Websites from Australia

Kylie Dunn is an illustrator, writer, and artist based in Southern Tasmania. She specializes in simplifying communication and helping people better understand the world. She enjoys exploring ideas and creative things and believes life should be about experimentation and being happy to change as you grow. In 2011, she undertook a year-long project called My Year of TED. She helps organizations communicate with themselves, their clients, and other stakeholders through scribing, illustration work, and workshops. Her passion lies in simplifying complex information to make it more accessible and engaging.

Thembi Soddell (born 1980) is a sound artist, electroacoustic composer, and practice-based researcher. Their work focuses on representing and understanding the felt mental impact of trauma, emotional distress and so-called mental illness through abstract, acousmatic sound. Thembi completed their PhD at RMIT University in 2019. In 2020 they received a Regional Arts Victoria Fellowship to research access, sustaining arts practice, and present their work with sound and mental health to their local community. Their work has been shown at galleries such as MONA, ACCA, NGV and SFMOMA, among others. Thembi is non-binary and lives on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, ‘Australia’.

Robert Wojciechowski is a Creative Engineer specializing in Gen-AI and 3D building pipelines for the generative future. With over 10 years of experience in 3D and Editing, he now focuses on ComfyUI, Custom Nodes, and Docker infrastructure. He creates open-source Engineering and Gen-AI projects, and provides ComfyUI workflows and tutorials on YouTube. His work includes the Distributed ComfyUI extension, enabling multi-GPU processing. He also has a legacy 3D & VFX portfolio, video editing portfolio, and aerial photography portfolio.

Rowena Morais is an Employability Coach and Facilitator. She helps small business owners identify and position their business’s unique value with clarity and confidence. She also assists mid-level to senior professionals in assessing their career journey, identifying their singular value, and positioning themselves confidently in their job search to attract and secure their dream jobs. Rowena is the Founder and Managing Director of Digital Confluence and President of the Canberra chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) for 2024-2025.

Jasmine Low is a writer, producer, and director focused on creating multimedia content that effects change and softens hearts. With over 20 years of experience in creative production of live events, she founded EQn Activation Film Studios to document these experiences and experiment with XR/mixed media content. She works with artists, musicians, authors, creative technologists, universities, civil society organisations, corporations and government. Jasmine is also cofounder of GIG: GoInternationalGroup.com. She is currently pursuing postgraduate research on the convergence of creative industries, screen media, creative technology, and public health.

Nicola Rushton is a product designer who enjoys creating software for startups and "startups-at-heart." She is a product design generalist with experience in the entire design process, from strategy and early-stage research to high-fidelity UX/UI designs. She has worked with startups and industry leaders such as Pivotal Labs, Google, Atlassian, and Telstra. Nicola is comfortable with complexity and ambiguity and enjoys working closely with engineers. She has run design at startups, been a freelancer, consultant and mentor, and spoken at conferences about collaborative research and ethical design.

Daum Park captures human imagination through their work.

Daniel Bourke is a writer who creates YouTube videos about the intersection of health, technology, and art. He is the author of the novel *Charlie Walks*. Daniel teaches machine learning and deep learning at the Zero to Mastery Academy. His mission involves using AI to help people move more and eat better. He is currently developing Nutrify, an app to learn about food using AI, and KeepTrack, an app for keeping track of belongings. He also creates educational resources on learnhuggingface.com and learnml.io. He aims to grow his own food and his ikigai is learning to create and creating to learn.

John Kappa is a Lead Product Designer with over two decades of experience. His background includes branding, UX, and web design. He now focuses on building AI-powered tools and leading AI-first product innovation. He designs smarter, more intuitive experiences that merge strategy, automation, and human-centred design. He builds Chrome extensions and React apps through AI-driven workflows.

JL Peridot writes romantic science fiction, crafting "love letters to the future on devices from the past." She is a qualified computer scientist, former website maker, amateur horticulturist, and sometimes illustrator. Her novella, *The Only Question That Matters*, is available in her shop and at most e-book retailers. She lives with her partner and fur-family in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia, on Whadjuk Noongar country. JL is a submissions reader for *Fusion Fragment*, an editor for *Marketing for Romance Writers Magazine*, and a member of RWA and ARRA. Readers can keep up with her work via her personal newsletter, Dot Club, and her blog.

Lachlan Allison is a developer who enjoys solving problems with data and software. He builds browser extensions, web tools, and applications. He also writes technical tutorials and shares thoughts on development, tools, and productivity. Lachlan is open to discussing working on projects together.

Leanne Hughes is a corporate speaker and workshop creator who helps leaders, teams, and corporations remove boundaries to achieve greatness. For decades, she has worked to create environments where business leaders and teams find renewed motivation and passionate purpose. She is known for unlocking big ideas and bold strategy, team and leadership development, and charismatic change evangelism. Leanne is also the author of 'The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint' and the host of the 'First Time Facilitator' podcast. She was inducted into the Million Dollar Consulting Hall of Fame in 2022 and won the Asia Pacific Learning Professional of the Year award in 2021.

Claire helps creative business owners make meaningful progress on the work that matters most. Drawing on over 9 years of freelancing experience, she provides practical tools, mindset shifts, and simple systems to help solopreneurs free up their time, quit procrastinating, and conquer their inner critic. She is the author of the Flourish newsletter, which provides weekly insights on systems, self-management, and turning ideas into progress.

Dave Krunal is the creator of CISSP As An Art (CaaART), a project that reimagines CISSP certification with a child-like curiosity. By day, he works as a GRC Consultant. He is passionate about visual cyber education, blending cybersecurity insights with comics, digital art, humor, and visual storytelling. Dave's goal is to help others understand the complexities of CISSP with simplicity through creative art and hand-drawn digital sketches.

Brody Smith is a freelance information designer and digital craftsman with an engineering background and a strong design sense. He specializes in presenting data in beautiful and engaging ways, creating dashboards, interfaces, visual explainers, graphs, maps, and educational games. Based in Australia but working globally, Brody has a passion for making information engaging, fun, and viral. His work has been featured by major news outlets and he has collaborated with leading organizations to tell data-driven stories. He has worked as an in-house designer-developer at the Lowy Institute, and the ABC.

Jenny Chu is a product leader and maker based in Australia. With over 10 years of experience, she has worked as a first product hire at high-growth startups and top tech companies like Atlassian and Canva. Jenny specialises in helping early-stage startups with their product strategies and execution, working alongside founding teams to maximise their impact. She offers product strategy, product coaching, and product team support, including hiring and team setup.

Tanmay Munigala is a full-stack software engineer. He graduated with a software engineering degree from the University of Technology, Sydney. Originally from New Delhi, India, he moved to Sydney in 2016. Tanmay is interested in self-development, health and fitness, and reading. He enjoys connecting with like-minded people and shares his ideas through writing, focusing on intentional living and growth mindset.

Valentine Watkins is a content designer based in Melbourne. Val makes in-product messaging at Canva. Val is interested in tech, wine and internet economics. Val sometimes writes about content design, tech, or wine on their blog. In a previous life, Val wrote a thesis about Shakespeare.

Leo Dale is a musician and an audio and video producer based in Melbourne, Australia. He collaborates with musicians in Australia and India, producing recordings and videos for his concert series, From Now OM. His videos have been viewed over 3 million times on Youtube for this project. He also runs WEFO Studios, a boutique TV studio. He travels to Europe, India and the US to pursue music opportunities.

Michael Welford describes himself as your Internet friend. He writes about the terminal and other topics. His website includes links, articles, and TILs (Today I Learned). He has written about Zsh, AI, blogging, Git, HTML, Hammerspoon, Lua, and Yabai. He also shares 'nonsense' and 'satire', such as a description of the 'Turbo Encabulator'.

Dahlia Foo is a marine predator scientist and frontend developer originally from Singapore, now living in Canberra. She holds a Bachelor's and PhD in biological sciences from the University of Tasmania, focusing her research on pinniped foraging behavior. Dahlia is also a photographer and videographer, documenting her fieldwork experiences and sharing stories through her camera. In addition to her scientific and creative pursuits, she is passionate about Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and explores the connections between various disciplines in her blog, sharing insights and experiences on life, programming, and BJJ.

Riley Harris is a PhD student at Oxford, researching the potential overlap between minds and machines. Prior to this, Riley focused on communicating research and earned degrees in philosophy and economics from the University of Adelaide. Riley maintains a blog where they share thoughts and ideas.