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Lija Wilson has worked for some of Australia’s biggest brands and businesses, with over 20 years experience in senior marketing roles, working predominately with digital remits.

She’s a passionate innovator and industry participant, having previously been named a top Top 40 under 40 Australian marketer, Jury Chair for the AMY Awards (2018), Flexible Work Day Ambassador (2019) and winner of the 2019 BeMPowered pitch competition for female entrepreneurs.

Lija spent 8 years with Fairfax Media working on a number of roles, including the Group Marketing Director for Transactional Businesses (including brands RSVP, Stayz, Domain, Drive, InvestSmart ). Following this role, she relocated to Melbourne for 5 years and worked with the Jetstar and Qantas businesses to establish their online hotels division and also spent a year as the Head of Marketing for TEDx Melbourne.

She launched Puffling in 2017 as a result of her personal experience returning to work and attempting to balance a senior level role with children on a flexible basis.Flexibility, gender diversity and inclusion are the drivers behind the launch of Puffling.

Puffling has won a number of awards for it’s success in diversity and championing innovation in flexible work.

Kim McKay is an entrepreneurial leader and founder of Klick X, one of Asia-Pacific’s most awarded agencies. Kim has pioneered multi-disciplinary campaigns creating digital, social, data and mobile experiences for brands across luxury, travel, hospitality, entertainment and consumer portfolios.

With a proven track record, honed over more than two decades and her strong commercial instincts and broad business prospective, Kim is able to design and drive campaigns that position brands exactly where they want to be.

A passionate technology advocate, Kim’s current trend obsessions are Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work.

Darren Woolley is considered a thought leader on all aspects of marketing management. A Problem Solver, Negotiator, Founder & Global CEO of TrinityP3 – Marketing Management Consultants, founding member of the Marketing FIRST Forum, Industry Commentator and Author. He is also a Past-Chair of the Australian Marketing Institute, Past President of the Melbourne Advertising & Design Club, Ex-Medical Scientist and Ex-Creative Director.

Nathan Hodges has consulted to over 150 of the world’s most successful marketing organisations.

He has solved problems, led change and re-engineered structures and processes for clients as diverse as Coca-Cola, the Ministry of Sound, Australia Post, ANZ Bank, Bankwest, Sony, The Iconic, NAB, Lendlease, the UK Labour Party, Optus, the Federal Government, Telstra and Qantas.

As TrinityP3’s Managing Director, for the last ten years Nathan has led the specialist consultant team in the alignment of marketing culture, strategy, structure and process, in roster management and agency remuneration, and in marketing team capability and behavioural change.

For around 15 years, reputation expert Gerry McCusker has been analysing, documenting and weirdly entertained by brand and business PR disasters.

As the author of the pop-academic text and blog ‘Public Relations Disasters’ (Kogan Page, 2005), he has closely studied the hidden characteristics of those brands that all too regularly face PR flak.

In fact, most of Gerry’s PR and crisis consultancy work has been for brands that are not exactly ‘lovemarks’.

Now he’s written a new book about the phenomenon of “tough-to-love” brands – organisations that ban, deny, enforce, govern, legislate, police and tax – and he’s got a checklist inventory to help you spot if you deal with, or work for, a ‘tough-to-love” organisation.

Based in Melbourne, Australia, Gerry has published insights and articles for the AFR, IPRA, Mumbrella, B&T, Marketing Magazine. He is the creator of trans-media crisis simulator, The Drill.

www.thedrill.com.au

Annabel has over 10 years’ experience in social marketing, holding roles across various industries including FMCG, telecommunications, technology and aviation both client-side and agency-side. She has been at Coca-Cola South Pacific for the past 6 years where she built their social media function from the ground up including the development and management of the Coca-Cola Social Centre, an end to end social media capability from strategy through to content production and community management. Annabel is responsible for building social media capability and performance across Coca-Cola’s portfolio of brands and corporation.

Simon loves words, ideas and nachos. After working as a copywriter for some of Sydney’s leading ad agencies, he has now carved out a niche as a social creative specialist.

Since starting as the lead social creative at Coca-Cola, their reactive content has been picked up by the likes AdNews and Mumbrella and Fanta was nominated for Best Social Media Campaign at the 2019 CommsCon awards.