What will it take for the Hunter to become Australia's premium industrial innovation ecosystem?

In this tightly curated session, four leaders each deliver a short, focused keynote on their vision for the region's next chapter:

Gillian Summers (Brain Industries) on how the Hunter has reinvented itself before — from the end of BHP steelmaking to today — and why resilience comes from solving real problems, buying and building locally where it makes sense, and refusing to wait to be rescued.

Victor Dominello on what intelligent, citizen-centred public services and digital infrastructure (drawing on the ideas in Government 3.0) can unlock for regional economies in the age of AI.