Digital Leadership

As one Australia’s most highly regarded and inspiring technology leaders, Hugh has led product and engineering teams at some of the world’s most successful tech companies including eBay, Pivotal, Tinder, Google and Microsoft. Hugh has also worked in an advisory basis with Redbubble, Doordash, Moonpig, Rome2rio, Expert360, Domain, and Ocado Technology. Having also owned his own startup, Hugh is currently working on finding, investing and supporting Australia’s next generation of companies at Rampersand. Hugh knows how to scale and lead high performing teams, possessing a strong desire to help people succeed and grow. Hugh is passionate about using his knowledge of world’s best practice in digital leadership to mentor local talent. He also shares his knowledge through a Professorial role at the Melbourne Business School and the University of Melbourne.

Bridget is passionate about the future of work, in particular using the power of technology to increase work participation and more broadly tackle inequality through more and more accessible work opportunities. She has won numerous accolades such as Forbes 30 Under 30, Top 100 Women of Influence in Australia, FutureMakers list of Australia’s top 25 Emerging Entrepreneurs under 25, Shoestring’s Top 50 Australian female entrepreneurs under 40. Bridget is the Co-Founder & CEO of Expert360, APAC’s leading marketplace and management platform powering the freelance economy. There are over 25,000 approved freelancers on the platform which is used by 4,500 hiring managers across 450+ companies.

Rebecca's international career has spanned two decades at the forefront of talent thought leadership. She has transformed the traditional approaches of legacy organisations such as Australia Post and Bupa Australia, leading multiple award-winning initiatives in support of the changing nature of work.  Today Rebecca helps organisations and leaders to do business differently.  

With 16 years’ industry experience spanning industrial, print, digital and service design, Julia is passionate about anchoring an organisation's strategy around great customer experiences and outcomes-driven work. Julia has delivered UX and service design projects, ranging from expert reviews, website redesigns, digital strategies, current state service mapping and future state service design. She has worked with a variety of industries, including state and federal government, finance, telecoms, education and health. She loves facilitating, and using design thinking and an iterative approach to solve complex organisational problems.

She sits on the committee for the SDNow Conference in Australia, and on the Board for the Spectrum app which is seeking to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes for LGBTQ youth.

A business technology leader with over 25 years' experience, Gary helps clients to bridge the connection between technology led business transformation and value delivery, enabling agility and growth. Gary is also a co-author of "Digital Transformation Game Plan" and co-creator of Digital Fluency Model. And a coffee connoisseur and blogger at www.coffeefourdad.com.

A strategically focused business leader with over 20 years’ experience, Sue helps organisations to rethink how they focus their operations and assist them to make more informed, data guided business decisions. Sue's expertise includes developing and implementing organisational strategies, delivering large scale technology transformation programs, building high performing consulting teams and partnering with clients to resolve complex operational problems.