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2026 Speakers Included

Lee Hickin

Executive Director

National AI Centre

Shruti Ganeriwala

CHRO

Unilever ANZ & APAC

Shan Moorthy

Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific

Workday

Peter LePage

Director, Workforce Capability & Learning

Sydney Trains

Anne Tosky

Chief People Officer

ELMO

Nick Farhan

Director People, Culture & Talent

Infrastructure Australia

Lauren Pendergast

Leadership & Competence Leader

IKEA

Sarah Bankins

Associate Professor of Ethical AI and Work

Macquarie University

Dr Philip Gibbs

Co-Founder

Agile HR Analytics

Lucy Poole

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Strategy, Planning and Performance

Digital Transformation Agency

Jessica Wilson

Co-founder and CEO

Women Making Waves and Waves Tech Ventures, Global Grand Finalist of TV series 'The Next Unicorn', Leader within the Tech Industry

Jennifer Catterall

Executive Manager, Talent Leadership & Capability

Suncorp

Anne Cavalieros

General Manager, Reward and P&C Digital Transformation

nbn

Kate Booth

Head of Learning and Development

MinterEllison

Brett Reedman

CIO; CIO50 2023 & 2024

Catholic Healthcare

Lauren McGinley

Employer Branding Leader, International

Schneider Electric

Peter Elkhuizen

Talent & Learning and Development Manager

Starbucks

Iman Eftekhari

CEO & Founder

Agile HR Analytics

Luke Fleming

Chief People Officer

International Convention Centre Sydney

Darren Fewster

Executive, Wellbeing & Employee Services, People, Culture & Communications

Telstra

Amber Johnson

Head of AI, Workforce Optimisation

MYOB

Jan Roden

Head of Organisational Development and Learning

Endeavour Energy

Marc Starfield

Executive - Colleague Systems & Experience

NAB

Dr Pat Norman

Manager, Research and Development

Sydney Executive Plus

Vinod Bhatt

Director, Workforce Transformation

Westpac

Jacqui Pooley

Organisational Development Lead

Culture Amp

Breckon Jones

Board Advisor

Agile HR Analytics

Benjamin Morris

Group General Manager, HR Culture & Capability

Mirvac

Professor Danny Liu

Professor of Educational Technologies, Winner of the AFR 2025 AI Awards in the Research and Education Category

University of Sydney

Melissa Dorey

Head of People Digital Experience

AGL

Samantha Fernando

Learning & Leadership Development APAC Leader

Aurecon

Chelsea Shaw

Global Strategic Workforce Planning & Skills Manager

QBE Insurance

Vimoj Patil

Digital Project Leader

IKEA

Jane Weir

Global Executive Development Lead

ANZ

Ramak Salamat

Vice President APJ

Staffbase

Leah Mooney

Data Privacy & AI Governance Lead

Wotton + Kearney

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