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David Gillespie

NEW YORK: Innovation & Strategy

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’m David. I’m originally from Australia, but live in New York City. I spend my days thinking about where the world is heading with the ever expanding reach of technology, though unlike the doomsayers, I think we’re getting brought back together after having been flung as far apart as we possibly could have been. I believe this is a good thing. My focus is on product and service design, and how those two things are lowering barriers to self-expression in new ways.I’ve been referenced in a bunch of places by some lovely people, often in association with the presentation below. Over 70,000 people have also read Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Internet) – if you haven’t please do and let me know what you think.

Ben Rennie

SYDNEY: Founder

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Ben Rennie is the co-founder and CEO of 6.2, a leading innovation consultancy that helps organisations leverage their creative potential to develop strategies focusing on growth and innovation. Since 2009 6.2 has worked with more than 60 organisations including some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies such as Google and Nike. Ben is a regular speaker on the intersection between technology, consumer behaviours and creative thinking at conferences and corporate events.

Janeece Keller

SYDNEY: Entrepreneur & Freelance journalist

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With over 10-years experience managing large projects and business transformation programs within multinationals, Janeece now runs two businesses; Katoka and Bound Round. Katoka supports individuals and businesses undergoing significant change. Bound Round publishes interactive travel guides for children.One of Janeece's strengths is her ability to see the essence of an issue or process quickly, allowing her to quickly build, motivate and lead teams to deliver tangible results. In both her businesses Janeece draws on these skills. For Katoka clients it means she can help resolve issues quickly or coach managers and executives to achieve their desired results. For Bound Round it means she's built a team that is passionate about creating fun, engaging and educational content that gives kids a vote in family travel decisions (and gives parents some quite time while travelling).A seasoned facilitator and trainer Janeece has post-graduate qualifications in journalism and certification as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. This breadth of experience demonstrates her ability to adapt to the environments in which she operates. As a freelance writer Janeece specialises on her two passions - business and travel. Within the business space she is currently researching and writing about measuring and improving productivity in Australian businesses. Janeece has lived and worked in Australia as well as the UK, Germany and Switzerland and Ghana.

Courtney van der Weyden

SYDNEY: Managing Editor

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Courtney is the managing editor of uncluttered white spaces

Tarant Hill

SYDNEY: Journalist

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Rocking Journo, Amazing Eater of Beautiful Culinary Delights and Global Traveler. I eat LA for breakfast, have lunch in Thailand and home in time for Dinner, on the pristine beaches of the NSW South Coast.

Linsay Duncan

LONDON: Co-founder @ Marke2ing & Marketing Professional

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I'm co-founder of Marke2ing and have had the good fortune to run marketing functions for corporates of all shapes and sizes, and the added pleasure of working all over within many different cultures (US, Australia, China, all over Europe). Now work is all about supporting ambitious entrepreneurs. Namely ones leading a growing business in the peer-to-peer, cleantech or social enterprise space. Observer of marcomms and business leadership, with disdain for jargon, I seek those rare punchy concepts, words or pictures that make you think.

Josie Gibson

MELBOURNE: Innovation & collaboration

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Josie Gibson works on initiatives to drive transformation and embed new ways of working. She has held senior media, marketing and business development roles, has extensive program design and facilitation experience, and a track record of delivering results.Specialties: - innovation leadership- creative thinking- strategic communication- community development - marketing and business developmentDelivered through:- innovation coaching- career counselling- codesign (group projects, strategic programs, internal and external forums)- facilitation and moderation

Rui Rodrigues

SYDNEY: Business Angel

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Sometimes I dream of 6 crazy ventures before breakfast. F1 World Champion (twice, yep), LBS MBA, venture consultant and angel investor.Paris, London and now Sydney

Angelique Milojevic

SYDNEY: MD & Author

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Current Managing Director - Main Mastermind, Business Developer, Business Designer at Business MastermindsPrevious Geekdom, Clever Business Networks, Web & ZenEducation Continuing Education, Business Process Design and Implementation at University of Sydney

Andrew Fallshaw

SYDNEY: Founder@ Bellroy

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Current Carryology, Bellroy, Radiopaedia.orgPrevious Rip Curl, Fallshaw Wheels & Castors, Freelance Design and EngineeringEducation B. Eng (Prod Des) Hons, Engineering and Product Design at Swinburne University of Technology

Rebekah Campbell

SYDNEY: Founder and CEO at Posse.com

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My latest project, Posse.com is a social search engine that helps people to find the favourite places of their social network. Users can create an ultimate 'street' filed with their favourite restaurants, bars, hotels, spas & shops.Posse launched on 12 June 2012 and already lists more than 12,000 stores. Posse is backed by high profile Angel investors including industry leaders from Google, Facebook, Twitter, E-Bay, MTV, Wotif & NineMSN as well as EMI Music and Superannuation Fund MLC. Prior to Posse.com, I founded Scorpio Music, one of Australia's most successful artist management companies. Artists I've independently signed and developed from scratch include Evermore, george, Lisa Mitchell, Matt Corby, Operator Please & Amy Meredith.

Marie Lena Tupot & Tim Stock

NEW YORK: scenarioDNA

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Josh Stinton

SYDNEY: Partner and Events Director

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Josh Stinton is about ideas. He’s about people. He creates experiences for people to learn from through events, facilitation sessions and design workshops – ultimately bringing people together to share ideas and drive progress. A partner at 6.2 - Josh enjoys regularly hosting and speaking on the intersection between success and failure, and creative thinking. He has produced and co-managed events including FailCon Sydney, If Talks, TEDx Sydney, TEDx Macquarie University and Global Service Jam. A Board Director at Macquarie University, 2012 saw Josh winning Project Future’s top honour, being crowned “Stella Fella” and ambassador for anti-sex trafficking. Josh also works with Save the Children Australia and HOPE Africa.Josh tweets (about tacos and other interesting things) at @joshuastinton, blogs at Josh Stinton, contributes at Uncluttered White Spaces, connects at LinkedIn and will reply (in sweeping statements) to your mail at josh@joshstinton.com. Josh likes his chillies hot.

Eva Muller

SYDNEY/AMSTERDAM Interaction Designer

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Interaction designer at 6.2 | an innovation lab. Passionate about social innovation, human centered design, Nike ID's, and kitesurfing!

Marina Paronetto

MELBOURNE: Founder of Powerhouse HQ

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Marina Paronetto, founder of PowerHouseHQ, is a creative and positive thinker, she works with organisations to empower intrapreneuship, growing innovation culture from within. Organised Global Service and Sustainability Jams in Melbourne & Sydney, and most recently organises Melbourne Startup Weekend.