ENVIRO KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

JONATHON JUTSEN
Founder of Energetics

Jon is an overnight success story in energy and carbon management, having started in this field a mere 30 years before it became fashionable.

In 1984, Jon founded Energetics – Australia’s leading energy and carbon management company that is now a national company.

Jon has provided advisory services to executive teams and governments in Australia, SE Asia and USA, where he established the US operations of Energetics.

He is a chemical engineer by training and was selected as one of the ‘100 Most Influential Engineers in Australia’. He is on the Boards of several energy and environmental organisations and is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Science and Engineering.

   
DORJEE SUN
CEO of Carbon Conservation

Dorjee started Carbon Conservation to finance the preservation of tropical rainforests and provide carbon credit revenues to local communities via Avoided Deforestation.

To raise $100 million for a forest protection fund, Dorjee travelled from his home in Sydney to the jungles of Sumatra and Papua, then onto the international stage, gaining the trust and support of the local and international political leaders, as well as business entrepreneurs. His quest was documented in the well known film, The Burning Season.

He was the founder of a recruitment software company with offices in Melbourne and London, and an award winning education company which mentored over 25,000 students through Sydney and Melbourne.

His interest in animation and webTV led to the founding of the creative agency Joosed. With an interest in viral marketing and social media software, Dorjee also started VirtualVillager.com, a software company building virtual villages for business and government. The company's projects include AsiaGroove.com, the world's first Asian youth pop-culture collaborative community and MyAutosalon.com focusing on youth car culture.

He has spoken at the Future Summit, AsiaConnect, The World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, participated at the Australian Davos Leadership retreat and other think-tanks.

 
PROF DAVID KAROLY
ARC Federation Fellow and
Professor of Meteorology at the University of Melbourne, Australia

Prof Karoly is an internationally-recognised expert in climate change and climate variability, including greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and interannual climate variations due to El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

He was heavily involved in preparation of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in 2007. Professor Karoly was Chair of the Premier of Victoria's Climate Change Reference Group during 2008 and 2009, and is a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and the Australian Academy of Sciences' National Committee on Earth System Science.

Professor Karoly joined the School of Earth Sciences in May 2007 as a Federation Fellow funded by the Australian government.

   
GABRIELLE KELLY
Director of the Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Program

Gabrielle has significant experience in Australia and the USA working on policy alignment, cross-government capability and new product development for a global market. Her board memberships include the South Australian Film Corporation, South Australian Natural Resources Council, the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Adelaide Film Festival.

In 1990, with the Sundance Institute, Gabrielle produced one of the first climate change documentaries. She has also interviewed global political leaders for US and UK television.

She is the founder of the influential Australian International Documentary Conference and Southtalk, a successful model for community leadership program and citizen engagement in modern life and politics. She has played a significant role in the vision and early implementation of the Playford North Project- one of Australia's largest urban and social regeneration projects.

   
DR AVINASH PATWARDHAN
Vice President of Water Business Group and
International Sustainable Solutions Manager with CH2M HILL

Dr. Patwardhan has more than 22 years of experience in sustainable solutions, watershed management, sustainable planning, water quality analysis and management and total water management.  He has received two U.S. patents, authored more than 45 technical papers and publications and has worked on over 50 watershed studies.  Most recently, he worked as a Project Manager delivering Sustainability services for Masdar, the world’s first carbon-neutral community in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.  As manager, senior consultant, and technical advisor, Dr. Patwardhan has developed and applied emerging and established technologies to a broad range of projects in the U.S., Canada, ASEAN/India, China, Middle East, North Africa and United Kingdom.