Startup community advocate, former Director of Startup Grind. Have run over 60 startup events in Sydney.

An Advisor and executive leader with extensive experience leading growth, transformation, and commercial strategy across domestic and international markets. He has successfully delivered results in media intelligence, technology, transport, and wholesale distribution industries, with a proven track record of scaling businesses, driving revenue, and leading teams through the start up, scale up, capital raise as well as pre and post sale phases. His most recent executive role was Senior Vice President, Commercial & Strategy, at CisionOne across ANZ, USA, EMEA & APAC.

I've just finished as Managing Director of Streem. During my career, I've helped growth-stage businesses professionalise commercially: go-to-market, profit and loss, operations, and the exacting work of winning and serving enterprise and government customers without the founder in every meeting. Under my leadership, Streem's active client roster tripled to more than 1,150 organisations across Australia and New Zealand. Managing Director | Scaling Businesses | SaaS & Martech | P&L Ownership | Go-to-Market | International Expansion | Asia-Pacific (APAC)

With over 20 years across finance, sales, product, and BD in Australia and Japan, Matt works with founders navigating the early stages of building, pitching, and growing across borders especially from Australia and Japan. He has mentored through accelerator programs, worked VC-adjacent in Japan, and runs a weekly founder newsletter followed by operators and investors across the APAC region.

Founder Trilbii AI - Carolyn is building practical AI tools for healthcare and dental businesses. With 20+ years across tech, marketing, and scale-up environments, she has helped hundreds of practices grow sustainably. She is also the author of Fully Booked and a recognised voice on AI adoption in healthcare and medical and dental services.

🧠 Digital Trust in the Age of AI | Founder, Fidestra.ai | Building Trust Infrastructure for the AI Era | 🎤 International Speaker & MC | ✍️ Author

Dr Kaushik Ram is the Founder of ØVRD, a defence company building sovereign C2 capabilities for autonomous operations.

Founder - Scycle (Sustainable AI) + Cyra (platform for women with endo/pcos)

B2B Technology Partnerships and Alliances Ecosystem Professional

outsourced cfo helping startups and scaleups grow profitably

Founder of Microburbs.com.au, AI geek.