Andy has close to 40 years of engineering and managerial experience in the automotive industry. Prior to joining Aston Martin, he held the post of Chief Planning Officer at Nissan, and he held a number senior positions with the brand across a 23-year span. After his first 150 days as initially COO of Aston Martin, he announced the company’s six year ‘Second Century’ plan. It is a comprehensive strategy for the transformation and growth of Aston Martin, the plan lays out a new product development roadmap that will drive significant business growth. The plan will see the entire range of current models replaced and expanded, with the introduction of a new car every nine months through to 2020.

The man who advises the biggest health insurance companies on what they should be doing to grow. Dr Ratnanesan is CEO of Energesse world leaders in Healthcare Analytics & Consulting. He & his team help leaders and organisations strategically achieve better health outcomes and economic results by focussing on patient and health consumer experience. Energesse works with health insurers, hospitals, pharma and biotech, primary care, governments and wellness businesses. His work also includes the Future Solutions in Australian Healthcare White Paper, which was presented to the Prime Minister's advisors.

Russell is one of Australia’s foremost emergency management consultants, putting into place emergency management plans to keep the public safe at shopping centres and major business precincts around the country. He writes and speaks regularly regarding emergency management response, preparedness and decision making under adversity. He works with major shopping centres, industrial clients and major business precincts, ensuring that they have in place the planning and response to deal with an emergency or disaster that puts the public or employees at risk.

Described as an Airbnb-style service for pets & helps pet owners find accommodation for their companion animals no matter how last minute. Mad Paws is a Sydney-based start-up that was created to fill the growing need in the pet boarding market for affordable and local pet accommodation. The website links owners with trusted local pet sitters — and there’s no cages or kennels. Both owners and sitters post profiles on the site, and can search for a match based on the pet’s medical issues, exercise and food preferences as well as the sitter’s interests, other pets, availability, nightly boarding rate and even pictures of their backyard.

Zoom2u makes it easy for people to book a delivery and see exactly where their parcels are via GPS technology, by providing the driver’s name and phone number. Customers can choose same-day or three-hour delivery times, while drivers are independent contractors who can pick and choose the time they work and what jobs they accept. Register online or via Zoom2u’s app, enter the type of delivery, pick-up and drop-off location, and track the parcel’s progress in real-time until drop-off. From birthday cakes to fruit baskets, flowers, fragile items, machinery tools and furniture, Zoom2u delivers anything (except animals!) weighing less than 30kg.

Petra is an accomplished and experienced international business executive and strategist, with strong ethics, stakeholder management, community and team building skills. She has a natural flair for spotting and acting on business opportunities. Petra has always been passionate about people, entrepreneurship and strategy. She sees her role as one where she is facilitating the connections between technology start-ups/scale-ups and the legal, financial and strategic resources that fuel their growth.

Zuora is a global subscription management company that works with Australian companies including Nearmap, Sensis and iSeekPlant. It was founded in 2008 by one of the original forces at Salesforce, Tien Tzuo. There has been a massive shift in the way both consumers and businesses buy products and services. We now want the convenience and flexibility of subscribing to, or sharing, services than buying products outright.

There is a global trend towards managing demand for electricity as an alternative to augmenting supply, typically by making large investments in generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure. Network planners responsible for mapping the future of a network need advanced capabilities to assess both supply and demand side options, evaluate their economic potential and undertake network design. GreenSync has engineered a Cloud-based product with superior audit capabilities to assist planners in designing networks of the future.

CSIRO’s Data61 is Australia’s leading digital research powerhouse, offering the research capabilities, IP and collaboration programs to unleash the country’s digital and data-driven potential, with a global context. By driving collaboration across industry, academia, government and the startup space, Data61 is able to help existing industries transform, and act as a catalyst in the creation of new technology-based industries.

CSIRO’s Data61 is Australia’s leading digital research powerhouse, offering the research capabilities, IP and collaboration programs to unleash the country’s digital and data-driven potential, with a global context. By driving collaboration across industry, academia, government and the startup space, Data61 is able to help existing industries transform, and act as a catalyst in the creation of new technology-based industries.

Founded in 2013 by former two-time Olympian and Beijing Silver medallist Cameron McKenzie-McHarg and wife Kate McKenzie-McHarg, 776BC has enjoyed a strong 240% year on year growth. The company is driving innovation in performance wear and recently launched a world first patented range of high performance clothing that changes how we exercise; blending biomechanics, technology and fabric together for the first time.