Financial Review Business Summit 2024 | The Australian Financial Review | 10 March 2024 | Hilton Sydney, 488 George St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

This event will discuss how these issues will play out in 2024 and how business, investors and governments should deal with them. In what could be a federal election year, the Summit will most of all seek to refocus the national debate on how Australia can compete and grow its way out of these shocks.

2024 Speakers

MODERATORS:

Fiona Buffini
Editor, The Australian Financial Review

Phillip Coorey
Political Editor, The Australian Financial Review

James Curran
International Editor, The Australian Financial Review

James Daggar-Nickson
Editorial Director, AFR Insights, The Australian Financial Review

Jessica Gardner
Deputy Editor - News, The Australian Financial Review

Jacob Greber
Senior Correspondent, The Australian Financial Review

Jennifer Hewett
Columnist, The Australian Financial Review

John Kehoe
Economics Editor, The Australian Financial Review

Anthony Macdonald
Chanticleer Columnist, The Australian Financial Review

Angela Macdonald-Smith
Senior Resources Writer, The Australian Financial Review

Lisa Murray
Deputy Editor, The Australian Financial Review Magazine

Vesna Poljak
Companies Editor, The Australian Financial Review

Paul Smith
Technology Editor, The Australian Financial Review

James Thomson
Chanticleer Columnist, The Australian Financial Review

SPEAKERS

Muqsit Ashraf
Global Head of Strategy, Accenture

Genevieve Bell
Vice-Chancellor and President, Australian National University

Bran Black
Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia

Mike Blickstead
Head of Australia & New Zealand Private Equity, Blackstone

Vicki Brady
CEO, Telstra

Peter Burns
Chief Executive, Accenture ANZ

Jim Chalmers
Treasurer of Australia

Matt Comyn
CEO, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Peter Costello
Former Federal Treasurer, Chairman of Nine

Caroline Cox
Chief Legal, Governance and External Affairs Officer, BHP

Vijay Cugati
Head of M&A and Capital Markets, Allens

Jamie Dimon
Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase

Peter Dutton
Leader of the Opposition

Tim Ford
MD and CEO, Treasury Wine Estates

Josh Frydenberg
Former Federal Treasurer and Chairman, Goldman Sachs Australia & New Zealand

Sanjeev Gandhi
MD and CEO, Orica

Michael Green
Chief Executive Officer, United States Studies Centre

Lan Guan
Chief AI Officer, Accenture

Andrew Hinchliff
Group Executive - Institutional Banking & Markets, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Lucinda Holdforth
Speech Writer and Author

Sarah Hunter
Chief Economist and Assistant Governor (Economic), Reserve Bank of Australia

Mark Hutchinson
CEO, Fortescue Energy

Wei Li
MD, Global Chief Investment Strategist, BlackRock Investment Institute

Huw McKay
Chief Economist, BHP

Jodi McKay
Director, Australia-India CEO Forum

Nicholas Moore
Special Envoy for Southeast Asia

Meg O’Neill
CEO, Woodside Energy

Cliff Obrecht
Co-founder and COO, Canva

Dino Otranto
CEO, Fortescue Metals

Xiao Qian
Ambassador for the People’s Republic of China to Australia

Kerry Schott
Chair, Carbon Market Institute

Paul Schroder
Chief Executive, AustralianSuper

Melanie Silva
MD, Google Australia and New Zealand

Geraldine Slattery
President Australia, BHP

Deanne Stewart
CEO, Aware Super

Michael Stutchbury
Editor-In-Chief, The Australian Financial Review

Leah Weckert
CEO, Coles Group

Richard White
CEO, WiseTech Global

Shemara Wikramanayake
CEO, Macquarie Group

Penny Wong
Minister for Foreign Affairs

Danielle Wood
Chair, Productivity Commission

2024 Sponsors and Partners

PRESENTING PARTNER:
• BHP

MAJOR PARTNERS:
• Accenture
• Allens Linklaters
• American Express
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia

SUPPORTING PARTNERS:
• LSH Auto Australia
• Business Council of Australia

EVENT PARTNER:
• Walter Knoll