Reflecting the diversity of challenges that now confront us, speakers at RMIT's People and the Planet 2013 conference from 2-4 July addressed nine interconnecting research themes:

• Urban Sustainability
• Cultural Sustainability
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Community Sustainability
• Globalization and Culture
• Human Security and Disasters
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures
• Global Ecologies and Culture

Keynote speakers - abstracts, audio and some video available for these speakers here >

• Joyati Das – Global Head, Centre of Expertise for Urban Programming, World Vision
• Robyn Eckersley – Author of the Green State, leading environmentalist and Professor of Political Science, The University of Melbourne
• Jerry Harris – National Secretary of the Global Studies Association of North America, and founding member of the Network for the Critical Study of Global Capitalism
• Eric Herring – Deputy Director of the Global Insecurities Centre at the University of Bristol
• Paul James - Director of RMIT University’s Global Cities Research Institute and the UN Global Compact Cities Programme
• Peter Mandaville – Director, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies and advisor to former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
• Robert Manne – Leading Australian public intellectual, and Convenor of the Society & Ideas Program
• Kate Roffey – Chief Executive Officer of the Committee for Melbourne
• Matthew Tukaki - Chief Executive Officer of the Sustain Group and Australia’s Representative to the United Nations Global Compact
• Deborah Bird Rose – Author of prize-winning books, including the Dingo Makes Us Human and Professor for Social Inclusion, Macquarie University