Lizzie Young
Lizzie Young
We are 8 CEO
Lizzie Young is the CEO of WeAre8, a hate free community that is built upon the idea that collective change and daily actions can make the world a better place. WeAre8 tackles the planet's problem by harnessing the power of social media to share content with a global community and support important work.
Prior to her role at WeAre8, Lizzie has over twenty years’ experience in the media sector across all platforms in Australia and the UK and most recently spent 12 years at Nine culminating in her appointment as Managing Director –Group Marketing and Local Markets in 2020 where she has executive responsibility for audience acquisition and growth across the group, key commercial partnerships and leading Nine’s team of state based Managing Directors to grow Nine’s footprint in each metro market.
In addition, Lizzie was a Non-Executive Director of Domain from February 2020 - June 2022 and Future Women from July 2019 - June 2022, she now continues as a Mentor and Advisor to Future Women and has been an Advisory Board Member of Two Good Co Foundation since 2017 and a member of Chief Executive Women since 2021.
Prior to her role at WeAre8, Lizzie has over twenty years’ experience in the media sector across all platforms in Australia and the UK and most recently spent 12 years at Nine culminating in her appointment as Managing Director –Group Marketing and Local Markets in 2020 where she has executive responsibility for audience acquisition and growth across the group, key commercial partnerships and leading Nine’s team of state based Managing Directors to grow Nine’s footprint in each metro market.
In addition, Lizzie was a Non-Executive Director of Domain from February 2020 - June 2022 and Future Women from July 2019 - June 2022, she now continues as a Mentor and Advisor to Future Women and has been an Advisory Board Member of Two Good Co Foundation since 2017 and a member of Chief Executive Women since 2021.
Related Sessions
Humanity vs Technology: What Will Save Our Planet?
WED, OCT 18, 2:00 PM
Conference
Our planet is in the midst of a sixth, mass extinction event. This means humanity (yep, that’s us!) and how we live our lives, is killing of species at an unprecedented rate.
The industrial revolution and the rise of technology has led to an increasing dependence on fossil fuels and large-scale habitat destruction. This has meant, in just a few short centuries, we are close to having the same impact to our planet’s biodiversity as an asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Thousands of species are now extinct, gone forever. More than 40,000 species currently sit on the brink of imminent extinction. The UN predicts a million more could vanish within decades.
Over the past decades, the world has woken up to the impact we’ve had, and continue to have, our planet, and the wildlife we share it with.
As a global community, big, bold and desperate steps have been taken to stave off imminent extinction. Some of them have worked, but tragically others have been too little, too late.
Some will argue the solution lies in the future, looking to AI and yet-to-be-developed technologies. Others will say, we are keeping our eyes closed to traditional knowledge and techniques that have nurtured our planet for tens of thousands of years.
So, where to from here? Humanity vs. Technology – what will save our planet?
