The Australian Financial Review Business Summit 2018 | The Financial Review | 6 March 2018 | International Convention Centre Sydney, 14 Darling Drive, Sydney, NSW 2000

Australia’s premier business forum, The Australian Financial Review Business Summit, presented by BHP returns on the 6-7 March 2018 at the International Convention Centre Sydney with a heavyweight speaker line-up from Australia, New Zealand, the US and Asia. As the global economy picks up steam, how can Australian business make the most of the accelerating wave of digital disruption amid rising political and geo-strategic risks?

2018 will bring more discussion and debate on Asia & the World, Disruption and Political Risk within Australian businesses and the global economy. We will be back in March 2018 continuing this year’s theme of Risk takers. Growth makers. Wealth creators.

The Summit will showcase how Australian business is dealing with the challenges and opportunities from accelerating digital disruption, rising political risk and the new phase of China and Asian development.

2018 Speakers

Sangeet Paul Choudary
Founder and CEO, Platformation Labs, Singapore

Shaun Paga
Vice President for, Business Development, Soul Machines, New Zealand

Bill English
Leader of the Opposition; former Prime Minister, New Zealand

Andrew Shearer
Senior Adviser on Asia Pacific Security, Center for Strategic and International Studies, USA

Blythe Masters
CEO, Digital Asset Holdings, USA

Victor Tseng
VP for Corporate Affairs and Business Development, Ctrip, China

Kenneth Rogoff
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Economics, Harvard University; former Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund, USA

Jonathan Woetzel
Director, McKinsey Global Institute, China

NATIONAL SPEAKERS:

Nick Bell
Co-founder, Siteguard and Founder, WME

Hamish Douglass
Co-Founder, CEO, CIO and, Lead Portfolio Manager, Magellan Financial Group

Sanjeev Gupta
CIO, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ)

Paul Italiano
CEO, TransGrid

Patrick Llewellyn
Chief Executive Officer, 99designs

Bede Moore
Co-founder and former MD, Lazada Indonesia

Paul Skamvougeras
Head of Equities, Perpetual

Catherine Tanna
Managing Director, EnergyAustralia

Gary Weiss
Chairman, Ardent Leisure Group; Executive Director, Ariadne Australia

Olivia Wirth
CEO, Qantas Loyalty

Pru Bennett
Managing Director, BlackRock

Josh Frydenberg
Minister for the, Environment and Energy

Geoff Healy
Chief External Affairs Officer, BHP

Alan Joyce
CEO, Qantas Airways

Philip Lowe
Governor of the, Reserve Bank of Australia

Byron Pirola
Managing Director, Port Jackson Partners

Emily Skye
Founder, Emily Skye Fitness

Malcolm Turnbull
Prime Minister of Australia

Jennifer Westacott
Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia

Steven Worrall
Managing Director, Microsoft Australia

Maile Carnegie
Group Executive, Digital Banking, ANZ Bank

Richard Goyder
Chairman, AFL Commission

Dig Howitt
CEO and President, Cochlear

Tolga Kumova
Corporate Director, New Century Resources

Libby Lyons
Director, Workplace Gender Equality Agency

Dennis Richardson
former Secretary of, Foreign Affairs and, Trade; former Director, General of ASIO

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

Adrian Turner
CEO, Data61

Richard White
CEO, WiseTech Global

Bob Carr
Professor in International Relations, UTS, Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute; former Minister for Foreign Affairs

Jemma Green
Co-founder and Chair, Power Ledger

Greg Hywood
CEO and Managing Director, Fairfax Media

Amanda Lacaze
CEO and Managing Director, Lynas Corporation

Andrew Mackenzie
CEO, BHP

Tom Seymour
Managing Partner, PwC Australia’s Financial Advisory

Cyan Ta'eed
Founder, Hey Tiger; Executive Director, and Co-Founder, Envato

John Walker
Vice Chairman, Macquarie Capital Asia

Jon Williams
Managing Partner, People and Organisation, PwC Australia

2018 Sponsors

PRESENTING SPONSORS:
• Financial Review
• BHP

MAJOR PARTNERS:
• ANZ's
• PwC
• Chartered Accountants
• Hitachi
• TAFE NSW
• TransGrid