TEDx Hobart

Director, Consultant & Author

Steven Burgess is a change agent for Cities. He brings 30+ years’ experience as a transport engineer and urban strategist to reform the balance between car space and people space in towns and cities all over the world. His superpower is enabling a diverse range of stakeholders to expand their potentially myopic view of how cities should be and raise their expectations about what cities, towns, villages and neighbourhoods could be. Our lives depend on a serious re-examination of how our urban places of every size and shape are delivering liveability.

Steven is the author of ‘Complete Streets - Guidelines to Urban Street Design’ published in 2010 and was a contributor to two other international street making publications. He is an international keynote speaker on people, places, and liveability having spoken at events all around Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America, Europe and the UAE.

Other speakers in our amazing lineup:

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  Dr. Rebecca Chabot
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  Where Water Meets

  Performer
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  Viet Tran

  Emergency Physician, Researcher & Advocate
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  Lauren Cannell

  Tasmanian police officer and endurance athlete
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  Daniela Gjocaj

  Emerging Tasmanian artist
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  Gavin Quek

  Dentist and active oral health advocate
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  Ryk Goddard

  Radio Personality
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  Digby Hall

  Climate Adaptation Architect
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  Second Echo Ensemble

  Dance Performance Group
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  Justin Jones

  Explorer, keynote speaker, adventure thinker and storyteller
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  Thiago Alves
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  Eagranie Yuh

  Writer, Marketer, Podcaster
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  Josh Wood

  Coach and Educator
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  Paul Pritchard

  Mountaineer, Author & Educator
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  Daniel Sih

  Director of Spacemakers®
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  Di Mason
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  Paul Matthews

  Teacher & Tech Entrepreneur
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  Lila Landowski

  Multi-award winning neuroscientist and lecturer
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  Philippa Chong

  Evaluator, Data Scientist & Consultant
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  Angela Hucker

  Founder & CEO
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  James Brady

  Print journalist turned dementia researcher
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  Dwayne Good
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  Lalita Lowe

  Author, Fashion Designer & Educator
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  Wild Island Circus

  Performer
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  Alexander Hoysted
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  Swee-Hoon Chuah
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  Andrew Davies

  Founder and CEO
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  Matthew Evans

  Food writer, television broadcaster and chef