The WiT Inspiration Series invites you to breakfast with some of our leading women working in Technology
Be inspired and motivated by the achievements and contributions they have made and how they have paved the way for women in Technology. These inspiring women will talk about their career journeys, the hurdles and challenges they have overcome and the foundations they have laid for a more diverse and flexible future for our Technology community.
Your ticket includes:
Venue:
Halcyon Knights
Level 6, 540 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley, Queensland
Parking:
2-Hour free parking is located under the building as part of t the IGA complex, entry is via Wickham Street.
Tickets:
Dr Dimity Dornan, AO is a social entrepreneur, bionics advocate, speech pathologist, researcher, Founder and Director of Hear and Say, Founder and Chair of Bionics Queensland, Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, the Queensland College of Arts and Sciences and Speech Pathology Australia. Dimity has also been appointed to Adjunct Professor to the University of Queensland School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Adjunct Professor to the Science and Engineering Faculty, School of Mechanical, Medical & Process Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre—Joint Biomechanics (ARC ITTC-JB).
In 1992 she established Hear and Say as a leading not-for-profit for deaf children learning to listen and speak, particularly with surgically implantable hearing technology like the bionic ear. She also founded Bionics Queensland in 2019 and is currently sharing her experience for the benefit of the stakeholders in the wider bionics industry. As Chair of the Board, she has been working to promote the Bionics Industry and help bring new bionics solutions to market for the benefit of people with previously untreatable medical problems. These include not only hearing but also visual, neurological, limb and organ conditions.
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