The Hon. Anoulach Chanthivong
NSW Minister for Fair Trading and Better Regulation, Minister for Industry and Trade, Minister for Innovation Science and Technology, Minister for Building, and Minister for Corrections
Pippa Smith
Pippa Smith is the Founder of Social Startup Labs, a specialist agency that helps launch new brands, products, and investment campaigns across Australia, and the UK.
Mac Thompson
Mac is an experienced tech entrepreneur having founded, built and sold multiple high tech businesses. He was the co-founder of the giant 17GW Sun Cable project delivering dispatchable power via HVDC submarine cable to Singapore.
Ben Lindsay
Ben Lindsay is an Investment Principal at Investible, one of APAC's most active early-stage venture capital firms, investing in tech companies from the very start of their journey.
James MacDonald
James MacDonald is the founder of NewyTechPeople, a community-driven recruitment agency expanding across the East Coast of Australia.
Claire Quigley
Claire is the Founder of Launchpad9, a boutique consultancy that exists to inspire and empower innovation that matters in established organisations that want to find more effective and efficient ways of achieving results and staying relevant.
Brandon Gien
Brandon is the Founder and Chair of Good Design Australia, Chair of the Australian Good Design Awards, and Executive Director of the Australian Design Council. He has spent the past 25 years passionately advocating for the value of good design to improve our social, economic, cultural and environmental quality of life.
Justin Bain
Justin Bain is the CEO of 3ME Technology. 3ME Technology’s vision is to be Australia’s leading off-highway electrification company and to make a substantive impact in Australia’s energy transition and national security.
Brett Thomas
Brett Thomas is a Director and COO at The Melt. The Melt provides a trusted and experienced hand for hardware startups to prove, prototype, pilot and produce. In addition to offering access to the prototyping facilities and technical specialists, they deploy capital through the early stage VC fund, Melt Ventures.
Clare Larkin-Sykes
Clare Larkin-Sykes is Co-Lead of New.E – the Hunter New Energy Cluster and Managing Director of Forelight Advisory. She is a strong collaborator and advocate of future resource and energy industries including the symbiosis of clean technology solutions to traditional processes and value chains.
Frere Byrne
Frere Byrne is the CEO and Co-Founder of PlasmaLeap Technologies. PlasmaLeap Technologies designs, manufactures and distributes the world's most advanced zero-emissions chemical reactors for hard to abate industries.
Linc Horton
Linc Horton is the CEO of Newcastle Airport, leading the organisation through a critical growth phase with the launch of the new international terminal and the development of the Astra Aerolab precinct.
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw is the CEO and co-founder of Advanced Navigation, a navigation and autonomous systems technology company.
Jeff NITSCH
Jeff is General Manager for New Markets at Acciona Energia, a renewable energy developer that had been operating in Australia for more than 20 years. Jeff has more than 30 years of energy markets experience both in the UK and Australia and is currently assessing the potential for a Pumped Hydro Energy Storage project in the Hunter Valley.
Em. Prof. Roy Green
Em. Prof. Roy Green AM is leading a major R&D review for the Australian Govt & Tech Council. He chairs the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub, serves on the CSIRO board and recently completed his 5-year term as Chair of Port of Newcastle.
Adam Gilmour
Adam Gilmour is the CEO and Co-founder of Gilmour Space Technologies, an Australian-owned company that is leading the development of sovereign space capabilities in launch vehicles, satellites, and access to space.
John Fry
John Fry is the Managing Director of Kongsberg Defence Australia, based in Canberra. Since taking on the role in 2019, he has led the establishment and growth of Kongsberg’s operations in Australia, overseeing the local manufacture and integration of key defence capabilities including NASAMS Ground Based Air Defence, Protected Mobile Fires, and the Naval Strike Missile.
Alex Lautenschlager
Alex is the Hardware Engineering & Manufacturing Manager at Pitcrew AI, where he leads the design and industrialisation of cutting-edge inspection systems for the mining sector. At Pitcrew AI, he is driving the company’s expansion into global markets and building a scalable, locally-led manufacturing strategy that brings advanced technology from prototype to production.