Henrik has over 17 years’ experience in global financial markets, with almost a decade on Wall Street. Henrik has extensive experience across three continents as a quantitative analyst, senior research analyst and in institutional equity sales. Apollo Capital is a forward-leaning investment platform that is focused on investing and profiting from the cryptocurrency industry. Apollo Capital understand that the value of cryptocurrency platforms lies in the protocols they use, and as such the Apollo Capital platform is focused on investing in crypto assets and not companies

Commodity trader, investment banker and a key member of energy saving company Cool nrg. While working for UBS, Emma raised over $2bn of IPO capital and managed a $1bn commodity book that included complex derivatives.

Dale Beaumont is one of Australia's most successful technology entrepreneurs, international speakers and business education specialists. Dale started his first business at 19 and has been building companies ever since. One of those companies, Business Blueprint, is now a multi-million dollar enterprise, which has enabled Dale to become an investor and philanthropist and to step foot in 70 countries. He is also the author of 16 best-selling books.

NETO is an Australian eCommerce software success story entering third round of funding and about to go global. Ryan is an expert in online retailing and discusses the impact and opportunities around Amazon for Aussie retailers. Ryan started out as an online retailer himself, experienced many challenges around scalability, and then set about overcoming these challenges through technology. He then evolved his NETO business to become Australia’s only retail and wholesale management platform that provides a complete solution for eCommerce (including Amazon), POS, Inventory & Fulfilment. Ryan also discusses evolving Aussie shopping preferences and what Aussies are actually buying online.

With approximately 700-800 start-ups created each year in Australia and only 40% surviving, where do the majority of them go wrong? It might come as a surprise, but 65% of start-ups fail due to co-founder conflict. That’s actually higher than the divorce rate in Australia.  Michelle Duval, has extensively analysed the dynamics of co-founder relationships. Her tech platform, Fingerprint for Success (F4S), which is based on a 20-year study of business owners and entrepreneurs, found that certain ingredients were critical in a successful business partnership, and understanding them is crucial. These ingredients allow each partner to play to their strengths and the business to flourish.

Malcolm Ferguson is an IT industry executive with extensive management & sales leadership experience specific to strategic enterprise software and consulting services. A Queensland University of Technology graduate holding a Bachelor of Business, Malcolm has worked for many successful IT vendors including Oracle Corporation, HP, IBM, Objective Corporation and Bottomline Technologies.In his current position as the ANZ Sales Director, Oracle Digital Prime, Malcolm is responsible for building the ANZ mid-market applications sales organisation and ensuring the businesses goals and customer expectations are exceeded.

Josh Blanksby has recently taken over as CEO of the Melbourne Racing Club (venues include Caulfield, Sandown and Mornington Race Clubs). Josh is driving the key initiatives of MRC's strategic property and development plans, both on-course and off-course. Racing is a multi-billion dollar industry in Australia and the MRC is one of its key clubs - with more than 15,000 members. MRC is also a significant business in its own right - turning over more than $200 million each year.

Elabor8 is a consulting company that speeds the creation of customer value through a focus on people, teams and organisational Agility. Organisational agility continues to burgeon as a trend, with major players in the telco and financial sectors adopting the practice. While agile principles have been used to develop software for many years, Elabor8 works to extend agile culture across entire businesses.

Jane’s family came to Australia from China when she was 8 y.o. She went to Uni, travelled, became an accountant, then realising she hated her job she quit in the middle of the GFC. After an initial business failure, she then founded online women's fashion retailer ShowPo on the back of her credit card while pretending to her parents that she was still working as an accountant at KPMG. She describes Showpo as “an online store of amazingly beautiful and affordable fashion for girls around the world. Our clothes are fun and flirty and we keep the pretentiousness out of fashion!” In 2017 Jane appeared on the AFR young Rich list & ShowPo generates more than $30 million a year and sells to over 80 countries around the world. Jane credits a canny use of social media as the key to ShowPo's success. They have 2 million+ followers on their social media channels.

James is a tech entrepreneur, manufacturer, exporter and successful businessman. Having worked very closely with the education sector across Australia and the United States James has built a reputation connecting technology with the education system while also working with the most powerful brands in the world. He also has an extensive knowledge around the effect technology has on children.