Pause Fest 2016
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The X-files of Teenage Engineering | Thomas Howard | 23m |
Studio describes building hardware end-to-end: a compact synthesizer OP-1 with a 4‑track tape metaphor, FM radio sampling, Lego compatibility and a crank… | ||
| Social Traders Pitchfest | Penelope Lewin, Lisa Boothby, Rowan Workman | 01h 08m |
Eight social startups deliver 90 seconds each to show concrete plans and early traction: a quarter‑acre Carlton urban farm for migrant employment; Life… | ||
| Crowdsourcing the future | Bibop Gresta | 25m |
Claims a crowdsourced build of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies with 520 scientists from 42 countries contributing part‑time for stock options, partnered… | ||
| Panel: Tech Talk with Top Women | Chiquita Searle, Julie Stevanja, Taryn Williams, Kate McKibbin, Bec Derrington, Danielle Lewis | 51m |
Six founders describe concrete outcomes: a lifestyle blog becomes an e-course business; a talent agency launches a marketplace in Dec 2015 that combines… | ||
| Being an expert at not being an expert- | Finbar O Hanlon | 23m |
Argues that deep expertise blocks invention and gives concrete routines to force fresh thinking: 100 questions a day to surface assumptions, learning to… | ||
| Personal Identity x Ideas | Jack Mussett | 22m |
Claim: ideas come from accumulated experiences not forced brainstorming—cited study shows individual ideation outperforms group brainstorming—and a… | ||
| New Frontiers in Female Culture | Alice Kimberley | 21m |
Media claim: women drive $27 billion discretionary spending and 67% of consumer choices in Australia, yet 91% of millennial women say marketers miss the mark… | ||
| Panel: The security paradox. Individual privacy vs digital driftnets | Jon Lawrence, Suelette Dreyfus, Angela Daly | 01h 03m |
Australia now passes roughly 70 national security laws since 2001 that expand metadata access, let agencies modify files and create secretive operations under… | ||
| Discover your people - geek culture | Didier Elzinga | 16m |
A culture analytics platform that launches over 1,000,000 surveys and serves 500+ clients builds feedback loops aimed at 10,000 companies, with offices in… | ||
| Pro-tips for Mobile VR Production Workflows | Grant Miller | 21m |
Asserts that Google Cardboard: ~1M units is the only realistic distribution path today, so development targets phones and Unity (because Unreal lacks Cardboard… | ||
| Get hands-on in the Crumpler kitchen | Dave Roper | 24m |
Crumpler publishes the bag pattern and step-by-step instructions in envelopes and runs hands-on sessions where a messenger bag is cut and sewn live from a… | ||
| Panel: Artificial intelligence. Is this the end of human race or advancement? | Bradley Paton, Joanna L. Batston, Prof Mary-Anne Williams, Toby Walsh | 01h 01m |
Panel surveys concrete advances and risks: AlphaGo beat the European Go champion using deep learning plus search, and Watson applied to medical imaging moves… | ||
| Wally Was Wrong - | Luke van O | 21m |
Argues Wally Olins’ fixed, codified frameworks are obsolete and branding must be a continuous cycle with flexible foundations; claims there’s no scientific… | ||
| The dependent relationship between tech and creative | Iain Nealie | 20m |
Google Zoo builds utility projects that actually ship: a Pedigree Found alert system uses the Google Display Network, dynamic creative and geolocation to push… | ||
| Building Better Products by Building Better Startup- | Jamie Skella | 13m |
Contact Light runs a six-person distributed team (three Melbourne, two Sydney, one Brisbane) that bases hiring on seven operational principles including work… | ||
| What happens after wearables- | Lauren Argenta | 24m |
Argues that current wearables are the tip of the iceberg and predicts a sensor‑led ecosystem where data collectors (Fitbit sold 4.5 million units last quarter)… | ||
| Panel: The Foundation for Young Australians and the future of work | Andrew Brough, Jillian Kenny, Jacob Lindsey, Mirai Kirsanovs | 01h 00m |
Panel lays out concrete moves: a 12-month Code for Australia fellowship embeds three technologists in government to ship civic products (one school‑matching… | ||
| Looking from the inside-out | Bronwyn Van Der Merwe, Chris Wood | 23m |
Telstra and Fjord run ethnographic research, ride‑alongs and workshops to rebuild the retail service ecosystem, then prototype and usability‑test iterations on… | ||
| What is your legacy? - | Monica Laurence | 22m |
A media project called Turtle Talks brings five experts to a private Fijian island to film three nights of videos and podcasts imagining a 100 percent clean… | ||
| Building Your Own, Authentic Brand | Adriana Gascoigne | 21m |
Personal branding treats a person like a product: train the brain to think as a brand, articulate a one‑sentence tagline, and launch a personal website with… | ||
| Closing words - | Pete Williams | 15m |
Advice boils down to actionable specifics: focus product design on non-users not incumbent customers, assemble diverse teams including anthropologists… | ||
| The best technology is invisible | Stefan Hajkowicz | 21m |
Starts from an exponential-lily-pad claim — half the pond at day 19, full at day 20 — and applies it to data and devices: Moore’s Law continuing, IoT jumping… | ||
| So uncool it’s cool | Peter McMahon, Justine Hyde | 19m |
State Library of Victoria is redesigning its service and space with an $83 million five‑year redevelopment, puts people at the center using design thinking… | ||
| Panel: Surviving and thriving through business transformation | Scott Heron, Sina Kresse, Tony Lee, Mark Cowan | 51m |
Microsoft finds 67% lack innovation culture. Panelists describe a practical five-step approach: audit/discovery → measurable 1–3 year strategy → show-and-teach… | ||
| A start up within a start up - | Rhys Hayes | 18m |
IE spins a product out of its agency through incubate a startup within a startup practices, builds a consumer-facing beauty commerce platform, and migrates it… | ||
| Startups are now big business - | Richard Curtis, Craig Boshier, Vanessa Wolf Coote | 26m |
Big firms face a concrete crisis: global R&D spends ~$1.6 trillion a year yet one in three public companies will disappear in five years; Blockbuster ignored… | ||
| People Power - How to create experiences people love- | JAMES LAW | 21m |
Envato describes using surveys (Culture Amp, Great Place to Work, a Google form), HR tools (Bamboo HR, Small Improvements), and anonymous feedback to stop… | ||
| Modularity - | Laura Chisholm | 20m |
Starts with a dot‑com origin story—bookings handled by a bank of 25 fax machines and an IPO of nearly £1 billion—then lays out a modern case study: ahm… | ||
| Clemenger BBDO Panel: How is Creativity Driving Innovation in Australia? | Debbie Laing, John Scott, Michael Hauser, Sam Cockfield, Gavin Becker | 01h 15m |
Panel shows concrete outcomes: a responsible-drinking campaign that uses Snapchat underworld tactics and ethnographic segmentation to reach 18–24s and collects… | ||
| Discover Your Future Self in Motion - | Mariana Acuna | 34m |
Ten studios produce motion responses as a six-month lab answering the theme "Discover Your Future Self" with an open brief; teams optionally use Foundry tools… | ||
| Transformations 2025: A view of the consumer of 2025 | Anny Havercroft | 17m |
By 2025 everyday appliances, wearables and vehicles collect continuous data and two dynamics clash: a bionically connected human and a self-aware intelligent… | ||
| Irrational Retail and the Science of Buying - | Matt Newell | 22m |
Creative Day // Pause Fest 2016
Through interactive experiments with the audience, Matt will demonstrate the art of persuasion and the science that guides us… | ||
| Music Streaming in the Creative Economy - | Jane Huxley | 19m |
Australia hosts about 23 music streaming services and Pandora claims over 300 million registered users in the US with roughly 90 million daily listeners and… | ||
| Australia Post’s moment to pause - | Dirk van Lammeren | 23m |
Australia Post reframes itself around e-commerce: 3.2 million people use a myPost account, 240 million parcels move yearly with 75% tied to online… | ||
| Panel: Get onboard the SmartCity | Heath Walker, Markus Giesen, Harley Young, Bonnie Shaw, Catherine Caruana-McManus | 01h 07m |
Australia’s SmartCity debate focuses on concrete systems not slogans: Tesla’s Autopilot uses ultrasonic sensors, forward camera, radar, GPS and free… | ||
| Understanding the psychology of the online shopper - | Tom Green | 14m |
Claim: online conversion collapses when product information and messaging lack clarity; two concrete requirements are clarity of message and know the customer… | ||
| How to structure for product and personal success - | Angela Ferguson | 18m |
Technology stops being the constraint and people do; teams use creative abrasion and intolerance of toxic “brilliant” hires to get better outcomes. Concrete… | ||
| Panel: The spectrum of storytelling and beyond | Joel Beath, James Bush, Chris Panzetta, Liz Hughes | 54m |
A range of built projects shows what works and what still fails: a three‑day transmedia thriller that sends texts, calls, Facebook posts and green‑screen… | ||
| Zen & the art of the modern workplace - | James Calder, Courtney Clapper | 15m |
Argues that workplaces shift from individual cells to spaces designed for minute-by-minute teams and cites social science as justification, invoking Dunbar… | ||
| Big Data and You: Four Ways to Use Data Every Day - | Nigel Mendonca | 21m |
Four practical ways to use everyday data: Charles Minard map proves visual storytelling can turn 700,000 soldiers into a 30,000 return for dramatic impact… | ||
| My Idea! - | Tim Devine, Lindsay Lim | 20m |
Five rapid Sprints with Melbourne Central produce two concrete experiments: a reimagined cone turned into a functioning sudden ionosphere disturbance monitor… | ||
| The future experience in health- | Vinny Panchal, Jack Morton, James Howe | 22m |
Telstra Health consolidates digital tools into an integrated patient experience, claiming a $250 million investment across 18 acquisitions and partnerships… | ||
| Fashion Fades, Style is Eternal - | Clarence Cheah | 21m |
Demonstrates a retail prototype where an Oracle Gadgets mobile app logs a beacon/geo engagement when a user who liked a product walks past a store, prompts a… | ||
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