Accounting Business Expo 2023 | Terrapinn | 13 March 2023 | Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), 1 Convention Centre Pl, South Wharf VIC 3006, Australia

10 Conferences. 1 Event. 1 Free Ticket

• Business Advisory Conference
• Tax Today Conference
• Practice Management Conference
• Progressive Bookkeeping Conference
• AI & Automation Conference
• Treasury & Cash Management Conference
• Payroll & HR Tech Conference
• CFO Summit
• Wealth Management Conference
• Funding & Cashflow Conference

Why Attend?
• You don’t know what you don’t know!

Every industry is undergoing change to some degree.
The accountancy profession and the business behind accounting and finance is undergoing more change than most.
Staying on top of the latest developments, new trends, digital products, services and innovations that are redefining the way you work has never been more important.
Accounting Business Expo is the best place for you and your team to gain a panoramic view of everything that’s new, what is coming next in your profession and how you can optimize the tools/software you’re using already.

• The expo: the best digital solutions at your fingertips!

With so many new products and new players coming to market continuously, it’s hard to keep up with what’s new and what’s next. We’ve handpicked 100+ of the Australia's best companies to ensure you get to see and learn about the best products and services in the marketplace. You’ll be surprised at what you uncover.
Work smarter not harder: boost your career development by attending product demos, arrange 1-to-1 meetings with sellers to make informed decisions on who you want to partner, and it's all under one roof.

Who attends?
• Accountants in Practice
• Bookkeepers/BAS Agents
• Small Business
• Medium Size Businesses
• Enterprise
• Financial & Advisory Services

2023 Speakers

Peter Costello AC
Former Australian Treasurer

Robyn Jacobson
Senior Advocate, The Tax Institute

Ross Greenwood
Business Editor & Anchor, Business Weekend, Sky News

Tracey Dunn
Director - EY Private - Tax, Ernst & Young

Brendan Rynne
Partner, Chief Economist, KPMG

Keddie Waller
Head of Public Practice and SME, CPA Australia

Peter Burgess
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Director of Policy & Education, SMSF Association

Heather Cotching
Chief Economist, Australian Trade Commission

Nick McGuigan
Professor of Accounting, Director of Equity, Diversity and Social Inclusion, Monash University Sunway Campus

Josie Pane
Chief Financial Officer, HVP Plantations

Megan Toose
Chief Financial Officer, SPL

Adam Irwin
Managing Partner, Pitcher Partners

Brad Turville
Director, Modern Firm Practices

Brendan Read
Partner, KordaMentha

Aletta Boshoff
Partner, National Leader, IFRS & Corporate Reporting, BDO

Scott Treatt
General Manager, Tax Policy & Advocacy, The Tax Institute

Marcus Bowles
Director, The Institute for Working Futures

Lucas Finch
Global Head of Wellbeing,, Xero

Annie Le Cavalier
Director, Strategic Growth Programs, Stone & Chalk

Jason Low
Chief Executive Officer, The Association For Payroll Specialists (TAPS)

Neha Madaan
Risk Manager, Organisational Psychology, Wellness Advocacy, PwC Australia

David Francis
General Manager for Accountants Group, The Access Group

Chris McDonald
VP Growth, Cloudstaff

Hilary McMahon
Head of Working Capital and New Partnership, American Express

Faith Natividad
Chief Heart Officer, DIgital Workforce

Ray Osthmuller
Marketing Executive, CoinSpot

Lino Michael Benninga
Document Cloud Solutions Consultant, Adobe

David Petterson
Head of Sales, Super Records

Anju De Alwis
Managing Director, Ultimate Access

Sarah Holm
Assistant Director, OAIC

Justin Pavsic
CEO, Staff Domain Pty Limited

Nick Bhalla
Director, Nextgen

Sofie de Vreese
Head of Partnerships APAC, Expensify

Sunny Ghedia
Director, Anderson & Sjoquist

Andy Hung
Director, Segments, Enterprise Software, Wolters Kluwer

Natalie Le
Assistant Director, OAIC

Ian Lowe
CEO, Wealth99

Cathryn Lyall
Co-Founder - Seed Money & Partner, Seed Space Venture Capital

Mandy Mehdizadeh
Head Of Sales, TP24

Raaj Rayat
Investor, AirTree Ventures

Liza Richardson
VP, Solutions - Finance Transformation, Aptitude Software Limited

John Bellamy
Managing Director, DarkXposed

The Hon. Bruce Billson
Ombudsman, Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman

Kylie Chown
Director and Social Media Trainer, My Digital Brand

Guy Dickinson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CLIMA

Ron Drost
General Manager, ATO SmartDocs

Kaycee Singh
Financial Controller, Midnight Health

Mark Stockwell
Director e-Invoicing, Australian Taxation Office

Anand Tamboli
Author and Professional Speaker, Anand Tamboli

Niek Dekker
Head of Marketing, Eftsure

Robyn Erskine
Partner, Brooke Bird

Dheeraj Kumar Khandelwal
Chairman, Committee for Development of International Trade, Services & WTO, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)

Jedda Stocks-Ramsay
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer and Compliance Executive, CoinSpot

Will Lawson
Partner, Seed Space Venture Capital

Paul Baron
President, Melbourne Angels

Kyelie Baxter
Managing Partner, IQ Accountants

Lauretta Finis
Director, Quick Bizness Bookkeeping Solutions

Damien Greathead
Head of Marketing, Intuit Australia

Peta Lonergan
Acting Assistant Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office

Christian Westerlind Wigstrom
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Monoova

Meagan Wood
Product Marketing - Accountant & Advisor Group, Intuit Australia

Meryl Johnston
Founder, Bean Ninjas

Suzanna Kotsiski
Group Financial Controller, Salta Properties

Kadie Alexander
Product Lead, Expensify

Peter Loosley
Managing Director, Virtual IT Managed Services

Sophie Pinto-Raetz
Product Lead, Expensify

Adrian Ward
Chief Executive Officer, Accounting for Nature

Peter McCarthy
Principal, Precision Taxation Accounting & Management

Peter Angelini
Partner, Stannards Accountants & Advisors

Bradley Beer
Chief Executive Officer, BMT Tax Depreciation

Banita Bissoondoyal-Bheenick
Director Research Services and Programs, RMIT University

Andy Forbes
Chief Technology Officer, SuperConcepts

Kelvin Deer
Director, Australian Bookkeepers Network

Peter Thorp
Director, Australian Bookkeepers Network

Ana Espinal-Rae
Director, National Audit Quality, BDO

Sam Dean
Director, BlueprintHQ. Podcast host of 'Business Habitat with Sam Dean'

Heather Smith
Founder, ANISE Consulting

Dale Crosby
Director, For Accountants

Nicholas Ali
Executive Manager, SMSF Technical Specialist, SuperConcepts

Madelaine August
Partner, Moray & Agnew

Kelly Berger
Director, Business Simplicity and Bookkeepers Support

Cynthia De Vera
Head of Sales and Strategy, Swoop Australia

Mark Holton
Director, Smithink Advisory

Carly Moulang
Associate Professor, Monash University

Tracey Newman
Director, CloudCounting

Angela Lee
Barrister, Chancery Chambers

Emma Seymour
CFO, Deputy

Brenden Turner
Director, AuditSave

Lily Hii
Founder, Bookkeeping By Lily

Michelle Knight
Director, Little Miss Bookkeeping & Neapolitan Collective

Harrison Dell
Director, Cardena Legal

Joni Pirovich
Principal, Blockchain & Digital Assets – Services + Law (BADAS*L)

Colin Wright
Director, The Virtual CFO Group Australia

Eyob Yesus
Director, Growth Gen

Harry Hoang
Chief Executive Officer And Founder, Tailored Accounts

Emma Fabbro
Accountant, Fusion Accountants

Roman Kaczynski
Director, Accountancy Insurance

Darin Tyson-Chan
Publisher, Editor, selfmanagedsuper

Chris Fuentes
Director, Sentient Finance

Sonia Gibson
Director, Accounting Heart

Liam Bellamy
Partner, RRI Advisory

Adrian Floate
Managing Director, Spenda

Ben Miller
Senior Writer CCH IQ, Wolters Kluwer

Joyce Ong
Cofounder, Tax Nuggets Academy, CA Top 20 Future Leader

Rob Pillans
Director, Planet Consulting

Sue Rosen
Founder, Sue Rosen Executive Coaching

Brent Szalay
Managing Director, SEIVA Business

Mailene Wheeler
Director - Superannuation Advisory, Vincents

Michael Edelstein
Director, Recruitment Expert

Alan FitzGerald
The Software Whisperer, Practice Connections Advisory

Robert Klaric
Founder, The Property Expert, Advocate and Advisor

Nicolas Pilavidis
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Credit Management

Melissa Quah
Head of Customer Solutions, LBM Fleet

Jason Robinson
Director, Future Advisory and Co Host of The Numbers Game

Rohan Mansfield
Principal, LDB Group

Danny Talwar
Head of Tax, Koinly

Deborah Young
Chief Executive Officer, The RegTech Association

Kelly Henney
Partner, KPMG

Ken Devos
Associate Professor (Taxation), Swinburne University of Technology

Electra Frost
Co-founder and Chief Financial Officer, Digital Playhouse Foundation

Stefanie Merlino
Partner, People Advisory, Global Expatriate Services & Employment Taxes, BDO

Michelle Kvello
Founder CEO, Lantern Partners

Mark Monfort
Co-Founder, Aus DeFi Association / NotCentralised

Elizabeth Morton
Lecturer/Research Fellow, RMIT University

David Smith
Director, Smithink

Greg Valles
Managing Director, Valles Accountants

Jaco Veldsman
Co-Founder, Paytron

Rakin Hasan
Senior Audit Manager, Commonwealth Bank

Steve Vallas
Managing Director, BlockchainAPAC

Kayla Russell
Practice and Business Services Manager, Palfreyman Chartered Accountant

Dr. Dimitrios Salampasis
Director, Master of Financial Technologies and Lecturer of FinTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology

Brett Goodyer
Director, Business Valuations Online

Lee Eaton
National Head of Business Development, Independent Reserve

Andy Hiscox
Chief Executive Officer, Netstock Australia

Mike Mortlock
Managing Director, MCG Quantity Surveyors

Navarre Trousselot
Founder, Navexa

Steve Clement
General Manager, Deputy

Helen Francis
Principal, TY Francis Accounting And Taxation

Brett Nuske
Managing Director, Qubisoft

Emma Baxter
Director, YOUtax

Sebastien Thillaye
Director of Growth, Innovature BPO

Vincent Iannotti
Director, Qubisoft

Grant Abbott
Director, Lightyear Group

Andrew Sykes
Partner, R.S.M. International

Chris Oates
Financial Adviser, R.S.M. International

Thuy Doan
CEO, Innovature BPO

Young Han
Senior Manager, R.S.M. International

Chris Wheatley
Director, Scope Accounting

Tony Goding
Assistant Commissioner, Shadow Economy Program Office, Australian Taxation Office

Mark Chazan
CEO, Eftsure

Edison Fu
Senior Account Executive, Deputy

Joseph Robins
GM Commercials, Archa

Barbara Nunn
Trainer and Payroll Subject Matter Expert, Australian Payroll Association

Kate Burke
COO, Dataline

Michael Minassian
VP & Regional Head of Instarem, APAC, Nium

Annemarie Celliers
Partner, AMH Accounting

2023 Sponsors and Supporters

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Benchmark Media
• XU Magazine Limited

EVENT PARTNERS:
• Australian Bookkeepers Network
• CPA Australia
• CPD For Accountants
• For Accountants
• The Association For Payroll Specialists (TAPS)
• The Tax Institute
• SMSF Association