International Students as the Co-Convenor and Spokesperson for the Cross Campus Concessions Coalition of NSW since May 2006. In 2010, sponsored by the Australian Government, Ruchir led a delegation to India to engage with young leaders in India.

Monique Schafter is a presenter/reporter on ‘Hungry Beast’, the ABC’s current affairs TV show. Before joining Hungry Beast Monique worked for FremantleMedia in the areas of program development (for TV shows including ‘Triple Zero Heroes’ (Channel 7), ‘Comedy Slapdown’ (Comedy Channel) and ‘Carbon Cops’ (ABC/LifeStyle Channel/Sundance Channel) and digital media (including behind the scenes videos for ‘Neighbours’, Style Tips for ‘Project Runway’ and pilots for new online series). Monique also plays in a queer electro-punk band called The Kill Room.

Scott Drummond is the Online Community Manager at Optus. When he’s not helping people think a little differently about their ‘telco’, he likes to get involved in creative community projects in Sydney. Last year he worked with Creative Sydney, helped plan Interesting South and co-produced the Sydney Bicycle Film Festival.  Check out his website at  http://tumbletogether.tumblr.com.

Zac Zavos is the Managing Director and co-founder of online company Conversant Media, which publishes a number of websites including Lost At E Minor, The Colour and Australian sports opinion website The Roar. Conversant Media also offers iPhone and content solutions, plus a service, called Revenue Solved, to help online publishers monetise their traffic.Before forming Conversant Media in 2007, Zac worked extensively in online consulting and marketing with a number of firms including IBM, Deloitte, and ThoughtWorks. Zac is a judge of the annual AIMIA awards and in 2009 was named one of Sydney’s Creative Catalysts by Vivid Sydney.

COST: $8 (includes filter coffee, tea and pastries),

BOOKINGS: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/bookings/fastbreak.php

LOCATION: The Boiler Room, Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris St, Ultimo