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 where some of the risk factors are higher than we would like them to be - but she says it’s easier to keep track of people here over the course of a long term study.

We are were thrilled to have our first visionary epidemiologist step into the spotlight for this episode.

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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 for a conference centre also in the national park. 

Rachel joined host Sam Ikin at BET headquarters for this episode of the Visionary Spotlight  

 

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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 work research that he's doing is helping to change the world. 

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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 to start their own distillery. 

We are thrilled to have her join us here at BET headquarters for this episode of the Visionary Spotlight  

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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 Education course at UTAS where he’s making a real difference for the state. 

He also thinks it’s essential for someone in his position to spread his understanding to others in his field through conferences and seminars many of which he’s organised or helped organise bringing dozens of international experts to Tasmania. 

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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 episode of the visionary spotlight.  

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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 have risen to the top and become leaders, not because they sought leadership but because they have done remarkable things and never compromised on their vision.

As it happens, ended up in prominent positions along the way. 

They are Tasmania’s visionaries and you can hear from them directly on the Visionary Spotlight. A podcast from Business Events Tasmania. 

Hear from some of the state's top minds as they join host Sam Ikin in-studio at BET headquarters. 

The first episode drops early in 2024. 

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