Ariane has 20 years’ experience in blue chip financial services companies in senior executive management roles. Scale Investors is a network of angel investors who connect with, invest in and mentor female Entrepreneur’s. Since launching in 2012, Scale Investors' community of women and men have collectively invested over $7 million in female-led businesses.

Adam’s background is in the commercialisation of technology to improve public health.  The company started with an idea to support my grandpa. Umps Health embeds insight into the delivery of care, leveraging analytics to improve the health of older people, reduce the reliance on carers and a vision to support people to live safely, independently and with dignity as they age.

It is estimated that by 2031 the Australian population is expected to increase to more than 30 million people from its current figure of 23.5 million. Brian discusses why it is imperative to build smarter cities, the importance of a government investment strategy & why Australia should adopt, adapt and improve, looking to other countries such as Singapore and applying our own Australian expertise. He also discusses the part innovative technology can play to benefit urban planning & what needs to be taken into account when building infrastructure to become a smart city.

Adam is an award-winning entrepreneur and has built one of Australia’s most profitable e-commerce companies in just five years without any external funding. Founded in 2010, today Lux Group is Australia’s largest home-grown pure play e-commerce business with more than 400 employees, 14e-tailers including Luxury Escapes, and a turnover of more than $300 million. Luxury Escapes was named by afr as 2017’s fastest starter. It now has three million members (free membership) that receive daily emails with holiday deals that are usually between 50 and 70 per cent off. More than one million Australians have taken a holiday with Luxury Escapes. Adam has been a director of the Myeloma Foundation of Australia since 2010, and has run two Melbourne Marathons completely barefoot to raise funds for the foundation.

Shping started its life in 2012 as a startup called AuthenticateIT, which aimed to use barcodes to allow both consumers and brands to verify the authenticity of products and provide more information about them across all stages of the supply chain. Then 18 months ago, the company began a pivot to blockchain, alongside changing its name and developing a broader approach to the data shared with customers. Although product authentication is still an aspect of the platform, Shping now promotes itself as a rewards-based and marketing-oriented service. Shping meets at the intersection of Marketing, Crypto Currency ICO & Blockchain Technology

In the past 10 years, Sharyn has been building the business to one of the largest and most successful independent agencies in the country. And refreshingly headed by a woman, unusual for the typical boys’ club of the advertising industry, working with brands such as CBA, Bonds, CUB, PepsiCo to name a few. Sharyn and her team are constantly innovating using the latest AI technology to bring rigour and credibility to their campaigns. While the business is commercially successful, Social Soup also has a genuine commitment to “purpose” specifically launching a new business Influence for good designed to recruit social media influencers to help cash-strapped not for profits amplify their campaigns.

Pat co-founded Six Park in 2014 after a 25-year career in the financial services industry. Six Park is the newest robo-advisor making waves in the Australian financial services industry & reinvents the way individual investors receive and implement investment advice.

Nic is a social and environmental entrepreneur who is about to launch the world’s first crowd funded energy retailer DC Power Co. catering for solar households Founder of Easy Being Green and Cool nrg. Nic is tireless in his pursuit of creating companies that are good for the planet, and good for Australians. He’s a true visionary always looking to improve the world.

Linda was appointed President of Torrens University Australia and CEO, Laureate Australia and New Zealand in 2014. Linda is a member of Laureate International Universities’ global OPCOM Board, with operational responsibility for 78,000 employees, over 70 universities in 29 countries, and a member of the IP board, where she is driving the Internationalisation Strategy.

Julia discusses “Albert” which is genuinely the world's first and only AI Digital Marketing platform.  Built from the ground up using AI he is a truly autonomous machine that requires little human manipulation and is able to execute seamless across all digital marketing channels, paid and non-paid, including email, mobile, social, search and display.