Our Team

Event Principal: Brian Hill, Founder of Laughing Mind, a Central Coast based Digital Strategy and Atlassian Experts company, creating Empowering Digital Possibilities with Smart Solar products from Goal Zero.

Event Collaborators

Quiet Rush: A sister company of Laughing Mind, supplying and supporting both Australian made electric off-road bikes and Gazelle town+city electric bikes - perfect event platform bikes combining battery systems + wheels;

Tom Farrell Institute for the Environment, University of Newcastle: TFI are the creators and sustainers of the following iconic regional events:

Hunter Electric Vehicle Festival: A schools based Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths challenge for teams to build and race their own electric bikes;
Smart Future Cities Conference: Bringing you the most relevent and recent innovations and information on adapting our lives for the future, covering Energy, Transport and the Built Environment with a regional city perspective.

SparkCC: your local MakerSpace for the Central Coast, at 250 Manns Rd, West Gosford. Check out their workshops for Helmet Decoration with ElectroLuminescent (EL) wire or Light Saber creation with LED strips.

Our exhibitor collection sampler

Seeds

Got a spark of an idea that you'd like to sow as a seed, or seen something in our inspirations gallery? Let us know. Whether it's a local Floating Lantern collection, LED illuminated kayak clubs, ambient skating, a Lantern Parade, light enhanced mobility scooter or something else in line with our Event Themes, we're all ears. We're putting some suggestions for you into our Blog for you to consider a DIY project as part of our approach to event Interaction.

Seedlings

GroupDCreative / Cas Stronach: Vivid 2012 exhibitors renowned for their giant illuminated Anglerfish built around electric trikes, which feature in the header images of our site, GroupDCreative are a must have for an event that celebrates the junction of land+water+light;

Rickshaw Revolution: A pedi-cab company that make moving from A to B a delight, with emerging presences in Newcastle and select regional centres.

Rickshaw Revolution Pedi-Cab, branded by Bank of Melbourne.

Saplings and Shade Trees

Hammer Lighting: Mark Hammer is a repeat Vivid Festival exhibitor, based in Berkeley Vale. As a local artist, Mark creates compelling, transient and beautiful lighting experiences, usually at National events - Mark has been a helpful guide and collaborator in the planning of LumenMotion;