WHo IS TRANSHUMANISM Australia?
Transhumanism Australia is a social enterprise that provides keynote speakers and facilitators on how we can create positive impact by apply emerging technologies to global challenges .
We love collaborating with corporates, startups, government, educational institutions and not-for-profits.
What is Transhumanism?
Transhumanism is a movement of people around the world who want to apply science and technology to transcend the limitations of our human biology.
There are three aims to transhumanism:
What we Do
keynote speaking/FACILITATING
Our keynote speakers and facilitators are real scientists, biohackers, engineers, and technologists who currently work in science and tech. We work with emerging tech every day and have deep knowledge.
MEETUPS
We hold regular meetups to meet like-minded people who who are interested in Transhumanism. These are casual gatherings where you may hear talks and meet new friends.
FOR CORPORATES AND ORGANISATIONS
You need a speaker or facilitator with experience working with emerging tech for your event, workshop or hackathon.
FOR Individuals
You are looking for a community of like-minded people interested in emerging tech that push the limits of physical and intellectual capabilities.
Our featured speakers and FACILITATORS
If you are interested in a keynote speaker or facilitator, please email us at info@transhumanism.com.au
MEOW-LUDO DISCO GAMMA MEOW MEOW
Meow-Ludo is an advocate for emerging technologies. He started Australia's first open access molecular biology lab, BioFoundry. The goal of this was to democratise science by reducing the cost and technological barrier with respect to molecular biology.
He plays mainly in the fields on microbiology, electronics, microfluidics, and astrobiology with a focus on closed complex systems. Last year he had an opal card implanted in his hand, and was fined for modifying the card. This began the first cyborg law case in Australia, and is currently still in court. He also is a federal candidate with the Science Party, running in 2017 in the seat of New England on a platform promoting AgTech.
Alyse is a software developer and has worked in AI and Blockchain startups. Alyse is also a freelance tech writer covering AI, Transhumanism and Emerging Tech. Alyse has co-founded three ventures including a genomic data machine learning startup, a health startup and Transhumanism Australia.
Alyse is also a startup mentor at CSIRO's ON: Sci-Tech Accelerator Program. Her startup, Genomix, was selected into both University of Sydney's Incubate and HCF's Catalyst startup accelerator programs.
Prior to this, Alyse was a founding team member of KPMG's Innovate team, focused on helping corporates innovate.
SKEEVE STEVENS
Skeeve is a Futurist, Transhumanist, entrepreneur, and technology polymath. He specialises in such areas as Future Crime, Internet Architecture, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Machine Intelligence, Computer Vision, Robotics, IoT, Smart Cities, Brainwear, Biohacking and Superhuman Performance.
He speaks internationally on all these topics and is an advisor to governments, military and law enforcement on critical infrastructure protection, counter-terrorism and the weaponisation of advanced technologies and their use in urban conflict, terrorism and crime. He is a former Director of the Internet Society, former Chair of the Policy Committee of Internet Governance organisation APNIC.
“We’re at an inflection point of being able to cure all diseases including the ageing process, solving intelligence, and conquering scarcity to create abundance.”
KPMG’s Senior Tech & Innovation Manager and Co-founder of Transhumanism Australia, Peter Xing, co-founded this community that educates and invests in scientific research and technologies to enhance the human biological condition. From nanotech, biotech and artificial intelligence, Peter seeks to accelerate its research and applications to benefit society and wellbeing through Transhumanism Australia.
SHANTI KORPORAAL
Shanti is a Futurist, Serial Entrepreneur, Speaker, Facilitator, Whisky Chick and most of all, lives for Lightbulb moments.
She is co-founder and Director of Future Sumo, VR the World, Chip My Life, Niisch, eintellego Networks, eintellego Networks and Elastic Venues, with her husband, Skeeve. Her companies are about empowering her clients to grow and flourish in their own businesses or department.
Shanti is about transferring the knowledge that she has from her own life and experiences in a way that is relevant to the people she is with that results in a lightbulb moment, that leads to long term change and empowerment.
NATHAN WATERS
Nathan Waters is a futurist, entrepreneur and social decentralist. He is the founder the Web3 community, SydEthereum and founder of the mutual credit skill economy, Peerism in preparation for our post-capitalist future.
Nathan promotes an autonomous vehicle #vanlife and was the community manager for Consensys in Sydney.
Nathan also co-founded Hackagong, Australia's largest hackathon, which aims to ignite a grassroots culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in regional communities such as Wollongong and Bega.
ARTICLES from THE COMMUNITY
Coverage of the latest developments in transhumanism and emerging technologies by our members
Why working for a living is immoral - the inevitable rise of automation, the case against “jobs”, and what to do about it
How demand for robots and automation accelerated during the pandemic - The pandemic has accelerated demand for robots and automation. Robots have been regulated to marketing jobs, receptionist duties, and companionship for the elderly. But they’re really starting to come into their own and have practical use. Let’s take a look at how.
The future of humanity is genetic engineering and neural implants - hear why at SXSW in March 2020
6 reasons Microsoft has become the go-to for machine learning, including the latest tools announced at Microsoft Build 2019
We sat down with the founders of Tide, Issac Elnekave and Michael Loewy for a discussion on their origin story, Tide Foundation, and the future of the Tide protocol at SXSW 2019, filmed in Australia House on Rainey St, Austin TX.
SXSW: How gamers are taking over AI and blockchain & rewriting the future. Kuro “KuroKy” Takhasomi has his hand tightly gripped on the mouse, his eyes are full of intense focus, darting from the left to right side of his screen, checking for movement.
SXSW: These two futurists want to freeze your body after death and replace your brain. You might think we’re not in Texas anymore but in some strange episode of Black Mirror, the Netflix series, says Nikos Acuna who is moderating this SXSW panel on transhumanism.
SXSW Announces 2019 Winners Of 11th Annual Pitch Event, including Nebula Genomics
Will AI eventually self-supervise and determine its own ethics? This is what Hanson Robotics and others had to say at SXSW
All the best AI conference sessions at SXSW - The SXSW events you shouldn’t miss if you’re interested in AI!
You’re already transhuman, you just don’t know it: MWC Barcelona - Will you merge with technology or be left behind?
The 12 key MWC sessions for emerging tech and transhumanism - All the best sessions for AI, AR/VR and Biohacking
5 lessons on how to fight bias in AI from Pause Fest - Lessons from Google, Microsoft and the best tech companies
The Platform Wars - How competing software, hardware and political ideology could accelerate existing divisions in humanity into the future
The iPhone 20 - A roadmap for how smart devices can integrate with our bodies by 2029 and how Apple can stay relevant over the next decade
Wild Health Summit says the future of healthcare is… fax machines? Health is an analogue world that desperately needs AI, data and mobile
AI and blockchain will affect billions of white collar workers. This is what was said about AI and blockchain at the World Congress of Accountants 2018
We could be the last generation to have children the old fashioned way, if at all. Infinite healthspan and artificial eggs and sperm could change our idea of family
These are the developments accelerating us towards total job automation. It’s time we prepared for the possibility of a jobless future.
The future is female but it sure is terrible in many ways. Google’s Duplex voice assistant wowed everyone when it was first released onstage in a live demo. In the demo, the voice assistant, which happens to be a female voice, called up a hair salon to make an appointment. Caught up in the excitement, some people may have missed the dialogue in which the voice assistant asks for a ‘woman’s haircut’ — words few women would ever utter.
Why losing your job to AI automation could be the best thing to happen. McKinsey reported that 400 to 800 million jobs worldwide will be lost by 2030. That’s only 12 years away. Not enough time for an entire generation to retrain for completely new jobs. As co-founder of Transhumanism Australia, where we investigate systematic changes to society and humanity, I know only too well what exponential technology is doing to jobs…
“Designer Immortality” — TEDXMelbourne - Could we all live a type of designer immortality in the near future?
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TRANSHUMANIST technologies
and how they HELP US TRANSCEND OUR HUMAN LIMITATIONS
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