Great Minds

Freeman is the Chief Brand Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, Freeman spearheaded the worldwide launch of the new HPE corporate brand. She oversees global brand marketing, advertising, media, content partnerships, sponsorships and brand

After 15 years of hosting some of the biggest TV and Radio shows in Australia, Jules took the audacious step of founding his own tech company, TRIBE. Launched in Nov 2014, TRIBE is a digital marketplace that connects social media influencers with leading brands to transform word of mouth recommendations.

Latif Nasseris Director of Research at the award-winning New York Public Radio show Radiolab, where he has done stories on everything from snowflake photography to medieval robots to a polar bear who liked to have sex with grizzly bears.

Horace Panter, aka Sir Horace Gentleman, co-founded The Specials with Jerry Dammers in 1977 in Coventry, England. For four years The Specials rose and ultimately flamed out, mirroring one of their iconic songs, “Too Much Too Young.” After a 29-year gap, the band reunited and is still going strong today. Horace traces the journey, which also included stints with General Public and Special Beat, and talks about his work in art both as a teacher and an artist.

To understand where advertising is going, you need to know what came before it. Carl Fremont was there. From working with the man who invented the unique selling proposition, to learning direct marketing from Lesley Wunderman, Carl Fremont’s career has spanned many years and affords him a unique glimpse into where we should be going.

Tamara Conniff is the former editor-in-chief of Billboard Magazine. Under her leadership the magazine won Folio’s prestigious Eddie Award for Editorial Excellence. Her father, Ray Conniff was a world-renowned bandleader and arranger.