Anne is an experienced sustainable buildings consultant who now leads the Arup Foresight and Innovation offering in Australasia. Anne’s innovative approach to design and sustainability is internationally recognized with invited and keynote presentations including the Singapore Government, the Green Building Council and NASA Langley. Anne has facilitated many workshops, most recently a strategy workshop for the South East Queensland water industry in which long term future scenario’s were developed.

Anne specialises in the area of education with experience on many education projects including the net zero designed Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland and the Science and Technology Building at the Queensland University of Technology. She also recently authored the Arup publication Future of Schools focusing on pre-tertiary education and has been invited to speak on this subject at multiple forums.

Anne believes that foresight and innovation skills are integral to achieving sustainable outcomes and is passionate about applying these techniques for long term positive outcomes. Anne’s work has included Smart cities strategic development working with the Brisbane City Council to develop their Smart, Connected framework. Anne is currently developing the Smart Cities readiness cards with the Smart Cities Council or Australia and New Zealand and also contributed to the Smart Cities Guide for Built Environment Consultants and has presented on this subject around Australia.

Anne is still passionate about sustainability for buildings and has been on the Green Building Council technical advisory group for many years as well as being an Green Star assessor, a WELL building assessor and a NABERS assessor. Currently Anne is assisting in the development of a strategy for Arup’s alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals.

Ben’s spent more than a decade developing businesses, consulting on digital strategy, identifying market gaps and future trends. He’s founded many successful companies, including design studio and venture lab Josephmark, motion design company Breeder, indigenous creative agency Gilimbaa and trending music platform We Are Hunted, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012.

As JM’s CEO, he’s become an influential figure within Australia’s creative and business communities, and his fearlessness in pushing the envelope has culminated in the truly entrepreneurial business that Josephmark is known for.

Cat Matson is one of Queensland’s most popular MCs and moderators, known for her straight-talking style and extracting the best from her panellists. Cat is the founder and lead facilitator of Impactful Presenters, an online program that teaches change-makers and professionals how to present with confidence.

As Brisbane’s former chief digital officer, Cat has a strong reputation in Australia’s innovation ecosystems and was recognised in 2018 at the IDC Digital Transformation Awards as Australia’s Digital Experience (DX) Leader. Cat has led the way in open innovation programs for civic improvement with the design and development of Brisbane Innovate, believed to be one of the largest open innovation programs in the world.

Conor is the co-founder of Explorate, a company that has a vision to change the way freight moves around the world.

Conor’s reputation is built on thinking outside the box when it comes to supply chains and for the last three years has built Explorate into one of Australia’s leading digital freight companies.

Dr Cori Stewart is Founder and CEO of the ARM Hub, a not-for-profit company on a mission to digitally transform Australian industry. The ARM Hub specialises in AI, robotics, design and manufacturing and collaborates with industry to modernise its manufacturing practises, commercialise R&D, and build workforce capability.

The ARM Hub meets industry’s skills gaps delivering projects and services that accelerate Australia’s industrial transformation. We work across industry sectors from mining to food, and have a factory and maker space in Brisbane’s Northgate that is accessible to industry.

To support businesses’ access right-fit solutions, the ARM Hub delivers targeted industry programs on topics such as business model innovation, leadership, strategic planning, regulation/compliance, cyber security, R&D tax incentives and R&D grant readiness.

Cori has had a distinguished career and is a recognised leader in developing large-scale partnerships between industry, research institutions, governments and the community. Cori has previously held senior university appointments and government policy roles in industry development, the digital economy, creative industries and innovation.

Associate Professor Cori Stewart was awarded WiT’s Professional Technology Leader of 2020.

Isaac founded Proptech BNE. in 2019 after working to support the emerging technology sector in Australia for the better part of a decade. Isaac saw there was something missing from the current support ecosystem looking to grow the proptech economy, and that was an industry-led, outcome-driven community.

After working for numerous growth programs, accelerators, incubators and venture capital firms, Isaac realised there was a need for industry-led support and guidance for emerging proptech businesses that was not being met by any initiative he had seen…. Hence, the birth of Proptech BNE.

Along with being the founder of Proptech BNE. Isaac holds a number of advisory and/or board positions for some of the counties leading proptech businesses, including BLOCX, Dopple, Space Platforms, and Gallantree. Isaac is also currently the Head of Industry Relations for Building 4.0 CRC, The country’s leading industry-led research initiative solving some of the big issues for the property and construction sector globally.

Jason is a SaaS tech investor and C-Level Executive, focusing on scaling up tech companies. He usually takes an active role in the companies he invests in, as a Board Advisor and ‘fractional’ C-Level Executive.

His multi-sector, entrepreneurial portfolio career traverses startups & global corporations, with channel partnership and go2market experience across the US, Asia, EU & other markets. Dominated by building successful companies & exiting them at strategic points in time.

Kshira Saagar (the K is silent like in a Knight) is currently the Chief Data Officer of Latitude Financial Services and has spent 24.7% of his life helping key decision-makers and CxOs make smarter decisions using data, and strongly believes that every organisation can become truly data-driven.

He has been consecutively recognised among the Top 10 Analytics Leaders in Australia, for 2019,2020 and 2021. At every place he has worked, working and will work – he likes to go back to the fundamentals, asking people to ask more questions of data and being a tough taskmaster on getting actionable outcomes from data, on all possible occasions. Outside work, Kshira spends a lot of time on advancing data literacy initiatives for high school and undergrad students.

Pauline Fetaui is General Manager of River City Labs who joined in October 2019 to continue to pursue her passion of helping People create and live their purpose, whilst growing innovative technologies for the advancement of society. Pauline’s own contribution to this, includes; CheeHoo a Personal assistant and Organiser app she launched in 2019 and her other role as co-host of a Splash of Colour Podcast where authentic conversations about being human come to life.

Peter is the founder of Junta through which he participates heavily in the innovation ecosystem. A major role that he performs is interfacing between corporates and new ventures. He has coached and advised 800+ startups and new ventures on how to innovate, implement, and deliver to both consumers and businesses.

He has been the Mentor in Residence at River City Labs for over nine years. An Entrepreneur in Residence on twelve different programs over the last few years and also mentor on 15+ startup programs nationally. He has been doing large scale software development for the last 25 years for both enterprise and new ventures.

Peter has an MBA from QUT specialising in strategy, entrepreneurship, and microeconomics. He is a sessional lecturer in innovation, entrepreneurship, and business strategy at both UQ and QUT.

Peter won the Queensland Pearcey Entrepreneur Award for 2018.

Rob has over 26 years in the advertising and digital industries. He is a former director of Greenfield and Icon in London and Y&R and Clemenger here in Australia.

In 2019, Rob launched SpoutLogic; a consultancy focused on the practical application of human-centred design and emerging technology for business, academia and governments, delivering digital innovation and marketing advantage.

Rob sits on the boards of Mindshift, Artisan and the Brisbane Portrait Prize. He is a consulting lecturer to QUT on marketing technology, brand strategy and behaviour change.

The tech-head prodigy behind BOP Industries, Scott Millar is a young entrepreneur taking the world by storm. Compared to a young Steve Jobs after turning a year nine business project into a thriving business, Scott has deferred university to run BOP Industries full time, now with a growing presence around the world.

BOP Industries is a Brisbane based EdTech company on a mission to inspire the next generation of digital creators. Scott and his team work with teachers, students, parents and industry around the world to provide opportunities and experiences to primary and high school students around the pillars of STEM, entrepreneurship, innovation and the future of work.

Scott is always working to innovate and create as we find new ways to inspire and engage young people, showing them the amazing things they can do at any age, from anywhere.