Pause Fest 2019 | Pause | 5 February 2019 | Federation Square, Swanston St & Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

World’s leading creativity-infused business event. 2019 Information coming soon.

2019 Speakers

Adina Jacobs
Co-Founder, STM Goods

Andrea Myles
Chief Executive Officer, China Australia Millennial Project

Andrew Hyde
Chair of the Board, Glider

Andrew Laidlaw
Campaign and Insights Director, Cavalry

Arun Poojari
General Manager Asia Pacific & Japan, SparkBeyond

Ben Lee
Co-Founder, Rootstrap

Billy Seabrook
Global Chief Creative Officer, IBM iX

Blake Hutchison
Chief Executive Officer, Flippa

Boo Wong
Global Director of Emerging Technology, The Mill

Cecilia Ambros
Head of Creative Studios, US for Amazon Advertising, Amazon

Dan Monheit
Co-Founder and Director of Strategy, Hardhat

Dominic Price
Head of R&D - Futurist, Atlassian

Dr Adam Bumpus
Chief Executive Officer, RedGrid One

Dr Danielle Kennedy
Director, AIM Future Science Platform, CSIRO

Dr Marissa Rosenberg
Senior Research Scientist, NASA Neurosciences Laboratory, KBRwyle

Dr Melissa Weinberg
Psychologist, Academic, and Research Consultant

Dr. Caleb Sawade
Senior Manager Digital Optimisation, Deloitte Digital

Dr. Jocelyn Dunn
Human Performance Engineer, NASA Johnson Space Center, KBRwyle

Drew Klonsky
Executive Director of Business Transformation, R/GA Australia

Eileen Ormsby
Author, Journalist and Lawyer

Emily Rich
Managing Director, Microsoft for Startups

Emma Chiu
Creative Innovation Director, JWT

Francesco Cordua
Founder, Exultant Brands

Gabrielle Evans
Youth Intake, Assessment and Engagement Worker, Headspace

Grant Petty
Chief Executive Officer, Blackmagic Design

Hannah Murphy
Senior Strategist, VICE Australia

Hon. Philip Dalidakis MP
Member for Southern Metropolitan, Victoria State Government

Hugh Forrest
Chief Programming Officer, South by Southwest (SXSW)

Jacqui Bull
Head of Expansion and Co-founder, Sidekicker

Jacyl Shaw
Practice Director Digital Innovation, GHD

James Beacham
Post-doctoral researcher, ATLAS Experiment at CERN, Duke University

Jared Cooney Horvath
Director, NeuroEducation

Jason Juma Ross
Head of Tech, Entertainment & Connectivity, Facebook

Jimmy Nguyen
Chief Executive Officer, nChain Group

John Cox
CIO, Australia Post

Julia Khusainova
Experience Design Manager, Airbnb

Juliana Proserpio
Co-Founder & Global Design Director, Echos - Innovation Lab

Julie Trell
Australia Country Lead, SheEO

Junade Ali
Manager of Engineering Operations, Cloudflare

Justin Dry
Co-Founder & Joint Chief Executive Officer, Vinomofo

Kate Cornick
Chief Executive Officer, LaunchVic

Kate Goodwin
Executive Producer of New Business, Passion Pictures

Kate O'Keeffe
Senior Director, Customer & Partner Innovation, Cisco CHILL

Katia Moskvitch
Business & Space Editor, WIRED UK

Konrad Feldman
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Quantcast

Kylie Savage
Director of Capability, Huddle

Lara Dolz
Project Leader, How To Impact

Laura Ryan
Strategy Director, Mentally Friendly

Leah Callon-Butler
Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer, Intimate

Lina Patel
Chief of Getting Things Done (COO), Code for Australia

Lydia Hummel
Vice President Design and Studio Director, Tiffany&Co

Marcus Nance
Delivery Lead, The Movember Foundation

Mark Brand
Chief Executive Officer, MB Inc, Prof Innovation USC, Executive Chef at ARC, Chair ABLF

Mathan Ratinam
Managing Director, CivVic Labs

Matt Whale
Managing Director, How To Impact

Megan Flamer
Program Director, BlueChilli

Natacha Alpert
Founder, MIRAS3D

Natalie Slessor
General Manager of Workplace & Change, Lendlease

Nigel Dalton
Chief Inventor, REA Group

Paolo Malabuyo
UX Director, YouTube

Parneet Pal
Chief Science Officer, Wisdom Labs

Patrick Llewellyn
Chief Executive Officer, 99designs

Rachael O'Meara
Author of Pause, Google

Ricardo Prada
Director of UX, Google

Richard Adamson
Founder, Young Henry’s

Robin Scarborough

Sam Gledhill
Global Director, The Movember Foundation

Sam Keene
Lead UX Engineer, Google

Samar Singla
Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Jugnoo

Sarah Owen
Senior Editor, WGSN

Scott Kirkpatrick
President and Chief Operating Officer, General Assembly

Stephanie Winkler
Digital Strategist, VICE Australia

Stephen Gates
Head of Design Transformation, InVision

Steven Aldrich
Chief Product Officer, GoDaddy

Sydney Thomas
Investment Associate and Head of Operations, Precursor Ventures

Tansel Ali
Memory Expert and Managing Director, Tansel Institute

Tanushree Rao
Communication + Storytelling Lead, Catalpa International

The Hon Martin Pakula MP
Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Trade, Victoria State Government

Tom Whitty
Journalist and Content Creator, Former Managing Editor of The Project

Troy Hitch
CIO, Proximity Worldwide

Tyson Ballard
Head of Legal Consulting, Cognia Law

2019 Partners

PRINCIPAL:
• Launchvic

MAJOR:
• IBM
• FFed Square

ACTIVATOR:
• BlackMagicDesign
• Nura
• City of Ballarat
• Taboo
• Monash Universtiy
• Adobe
• .Co
• Up
• SmartBox

BOOSTER:
• Australian Landing Pads
• Dius
• Melbourne
• City of Melbourne
• Craft CMS
• Mt
• RMIT University

FESTIVAL:
• QT
• Merton Lawyers
• ClothesLine
• Universe
• LP
• Pancho
• Hedgehog Agency
• Myndfully
• The Loop
• Mountain Goat
• Creative Business Cup Australia
• Downstream
• Paddl
• SingularityU Australia Global Impact Challenge
• Odd Pears
• Capi
• Swinburne
• Bucha
• The Hidden Sea
• Lexington Hill Cocktail Club
• MachineScreenPrinters

COMMUNITY:
• Inspire9
• Hub Australia
• YBF Ventures
• The Churchill Club
• Startmate
• One Roof
• Stone & Chalk
• The Cluster
• More Space For Light
• The Commons
• Coder Academy
• Space & Co.
• Hatch Quarter
• League of Intrapreneurs
• AADC
• Western Bace
• Centre4Intrapreneurship
• Silicon Block
• The Eventful Learning
• FinTech Australia
• The Studio
• Muru
• Smiling Mind
• Coinjar
• Synergize Hub
• Nab Labs
• Inventium
• AGDA
• The Cirlce
• Driven x Design
• Entrepreneurs & Co.
• 99Starts
• WeWork
• Blockchain Centre
• ADMA
• ACS
• Be.Bendigo
• La Trobe University
• Coworking.fyi
• TechEvents
• Ennoblir
• VMDO
• Design Institute of Australia

INDUSTRY:
• CreativeVictoria
• Nine
• Fenton Stephens
• Victoria University
• LendLease
• Isoba
• ANZ
• Ey
• Mercer
• UniSuper
• T

MEDIA:
• AdNews
• CompanyDirector
• B&T
• Business Insider
• StartUp SMart
• The Music