A/Prof Seana Gall - epidemiology visionary

Associate professor Seana Gall is an epidemiologist who has dedicated her life to finding out how our population is affected by heart disease and stroke.  She says that understanding what is behind the trends in these diseases can help us to prevent them. This is extremely important in Tasmania wh…

Rachel Power - tourism visionary

Rachel Power describes herself as a tourism entrepreneur but she's far more than that. She’s a cafe owner, but not just any cafe, it’s the only cafe in the world heritage listed Mount Field national park. She’s also a teacher and trainer and is now running an accommodation business and has plans f…

Dr Reza Emad - maritime visionary

Reza Emad describes himself as a researcher fascinated by how humans and industry interact. We prefer to call him a visionary.  A seafarer by trade, Reza has spent a huge portion of his life on the ocean and he’s now the senior lecturer of nautical science at Australian Maritime College and the wo…

Anne Gigney - distilling visionary

Anne Gigney has been a key player in building a gold-standard whiskey industry, not just in Tasmania, but across Australia and New Zealand. Through her businesses, The Distillers Institute and the Tasmanian Whiskey Academy, she’s helped more than 1000 distillers to find a place in the industry or …

Greg Oates - education visionary

The visionary we are putting in the spotlight in this episode is Associate Professor Greg Oates.  Greg is an academic at UTAS who wants kids to have the power over their own destinies. He loves teaching so much that he teaches our teachers as the program director for the Bachelor of Primary Educat…

Sam Reid - hospitality visionary

Sam Reid describes himself as a storyteller but to anyone else, he’s known as one of the brains behind Willy Smith’s Apple Shed in the Huon Valley and more recently Du Cane Brewing in Launceston but that’s far from the whole story. We are thrilled to have him join us at BET headquarters for this e…

Introducing the Visonary Spotlight from Business Events Tasmania

Tasmania was built by people who worked tirelessly towards a vision, it didn’t become the amazing island it is on its own.  It’s a state that’s driven by people who tirelessly work to drive our industries forward.  They are courageous doers who work passionately towards excellence.  People who h…