Category: Technology, Change and the Future
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Yassmin trained as a mechanical engineer and worked on oil and gas rigs around Australia for years before becoming a writer and broadcaster in 2016. ...
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Entrusting an experienced MC to take that vital role in your event team is a
significant consideration in your event preparation. The best MC brings ...
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Richard Aedy presents The Media Report and Sunday Profile on Radio National. Previously he presented the popular Life Matters program every morning on...
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Manal al-Sharif, named by the TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, she is a prominent voice advocating for women's rights in t...
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Over the last twenty years, Simon Anholt has advised the Presidents, Prime Ministers, monarchs and governments of nearly sixty countries, cities and r...
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Originally from the United States, Justin lived in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area before moving to Sydney.
He holds a dual degree in El...
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The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. Gus Balbontin is one of them. He’s an investor, entrepreneur, ...
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A technology guru, Scott Bales is a global leader in the cutting-edge arena known as "The Digital Shift", encompassing innovation, culture, design, te...
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Associate Professor, Dr Catherine Ball is a scientific futurist, speaker, advisor, author, founder, executive producer, executive director, company an...
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Bill Bartee is a co-founder and Managing Director of Blackbird Ventures and of Southern Cross Venture Partners. He has co-founded several successful c...
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Tech start-up investor Steve Baxter is a proud Queenslander, born in the remote town of Cloncurry and raised in Emerald in the State’s central highlan...
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Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell, AO FAHA FTSE is the Director of the School of Cybernetics and 3A Institute (3Ai) at the Australian National Un...
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Prof. Michael J. Biercuk is a quantum physicist, innovator, and Director of the Quantum Control Laboratory at the University of Sydney. His group is w...
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An economic and social commentator on present-day Australia, Geoffrey Blainey was born in Victoria and brought up in country towns, including Leongath...
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Peter Blasina is regularly acknowledged for having made a valuable contribution to the high standard of IT journalism both locally and overseas.
A ...
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Lucy is an energetic conference speaker. Her style is fast-paced and fun, with presentations that are full of learnings to apply to work and life cont...
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Dr Jessica Bloom has a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Sydney - studying galaxy mergers and their impact on galaxy evolution. Jessica is pa...
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Nick Bowditch is a successful (and unsuccessful) entrepreneur, a storyteller, a marketer, an addict, a mental health advocate, a sexual abuse victim, ...
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Dr Jenny Brockis specialises in high-performance thinking. An expert in brain fitness and long fascinated by the brain and human behaviour, Dr Jenny r...
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John Brodie established VIM Sustainability Consulting in 2003 to cater for the growing demand for his individual expertise and the interest in sustain...
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Charlie Brown is one of Australia’s leading commentators on consumer electronics. Charlie specialises is delivering complex technical information abou...
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Jane Caro AM is a Walkley award winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, feminist, public education activist and social commentator. Once upon ...
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Kate is Chief Data & Insights Officer for UNSW Sydney, is the Head of Business Intelligence for the UNSW AI Institute and, until recently, was an Adju...
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James Chin Moody is a co-founder and CEO of Sendle, a technology company revolutionising parcel delivery in Australia. He was recently chosen by as on...
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A Cross-cultural Consultant, Tasneem has recently been appointed as an ‘Anti-Racism Champion’ by the Australian Human Rights Commission. Previously, s...
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Jeffrey Cole has been at the forefront of media and communication technology policy issues in both the United States and internationally for the past ...
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Rev Tim Costello is one of Australia’s most respected community leaders and a sought after voice on social justice issues, leadership and ethics.
T...
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Annabel Crabb is one of Australia's most beloved journalists. She is an ABC writer and presenter who has covered Australian politics for 20 years but ...
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Dr Clio Cresswell has established a diverse career as a mathematician, author, writer and presenter.
Clio is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Ma...
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Paul Davies is theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, author and broadcaster. He currently holds the position of Professor of Natural Phi...
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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chai...
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Edward de Bono is regarded by many as the leading authority in the field of creative thinking, innovation and the direct teaching of thinking as a ski...
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“It’s easy to believe that others have easier paths to their goals. They don’t. The game is ‘who can navigate through the obstacles’.“
Mark’s maste...
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Trained initially as a veterinarian, Peter Doherty is Australian immunologist and pathologist who, with Rolf Zinkernagel of Switzerland, received the ...
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Sally Dominguez is a thought leader in resilience, sustainable innovations, and exponential mindset. A futurist and inventor with seven international ...
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Associate Professor Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University creating baby universes on supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our M...
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Grant Dusting is a social researcher and the Director of Strategy at the internationally recognised McCrindle.
With a background in public policy, co...
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David Ellyard has been in and around science and technology all his working life. He has worked as a researcher, a teacher in schools and university, ...
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An award winning, international corporate innovator, Sally has a senior commercial background spanning over 15 years and five countries.
Sally talk...
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Shara Evans is internationally acknowledged as a cutting edge technology futurist, keynote speaker, commentator, strategy advisor and thought leader, ...
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Marc Fennell is a Walkley-winning journalist and documentary maker.
A 5-time medallist at the New York Festivals TV and Radio Awards, Marc has bee...
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Simon Fjell is Co-founder director of the Permaculture Institute International, now a global sustainable design organisation with many thousands of pr...
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Prof Tim Flannery is one of the world’s most influential environmentalists. An author of best-selling books, presenter for numerous television documen...
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David is a planetary scientist formerly based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has designed, developed and fielded numerous robotic platforms f...
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Peter Ford was the first Australian news anchor on CNN in Atlanta.
He was also working for a US Government Rehabilitation Research and Development ...
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They say he plays dice with Loki (badly), that Hermes once gave him a high-five (crisp), that he does coffee with Lady Fortuna on a semi-regular basis...
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Co-founder and CEO of Bluewire Media, and co-author of the best-seller Web Marketing That Works
Adam Franklin is the bestselling author of Web Mark...
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Oliver Freeman is Managing Director of the foresight business, The Neville Freeman Agency, which he co-founded with Richard Neville in 2002. He was al...
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Incredible things are happening on our planet. Diseases are being eradicated, millions are being lifted out of poverty, billions of people are gaining...
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Rob is a coastal geomorphologist by training; he taught Environmental Science and Physical Geography at Melbourne State College and Melbourne Universi...
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Andy Gent is leader in the area of social media and translating what this means to businesses as consumers rapidly adopt this new media for communicat...
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He has spent over 30 years working on sustainability issues as an advisor, activist, businessman and thought leader. This long, frontline experience g...
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Susan Greenfield is Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University, a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster. She has been awarded 30 Honorary Degree...
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Tanya Ha is an award-winning Australian science communicator, environmental campaigner, best-selling author, journalist and broadcaster, diversity adv...
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Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith is an award-winning astrophysicist, author, broadcaster, board member, and occasional ultra-marathon runner. As the Austra...
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Angus is a political economist and a journalist specialising in the impact of disruptive technologies on society. He was the founding community manage...
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Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson is the world authority on Newsell. He holds the worlds first PhD in Lateral Thinking for discovering a brand new strategy fo...
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Glen Hiemstra is the founder and owner of Futurist.com, and founder and curator of the new venture, DoTheFuture.com. Glen is dedicated to disseminatin...
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Peter Hind, through his company Launch Pad Marketing Pty Ltd, is an independent analyst, researcher and commentator on the IT industry around Asia Pac...
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Bernie Hobbs is best known as a popular judge from ABC TV's The New Inventors, and her many years presenting science on ABC radio & TV around Australi...
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The doyen of consumer behaviour, Ross Honeywill is an internationally recognised authority on the impact of the changing social fabric on the future o...
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He was a lead consultant in Europe for the International Development Program of Australian Universities and Colleges (IDP) and on behalf of Austrade (...
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Tané is a cancer researcher, bio-informatician, and science communicator. He's a co-founder of Future Crunch, as well as a data analytics startup, Lig...
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Dr Rebecca Huntley is one of Australians foremost researchers on social trends.
She has a background in publishing, academia and politics.
She...
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With a background in educational technology and a flair for experiments, Deane Hutton presents a science show that brings out the"kid" in everyone.
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Dan Ilic is one of Australia’s most prolific comedic voices. Dan is now back in Australia after working in Los Angeles as the Executive Producer of Co...
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Fast-talking, funny and pulling no punches, Karen James is a Jersey girl turned social entrepreneur, author and speaker, who has risen through the ran...
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Toby Jenkins is the MD and co-founder of Bluewire Media as well a popular and entertaining speaker on digital strategy, sport & business.
Toby was ...
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Dr Gael Jennings is a strategic advisor to government and industry, specialising in science, engineering, maths, media and communications; a TV and r...
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Rae Johnston is a multi-award-winning journalist, TV, and radio presenter focusing on the geekier side of life.
The first Science & Technology Edi...
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There is no other woman on the planet like Amanda Johnstone. She invents
technologies to improve the human condition. TIME awarded her as a Next
Gen...
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Mark Jones is an Author, Master Storyteller and Brand Strategist who helps business leaders harness the power of storytelling for growth.
The forme...
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The Hon. Jeff Kennett AC entered the Victorian State Parliament in 1977. He served in the Liberal Government in the early 1980's as Minister for Housi...
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Dr Jillian Kenny is an engineer, an educator, and a pilot-in-training. As a Lecturer at The University of Melbourne, she specialises in teaching, with...
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James Kirby is considered to be one of Australia's leading financial journalists. As a commentator, broadcaster and entrepreneur in his own right, he ...
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When NASA classified Karl as non-astronaut material in 1981 he walked straight into ABC Radio station Double J and offered to talk about the Space shu...
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Roger La Salle is professional engineer, a director of a number of companies and a successful business entrepreneur. Roger developed and documented hi...
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Dr Niraj “Nij” Lal is a Visiting Fellow at the ANU Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, writer, and Resident Scientist for ABC Kids Listen where he ...
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Sue Langley turns science into simple and practical tools anyone can use, inspiring individuals, organisations and teams to be the best they can be.
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Andy Lark is a globally awarded marketer and leader in social and digital technologies. He is the CEO of Group Lark and former Chief Marketing and Onl...
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Mick Liubinskas is a climate tech investor and advisor. He co-founded Climate Salad to help build climate-focused startups and help the world get to a...
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Emma Lo Russo is an international business leader, strategist, marketer, coach, speaker and writer.
She co-founded Digivizer, Australia’s leading soc...
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Darren Lomman is the CEO and Founder of the Dreamfit Foundation. Darren is a Churchill Fellow, and has been recognised for his role at the Foundation ...
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Yasmin London is an in-demand communication powerhouse whose mission is to equip people with the skills and knowledge to ensure technology enhances th...
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Hugh Mackay is a psychologist, social researcher and bestselling author.
Hugh has had a 60-year career in social research, and was also a weekly n...
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Confused by video and how to harness its persuasive power?
Feeling the digital squeeze and want to take the pressure off — fast?
Is video someth...
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Mark McCrindle is a social researcher with an international following. He is recognised as a leader in tracking emerging issues and researching social...
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George McEncroe is a comedian, a writer, a teacher, a footy coach and a broadcaster. Oh and she also started Australia’s first female rideshare compan...
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Digital transformation, Ai, Innovation and future of work are the most important topics in any company today. Every board, C level and decision maker ...
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Anne-Maree McInerney (formerly Huxley) is a highly regarded business and community leader with a focus on new disruptive innovation, technologies and ...
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Dr Linda McIver is the Author of Raising Heretics: Teaching Kids to Change the World.
Selected as one of the inaugural Superstars of STEM by Scien...
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Susan McLean is Australia’s foremost expert in the area of cyber safety and was a member of Victoria Police for 27 years. Widely known as the ‘cyber c...
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Hamish McRae is one of Europe's leading futurists on global business, economics and society. A London based economic journalist, Hamish is the author ...
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Ruben Meerman is a surfer with a physics degree known to a generation of Aussie kids and parents as the ABC's Surfing Scientist. He has presented scie...
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With more than fifteen years of experience in exploring computer security, Kevin Mitnick is a largely self-taught expert in exposing the vulnerabiliti...
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Michael Mobbs has held an interest in sustainable design for over 20 years, advising about technology, design, environmental law and policy to governm...
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Dr Alice Motion is a chemist and science communicator based at The University of Sydney. Her research focuses on open science and Science Communicatio...
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For thirty years, Jonar has worked in sales, marketing, and management; and is now the Chairman of Logictivity Pty Ltd - a management consulting firm....
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Tony Nash started his first internet business in 1996. In 2004 Tony founded Booktopia (ASX:BKG), an online bookstore, with an allocated budget of $10 ...
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Professor Neville Norman is an experienced academic economist, business advisor and communicator, dedicated to providing fresh, different and relevant...
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Sir Ralph Norris joined the Commonwealth Bank as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer in September 2005 and he retired from this position in ...
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Dr Joanne Orlando’s (PhD) is changing our relationship with technology. She combines cutting-edge research, and 10+ years of working with industry, go...
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Alison Page is an interior designer and member of the Merrima Design group. She has worked on health, education, commercial office, arts centre and pu...
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In 2023, Laurel Papworth is pleased to announce she has licenced her AI Is My CoPilot course at Australian Institute of Management (AIM) as she presen...
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Alan Patching challenges and inspires corporate and government leaders and potential leaders to take steps and make changes to foster the innovation n...
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Graeme joined CSIRO in 1971, establishing a research program on atmospheric chemistry and was a prime influence in the establishment of the Cape Grim ...
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Yemi Penn is a global thought leader on how to ignite your Rebellious Curiosity at an individual, team and organisational level.
An Engineer by pro...
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Has COVID-19 shaken up your world? Are your people looking for leadership in this time of massive change? Do you want to be more confident and decisiv...
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Mark Pesce is a futurist, inventor, writer, entrepreneur, educator and podcaster.
In 1994 Pesce co-invented VRML, a 3D interface to the Web.
Pes...
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Graeme Philipson is founder and Research Director of Connection Research, a market research and analysis firm specialising in the convergence of susta...
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Accomplished and experienced business leader, executive, coach, speaker and author, Iggy is an internationally recognized connection technology guru a...
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Vanessa’s zoological background has taken her around the world for wildlife research. She is a passionate and experienced science communicator who lov...
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Stevan is one of Australia’s leading tech entrepreneurs. In 1997, in the middle of the GFC he conceptualised Dimmi on the back of a napkin and went on...
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Christopher is Chairman of strategic advisory and public affairs consulting firm Pyne and Partners.
Christopher is Chairman of Vision 2020, the na...
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Nancy Rademaker is one of the very few female international keynote speakers to cover the impact of digitization on customer behaviour and how that af...
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Kate is a multi-award winning game designer, innovation facilitator and explainer of the future.
Kate combines her naturally playful and engaging...
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Chris Riddell is one of Asia’s most sought after futurists, and is an award-winning industry recognized inspirational keynote speaker on digital. He i...
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Graduated as an agricultural scientist, Chris has worked in various technical, advisory and commercial roles in over 30 countries mainly specialising ...
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Phil Ruthven is the founder and Chairman of IBISWorld, an international corporation providing online business information, forecasting and strategic s...
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Peter Shmigel has 10 years experience in several facets of environmental management and policy. With social sciences qualifications, Peter works with ...
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Dr Paul Scully-Power is an integrator, strategist and orthogonal thinker, and is Australia’s first astronaut.
He has extensive international experi...
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As founder and Group CEO of Karrikins Group, Peter Sheahan is known internationally for his innovative business thinking and thought leadership. With ...
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In June 1987, David having recently emigrated from South Africa, founded Com Tech Communications as a specialist supplier of networking and communicat...
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Tim Silverwood is an award-winning environmentalist committed to reducing human impacts on the natural world. A keen surfer, Tim became alarmed at the...
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Michael P. Smith is an established leader in the mobile and wireless communication industry and is a well-respected commentator in industry and consum...
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Heralded as one of the ‘top 10 people to know in Silicon Valley’, and considered “one of the most important thought leaders of our time,” Brian Solis ...
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Former Managing Director Twitter Australia
Karen was Twitter Australia’s Founding Managing Director and set up the local operations including its adv...
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Dr Suter is an experienced, professional and awarded presenter renowned for explaining complex global and business issues in a way his audiences can d...
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David T. Suzuki PhD, the Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.
David has received co...
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David Thomas is well known in the Asia Pacific region for his experience, credibility and passion for identifying, building and facilitating business ...
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In 1996 Dr Andrew Thomas became the first Australian to take part in a space research mission.
After an extensive career as a mechanical engineer ...
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Steve Tighe is one of Australia's most compelling speakers on the future and innovation. He is recognised for his thought-provoking observations, and ...
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How do we get machines to listen to music and truly compose the way that humans do? Machine listening involves software that can use sound to locate p...
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Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP is a trailblazing strategic futurist and highly sought-after international keynote speaker and Global Speaking Fellow. His u...
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Nicole Velik is a creativity and innovation speaker, trainer and consultant. She is the founder of an innovation company, The Ideas Bodega. Nicole bel...
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Alex Wadelton (co-author of The Right-brain Workout series of books with Russel Howcroft) holds the official Guinness World Record for longest duratio...
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Mike Walsh helps prepare global business leaders for what's next. He is a leading authority on the intersection of emerging technologies, consumer beh...
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Toby Walsh is one of the leading researchers in the world in Artificial Intelligence. He was recently named in the inaugural Knowledge Nation 100, the...
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Fred Watson comes from a long line of Freds, but seems to have been the first in the family to become an astronomer. He was born and raised on the out...
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Jeff Watson has thirty years experience as a journalist, author and film producer both in Australia and the UK.
He is best known for the televisio...
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Jay Weatherill served as the 45th Premier of South Australia and is the South Australian Labor Party’s longest continuous serving Minister of the Crow...
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Peter is a recognised thought leader and practitioner in Innovation with a particular focus on digital innovation.
Although his professional train...
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Robyn Williams is a science journalist and presenter of Radio National's Science Show (since 1975), Ockham's Razor and In Conversation. A fascinating ...
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Graeme Wood revolutionised the travel industry in Australia when he created the concept for, and co-founded, Wotif.com in 2000. From his simple and in...
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A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years, Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's ...
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Dr Kirsty Wright is a Forensic Biologist who has worked in Major Crime, assisted in the 2002 Bali Bombings, led the international Thai Tsunami Victim ...
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