Speakers
International Leaders
Baroness Susan Greenfield (UK)
Scientist, writer, broadcaster, Director of the Institute for the Future of the Mind
Geoff Mulgan (UK)
Chief Executive of NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
Dr Iain McGilchrist (UK)
Author: The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Professor Nadia Rosenthal (UK)
Leader in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine
Adam Kahane (Canada)
Partner in Reos Partners, Innovation in Complex Social Systems.
Michael T. Jones (USA)
Chief Technology Advocate, Google
Wade Davis (USA)
Anthropologist, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society
Dr Thomas Frey (USA)
Executive Director and Senior Futurist at DaVinci Institute
Corporate Leaders and Organisational Experts
Michael Rennie
Managing Partner McKinsey & Company
Steve Vamos
President, Society for Knowledge Economics; Non Executive Director, Telstra, Medibank and David Jones
Dr Megan Clark
Chief Executive, CSIRO
Professor Richard Rumelt (USA)
UCLA Chair in Business and Society, global leader on strategy
Bernard Salt
National Partner for KPMG Demo Group; Writer and Columnist
Incredible Innovators and Technologists
Scott Anthony (Singapore)
Managing Director of Innosight Asia-Pacific, expert on disruptive innovation
Ruslan Kogan
Serial Entrepreneur, Pioneer online retail, Founder and CEO of Kogan.com
Professor Silviu Itescu
Managing Director and CEO, Mesoblast, the regenerative medicine company
Professor Robin J Batterham AO
President of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Jason Drew (South Africa)
International business leader; Serial entrepreneur
Michael Harte
Group Executive, Enterprise Services & Chief Information Officer
Philosophers and Humanitarians
Li Cunxin
Author: Mao’s Last Dancer
Eric Knight
Economics consultant; Author Reframe: How to solve the world’s trickiest problems
Outstanding Creativity Connectors
Pot-Pourri
Performers
War Horse
Performer
Stefan Cassomenos
Composer in Residence
Gavin Blake
Graphic Recordist in Residence
Jessamy Gee
Graphic Recordist and Artist in Residence
Tania de Jong AM
Diva in Residence & Executive Producer
Johanna Featherstone
Poet in Residence
Michael Pope
MC
Leading Chairs and Moderators
Hugh Morgan AC
Leading Australian businessman
Sir Gustav Nossal AC
Expert in fundamental immunology
Allan Fels AO
Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
Dr Elizabeth Finkel
Leading science journalist
Tim Dalmau
Leading management consultant
Doron Ben-Meir
CEO of Commercialisation Australia
Michael Johnson
CEO, Kokoda Capital Group
Beverley O’Connor
Journalist and Broadcaster; Presenter at ABC; Columnist for Herald Sun
Robyn Williams
Science Journalist; Author and Presenter at ABC
World Class Creativity and Innovation Experts
Professor Richard Rumelt (USA)
UCLA Chair in Business and Society, global leader on strategy
Scott Anthony (Singapore)
Managing Director of Innosight Asia-Pacific, expert on disruptive innovation
Dr Amantha Imber
Creativity and innovation psychologist
Charles Kovess
Australia’s Passion Provocateur
Gabrielle Dolan & Yamini Naidu
Global thought leaders on business storytelling
Tim Dalmau & Jill Tideman
Leading management consultants
Andrew & Gaia Grant
Co-authors: Who Killed Creativity…and how to get it back!
Tim Reid
aka “The Ideas Guy”, leading ideas and marketing expert
Leigh Gassner & Steve Atkinson
Partners in Reos Partners, Melbourne
Agent Provocateurs
Tim Wilson
Australian public policy commentator
Nicholas Gruen
CEO and Founder of Lateral Economics
Jodi Cant
General Manager Business Development, Landgate
Brenton Caffin
Founding CEO of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation
John Matthews
Coach in Residence
Speakers and program subject to change without notice
