Geek Mental Help Week Presentation Night

Mental health is a very important issue to us! So please join us at this special event to listen to our excellent speakers discussing mental health, burnout and how to make sure that you look after yourself, your friends and colleagues (both physically and mentally).

Food and drinks will be provided, however this will be an alcohol free event.

Please note: RSVP's are required to attend this event for security reasons. If your name isn't on the list you might not be able to get in.

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Our Speakers

Patima Tantiprasut

Patima is a Creative Director with a background in both code and design, with over 15 years’ experience in the web industry. By day, she leads the team over at Bam Creative, a Perth-based award-winning digital agency (although, she is currently on her six months long service leave!). Her jam is to bring people together to achieve beautiful and meaningful things.

She specialises in experience design, brand development and quality assurance for digital projects. In her spare time, she’s also a co-founder of @team6Q (https://twitter.com/team6Q), co-organiser for @MixinConf (https://twitter.com/mixinconf), founder and host of @LocalhostAU (https://twitter.com/localhostAU), previously an Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA) board member, a newbie speaker, writer, not-so-newbie gin drinker and dog lover.

Dr Felicity Millman

Felicity is a Perth-native and is currently the health program manager for Boundlss; a technology company creating Artificial Intelligence systems to help people improve their physical and mental health and increase their wellbeing. Felicity has a PhD in psychology and genetics and concurrently to her work with Boundlss, is a private practice psychologist supporting individuals from all walks of life with all manner of issues.

In the past, Felicity founded her own technology company, has won numerous hackathons and been involved in a number of technology accelerator programs across the globe. She lectured in psychology for Curtin University for 5 years, has completed research in a range of fields from Autism to cattle genomics and has project managed software development for radiology and nuclear medicine. She has a passion for technology and the opportunities it provides humanity.

Ming Johanson

Ming is the CEO and Social Nerd behind OTOTGo. She works with businesses to strategise their social media, sales & marketing and develop digital marketing solutions around what you have, while helping put in place the things you need.

Ming is also an elected member of the ACS Branch Executive Committee, joining a team focused on diversity and social change in the Tech & ICT industry in Australia. She has a passion for promoting positive mental health for her employees and within the tech industry and she is a strong advocate for diversity & social change,

What is Geek Mental Help Week?

Geek Mental Help Week ( http://geekmentalhelp.com/ ) is a week-long series of articles, podcasts and events about mental health issues in the tech industry. Originally set up by a group of UK-based tech professionals, the events have grown over the last few years and are designed to encourage people to start talking about mental health. This year the events have also expanded to include locations in Australia, including Perth.

What else are we doing?

As part of Geek Mental Help Week, Fenders will be hosting several events to raise awareness of the importance of mental health as well as provide an opportunity to take time out and de-stress.

Our Sponsors

Big thanks to Humaan (https://humaan.com/), Microsoft and Meerkats (https://meerkats.com.au/) for sponsoring our Geek Mental Health Week events and making it possible!