Designing with People Powered Social Change

Kerry has worked in social change for over 20 years. Her purpose is to evolve the way social change happens in Australia for the benefit of young people. Kerry is a founder and director of Collaboration for Impact — Australia’s leading organisation for enabling people to tackling big, tough problems and create large scale impact through collaboration.

In this role, Kerry provides support to and curates learning for communities, corporations, governments, philanthropy and non-profit organisations on how to drive large-scale social change in intractable social challenges. Kerry also lectures on collaborative practice with Centre for Social Impact at University of New South Wales.

Jax is passionate about the potential for design to enable better futures for people and the planet. She is an accomplished human-centred designer with over 15 years' professional experience within the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Passionate about the value of human-centred design for social impact, Jax founded a community of practice, Social Design Sydney which aims to create conversation about social design. Jax shares her expertise and passion for design and social impact by providing codesign consulting services as Sticky Design Studio, writing, lecturing, and convening masterclasses and events for Social Design Sydney.

Dr Mathan Ratinam has over eighteen years' experience as a design professional and educator and spent the last decade operating at the intersection of design, humanitarianism and international development. He is the Lead Design Specialist in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit at the World Bank supporting operations in Mauritania, Tanzania, Madagascar, Malawi, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. His primary work is on the World Bank’s Climate Technology Program.

The program supports the private sector in developing countries to design and scale novel technologies and business models to address local climate challenges. Ratinam has also been engaged as a strategic designer by the White House, various UN agencies, the US Dept of Defense, international NGOs and serves as an advisor to the Australian Governments Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.