china australia millennial project 2015 program

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2015 PROGRAM

Platinum partner:

2 China Australia Millennial Project


What is the China Australia Millennial Project?

The rise of China is the story of our time and the story of this century, currently dubbed the Asian Century. China is Australia’s largest trading partner but also the largest trading partner of 124 other nations. What can Australia do to keep up? We do not have a strong enough supply of young, Asia-capable talent coming through the pipeline to populate the great opportunity that a rising China presents... yet.

The China Australia Millennial Project (CAMP) is a world-first bilateral business incubator inviting top young leaders from China and Australia (aged 18-35) to collaborate and co-design solutions to the largest social and environmental issues of the Asian Century.

CAMP assists the work of government, large and small business by unlocking new potential, relationships and propensity to collaborate among the best and brightest of both great nations.

Over the next 5 years, CAMP will produce an alumni of over 1000 extraordinary young people from Australia and China who know, like and trust each other and who have the ability to solve problems and create value together.

CAMP delegates this year 2015 come from all walks of life and types of job, from a Tibetan herdswoman-turned-entrepreneur to a Beijing jewelery designer and the founder of a Melbourne-based Social Enterprise based on crepes!

Our delegates have been chosen because they are already kicking goals in their fields, which span everything from technology to law to entrepreneurship and healthcare. They are passionate about meeting other young innovators and forging a better relationship between Australia and the region’s economic powerhouse, China.

The China Australia Millennial Project (CAMP) is a world-first project uniting top young leaders (aged 18-35) from China with their Australian peers for a bilateral business incubator across a broad range of industries.

The delegates you’ll meet at our Summit will have just finished a 12 week online program in which they have gained tools and methodologies to develop innovative ideas and models that benefit society and lead to progress. They’ve been taken out of their mental comfort zones and helped to discover new insights and creative solutions.

From critical thinking to the ability to inspire and delegate, CAMPers will have nurtured their self-esteem, authenticity, resilience, intuition and sociability to take action and drive change.

They’ll have experienced new perspectives, customs and practices from their Australian or Chinese fellow-delegates, built their knowledge of contemporary Chinese and Australian society and business, and learnt the cross-cultural skills they need to connect.

They’ll form friendships with outstanding Australian, Chinese and global experts and join the inaugural group of CAMP alumni – the top innovators and influencers from both countries who will work together for years to come.

We hope we’ve provided delegates an exceptional professional development program designed to stretch their creative problem solving and innovation skills. And we hope you enjoy meeting them!

Congratulations, you’re about to meet the first ever CAMPers and we know you’re going to be as inspired by them as we have been.

Andrea Myles, CEO CAMP


Message from Damien MacRaeCongratulations on your participation in the China Australia Millennial Project (CAMP)!

We are proud to be a partner of this fantastic initiative, bringing together the next generation of thought leaders across China and Australia to develop innovative solutions to real world problems.

As an advisory board member for CAMP, I’m particularly excited to meet with all of you – the young leaders who will create a blueprint for bilateral relations between Australia and China that will drive change.

The calibre of delegates coming through this program is truly astounding and it is inspiring to see this bright, young talent being recognised in such an innovative way.

In my role as General Manager of Westpac Premium and Migrant Banking, I can see first-hand that these are exciting times for the people of China and Australia. In the past decade, China has become Australia’s leading trading partner, and last year, Chinese nationals became the second-largest group of permanent migrants in Australia, making up the largest share of international students.

Our partnership with CAMP is an opportunity to further connect our two great nations and to talk, learn, understand and embrace the future together.

Through this initiative, Westpac Institutional Bank and Migrant / Premium Banking are cementing our Australia China Corridor strategy, which supports two-way flows of trade, capital and people between China and Australia.

At Westpac, we recognise the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. The global nature of today’s business environment means that many organisations are looking for a competitive advantage in understanding unique markets and their customer base. Similarly, innovation is the vital engine of growth for sustained performance in this global digital economy.

For this reason, we are excited to be corporate sponsors for the CAMP Think Tank Topics of ‘Digital Disruption’ and ‘Global Talent.’

We look forward to sharing the opportunities from this prosperous partnership and on behalf of all of us at Westpac and CAMP, we wish you an enjoyable program.

Damien MacRae General Manager, Westpac Premium


Message from Frances AdamsonCongratulations on the launch of the inaugural China Australia Millennial Project (CAMP). CAMP is an exciting new addition to an already strong innovation partnership between Australia and China.

CAMP creates a platform for young innovators from both countries to meet industry leaders, through CAMP’s diverse partnerships. This is an opportunity for our future leaders to learn from those who are right now blazing new paths in science, research, business, education, media and a range of other fields that span the Australia-China relationship.

Australia and China share many of the same challenges: how to make our cities vibrant and liveable, how to meet our peoples’ need for food and energy in a sustainable manner, how to ensure we’re placed to take best advantage of the tremendous opportunities presented by advances in information and communication technology.

The CAMP initiative seeks to address these challenges by drawing together young innovators from both countries with a broad range of skill sets and perspectives and providing these young people with the opportunity to step back, to listen, learn and discuss, and together develop new ideas and, we hope, new solutions.

I look forward to learning about the range of discussions that take place both through the online program and in Sydney, and to hearing about the ventures and ideas that are pitched to a room of venture capitalists, sponsors, investors and entrepreneurs at the end of the program.

Congratulations to this year’s CAMP delegates, and to the CAMP team, supporters and sponsors for your valuable and indeed visionary contribution to the Australia-China relationship. I wish you every success.

Frances Adamson 孙芳安 Australian Ambassador to China


Message from Professor Bob CarrThe China Australia Millennial Project is of enormous importance.

When young people exchange views on the relationship between our two countries there’s an understanding for the things that governments do. The best investment two nations can make is in building the capacity of their emerging leaders to collaborate for the benefit of all.

CAMP will produce a constituency which has embodied this understanding and will be a tremendous asset. As it matures and grows an alumni of hundreds, we can look forward to it adding great value to the Australia-China relationship. Australia and China currently enjoy a great friendship. We understand each other’s importance, characteristics and strengths. Surveys conducted by my think tank, the Australia-China Relations Institute at UTS, indicate that amongst China’s economic decision makers, the relationship with Australia has only become more important over the last 5 years.

Young people establishing people to people links, friendships and partnerships in both nations adds tremendous value for the senior government and business leaders in both great nations. CAMP provides a platform for these young people to develop insight and build confidence in working productively and positively with each other.

CAMP is the freshest approach that I have come across towards building a bridge between countries with a lot at stake. China is Australia’s largest trading partner, eclipsing the combined two way trade of our second and third largest partners the United States of America and Japan.

There is a great economic and strategic story to be told between our nations this century and I echo the sentiments of President Xi in his remarks in his address to the Australian parliament on November 17th 2014 when he said that “our relationship has reached a new and higher starting point, and we should be more visionary, broad minded and set more ambitious goals”. CAMP is doing just this and is a refreshingly bold approach to this. It is remarkable to note that it has developed from ideation to delivery in just 12 months.

I commend Andrea and her talented team for achieving so much in elevating the conversation and enhancing the potential of the international relationship which will characterise Australia’s future success.

I also commend the leading businesses and organisations that have offered their support to CAMP and recognised an outstanding idea from its inception.

I wish all of the CAMP delegates a very successful summit and have every faith they will achieve great things during the project and into their future careers.

Bob Carr Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at UTS. Former Foreign Minister and longest serving Premier of New South Wales Patron, China-Australia Millennial Project


Message from the Premier of NSWI am pleased to send my best wishes to everyone participating in the China Australia Millennial Project Summit in Sydney.

People of Chinese ancestry have had a presence in NSW spanning 200 years and demonstrate great pride in their heritage. As a result, Australians of all backgrounds have become familiar with Chinese culture and traditions.

This vibrant community makes a significant contribution to our economic and cultural diversity, greatly enriching our proud multicultural society.

The NSW Government has identified China as a priority market and remains committed to further building on the fantastic cultural links thatalready exist between NSW and China.

Many Australian companies currently enjoy a presence in China, supported by our country’s strong economic relations and bilateral trade in goods and services.

NSW is home to an increasing number of world-class, globally connected information and communications technology and start-up companies.

National and international information and communications technology companies choose to invest and do business in NSW thanks to our strong economy, our leading research and development facilities, and our location as the premier gateway to the Asia Pacific region.

At this time of year, I would strongly encourage all interstate and overseas visitors to take some timeout and experience everything NSW has to offer. Not only do we have world class events, restaurants, beaches and shops, we also have Vivid Sydney, the world’s largest festival of lights, music and ideas taking place around the harbour and the CBD.

On behalf of the NSW Government, I congratulate everyone involved in the China Australia Millennial Project, and wish all participants a memorable stay in Sydney.

Mike Baird MP Premier of NSW


CAMP Schedule

Monday June 1 – CAMP UP!

The Summit will kick off with a climb up the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge, and CAMPers will take part in the Town Hall opening event joined by some of leading thinkers, scientists and entrepreneurs from both countries, and pitch their idea in 1 minute to their fellow CAMPers, set expectations, bond with their team, feel part of something big and get ready for the transformative actions.

6:25am – 10:00am Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb Breakfast

10:45am – 12:30pm CAMP Summit Opening – Leading Innovation in the Asian Century – Sydney Town Hall Keynotes: Andrea Myles, CEO, CAMP Jack Zhang, Founder, Geek Park Moderator: Holly Ransom, Global Strategist Speakers: Jean Dong, Founder and Managing Director Spark Corporation Rick Chen, Co-founder, Pozible Andy Whitford, General Manager and Head of Greater China, Westpac

Afternoon sessions – NSW Trade and Investment

1:00pm – 2:00pm Lunch

2:00pm – 2:30pm Mapping the CAMP Summit Experience: The Week Ahead

2:30pm – 3:30pm Pitch sessions

3:30pm – 4:30pm Team meeting & afternoon tea

4:30pm – 6:00pm Testing value and customer propositions

6:30pm – 8:30pm CAMP Welcome Reception: Sydney Tower

Tuesday June 2 – Navigating The Future

Leading innovation and change in the world requires navigating ambiguity, testing and validating the ideas with people to learn. CAMPers will hear from entrepreneurs from Australia and China on their stories of success and failure, developing an agile mindset for innovation and leading future change. CAMPers will engage in an in-depth workshop to help map out the key questions about their business model and the execution with the aim to test and develop their business plan proposals by Day 5 of the CAMP summit.

8:00am – 8:30am Mind body exercises in Hyde Park

Morning sessions – NSW Trade & Investment

8:30am – 9:00am Arrival tea & coffee

9:00am – 9:30am Day opening overview

9:30am – 10:30am The Importance of Testing and Validation Moderator: Jennifer Reddington Speakers: Rebekah Campbell, Founder & CEO, Posse Andrew Yu, Founder, 1KG.org Jack Zhang, Founder, Geek Park

10:30am – 11:00am Morning Tea

11:00am – 12:30pm Business Model Canvas Workshop Speakers: Suhit Anatula, Strategy Designer, Business Models Inc. Ben Hamley, Strategy Designer, Business Models Inc.


Afternoon split group sessions – NSW Trade and Investment/Sydney Mechanics School of Art

1:30pm – 3:50pm Team working time: developing business value

3:50pm – 4:10pm Afternoon tea

4:10pm – 5:40pm Playback Theatre: Learning from experiences and working interculturally – NSW Trade & Investment


Wednesday June 3 – Driving Change

CAMPers will gain awareness on the challenges working between Australia and China. CAMPers will hear from inspiring entrepreneurs on how one has to adjust to the different environments and markets. During the 3-hour-long PeerCAMP unConference, we will provide CAMPers and our learning partners with thirty-minute timeslots to create their own sessions and learn a wide range of nuts and bolts business skills including social media and marketing and media training.


Morning sessions – Sydney Mechanics School of Art



9:30am – 10:30am Speaker Dialogue: Entrepreneurship and Innovation with different markets and environments Moderator: Rebecca Barry, National Manager Strategic Partnerships, Migrant and Expatriate Banking, Westpac Speakers: Rick Chen, Co-founder, Pozible Andy Whitford, Head of Greater China, Westpac Jean Dong, Founder and Managing Director, Spark Corporation and Winworld Australia

10:30am – 11:00am Morning tea

11:00am – 2:00pm PeerCAMP unConference CAMPers create their own sessions to share plus business skills workshops. Speakers: Onur Ekinci, Peer Academy: The Art of Dialogue: Learn the secret Ingredient behind high performance teams Greg Crowther, uSig: Media training for success Lunch available

Afternoon split group sessions – NSW Trade and Investment/Sydney Mechanics School of Art

2:30pm – 5:30pm Working time: Refining ideas Afternoon tea

6:30pm – 8:30pm Australia China Youth Leadership Dinner - The Eight Restaurant


Locations

1. NSW Trade & Investment Level 47, MLC Centre, 19 Martin Pl Sydney

2. Sydney Mechanics’ School of Art Level 1, 280 Pitt St (between Park St & Bathurst St)

3. Sydney Town Hall 483 George St

4. Sydney Tower: 100 Market Street (between Pitt St & Castlereagh St)

Thursday June 4 – Telling The Story

CAMPers will focus on communication skills and strategies to get their message across effectively and engage audiences to drive breakthrough change. CAMPers select from a range of workshops from how to pitch to investors to how to tell a powerful story, from inter-cultural communication to storytelling through video. CAMPers will submit their final business plan proposals and pitch slides by 9pm.


Morning sessions – NSW Trade & Investment



9:30am – 12:30pm Communication skills workshops Speakers: Rod Andersen, iAccelerate: Pitch strategies Claire Pisani, Culture Confidence: Intercultural Communication Alan Jones, Blue Chilli: Pitching to get funding Johanna de Ruyter, Playback Theatre: Think on your Feet – managing unplanned moments Kristofor Lawson, ABC International: Telling your story using video


Afternoon split group sessions – NSW Trade & Investment/Sydney Mechanics School of Art

2:00pm – 5:30pm Working time: building the pitch Afternoon tea

Friday June 5 – Pitch And Celebrate!

CAMPers will deliver the culmination of their team’s work in a final pitch to an industry panel, look at the road ahead to sustain and lead change, reflect on the journey and celebrate! We will end the summit with a celebration dinner and awards night attended by corporate and government partners and key supporters.


All day sessions at NSW Trade & Investment


9:00am – 2:30pm Team pitches to judges & industry

2:30pm – 3:00pm Afternoon tea

3:00pm – 4:00pm Reverse Pitches Reverse pitches by Chinese & Australian incubators, accelerators, investors & government.

4:00pm – 5:00pm CAMP Closing: Road Ahead, Reflection

7:00pm – 10:00pm CAMP Gala Dinner & awards night – Sydney Town Hall Finalist teams’ pitch and awards announcement with industry & partners

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Westpac Global Talent

ThinkTank Question

How might corporates in Australia and China play a role in fast tracking the development of Global Talent? How might we harness global talent to become an advantage in both Australia and China competing in the international market place?

Partner:

CAMP ThinkTanksCAMPers have joined together into teams based on their backgrounds and the global challenges they’re working to overcome. We call these teams ThinkTanks. Each CAMP ThinkTank has support from inspiring thought leaders to develop their projects and ideas.

The two most innovative ideas in each CAMP Thinktank will be fast-tracked through prototyping, user testing, developing a business model and a value proposition and creating an implementation plan. The final output will be a business plan, research project, white paper or other project plan that is pitched to investors, venture capitalists, government and industry to attract funding.


Westpac Digital Disruption

ThinkTank Question

How might we transform the future of banking to meet the needs of individuals and organisations in a digital and participation economy?

Partner:

AMP Innovation for the New Retirement

ThinkTank Question

How might we harness the wisdom and skills of people living their retirement to the needs of local and global communities?

Partner:

Swisse Health & Wellness

ThinkTank Question

With the estimated rise of the middle classes around the world to a population of 3 billion, how does a preventive health approach become central to individual and family lifestyles?

Partner:

China Cultural Centre Arts & Culture

ThinkTank Question

What innovative ways can we develop to engage Australians in Chinese culture, to generate greater impact and grow a broader more diverse audience?

Partner:


Finsia China-Australia Free Trade Agreement

ThinkTank Question

How might Australian and Chinese businesses engage and grow new opportunities provided by the Australia Free Trade Agreement?

Partner:

FYA Pathways to Work

ThinkTank Question

How might we equip young people to succeed in the future world of work, which is more uncertain and complex than ever before?

Partner:

Practera Play

PwC Infrastructure

ThinkTank Question

How can gamification and serious games foster global collaboration and create sustainable social impact?

ThinkTank Question

How might Australia and China better collaborate to develop and deliver critical infrastructure?

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CAMP ThinkTanks (continued)


Future of Tourism

ThinkTank Question

How might we create sustainable tourism opportunities that disperse the benefits between both urban and regional communities?

Energy and Sustainable Living

ThinkTank Question

How might we help communities lead the rapid transition to energy reduction and renewable energy?

UoN Innovation in Education

ThinkTank Question

How might we redesign higher education to be relevant to young people in the transition from a resource-based economy to new economies of work?

Partner:

UTS Entrepreneurship

ThinkTank Question

How might we foster an entrepreneurial ecosystem that creates opportunities for millennials, in particular fostering the growth of an ‘innovation community’ between Australia and China?

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Speaker Biographies

Jack Zhang

Founder & President of Geekpark

The emergence and boom of geek culture in China has created a major impact on social progress, from technology innovation to social and cultural thinking. Geek Park was the first organization to bring the concept of a ‘geek’ to China, and provides geeks/innovators with original content, offline events and an accelerator service. Their regular meetups in China see over 1000 geeks attend each meeting. Geek Park has become the epicentre of China’s internet sector, attracting companies, developers and investors looking for a piece of the world’s biggest online market.

Rick Chen

Founder, Pozible

Rick is an entrepreneur with a strong focus on new media design. He has a keen interested in web-based technology, user interface design and innovative ideas that change people’s behaviour. Rick co-founded Australia’s first crowdfunding platform Pozible in 2010, which has became the 3rd largest crowdfunding platform worldwide. In 2013, Rick was selected by The Australian newspaper as one of the top 20 Australians to watch of the year.

Holly Ransom

Global Strategist

Holly is a global strategist with an unrelenting work ethic and a reputation for developing innovative solutions to complex multi-stakeholder problems for corporations, governments and non-profit organisations. Chair of G20 Youth Summit 2014, one of Australia’s ‘100 Most Influential Women’ 2012 and world’s youngest ever Rotary President lifting youth engagement by 2% globally in 2 years. Her corporate career includes Chief of Staff to NAB Wealth Chief Executive Andrew Hagger and Rio Tinto’s CEO Sam Walsh. Holly’s company, HRE Global, has worked with INPEX, CBH, Conoco Phillips and KPMG.

Andy Whitford

General Manager and Head of Greater China, Westpac

Andrew has responsibility for the bank’s operations and strategy in the region, covering mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. He has led Westpac’s operations in China since the 2007 opening of the first China branch in Shanghai. Andrew has extensive experience across the banking industry in China, working closely with the Chinese Government as it continues to pursue financial market reform. He is a regular commentator in the media on China related matters such as the Free Trade Agreement, Shanghai Free Trade Zone and Renminbi internationalisation.

Andrea Myles

CEO, China Australia Millennial Project

Andrea Myles loves China. Since travelling there as a young backpacker in 2002, she’s been hooked on learning as much as she can about this fascinating country. She’s since gained two bilingual Masters degrees in Chinese business & culture, lived in China for 5+ years, worked on social enterprise programs in regional China, headed up the Australia China Business Council, lead the business delegation of then Prime Minister Gillard’s second trip to China & co-founded the China Australia Millennial Project and the Engaging China Project - a government-recognised best-practice China engagement program in Australian high schools.

Jean Dong

Founder and Managing Director Spark Corporation

Jean is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, political advisor on bilateral strategic management, board member and public figure. She specialises in creating business synergy through strategic thinking and global partnerships, with expertise in connecting China with the world through innovation.She’s passionate about empowering young people through mentoring and entrepreneurial opportunities. She currently sits on the executive board of the 2015 APEC Women’s Leadership Summit, was named ‘Global Shaper’ by the World Economic Forum 2014, and received a welcome reception by the Chinese President Mr Xi during the G20 2014 as representative of an outstanding entrepreneur of Chinese background in Australia.


Andrew Yu

Founder, 1KG.org

Andrew is the initiator of 1KG More campaign, a movement that engages travellers to carry books and materials and do service projects in rural China. Now Andrew is running a social enterprise focused on educational design. The product, 1KG Box, with an easy-to-use design and rich content, makes everyone a teacher, cultivating creativity, critical thinking and life skills for every child. Andrew is a council member of the China Youth Development Foundation, the largest educational foundation in China.

Ben Hamley

Strategy Designer, Business Models Inc.

Ben is an established thought leader in the Australian creative and entertainment industries, co-editing one of the first books of original research on entertainment as a cultural system. He is a passionate advocate for interdisciplinary skill development and the intersections between culture, technology, design and strategy. Ben has worked in audience strategy for large cultural institutions and as a strategic advisor to fast-growth technology companies such as Google, Undrtone and MySpace. As a strategy designer with business models inc, Ben leads design anthropology, research and customer insight projects in Australia and New Zealand.

Suhit Anatula

Strategy Designer, Business Models Inc.

Suhit works at the intersection of entrepreneurship, design & social change to solve adaptive challenges and create better lives.

Rebecca Barry

National Manager Strategic Partnerships, Migrant and Expatriate Banking, Westpac

Rebecca manages Westpac’s key national relationships with businesses, government and universities and coordinates relationships offshore to onshore. Rebecca originally joined Westpac as a lawyer and has since held roles including National Manager, Strategy in Westpac Retail Bank and Project Director in AFS. Rebecca was the first recipient of Westpac’s Women of Influence Award in the Young Leader category, and is a past Director of Australian Women Lawyers, Past-President of Women Lawyers Association of NSW, Board Member of NSW Young Lawyers and the Business and Corporate Lawyers Committees of the Law Society.

Kana Lea

CEO & Founder of Global Impact Group and MindBody Trainers

Kana Lea is passionate about positive transformative world change, re-balancing the world’s ecosystems by empowering the collective global community with the tools, initiatives & support required to achieve world peace and balanced prosperity. Kana was awarded the NSW Premier’s Award for Community Service as Young Chinese Volunteer of the Year in 2005. She launched the first TEDx Sydney event in 2009. She thrives on being an inter-connected ecosystems cultivator of the world’s frontier convergence communities, thought leaders, influencers & creative mavericks.

Rebekah Campbell

Founder and CEO of Posse, Columnist at The New York Times

Posse is a social search engine helping people find the favourite places of their social network; Rebekah also previously founded Scorpio Music, and has been instrumental in the creation and implementation of large-scale fundraising events such as Levi’s Life Festival and Make Poverty History. Passionate about community building and entrepreneurship, Rebekah sits on the Advisory Board of Kidpreneur, The Oaktree Foundation and The Global Poverty Project and is Chairperson of Chapel by the Sea. Rebekah writes a weekly column on entrepreneurship for The New York Times.


Kristofor Lawson

Digital Producer, ABC International

Kristofor is currently focused on building engagement through video and community projects. Previously he was Digital Producer for The Feed - a daily news, technology, and culture program which broadcasts on SBS 2. He was also Digital Editor of News Corporation’s award winning website questnews.com.au which won Best Digital News Destination Rural/Regional/Suburban in the 2012 Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association awards. Prior to News Corporation, Kristofor worked at Network Ten where he established social media accounts for Ten News Melbourne and encouraged the use of social media as a tool for broadcast reporting.

Onur Ekinci

Co-founder, Peer Academy

Onur is Co-Founder of Peer Academy (www.peeracademy.org). Peer Academy is Australia’s first professional development marketplace, where anyone can teach and learn. Think Airbnb meets Tedtalks. This on-demand, cost-effective, practical model is fast becoming the preferred destination for professional development across all sectors.

Greg Crowther

Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, uSig

Greg is a communications practitioner and entrepreneur with more than 20 years experience. Greg helps business owners communicate their vision and plans to different audiences, including the media. He assists people to craft their messages and deliver them in face-to-face and electronic environments. Greg has a passion for helping start-up founders communicate clearly and confidently. Greg co-founded an online communication skills training tool and a cloud-based user authentication platform. He also participates in a range of communication research and practitioner groups.

Rod Andersen

Advisor and lecturer, iAccelerate

Rod is one of Australia’s most experienced consultants in the field of leadership, culture, and persuasive and compelling communication. Rod is consistently engaged by organisations ranging from blue chips to start-ups across Asia Pacific.He is the co-founder of The Allegion Group and an advisor and lecturer at the University of Wollongong’s iAccelerate incubator specialising in Lean Business Canvas and pitching.Rod has a reputation for presenting a unique approach to coaching pitch presenters. Some of his clients have appeared recently on the newly launched Network 10 television program, ‘Shark Tank’.

Speaker Biographies (continued)

Alan Jones

Chief Growth Hacker, Blue Chilli

Alan is responsible for advising and mentoring startup entrepreneurs on lean startup methodology, marketing and communications. A founding Startmate mentor and investor, as well as an investor in Pollenizer’s incubator fund, Alan is also an active angel investor here and in the US, with current investments including Muru Music, Tzukuri, Bugcrowd, Scriptrock, OtherLevels, Bugherd and Chromasun. Alan’s startup digital agency The New Agency was acquired by BlueChilli in 2012. Previously, he was Product Director, South Asia for Yahoo Inc., Chief Product Officer of online video startup HomeScreen Entertainment and Editor of Australian Macworld.

Johanna de Ruyter

Playback Theatre

Theatre is unique in that it uses body, voice, words and emotion to communicate concepts and ideas whilst focusing exclusively on human stories. Johanna’s own immersion in theatre over many years has led her to use theatre principles in customised programs for groups as well as coach individuals in communications. She performs with Playback Theatre Sydney, which uses interactive improvised theatre to engage and entertain audiences. She also facilitates Leadership Presence training programs in the Asia Pacific region with the Ariel Group, a leading US executive training company.

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Facilitators

Shay Koren

Facilitator, CAMP

Shay is a young innovator who’s passionate about solving problems, developing ideas and creating value. His educational background is in psychology, sustainability, education and business, while his occupational experience is in experience design, strategy, innovation and community engagement. He is a co-founder of Train Tracks, a social innovation projects that re-imagines the public transport experience by introducing music, art and culture. He started CrowdFlight, an airplane-based user testing hub.

Sally Hsu

Program coordinator & Facilitator, CAMP

Sally has a background in design, communication and press relations. She now works for Crone Partners as an architectural graduate and client liaison, working on large projects with international clients on prominent CBD high rise projects in Sydney and Brisbane. She holds a Master in Architecture from University of Technology, Sydney and teaches architectural design and design communication at UTS and UNSW.

Lynette Nixon

Director, Deals Innovation, PWC

Lynette is PwC‘s expert on design thinking and innovation, using human centred approaches to solve business problems. She has designed and developed a bespoke methodology around behavioural observation research, a critical component in understanding culture on which to build change. Her skills include expertise in design, facilitation and implementation of innovation programs focusing on solving complex business problems and challenges.

Deborah Sims

Director, Asia Strategy at PwC

Deborah combines broad-based strategy, business development, sales and facilitation skills with a passion for design thinking built up over many years of applying design thinking in business-to-business contexts. Deborah has lead and worked with cross-cultural teams in Europe, the US, Australia, India and, most recently China. Now back in Australia, Deborah helps clients open up new possibilities by taking a design-based approach to problem solving.

Vivien Sung

Co-founder & Chief Experience Officer, CAMP

Vivien Sung is a design strategist, innovation facilitator and educator. As Chief Experience Officer of CAMP, she leads the design of the CAMP learning program and experience. Vivien teaches designing experiences and design thinking at UTS: Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and UTS Insearch and was an organiser of the Sydney Sustainability Jam. She is passionate about innovation to create better futures and deepening the Asia-Australia relationship.

Yan Liu

Chief Curator, CAMP

Yan is responsible for designing the 12-week-online CAMP learning program and curating and facilitating the CAMP Summit 2015. She is also a serial social entrepreneur, learning facilitator and community builder. She co-founded Xindanwei, the first coworking center in China, Loving the Crowd, a crowd-funding consultancy firm, and Ask Lab, a social enterprise that connects talent and ideas with business and societal challenges through co-creation and experiential learning.


Claire Pisani

Cultural communications specialist, Culture Confidence

Claire has a solid corporate background and understanding of today’s business environment. She is passionate about helping business forge positive, profitable relationships. Claire has worked with individuals from China, India, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Thailand and has a firm interest in Chinese-Australian relations. Her work has helped both large corporations and small businesses reduce time spent and money wasted, on conflict or misunderstanding caused by cross-cultural miscommunication.

Damien MacRae

General Manager Premium Banking, Westpac

Damien leads a team of bankers across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and London providing superior banking and tailored financial services to affluent customers via a relationship banking model. He is responsible for Westpac’s migrant and expatriate strategy, leading the retail referral partnerships, business and priority segments. Since 2003, Damien has also acted as Head of Secured Finance, General Manager of Third Party Distribution, State General Manager for NSW Retail.

Liz Jakubowski

Director Government Relations, NICTA

Liz is Government Relations Director for NICTA. She has a background in stakeholder management, strategic communications, policy development and technology innovation. Liz has had senior executive roles at the ABC, NSWHealth and Government. Liz is a strong supporter of start-ups and believes we are at a critical point where technology is changing everything, and we need to encourage entrepreneurial skills.

Alice Wong

Head of Asian Leadership, Westpac Group

Alice has a unique understanding of Asian and Australian business and economic conditions, international trade, and Asian and Western business cultures. Her initiatives have focused on increased dialogue and connectivity between the Asian Community and the Australian mainstream. She sits on the Boards of Asialink and International House at the University of Melbourne, and the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and Swinburne University of Technology.

Phil Morle

CEO, Pollenizer

Phil one of the world’s well-known lean startup practitioners, training and advising thousands of entrepreneurs as well as intrapreneurs in large companies across Asia Pacific. He co-founded Pollenizer in 2008 to help startup entrepreneurs get started with their dreams. Before Pollenizer he was the CTO at Kazaa for 5 years and led the development of a technology strategy which saw a total global user base of over 100 million.

Petra Andrén

Director of Strategy and Business Development, ATP Innovations

Petra is an international executive and entrepreneur. She takes pride in being an expert super connector and corporate strategist for the companies that she serves. Currently part of the executive team of world leading technology incubator ATP Innovations, Petra has worked extensively with startup founders and early stage investors. Petra is also a lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of Sydney Business School.

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CAMP Gala Dinner June 5, 7pm, Sydney Town Hall

Be among the very first to hear about the ventures conceived by the CAMP delegates as they pitch their co-created new ideas to a room of venture capitalists, sponsors, impact investors and the smartest and savviest people from the business community.

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Andrew Campbell

CEO & Co-founder, goCatch

Andrew Campbell is an experienced technology entrepreneur and executive. As founder and CEO he grew the taxi app business goCatch from launch in 2011, to his exit in 2014, at which point it was worth 20m. Andrew is skilled in the conception, planning and execution of business strategies that transform existing industry business models. He’s currently Entrepreneur in Residence at the Slingshot accelerator.

Mathias Kopp

Founder & Managing Director, CoVEST Capital

With 20+ years of experience advising CEOs and management on strategy, M&A and performance improvement across Europe, Asia and Australasia, Mathias established the ‘Enterprise Connect’ program in NSW, is a Co-Founder of Sydney Angels, Fund Manager and Investment Committee Member of Sydney Angels Side Car Fund, is President of TiE Sydney and is Founder of private equity firm CoVEST Capital.

James Alexander

Co-founder & Program Manager, Incubate

In just over two years INCUBATE, an award winning startup accelerator program at the University of Sydney, has backed over 40 tech startups founded by students and researchers, helping them from idea to first customers and funding. James founded INCUBATE with University of Sydney Union after completing a degree with Honours in Computer Science. James has been involved with technology industry in Sydney for over 5 years.

Trey Zagante

Founder & Managing Partner, Venturetec Group

Trey Zagante is Founder and Managing Partner of the Venturetec Group, an Asia Pacific based investment and advisory firm and the only startup accelerator exclusively focused on enterprise technology startups in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.Trey is an experienced strategy and technology consulting executive, he regularly advises corporates on enterprise innovation strategy, innovation management and corporate venturing.

Celia Hodson

CEO, School for Social Entrepreneurs

Celia possesses a wealth of experience leading strategic and operational change as COO and CEO of medium-sized to multinational enterprises in the UK and Australia, across government relations, not for profit, private sector start-up and scale, international and social enterprise development sectors. Passionately advocating for social and economic prosperity within disadvantaged communities, Celia is ‘entrepreneurial, focused, clear and determined.’

Andy Whitford

General Manager and Head of Greater China, Westpac

Andrew has responsibility for the bank’s operations and strategy in the region, covering mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. He has led Westpac’s operations in China since the 2007 opening of the first China branch in Shanghai. Andrew has extensive experience across the banking industry in China, working closely with the Chinese Government as it continues to pursue financial market reform. He is a regular commentator in the media on China related matters such as the Free Trade Agreement, Shanghai Free Trade Zone and Renminbi internationalisation.

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Alan Jones

Chief Growth Hacker, Blue Chilli

Alan is Chief Growth Hacker at Australian startup accelerator BlueChilli, where he’s responsible for advising and mentoring startup entrepreneurs on lean startup methodology, marketing and communications. A founding Startmate mentor and investor, as well as an investor in Pollenizer’s incubator fund, Alan is also an active angel investor here and in the US, with current investments including Muru Music, Tzukuri, Bugcrowd, Scriptrock, OtherLevels, Bugherd and Chromasun. Alan’s startup digital agency The New Agency was acquired by BlueChilli in 2012. Previously, he was Product Director, South Asia for Yahoo!, Inc., Chief Product Officer of online video startup HomeScreen Entertainment and Editor of Australian Macworld.

Nick Gonios

Senior Vice President & Group COO, 8common

Nick is an experienced executive, advisor and early stage investor with over 23 years in the online & technology markets internationally. He is currently Senior Vice President & Group COO of 8common, a global enterprise SaaS group listed on the ASX (8CO). He was the cofounder of several technology startups including KENT& LIME and SportsPassion (3eep) and is a mentor at AWI Ventures, muru-D and Pollenizer.

Adem Karafili

COO, Swisse

At Swisse, Adem is leading several business transformation projects developing a flexible and globally competitive business with multi site manufacturing, global sourcing and leveraging the business model across 30 countries in 3 years.

His leadership, analytical skills and can do attitude are attributes that have proven results in his success in significantly improving manufacturing businesses in a tough economic environment.

Dean Economou

Technology Strategist, NICTA

Dean is Technology Strategist at NICTA where he has worked on projects in transport, cloud computing, smart cities and media. He previously co-founded the $100m Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre and was Director of Network Research at CSIRO. He has co-founded or helped form companies later sold to Telstra, Dolby and Unitrends. Starting with a PhD in Telecommunications he later studied at UC Berkeley and the Stanford d.School.

Annalie Killian

Catalyst for Magic, Amplify

Annalie catalyses the magic of human potential to make corporations more meaningful for society and work more purposeful for people.

As Director of Innovation at AMP, she anticipates how market forces and emerging trends impact customer behaviour, organisational design, business models and the workforce of the future. She founded the award-winning Amplify Festival and has grown it into a multi-city international brand over the past 10 years.

Dave Cunningham

Investor, Sydney Angels

In 2003, David founded residential real estate investment company Shanghai Vision Ltd, which facilitated the sale of over 600 Shanghai residential apartments in Europe and Australia.

In 2008, he founded an ecommerce travel company, www.ourexplorer.com, which became the number one private tour guide website in the world.

David is now an angel investor with Sydney Angels and works behind the scenes at Shark Tank Australia.


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