Summit: syd25
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This talk is presented by
Emma Morris - Senior Producer & Director, ABC Science & Health
Emma Morris is an award-winning producer, journalist, and strategist, currently Editor of ABC’s Innovation Lab. With more than a decade at the ABC, she has worked across ABC Science, Foreign Correspondent, Radio National and ABC Weather, maintaining a focus on innovation and emerging technologies to craft powerful, engaging stories in new ways.
Her recent projects include Mt Resilience an immersive AR and desktop experience in collaboration with CSIRO, BOM and the Australian Museum exploring climate adaptation, which won Best Interactive at AIDC, featured at COP28 and was a Walkley finalist; The Birth Project, a cross-platform crowdsourced investigation into maternity care and The Health Check, an interactive web-based tool. She also produced interactive documentary Freedom Riders, nominated for a UN Peace Award, and is a regular content producer across ABC podcasts and ABC News digital.
Beyond the ABC, Emma has collaborated with leading production companies, including Hoodlum on the multiplatform drama Secrets & Lies, which won Best Interactive Production at SPAA, and Firelight Productions on documentaries such as Storm Surfers and Rocket Compulsion. Emma brings a unique mix of editorial depth, creative leadership, and strategic thinking to every project she leads.
Dr Julia Scott-Stevenson - Chair, Immersive Arts (UK) & Chancellor’s Research Fellow, UTS
Julia Scott-Stevenson is a researcher and maker of interactive and immersive media. As a University of Technology Sydney Chancellor’s Research Fellow, she uses practice-led research to explore how immersive media can engage audiences with the climate crisis. Julia directed the collaborative, generative-AI-based screen experience Collective Visions, which showed in its first iteration in the UTS Data Arena during Climate Action Week Sydney in May 2024..
Julia is also lead researcher on MIT Open Documentary Lab’s partnership with IDFA DocLab R&D Network. She authored the 2024 report on embodiment, AI and the perception of the real, and continues as lead researcher in the current investigation into XR distribution. Julia chairs the International Advisory Board for Immersive Arts – a £6 million, three-year scheme supporting immersive makers across the UK, she sits on the advisory board for Frame Documentary, Australia’s first organisation supporting non-fiction artists working with emerging technologies, and she is a member of Create NSW’s Artform Board for Digital, Experimental, Immersive and Light Art.
Julia was creative producer of 'Privy To', an XR project exploring privacy rights, which was one of 14 projects globally showcased at CPH:DOX's 2021 Inter:Active Exhibition. She holds a PhD in interactive documentary and social impact, and she mentors and speaks on XR, nonfiction and AI internationally..
John-Paul Marin - Co-founder, Distil Immersive - Webby Awards winner & SXSW Interactive Awards
John-Paul is the co-founder and director of Distil Immersive, an independent creative technology studio pushing the boundaries of interactive storytelling. With a career spanning two decades, his work sits at the intersection of documentary, art, narrative, design, and digital innovation. Before founding Distil, John-Paul was a digital executive at SBS Television, where he led the network’s first national Digital Creative Lab, dedicated to pioneering new formats for storytelling.
His interactive projects—including The Block: Stories of a Meeting Place, My Grandmother’s Lingo, and Cronulla Riots: The Day That Shocked the Nation—have received critical acclaim, earning Walkley Awards for Multimedia Storytelling and Coverage of Indigenous Affairs, Webby Awards for Interactive Video, Activism, and Animation & Motion Graphics, as well as an SXSW Interactive Award. Distil’s immersive documentary installation, Belongings, has been exhibited at major festivals and galleries across Australia, the UK, Chile, Argentina, and the United States.
A frequent speaker and mentor, John-Paul has shared his insights at SXSW, Sheffield DocFest, DocEdge NZ, DocsBarcelona, iDW Switzerland and Mediamorfosis Chile.