Keynotes, talks and panels

2022
September 26: Conference of the Chair of Design Theory and Methods for Innovation, Mines ParisTech (Presentation)
September 22: Ageing Societies: A Global Response, London Design Festival (Panel)
September 9: Station F, Paris (Presentation)
September 7: World Health Organisation, Geneva (Keynote)
July 22: Australian Nanofabrication Facility (Presentation)
July 21: Monash Malaysia Digital Health (Presentation)
July 12: QUT Robotics, ‘Supercharging Creativity’ (Presentation)
July 11: Design for Change Symposium, QUT (Keynote)
June 29: World Industrial Design Day, QUT (Panel)
June 8: Alfred Health (Presentation)
June 2: Design Outlook ‘Humanity Centred Design’ (Keynote)
March 8: International Women’s Day, CHC Architecture, ‘Humanising Design and Promoting Equal Participation’ (Presentation)
March 18: STEAM Futures (Keynote)
March 9: NSW Pathology (Presentation)
February: Monash Robotics (Presentation)
February: Monash Alliance for Digital Health (Presentation)
February: Digital Health Week, University of Sydney (Presentation)

2021
December:
Thales (Talk)
IASDR Conference (Presentation)
WHO Design for Impact (Presentation)
Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (Presentation)
November:
Griffith University (Presentation)
Monash Graduate Executive MBA (Presentation)
Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (Presentation)
Centre for Elite Performance and Executive Training (Presentation)
October:
Silverchain Aged Care Services (Presentation)
Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI) (Talk)
September:
RMIT Fashion (Talk)
August:
Monash Industrial Design (Talk)
July:
ARUP Engineering (Talk)
June:
National Ageing Research Institute (NARI)
May:
Audiology Australia 2021 Conference (Keynote)
February:
Craft Victoria ‘Making It’ (Keynote)
Primary Healthcare Network (Talk)
January:
World Health Organisation Innovation Network

2020
December: DATTA Conference Design Disruption (Keynote) ‘Design, Health and Emerging Technology - From Disability to Desirability’
December: QUT Health Futures Precinct (Keynote) ‘New Trends in Healthcare - A Design Perspective’
November: Harvard GSD ‘Empathy and the Space Between’
August: National Ageing Research Institute, Seminars in Ageing, ‘Designing for Age: Wearables, Systems and Services’
August: Bendigo Invention and Innovation Festival ‘International Women in STEAM Forum’
August: ANZ ‘Designing with People at the Centre’
August: CSIRO Manufacturing Virtual Science ‘Design for Impact’
July: NARI Seminars in Ageing ‘ Designing for Age: Wearables, Systems, Services’
April: Workplace innovation in Uncertainty RMIT Activator
February: New Innovation Perspectives for Organisations, PAUSEFEST

2019
16 October: Optimising Health Environments - The Florey Institute
16 August: SPARKS – igniting multidisciplinary research event
30 May: ‘IP and the Designer’, RMIT Research and Commercialisation
13 May: ‘CaT Pin - Conversation as Therapy’ at Friends for Good Alleviating Loneliness Symposium
11 May: Designer talk at Artisan Gallery
3 May: IGNITE RMIT + Victorian Chamber of Commerce, Melbourne view here
May: Leah is a judge on the 2019 Good Design Awards
6 March: Sensilab talk - ‘Emotional Technologies’
28 February: Panel discussion: FASHIONABLE SCIENCE: WEARABLES, FUNCTIONAL TEXTILES & CIRCULAR FASHION, The Royal Society
20 February: Protect, Publish, Engage - Research Commercialisation Fundamentals with IP Australia Panel at RMIT Engaging for Impact Conference

2018
7 December: Business of Design Week, Hong Kong Product & Technology panel.
9 November: MARC End of life care forum ‘Design Thinking in end-of-life experience’
17 October: Experimenta Social at ACMI X
11 October: Facett at The Art and Consequence of Collaboration, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
3 October: Leah doing the locknote for WT Wearable Technologies conference
15 September: Leah speaking at Humanise solo exhibition at Warrnambool Art Gallery
11 September: Melbourne Magazine story: Health Tech with Heart
6 September: Australia Unlimited Feature Story goes live: Health by Design: Wearable Tech
3 August: The Age and Sydney Morning Herald Article: Perfect humans: good or bad? Science and art examine tomorrow's brave new face
August: Impactboom podcast: Leah Heiss On How Human Centred Design Methodology Can Create Social Impact
August: Unisuper cover story released: Making medical gems
15 August: Speaking at Humans 2.0 at National Science Week
10 August: Leah on the panel of internet TV sensation That Startup Show, talking biotech, medtech and healthtech
13 July: The Augmented Humans Melbourne Museum exhibition webpage is live!
17 June: Leah on Augmenting Ability panel at the Melbourne Museum
12 June: Submitted my PhD Designing Emotional Technologies!
18 May: Article in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Listen up: hearing aid takes out top design award, Ray Edgar, The Age
17 May: FACETT won the 2018 Good Design Award! 
12 May: On Future Patient panel at Melbourne Knowledge Week
12 May: Exhibiting at MKW Future Hospital Tech Demo Floor
3 May: My Melbourne Knowledge Week micro-film here
3 May: Presentation at Top Designs Education Forum
16 March: I launched Top Designs 2018 
7 March: FACETT Victorian Government film
6 March: FACETT public launch at RMIT University
5 March: Channel 7 News on launch of Facett hearing aid, the design story
5 March: FACETT models on display at Melbourne Museum
5 March: FACETT press launch at Melbourne Museum: TV news here
5 March: RMIT articles on Facett design and collaboration
14 February: Leah co-facilittaing One Good Death workshop at RMIT
3 February: My hearing aid project is part of a great article in The Age Beyond the Beige by Ray Edgar
January: The Facett design process has been acquired by Museums Victoria
20 January: Panel discussion at the MPavillion If it feels good build it: Design for wellbeing, health and the senses

2017
20 December: RN Drive, Radio National, talking about the upcoming launch of the hearing aid I have been working on for 3 years!!
28 November: Deloitte panel - Women in consulting, theme Working with Passion and Purpose.
15 November: D-School Stanford - Assisting John Kembel in D-Global's Designing Thinking workshop for NAB
10 November: PhD completion seminar
Panel: Professor Paul Gough, Professor Harriet Edquist, Dr. Fleur Watson, Assoc. Professor Lawrence Harvey
29 May: Building the Future Engineer, facilitation of Design thinking workshop with Aurecon Engineers.
3 April: Presenting at Deloitte, Melbourne for the Designing Frontiers Symposium. Presentation: Designing Practice.
9 March: Co-facilitating the ONJ Vision Workshop at Olivia Newton-John Cancer, Wellness and Research Centre with Luke Hockley from MidnightSky.

2016
7 June: Presenting the Smart Heart necklace at Designing Interactive Systems conference, QUT Brisbane. Link to paper here
21 April: Leah presented at The Future of Work: People, Place, Technology at Federation Square, Melbourne. 
15 April: Co-designing the Future of our health technologies workshop with Kat Bond from MAAS at The Australian Design Centre, Sydney
March: Interview on Radio National Afternoons with Michael McKenzie, Designing technology with a social conscience, listen here
March: Speaking about working with advanced materials in creative practice at LINK Festival - Design, Technology and Social Change
February: CUSP at the Australian Design Centre, Sydney

2015
November: Speaking at Design Buzz - Design Canberra Festival
November: Guest blog on designing for hearing loss here
August: IHearYou self fit hearing system shortlisted for World Impact Design Prize
July: Leah speaking at Women In Design event in Launceston
June: IHearYou self fit hearing system wins Good Design Award for Social Innovation
June: CUSP opening at QUEEN VICTORIA GALLERY & MUSEUM, 
April: Watch ABC TV documentary about Leah's practice here
April: CUSP: Designing for the Next Decade at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

2014
November: Leah interviewed by ABC Splash to inspire young people to embrace STEM. Watch video here 
September: A Fine Possession: Jewellery and Identity open at The Powerhouse, Sydney. Leah's Diabetes Jewellery and SOS Jewellery (with Macarow and Beckett) are in the show.
August: The Future is Here opens at RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne. Leah's project with Blamey Saunders Hearing 'The Incus' is in the show. 
July: Leah speaking at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne as part of Art and Us: Art and Science with Briony Barr, James Saunders, moderated by Alicia Sometimes.
May: Speaking at DESIGNEX, Sydney. More information here
April: Presenting at the CUSP symposium UniSA, Adelaide
March: Presenting at Driving Forces: The Role of Artists and Designers in Interdisciplinary Research, at ANU School of Art, Canberra.
March: Designer in residence at NGV for Melbourne Now
February: Women In Design exhibition at 45 Downstairs, Melbourne. 
February: CUSP at the Jam Factory, Adelaide

2013
August: Article about my practice in the Australian Financial Review
July: CUSP Designing into the Next Decade opening on 3 July at Sydney's Casula Powerhouse and travelling around Australia from 2013-2015
July: Panel Discussion with Phenella Kernebone from Radio National The Heart of it: Can Design Humanise Medical Technologies. Listen here
June: Paper presentation at ISEA 2013, Sydney
May: Leah presents to 2000+ people at AG Ideas International Festival of Design, Melbourne. Watch here
April: Article in Melbourne Review
April: Article in Time Out. Read here

2012
November: Links to GOMA videos of interview with Leah here and film of National New Media Artist Award panel discussion here
October 2012: Art and Humanity article in RMIT press about Leah's Polarity and Ian Haig's Some Thing works in the National New Media Artist Award at GOMA 2012.
July 2012: Article in Powerhouse D-Hub site Creative Life Support: why supporting Australian design matter
June 2012: New magnetic liquid work 'Polarity' part of the National New Media Art Award at GOMA/Queensland Art Gallery, August-November 2012
June 2012: Seed Sensor 3D polymer print exhibited in Embracing Innovation: Volume 2
CraftACT, Canberra
March 2012: Journal article published Therapeutic Art Practice: How experimental art practice can radically inform the development of our therapeutic technologies SMT Studies in Material Thinking, University of Auckland. 

2011
August: Presentation at NIEA conference on Experimental Arts, COFA
July: Presenting at Australian Design Alliance Design-Led Solutions to Wicked ProblemsState of Design, GPO, Melbourne.
April: Presenting at National Institute for Electronic Arts, COFA
April: Presenting at AIA Conference Natural Artifice
March: Proem exhibited at PinUp Gallery, Melbourne
January: genart_sys exhibition for The Australia Council, Sydney

2010
April-July: Signs of Change - Jewellery to Create a Better World, FORM, Perth
March: Journal article "Therapeutic Collaborations: Informing the development of therapeutic nanotechnologies through creative practice", Leah Heiss & Dr. Sarah Morgan. Second Nature: International journal of creative media, Vol 2, No 1 (2010)

2009
November: Drift in Super Human exhibition at RMIT Gallery
November: Humanising Technology article about Leah's work, RMIT Gallery
November: Finalist in RMIT International Stars of the Media Awards
August: Nano projects in Showing Off Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
August: Interviewed on Radio Australia 'Innovations'. Transcript here 
July: 'Luminesce' in Convergence, State of Design, Melbourne
May: Presenting at Design Island, Hobart, Tasmania
May: Nano projects featured in ABC US article. Read here 
March: Levitas solo exhibition at fortyfive downstairs

2008
November: "i love my device" presentation at AusMedTech
November: in.tangible.scape.s exhibition, Belgium.
November: Presentation at IMEC, Leuven
November: Liminal solo exhibition, RMIT Gallery Melbourne. 
November: Leah on ABC TV's New Inventors. Watch here 
November: Leah on ABC Radio National By Design. Listen here 
August 2008: Sydney Morning Herald article - read here 
August: $10,000 Australia Council Visual Arts New Work Grant for Material Poetic