People

Aaron Birkby

CEO, Tribe Global Ventures

Aaron Cowper

Founder, ShopGrok

Adam Spencer

Managing Director, W2D1 Media

Adrian Macneil

Co-Founder and CEO, Foxglove

Akshay Kothari

Co-Founder, Notion

Alain Richardt

Founder, Atomic Tessellator

Alan Jones

General Partner, M8 Ventures

Alan Noble

Founder, AusOcean

Alex Carpenter

Initial Nudger, The Guild of Entrepreneurs

Alex Feldman

Alex Logan

Founder, Cecil

Alex Scandurra

Managing Director, Stone & Chalk

Alex Valente

Co-Founder, Redactive

Alexey Mitko

Partner, Co Ventures

Alfred Lo

Chief Commercial & Product Officer, Harvest B

Alicia Edge

Co-CEO, Compeat

Allan O'Connor

Professor Enterprise Dynamics, University of South Australia (UniSA)

Allen Fan

Co-Founer, CarbonHQ

Amy Saper

Partner, Uncork Capital

Amy Tucker

Co-founder of Springboards. An idea accelerator powered by AI to inspire your creative thinking. Designed to keep creative humans in the creative equation. We help you get places you wouldn't alone., Springboards

Anabel Lippincott Paksoy

Co-Founder

Anastasia Volkova

Co-Founder, Regrow Ag

Andrea Gardiner

Founder and CEO, Jelix Ventures

Andrew Antal

Head of Marketing APAC, Vanta

Andrew Butt

Co-Founder, Enable

Andrew McCarthy

GM of ANZ, SEA and India, Notion

Andrew Mears

Founder, SwitchDin

Andrew Nunn

Executive Director, JBS&G Australia

Angela Shi

Founder & CEO, Empathetic AI

Anish Sinha

COO and CO-Founder, Upcover

Anna Wright

CEO, BindiMaps

Annabel Zhou

Co-Founder, Toastie

Annie Liao

Founder, BuildClub

Annie Parker

Executive Director Tech Central, Greater Sydney Commission

Anshul Jain

Co-Founder, Everlab

Anson Parker

CPO, Up Bank

Anthony Ferrier

Head of Growth, Trideca

Anton Jackson Smith

Founder, b.next

Anton Phillips-Chantelois

Founder, DelayPay

Antony Martin

Founder, Hone

Aonghus Stevens

CEO, Asseti

Ariella Heffernan-Marks

CEO Founder, Ovum

Arthur Sinodinos

Partner and Chair, The Asia Group

Ash Fontana

Managing Partner, Zetta Venture Partners

Ashley Baxter

CEO, Monty Compost

Ashwin Ramachandran

CEO, Sapyen

Baden U'Ren

Entrepreneur In Residence, Somerset College

Becky Kiil

Director, Newcastle Afoot

Ben Grabiner

Co-Founder and General Partner, Side Stage Ventures

Ben King

Founder, Aviato Consulting

Ben Radcliffe

Co-Founder and CEO, Braiv

Bill Tai

Founding Chairman, ACTAI Ventures

Blair Hudson

Chief Engineer, Generative AI, Commonwealth Bank

Bowen Pan

VP of Product, Common Room

Brad Parsons

Ecosystem Orchestrator, Rely Ability

Brendan Cervin

CTO, Ideally

Brendan Hill

Venture Partner, TEN13

Brennan O'Donnell

Partner, Frontline Ventures

Bronwen Clune

Journalist, Capital Brief

Bruce Tulloch

Director, Mayman Aerospace

Bryony Cole

Founder, Future of Sex

Cameron Adams

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Canva

Cameron Storey

Head of Sales and Marketing, The Rocking Horse Group

Cara Cooper

Co-Founder, Your Food Collective

Caroline Bowler

CEO, BTC Markets

Carrie Kwan

Mums & Co Co-Founder, IAG

Chad Renando

Managing Director, Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN)

Charles Hudson

Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

Charlie Gearside

Co-Founder, Eucalyptus

Cheryl Mack

CEO, Aussie Angels

Cheyanne Carter

Founder, Divergent Education

Chris Fresle

Founder, Just Us

Chris Frezel

Chris Gillings

Founder, Cut Through Ventures

Chris Titley

Director, Sub11

Christina Fa

Principal, NewView Capital

Christina Jones

Head of Design, GenAI, Canva

Christina Maher

Founder, BrainLand

Claire Waring

Co-Founder, Gether

Clement Baissat

Founder and CEO, HopeStage

Cole Cornford

Chief Executive Officer, Galah Cyber

Colette Grgic

Head of Startup Ecosystem, AU & NZ, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Colin Goudie

Founder, Social Pinpoint

Colin Kinner

Founder and CEO, Startup Onramp

Colm Flanagan

Founder, HIROCO

Craig Blair

Co-Founder, Airtree Ventures

Craig Swann

Event & Creative Director, SOUTHSTART

Damien Mahoney

Founder, Stackla

Dan Anisse

Founder, Relume

Dan Borthwick

Founder, NiceGit

Dan Coughlan

Principal, Airtree Ventures

Dan Gavel

Director, Black Sheep Capital

Daniel Barber

Co-Founder, DNA Energy

Daniel Bertram

Co-Founder, GigaBuddy

Daniel Edge

Co-CEO, Compeat

Daniel Flynn

Managing Director, Thankyou Group

Daniel James Slater

Co-Founder & CTO, Relume

Daniel Kniaz

Founder, Weel

Danielle Haj-Moussa

Investment Associate, Main Sequence

Danny Pezeshki

Founder, Instantia

Darren Winterford

CEO EdApp, SafetyCulture

Darryl Lyons

Co-Founder, Rainstick

David Booth

Founder in Residence, Blackbird Ventures

David Burt

Director of Entrepreneurship, UNSW Founders

Dean McEcoy

Managing Partner, Stanley St Advisors

Denise Farmer

General Manager, APAC, Clio

Dexter Todd

Co-Founder and Managing Director, BARDAR

Dharmica Mistry

Director of Diagnostics Industry Engagement, MTP Connect

Dilip Jacob

Founder & CEO, Pitchberry

Dominick Ng

Director of Engineering, Relevance AI

Don Wright

Executive Director, Western Sydney University (WSU)

Dr Catriona Wallace

Founder, Responsible Metaverse Alliance

Dr. Elise Stephenson

Co-Founder and Board Director, Social Good Outpost

Dr Simon Longstaff

Executive Director, The Ethics Centre

Eden Shirley

CEO and Founder, Autoguru

Elaine Seeto

Senior Director, Marketing APAC, Rippling

Elaine Stead

Principal, Main Sequence Ventures

Elena Tsalanidis

COO and Co-Founder, Deeligence

Elicia McDonald

Partner, Airtree Ventures

Elli Hanson

Principal Investor, Side Stage Ventures

Eloise Hall

Managing Director, Taboo

Emerson Keenan

Co-Founder @ Kali Healthcare, Kali Healthcare

Emily Casey

Community & Partnerships Lead, Tenmile

Emily Rich

Partner, M8 Ventures

Emily Zaborski

Founder, Vendaly

Emma Fawcett

Executive General Manager SME, MYOB

Emma Grife

Chief of Staff, Startmate

Emma Walsh

CEO and Founder, Parents At Work

Evan Thornley

Executive Chair, Longview

Farouk Ismail

Founder, Slice

Fiona Brownfoot

Co-Founder @ Kali Healthcare, Kali Healthcare

Fiona Johnston

Founder

Frances Goh

Co-Founder, Head of Community & Growth, One Roof

Frank Greeff

Co-Founder, Kinso AI

Gareth Rydon

Co-Founder, Friyay

Gaurav Rana

Founder, GANI Pay

Gav Parry

Founder, CAST

Gemma Clancy

Co-Founder, Overnight Success

Georgia Rippin

Co-Founder & CEO, Kold Open

Georgie Healy

Program Coordinator - AI First, Google for Startups

Georgie Turner

Partner, Tidal Ventures

Gordon Renouf

CEO and Co-Founder, Good On You

Hamish Hawthorn

Vice President, Propeller Aero

Harini Janakiraman

Co-founder and CEO, BuildShip

Harrison Kennedy

CEO and Co-Founder, ReFresh

Hayden Williams

Group Product Manager, MYOB

Hayley Hopwood

Head of APAC Startups, SMB & Mid Market, Stripe

Haziq Nordin

Co-Founder, Enhance Labs

Heath Raftery

Founder, Newie Ventures

Hiranya Jayakody

Co-founder and CTO, HEO

Holly Rankin (Jack River)

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Sentiment

Ian Gardiner

Co-Founder, Innovation Bay

Isaac Peiris

Founder, Pistachio

Isobel Marshall

Co-Founder, Taboo

Jack Curtis

Chief Commercial Officer, Neara

Jacky Koh

Founder and Co-CEO, Relevance AI

Jada Anderson

Co-Founder, Xylo Systems

Jade Ryan

CEO, CakeServer

James Alexander

Co-founder and Partner, Galileo Ventures

James Bradley

Co-Founder, Diffuse Energy

James Davie

Co-Founder, Miyagi AI

James Fielding

CEO, Audeara

James Horan

Founder, Phinly

James Tynan

Partner, Square Peg

Jamie Beaton

CEO and Co-Founder, Crimson Education

Jamie Twiss

CEO, Beforepay Group

Janet Salem

Co-Founder, Footprint Lab

Janine Grainger

Co-Founder, Easy Crypto

Jason Leong

CEO and Co-Foudner, PocketSmith

Jason Maynard

CTO, Zendesk

Jason Titman

CEO, SwyftX

Jeanne DeWitt Grosser

Chief Operating Officer, Vercel

Jeevika Makani

Co-Founder, Top Road

Jei Wing

Lead AI Engineer, Fetch

Jeremy Hastings

Founder, Hutly

Jess Ruhfus

Founder, Collabosaurus

Jessy Wu

Investor, Afterwork

Joan Westenberg

Writer

Jodie de Vries, Laura Campbell, Verity Hare, and Jo Downer

Jodie Fox

Founder, Shoes of Prey

Joe Harris

Founder, Alloy

Joel Little

Music Producer, Big Fan

John Allsopp

Co-Founder, Large Language Law

John Sharp

Managing Partner, Hatcher+

Jordan Lawrence

Co-Founder, Volt.io

Josh Clemm

Vice President of Engineering, Dropbox

Josh Vinson

Independent Researcher

Joshua Flannery

Founder & CEO, Innovation Dojo

Joss Kesby

Co-Founder, Diffuse Energy

Judy Anderson-Firth

Group CEO, Euphemia

Julie Garis

Founder, Simple Split Financials

Julie Trell

Founder & Chief Play Officer, Playful Purpose

Justin Hansky

Co-Founder and CEO, Deeligence

Justin Tauber

GM, Agentic Technology, Trust & Adoption, Salesforce

Kabir Arora

Founder, Backya Australia

Kali Norman

Host, Investment Thesis, Innovation Bay

Kara Armstrong

Operations Manager, Visionise

Karl Durrance

Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, Stripe

Kartini Ludwig

Founder, Koup Music

Kate Cornick

CEO, LaunchVic

Kate Jones

Executive Director, Tech Council of Australia

Katelyn Lesse

Head of Engineering, Platform, Anthropic

Katharine Crane

Founder

Katherine Boiciuc

Chief Technology Officer Oceania, Ernst & Young (EY)

Kathryn Zealand

Founder & CEO, Skip

Ken Fitzpatrick

Founder and Director, Patterned Security

Kevin Cheng

Chief Customer Officer, Harrison.ai

Kieran Browne

Co-Founder, Springboards

Kim Hansen

CEO, Cake Equity

Kim Heras

Partner, 25Fifteen

Kirstin Hunter

Managing Director, Techstars

Korryn Haines

Kunal Gupta

Founder and CEO, Nova

Kylie Frazer

Co-founder and Partner, Flying Fox Ventures

Lana Weal

Marketing + SEO Digital Wizard, Market Mindfully

Lars Rasmussen

Founding Board Member, Panathēnea

Laura Chambers

CEO, Mozilla

Laura McClure

Member of Parliament, ACT New Zealand

Lauren Branson

CEO, Your Food Collective

Lauren Capelin

VC BD, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Leslie Delaforce

R&D - ESG, Rio Tinto

Liam Millward

Co-Founder, Instant

Liam Scanlan

Founder, Eat Your Water

Linda Bergskås

Founder, Visionise

Louise Nobes

Director, The Array [ ]

Lucie Semenec

Founder, Newera Bio

Lucinda Hartley

Chief Growth Officer, Mondus Capital

Lucy Kippist

Community Manager, IAG

Lucy Lloyd

Founder, Mentorloop

Luke Marshall

Head of Growth, UseVerb

Lynda Coker

CEO, Co-operty

Maddie Reese

Self Employed

Makenzie Thomas

Portfolio Manager, MedTech Actuator

Malcolm Turnbull

Managing Director, Turnbull and Partners

Marie Dowling

Founder, Newsary

Mark Pesce

Host, The Next Billion Seconds

Markus Kahlbetzer

Co-Founder & General Partner, Side Stage Ventures

Marty Burgess

CEO and Co-Founder, Lightning Forge Games

Marvin Liao

Partner, Disapora Ventures

Matt Barrie

Chief Executive & Chairman, Freelancer.com

Matt Bullock

CEO & Founder, Spinify

Matthew Browne

Managing Partner, Black Nova Venture Capital

Matthew Sek

VP, Airwallex

Max Kausman

Founder @ Advance VC, Advance VC

Maxine Minter

Partner, Co Ventures

Maxine Sherrin

Festival Director, Spark Festival

Mayra Hurtado

Co-Founder, Hormony® (Prelude Health)

Megan Sebben

Program Manager, CSIRO

Melanie Mury

Co-Founder, IMBY

Melissa Widner

CEO, Lighter Capital

Mia Fileman

Co-Founder

Michael Batko

CEO, Startmate

Michael Irwin

Co-Founder, Breaker Industries

Michael Ragavan

CEO, Our Leg UP

Michelle Chen

Founder, Game Developer & Creative Practice Researcher, Mental Jam

Michelle Gilmore

Co-Founder and CEO, Juno

Mick Liubinskas

CEO, Climate Salad

Mike Keating

Co-Founder, Enhance Labs

Mike McKiernan

Founder, Deckee

Millie Marconi

Founder, Yesterday

Mitchell Baker

Founder & CEO, Claimstack

Moira Were

Founder, Collab4Good

Monica Zarafu

Founder, BYKKO

Monique Woodard

Founding Partner & Managaing Director, Cake Ventures

Murray Hurps

Director of Entrepreneurship, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Naomi Findlay

Founder, Findlay & Co

Neel Bhattacharya

Nick Weaser

CEO and Co-Founder, Songpact

Nicole Gibson

CEO, inTruth Technologies

Nicole O'Brien

CEO, Fishburners

Niki Scevak

Partner, Blackbird Ventures

Nnamdi Okike

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, 645 Ventures

Noga Edelstein

Lead, Equity Clear

Olympia Yarger

Founder, GOTERRA

Olyvia Munro

Co-Founder & CEO, Zello

Oscar Wahltinez

Senior Developer Programs Engineer, Google

Pasha Rayan

CEO and Co-Founder, A1Base

Paul Bassat

Co-founder, Square Peg

Paul Bevan

Founder and CEO, Magic Valley

Paul Kelly

Founding Partner, OneVentures

Paul Stovell

CEO and Founder, Octopus Deploy

Pauline Fetaui

Director, Australian Computing Society (ACS)

Peta Ellis

Director / Founder, EverydayEntrepreneur365

Pete Cooper

Founder, The Start Society

Pete Horsley

Founder, Remarkable

Pete Lead

Leadership Facilitator, Scalable Leaders

Peter Bradd

Chief Evangelist, Miro

Peter Davison

Co-Founder, Fishburners

Peter Devine

Chief Executive Officer, Uniseed

Peter Tippett

Co-Founder, Kula Digital

Petr Adámek

CEO, Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN)

Phil Hayes-St Clair

Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director, Drop Bio

Phil Ireland

CEO, Carbon Neutral

Phil Morle

Partner, Main Sequence Ventures

Pip Bingemann

Co-Founder, Springboards

Pocket Sun

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, SoGal Ventures

Prashanth Puspanathan

Co-Founder, Enosis Therapeutics

Preethi Mohan

Founder, Niceto

Quinnie Chen

Founder

Rachael Neumann

Founding Partner, Flying Fox Ventures

Rachel Yang

Partner, Giant Leap Fund

Rada Stanic

Chief Technologist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Rayn Ong

Partner, Archangel Ventures

Ric Richardson

Co-founder, Haventec

Riccardo Grinover

Senior Product Manager, Leonardo.ai

Ricky Sevta

CEO, Deep Space AI

Rohan McDougall

Executive Director, Commercialisation, Curtin University

Rohit Bhargava

Founder & Director, The Startup Playbook Podcast

Ryan Macpherson

CEO, Coassemble

Sachin Bhanot

Head of Investments, SEA & ANZ, Prosus Ventures

Sally Hasler

CEO, Women's Health Victoria

Sally Yu

Investment Principal, King River Capita

Sam Garven

Co-Founder, Hello Canopy

Sam Jockel

CEO / Founder, Parent TV

Sam Wong

Partner, Blackbird Ventures

Samantha Finnegan

Founder, Madebox

Sarah Cummings

CEO and Co-Founder

Sarah Kaur

Principal Design Strategist, Portable

Sarah Pearson

Chancellor, University of New England (UNE)

Serina Bird

Founder, The Joyful Frugalista

Shams Mosowi

BuildShip, BuildShip

Sharryn Napier

Vice President, GitHub

Sheree Rubinstein

Founder, One Roof

Silvia Pfeiffer

Chief Product Officer, CARED

Simon Lee

Co-Founder, Teamified

Simon Thomsen

Editor, Startup Daily

Simone Eyles

Founder

Stephen Neli

Founder, Zellus

Steve Baxter

Founder and Lead Investor, Beaten Zone Venture Partners

Steve Grace

CEO & Founder, The Nudge Group

Steve Hind

Co-Founder and CEO, Lorikeet

Steve Scheding

Founder, Green Atlas

Susan Oliver

Chair, Alice Anderson Fund

Taryn Pieterse

Rampersand

Tatum Steers

Co-Founder, Hirey

Terry Hilsberg

Partner, Fork Ventures

Thomas Kelly

Co-Founder and CEO, Heidi Health

Thomas Nann

CEO, Allegro Energy

Tia Collings

Co-Founder, Enaxiom

Tim Boyle

CEO, ARCS Australia

Tim Fung

Founder and CEO, Airtasker

Tim Rossanis

Managing Director, Turo Australia

Toby Amodio

Director and Government Cyber Delivery Lead

Tom Collier

CEO and Co-Founder, Levur

Tom Humphrey

Partner, Blackbird Ventures

Tom Newby

Co-Founder, ProcurePro

Tracey Spicer

Global Keynote Speaker

Tracy Sheen, Claire Waring (Gether), Tracy Hall (The Last Victim)

Trang Nguyen

Co-founder, Transpose Platform

Trent Daniel

Chief Customer Officer, Azupay

Trevor Folsom

Co-Founder and Chairman, Investible

Vakul Talwar

GM Australia & Global Head of Product for Onboarding, Trading, Commerce, Crypto.com

Vicki Engsall

COO and Founder, Jojoba

Vivian Shen

Co-Founder, Toastie

Wayne Gerard

Founder, Partner Ventures (Prtnr)

Will Liang

CTO & Executive Director

Will Richards

Co-Founder, Overnight Success

Xavier Collins

Co-Founder and CEO, Wonder Studios

Yas Grigaliunas

Founder, World's Biggest Garage Sale / Soconomy

Yasemin Selvi

Co-Founder, Alchemy Charge

Yolanda Redrup

Senior Journalist, The Australian Financial Review

Yolanda Surjan

Director, Creatures & Co

Yotam Rosenbaum

Venture Partner, 77 Partners

Zoe Piper

Chief Executive Officer, Rezicast Systems

Zrinka Tokic

Director, University of Adelaide