Dumb Ways To Die’s Leah Waymark joins Mumbrella’s Meet The Marketers panel in Melbourne

Tim Burrowes

January 24, 2013 11:31

One of the team who drove Metro Trains’ breakthrough Dumb Ways To Die viral video success has joined the panel for Mumbrella’s Meet The Marketers session next month.

The Melbourne event takes place on February 7 at River’s Edge on Siddeley Street from 6pm.

On the panel will be Leah Waymark, GM of corporate relations for Metro Trains. Since its launch in November the train safety song created by McCanns has had nearly 40m views globally making it one of the most successful online safety messages of all time.

As Mumbrella has previously announced, the other panellists for the Melbourne session are:

Megan Foster, GM of marketing and brand development, Myer
Ben Amarfio, EGM, marketing, digital and communications, Cricket Australia
David Katic, general manager of marketing, Ford

Details of the event, including how to book tickets – priced at $99- are available via this link. The session will be moderated by Mumbrella’s Melbourne editor Robin Hicks.

Mumbrella is also holding Meet The Marketers in Sydney next Wednesday January 30. The event features marketers from Unilever, SBS, Cambell Arnott’s, Wesley Mission and Virgin Mobile. Details of how to book are available here.

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.