Angry Birds’s Peter Vesterbacka, key note speaker at West Tech Fest, is my new hero.
His work with Slush, Finland, where young people run one of the largest innovation conferences on the planet, challenges WA’s entrepreneurial ecosystem’s status quo.
Slush organisers and those running the show come from high schools, technical colleges, and universities, and not boards, corporates, and government departments.
Mistakes are seen as learning opportunities and not failure. What a revelation!
One person argued that we couldn’t possibly let anyone who hadn’t finished their university education loose on events’ management all by themselves.
If he met someone like Triphasic Cardiac Pump’s Head of Product Development, Justin Chong, he may start to expand his views on what young people are capable of when given wings.
The brilliant keynote speaker at the West Tech Fest Conference, Peter said there is space in innovation for the young at heart. Lucky me.
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