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When they're not hosting public events in random locations the Secret Foodies team are working together to create unique, experiential events with like-minded brands and organisations. If you want a local guide to Sydney & Melbourne’s best places to eat, drink and play, Eat Drink Play is the way to go.

Eat Drink Play & Secret Foodies Founder Alex Adams joins Influencing Insider next Thursday 14th July at 2pm to talk about:

About Alex Adams

Alex has written for a number of publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, AskMen.com and TimeOut Sydney. She’s been a food and drinks commentator for various radio stations as well as Channel 10 news, and is the founder and editor of Eat Drink Play and Secret Foodies.

About Eat Drink Play & Secret Foodies

Secret Foodies is Sydney's surprise dining experience. Launched in early 2010 as a way of bringing foodies together through a unique culinary adventure, Secret Foodies has quickly become the best-kept secret in town. Meeting at surprise venues across Sydney guests purchase a ticket unaware of where they're going or whom they'll meet until 2 hours before the event.

Eat Drink Play brings you a locals guide to the best things happening in your city. Published as a newsletter, it’s your essential guide to the best places to eat, drink and play in Sydney and Melbourne.

Profiling Australia’s finest minds and STEM contributors, the Brilliant explores the pathways that advances in Science, Tech, Engineering and Maths must navigate to gain attention and resonance in our culture.

Publisher and Founder Kylie Ahern joins us on Influencing Insider on Wednesday 6th June at 2pm AEST to discuss:

About Kylie Ahern

Kylie is an award-winning publisher and entrepreneur with experience that spans media, telecommunications, science and education.

About The Brilliant

Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent globally every year on STEM research but only a fraction translates into wide attention from the public, governments, industry, the media and philanthropy.

But some researchers, entrepreneurs, leaders and communicators who have succeeded brilliantly at creating a large audience for their research and innovations, often leading to greater access to funding.

Who are they? How did they do it? Can their success be replicated?

The Brilliant exists to answer those questions.

“Investing should be for everyone and my dream is to make that a reality . . . I love sharing that passion through digital storytelling. “

Finder’s Senior Investments editor Kylie Purcell joins us live from New York on Influencing Insider on Thursday 30 June at 11am AEST to discuss:

About Kylie Purcell

Kylie Purcell has a background in business and finance news, with previous roles at SBS, Your Money, TVNZ, Switzer Group and The Adviser magazine. Kylie has a Masters in International Journalism and a Graduate Diploma in Economics. When she's not writing about the markets you can find her bingeing on coffee.

About Finder

Finder is an award-winning comparison website operating sites in 83 countries.

Freelancer Alice Clarke has built a strong reputation delivering great coverage of tech and games to mainstream outlets over the past decade.

Alice joins Influencing Insider on Thursday 23 June at 2pm to discuss:

About Alice Clarke

Alice Clarke is Freelance Journalist, Producer and Presenter at The Herald Sun and The Sydney Morning Herald. Alice has covered TV for the Sunday Herald Sun TV Guide and The Age Green Guide; music for Cherrie Magazine, and has had an opinion column in the Herald Sun on Mondays for over five years. Alice also co-curates the PAX Aus Diversity Lounge and occasionally pops up on New Game Plus.

About The Herald Sun and Sydney Morning Herald

The Herald Sun is one of the major daily metropolitan papers in Victoria. Coverage includes local, national and global news, sport, opinion, weather, community news and events, lifestyle and entertainment, classifieds, real estate and employment.

Serving Sydney daily since 1840, the Sydney Morning Herald is published by Fairfax Media. The paper features a wide number of weekly and daily sections, attractively designed and targeted at contemporary audiences.

Rolling Stone Australia has been revived with Jake Challenor taking the helm alongside a raft of other magazine titles under The Brag Media.

Brag Media has recently been on a tear, acquiring and relaunching a number of well known magazine titles in Australia including Rolling Stone and Variety.

Joining Influencing Insider on Wednesday 15 June at 2pm is The Brag Media’s Jake Challenor to discuss:

About Jake Challenor

Jake is Executive Editor at The Brag Media, handling B2B and Print titles. As part of that role he is also Executive Editor of Variety Australia and the Print Editor of Rolling Stone Australia.

About The Brag Media

The Brag Media is more than a publishing house. It produces events such as the Rolling Stone Awards, has an agency arm and connects brands with artists.

Australian Traveller is one of the fastest growing magazines in the country. Coming off an already strong readership, they now boast 168,000 regular readers with each edition - up 57% year on year in Roy Morgan's latest survey.

Helping drive this phenomenal growth is Digital Editor-in-Chief, Katie Carlin.

News.com.au publishes news stories & multimedia, drawing on content created by a team of journalists as well as journalism from Murdoch's Australian newspaper outlets.

Joining us on Influencing Insider next Wednesday 1 June at 2pm is News.com.au's Sections Editor, Kerry Warren. We’ll look at:

About Kerry Warren

Kerry Warren is the Sections Editor at News.com.au. Kerry has worked as both a Commissioning editor and News editor at news.com.au and is now responsible for the Entertainment, Lifestyle, Finance, Travel and Technology sections of the site.

About News.com.au

News.com.au delivers the news in colour spanning entertainment, travel, lifestyle, sport, business, technology, money and real estate.

“With incredible places, events and news at your fingertips, think of Concrete Playground as a personal concierge for your social life”

Leading the team is Editorial director Suz Tucker, who joins Influencing Insider on Thursday 26 May at 2pm. We’ll look at:

About Suz Tucker

Suz Tucker is the Editorial director at Concrete Playground. Prior to that, she came in from We Are Social, where she led various editorial content and strategy initiatives for a number of leading brands. She was also key in the development of Pedestrian.TV’s direction as managing editor.

About Concrete Playground

Concrete Playground is an online weather vane pointing you to the cultural tornadoes that are just about to hit. We handpick the most inspiring cultural events, news and places so that you can fill your days and nights with them. Updated daily, it is the work of a collective of writers and social secretaries who have a constant ear to the under and above (but never middle) ground of the creative worlds in Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland.

From Climate change to Covid boosters; from the future of plastics to the future of the SpaceX program, CNET's science division takes a detailed look at cutting edge science.

Science editor Jackson Ryan joins Influencing Insider on Wednesday 18th May at 2pm to discuss:

About Jackson Ryan

Jackson Ryan is the Science editor of CNET. Much of his recent reporting has explored new vaccine technologies, dispelling myths about safety, addressing fear mongering about virus variants and explaining how science will see us through to a "new normal" post-pandemic. In addition to his work on the coronavirus pandemic, Jackson’s long-form story Journey to the Dragon Palace - which follows the Japanese Space Agency’s mission to return ancient asteroid samples to Earth - has been recognised among this year’s top science journalism entries.

About CNET

CNET Australia is consistently number one visited technology website in Australia. It is an engaging, relevant and trusted destination for people who are passionate about improving their lifestyle using technology and consumer electronics. It is published by CBS Interactive.

Communications Day is at the forefront of Australian and New Zealand telecom industry news and commentary.

Leading the team is publisher Grahame Lynch who joins Influencing Insider on Wednesday 11 May at 2pm to discuss:

About Grahame Lynch

Grahame Lynch is the owner and founder of Decisive Publishing which owns CommunicationsDay. Prior to that he was a contributor to major Australian newspapers and was an on air presenter for Telecom TV.

About CommsDay

CommsDay was founded in 1994 and is a daily newsletter covering the Australian and New Zealand telecom industry. It has a daily readership of 9,000 who are sent the newsletter in a PDF format via email. It also hosts a number of industry summits and events.