Скачать или смотреть Sophia Hamblin Wang | Doing Well and Doing Good | Dirrum Festival

Sophia is a woman working the innovation and entrepreneurship landscape. She weaves together five impressive threads: COO of a company that transforms carbon dioxide into building products, operations manager of a global health innovation database, Curator of the World Economic Forum’s youth volunteer group Global Shapers Canberra, Ambassador for the charity OzHarvest Canberra and Co-founder of a cohousing project aiming to improve housing affordability for young people. That’s right. Impressive.

Sophia shares not so much ideas about what we need to be doing but can reflect on what is actually happening. She is passionate about driving change: “Most of my work is looking at the big picture. Developing new solutions to the major challenges facing society is the most important and exciting part of being involved in innovation.”

It can be a bit irksome sometimes listing all the amazing things about a person, but you do want to know the one you are listening to is actually the real deal. So, learning that Sophia runs a company that transforms carbon dioxide into building materials is not so much about puffing her up, but pointing to her feet that are on the ground. Taking Australian innovation to the world and working with global industries like steel and cement to view their carbon dioxide emissions as a resource and not just a harmful waste can make a significant impact on emissions and create new global markets.

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#dirrumfestivalCBR 2019
Faces of Change | 17 August 2019

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