Professional Engineer of the Year Jillian Formentin, joins WA’s 2025 Young Australian of the Year Jack Anderson, for a conversation filled with motivational exchanges, practical advice, and reflections on the collective responsibility to shape a better future. Engineers ‘make life happen’
Join Engineers Australia for this special evening for a candid conversation between the two, as they reflect on what “making a difference” means to both of them and how they hope their work will inspire future generations.
About the speaker
At 24 years old, Jack Anderson is working to transform Australia’s education system as we know it.
As the 2025 WA Young Australian of the Year, a 7-time author, Harvard Masters student, and the Co-Founder of Elucidate Education, Jack has provided more than 100,000 students with equitable access to textbooks and educational resources they need to succeed in school.
Driven to bridge the education inequality gap in rural Australia, Jack pursued his Masters of Education Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Harvard’s most prestigious full-ride scholarship called the Frank-Knox Memorial Fellowship
