TEDxRockhampton

Speakers

Speakers may not be confirmed. Check the event website for the latest lineup.

• Blake Repine

  Blake Repine is a senior business leader with more than 20 years of experience in providing effective leadership and management within organisations across multiple industries. He has worked internationally and has led multiple civil infrastructure projects that benefit communities in emerging economies.  Blake has a strong interest in social innovation and social improvement.

• Louise Byrne

  Dr Louise Byrne has utilised her lived experience knowledge in a variety of roles in government, non-government and tertiary settings since 2005, including a role as an expert advisor to the Queensland Mental Health Commission and as Australia’s first full-time Lived Experience Mental Health academic at CQUniversity.

• Terry McCosker

  Dr Terry McCosker is an internationally acclaimed teacher and has worked in research, extension and property management in both government and private sectors for 50 years. In his research era, Terry published over 40 papers and made several world first discoveries in the 1980’s. Terry is also a pioneer in the field of soil carbon and carbon farming.

• Tiana Ruckert

  Tiana Ruckert is a 23 year old wife and mother to two beautiful children under the age of 2. She is a stay at home mum, entrepreneur in her and her husband’s home business and works part time as a bookkeeper working from home. She is a volunteer breastfeeding counsellor with Australian Breastfeeding Association and has been a Beyond Blue public speaker for a number of years. She was part of numerous projects with the Foundation of Young Australians for her work with suicide prevention. At the age of 18 Tiana was a founding member of CQ Leos Club and is still an active member.