Speakers and Performers
Zara & Troy (MCs)
Zara & Troy are Directors of Melbourne-based Humour Australia, or HA! HA! inspire, entertain & empower audiences… hosting some of the biggest corporate conferences in Australia and internationally.
HA! also deliver transformational communication and engagement programs that positively impact culture and enhance the customer experience from the inside out…
They’ve appeared on Rove Live, Good News Week, Kerri-Anne and live alongside Rove, Sir Richard Branson, Heath Ledger, Destiny’s Child, The Black Eyed Peas and more.
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Dr Amantha Imber
Creativity and innovation psychologist, Amantha Imber, is founder of the award-winning innovation consultancy Inventium. She uses practical, science-based tools to help some of Australia’s best known corporates uncover innovative ideas and is author of “The Creativity Formula: 50 scientifically proven creativity boosters for work and for life”.
Read more about Amantha… Connect with Amantha on twitter.
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Annalie Killian
Annalie Killian is Catalyst for Magic at AMP, and producer of AMP’s biannual festival of innovation in business, leadership and technology: Amplify. her blog Catalyst for Magic where she shares her thoughts on bringing creativity and innovation to business, was recently named one of Australia’s top 25 business blogs by Smart Company.
Read more about Annalie… Connect with Annalie on twitter.
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Evan Thornley
Technology entrepreneur, and former Victorian MP, Evan Thornley is Chief Executive of Better Place Australia, the company building a network of electric car charging and battery swapping stations across Australia, and “making driving more affordable, convenient and sustainable”.
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Liza Boston
Liza Boston is a passionate digital media entrepreneur developing culture changing strategies with some of Australia’s best known institutions. Founder and CEO of Boston Digital, Liza collaborates with a global team to harness the power of the social web, to transform organisations and identify and connect with informed, engaged and switched on digital communities.
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Monique Conheady
Monique is a co-founder of Flexicar and led the business as CEO from its early days through to its sale to Hertz in December 2010. Monique has recently return to Australia after completing a two month Churchill Fellowship investigating the latest developments in innovative sustainable transport globally. Monique is passionate about new ways of doing business that are financially, socially and environmentally sustainable, and she aspires to be a serial “eco-preneur”.
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Pete Williams
Pete Williams is recognised as one of Australia’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the area of innovation, technology commercialisation and all things web. CEO of Deloitte Digital and Chairman of the Deloitte Innovation Council, Pete recently won a Forrester Groundswell Award for best use of social media for social change in helping the community of Flowerdale recover from the Victorian bushfires in 2009.
Roger La Salle
In 1999 engineer and entrepreneur Roger La Salle set about documenting a simple thinking methodology that underpins successful business building, the result – Matrix Thinking. Roger has since written four books on Matrix Thinking, and the former panelist on ABC’s New Inventors is now “Chair of Innovation” at the prestigious “The Queens University” in Belfast.
Simon Griffiths
Simon Griffiths is an engineer and economist turned social entrepreneur, with an eye on revolutionising the philanthropy market. Simon is founder of Shebeen, a not-for-profit bar set to launch in Melbourne, that will fund aid organisations in developing countries with profits. He is also currently developing Who Gives A Crap, a toilet paper initiative that uses 50% of its profits to build toilets in the developing world.
Dr Froth
Stunningly beautiful and exquisitely mind-blowing, Dr Froth’s Unbelievabubble Act will reinvent your world through soap bubbles.
Dr Froth, a professional soap bubble artist, scientist, educator, entrepreneur and amateur bubbleosopher crafts over 17 years of the best of bubbleology into one Unbelievabubble Act. Expect to see diamond-shaped dodecahedron bubbles, psychedelic planet bubbles, bubbles volcanoes, helium-filled bubble sculptures and bubbles leap like flames. Anything is possibubble!
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