Join with us as we bring the international innovation lab UNLEASH to our Pacific region for the first time, hosted from lutruwita / Tasmania in November 2025, bringing together 200 passionate young people for change to address and co-create solutions through the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Visioning Webinars
Join together with interested stakeholders, the UNLEASH community and passionate individuals across the world as we share about the opportunity of bringing the international innovation lab UNLEASH to our Pacific region, hosted from lutruwita / Tasmania in November 2025.
Context
The UNLEASH Regional Lab is an unprecedented opportunity to confront the critical climate challenges gripping the islands in our region. Bringing together 200 dynamic young leaders from islands in the Pacific region, UNLEASH transcends cultural and geographical boundaries, serving as a global platform for innovative problem-solving. Through the UNLEASH Innovation Process run across a five day week in November 2025, the lab creates a shared space for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the development of new methodologies. This collective approach is pivotal for addressing pressing global issues effectively – and this regional lab will look specifically at the unique opportunities and challenges that islands face.
Visioning Webinar | The First Step
This webinar is an open forum to understand about the global movement that is UNLEASH, the opportunity of bringing this to lutruwita / Tasmania, and ways that everyone can help and add to the opportunity of hosting this in Tasmania. This session is a place to share the vision, align strategies, and look at the opportunity of bringing 200 people from islands in our region to co-create solutions around the Sustainable Development Goals – and how we make this something everyone can be part of and benefit from.
Register & Join Us
We’re hosting four webinars across Wednesday 17 July to help those across the world join together for these conversations as we share the vision and look to create collaborations to impact this region forever at the following times;
- Webinar A: 10am AEST | 12 noon NZDT | 2am CET
- Webinar B: 1pm AEST | 3pm NZDT | 5am CET
- Webinar C: 4pm AEST | 6pm NZDT | 8am CET
- Webinar D: 6pm AEST | 8pm NZDT | 10am CET
We’re excited to have you join us for these conversations – so let us know you are coming by clicking the button below to register now.
About UNLEASH lutruwita / Tasmania
We aim to UNLEASH the potential of 200 young leaders of islands in our region to positively foster cross-border collaboration, drive innovation and cultivate sustainable solutions for ongoing resilience and prosperity of our islands communities for our generation, and for future generations.
The UNLEASH Regional Lab is an unprecedented opportunity to confront the critical climate challenges gripping the islands in our region. Bringing together 200 dynamic young leaders from islands in the Pacific region, UNLEASH transcends cultural and geographical boundaries, serving as a global platform for innovative problem-solving. Through the UNLEASH Innovation Process run across a five day week, the lab creates a shared space for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the development of new methodologies. This collective approach is pivotal for addressing pressing global issues effectively – and this regional lab will look specifically at the unique opportunities and challenges that islands face.
lutruwita / Tasmania serves as an ideal backdrop for the lab, with a commitment to export renewable electricity to the rest of Australia and progress towards fully embracing the Sustainable Development Goals. The lab seeks to unite island communities across the Pacific, including those facing similar environmental challenges, to foster collaboration, share knowledge, and co-develop solutions for a sustainable future. This initiative underscores the crucial role of island ecosystems in the global environmental narrative. The UNLEASH Lab’s regional focus encompasses Tasmania and the broader island community across the Pacific region, connecting across these islands, identifying and implementing immediate solutions for these vulnerable locations.
Ideal candidates for participation are individuals aged 18 to 35 from diverse sectors, including academia, private, and public sectors, who embody energy, collaboration, and a readiness for change. The lab experience is designed to facilitate collaboration, learning, and collective innovation, emphasising community improvement and exploration of new ideas within defined thematic tracks.
To make access to the lab as equitable as possible, we are seeking partners to bring this event to life and to cover all participation costs (including flights, accommodation, meals and associated expenses) so that the costs do not prevent the right people from being involved and getting to Tasmania. The University of Tasmania has already come on board to support the event through hosting the innovation process in their campuses in Launceston and Hobart, and conversations are well underway with the Tasmanian Government along with other significant businesses and industry organisations to strengthen the local commitment.
Support of UNLEASH lutruwita / Tasmania offers a unique opportunity for companies and institutions to actively contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals, aligning with one of the world’s leading sustainable platforms. Engaging with UNLEASH means more than just supporting a good cause—it’s about driving concrete action for global progress, particularly in this crucial region. Supporters can showcase their commitment to sustainability by integrating innovative perspectives and knowledge of emerging leaders into their organisations, positioning themselves as sustainability leaders in the Pacific community and benefit from the following;
- Driving Global Change: Supporters can align with the imperative for sustainable solutions, demonstrating commitment to real-world problem-solving and innovation.
- Empowering Energetic Innovators: Supporting the lab uplifts individuals poised to make a difference, equipping them with skills, tools, and knowledge that will be deployed across the entire region.
- Building Meaningful Relationships: Engagement fosters lasting relationships and networks across the Pacific region, creating partnerships that extend beyond the lab for collective action.
- Learning and Contributing to Solutions: Supporters can immerse themselves in island communities’ challenges, contributing to and learning from innovative solutions.
- Enhancing Brand Association with Sustainability: Active involvement allows companies to align their brand authentically with sustainability, amplifying their commitment in the eyes of a global audience.
In essence, participation in UNLEASH Tasmania is not merely an investment in the lab itself but a strategic alignment with future-focused, sustainable innovation, fostering a global community of change-makers. UNLEASH’s comprehensive approach to capacity building and global networking ensures participants leave equipped to address communal challenges, becoming part of an expansive global community dedicated to impactful innovation across the entire region. This strategic choice emphasizes the lab’s role as a catalyst for collective solutions, transcending geographical and climatic differences to create a more sustainable for island communities.
Highlights from Past UNLEASH Labs
UNLEASH Greenland
Watch the highlights from the 2022 UNLEASH Regional Innovation Lab hosted in Greenland. This size of event and strong connection to local context is what is inspiring with us as we bring 200 people from our Pacific region together to lutruwita / Tasmania in November 2025 for the first UNLEASH lab in the Pacific region.
UNLEASH Rwanda
Get an insight into the power of the UNLEASH Global Innovation Lab, with this highlights video from the 2023 lab hosted in Kigali, Rwanda. With 1000 participants from over 130 countries, there is a power and a scale to these events that even bringing some of this energy to the Pacific region will forever change what is possible in our local community.
Drivers of the UNLEASH lutruwita / Tasmania Opportunity
The Educator’s Hot List for Australia’s movers and shakers in education, 2023
Australia’s Top 40 Under 40 Entrepreneurs and Executives, 2023
Tasmanian Young Australian of the Year, 2015
Dynamically fueling innovation and transformation across communities, businesses, and education, Adam is someone who loves to unlock momentum and is clearly never bored. One week he’s igniting the entrepreneurial spark in aspiring business owners, the next he is working with young people to meaningfully be included in creating the change they way to see, and then he’s challenging small businesses to break barriers and drive for impact.
Adam Mostogl is the CEO and Chief Entrepreneur of The van Diemen Project, where he drives innovation and supports progress daily. He works with individuals and organizations to create a brighter future through his expertise and passion. As the Founder and Inspirer of illuminate Education Australia, Adam has guided programs empowering over 22,500 students from 280 schools. These initiatives address societal challenges by helping students become confident and creative voices in their communities. He also mentors social enterprises in Tasmania through The Shift Lab, the state’s first social impact incubator.
Internationally recognized, Adam has participated in innovation ecosystems tours by the US State Department and contributed to the UNLEASH Global Innovation Lab for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. His influence extends to platforms like the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. In 2023, Adam was named one of Australia’s Top 40 Under 40 Entrepreneurs and Executives and was featured on The Educator’s Hot List for Australia’s Most Innovative Educators. He was also a finalist for Young Australian of the Year. Despite his global impact, Adam remains dedicated to his Tasmanian roots, living with his wife Jessi and their three sons, Timothy, Zachariah, and Joel.
Adam Mostogl is coordinating the lab in collaboration with a range of stakeholders across Tasmania as well as the UNLEASH Secretariat, ensuring that this community lab experience is consistent to the values and reputation of other UNLEASH Events across the world.
Get in Touch
UNLEASH lutruwita / Tasmania – just like the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – is designed to be a collective opportunity for change for our region, and to ensure that the unique perspective of islands is highlighted and recognised as we push for a world that looks after people, planet, peace and prosperity.
Connect and join together as we present this globally significant event in lutruwita / Tasmania by asking questions, getting on board and becoming a partner – which you can do by filling in our contact form.
unleash lutruwita / tasmania
Let’s co-create the sustainable future we desire hand in hand with our island communities.
UNLEASH lutruwita / Tasmania acknowledge the Tasmanian Aboriginal People as the traditional custodians of the land on which we live, learn and work.
UNLEASH lutruwita / Tasmania is a community coordinated innovation lab, using the methodology of UNLEASH, coordinated by Tasmanians and the wider community for sustainable solutions to island specific challenges across the Pacific region.