Hot Spots

Tuesday 24 March 2.00pm – 2.45pm

GRAND BALLROOM

1. Dr Peter Diamandis (USA), CEO & Chairman, X PRIZE Foundation
   Exponential Technologies Causing Disruptive Innovation
2. Dan Millman (USA),Author: Way of the peaceful Warrior; mindfulness expert
   What do you really want?
3. Joyce Phillips,CEO & Managing Director, ANZ Global Wealth
   Urgent leadership: turning ideas into action
4. Matt Barrie, CEO & Chairman, Freelancer.com
    Internet Marketing in 2015
5. Steve Lennon, Consulting principal, Fujitsu
   When culture and technology collide
6. Cure Brain Cancer Foundation
   F*cK Not-for-Profit
7. Judith Alcorn, Resource Recovery Innovator, Melbourne University
   Sustainable Growth – is it what we really need?
8. Tansel Ali, Elite international mental sports athlete, 3-time Australian Memory Champion
   Brain Hacks – How to learn Anything Superfast

LA TROBE BALLROOM

1. Dr Larry Marshall, CEO, CSIRO
   The Missionary versus the Mercenary leader: Can you do good and do well at the same time?
2. Ernesto Sirolli (USA), Founder, Sirolli Institute
   Apples and Oranges : Entrepreneurs are Explorers, Managers are Settlers
3. Pip Marlow, Managing Director, Microsoft Australia
   Disruption & diversity: winning in the digital age
4. Steve Vamos, Director, Telstra
   How to have the difficult conversations that enable high performance
5. Nicole Velik, Director & Founder, The ideas Bodega
   Leading for Creativity: What leaders can do to create a thriving ideas culture in the workplace
6. Russell Fletcher, Owner, The decent people
   Mindfulness at work
7. Jill Tideman, Principal, Dalmau Consulting
   Disruptive Innovation: the role of conversation

FITZROY BALLROOM

1. Nolan Bushnell (USA), Founder,  Atari; Co-creator GPS technology
   How to find the next Steve Jobs
2. Scott Anthony (Singapore), Managing partner, Innosight; Harvard Business Author
   Confronting the Leadership Challenges of Disruptive Change
3. Danna Hochstein Mann (Israel), General Partner, Head of Investor Relations,  OurCrowd
   The power of the crowd
4. John Stanhope, Chairman, Australia Post
   Digital Disruption Good and Bad: Are we really prepared?
5. Kate Eriksson, Head of Innovation, PwC Australia
   50% of the future is obvious. Here’s what to do about it
6. Tim Dalmau, International management consultant, Dalmau Consulting
    Managing yourself and others in times of disruptive change

Wednesday 25 March 1.30pm – 2.15pm

GRAND BALLROOM

1. Wade Davis (Canada), Acclaimed Anthropologist
   Schooling the World
2. Rory Gallagher (UK), Managing Advisor, UK Government’s Behavioural Insights Team 
   Making Government more human
3. Dr Rufus Black, Master, Ormond College
   The Entrepreneurial Imagination
4. Claire Rogers, Head of Digital Strategy and Innovation, ANZ
   Fostering a start-up mindset in large organisations
5. Angeline Achariya – General Manager Innovation Asia Pacific, Food Innovation Centre, Mondelēz International
   Showing the Food Industry how to de-risk innovation in the Asean Century
6. Tansel Ali, Elite international mental sports athlete, 3-time Australian Memory Champion
   Brain Hacks – How to learn Anything Superfast
7. Jim Grant, Consultant & Director, Dattner Grant
   Coaching and mentoring your people made simple

LA TROBE BALLROOM

1. Dan Millman (USA), Author: Way of the Peaceful Warrior and expert on mindfulness
   What Do You Really Want?
2. Dr Elaine Saunders, Managing Director, Blamey & Saunders
   Changing the Future of Health Care
3. Doron Ben-Meir, Director – Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Programme, Australian Government
   Funding options for disruptive innovation – what does it take to go from invention to funded start-up?
4. Roger La Salle, Founder of Matrix Thinking
   The purpose built thinking platform: Creating a thinking platform specific to your issue at hand
5. Cara Richardson, Creative & Company Director, Saltree
   Branding for Profit in Our Digital Age

FITZROY BALLROOM

1. Ernesto Sirolli (USA), Founder, Sirolli Institute
   Fostering a culture of entrepreneurship and the facilitators (super nodes) at the centre of it all
2. Tim Flannery, One of Australia’s best known scientist
    Two astonishing ways we might save the world
3. Stuart Taylor, Director and global board member, The Resilience Institute
   Liberating team creativity by leading with compassion
4. Charles Kovess, Australia’s passion provocateur
   What to do when others say you are too passionate and too disruptive!
5. Nicole Velik, Director & Founder, The ideas Bodega
   Leading for Creativity: What leaders can do to create a thriving ideas culture in the workplace