Roshni Mahtani is the CEO and Founder of Tickled Media, the publisher of parenting social network – ParentTown, and media assets – theAsianparent.com and IndusParent.com

Her company reaches 10 million Asian mums monthly and has operations in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and India. She has over 10 years of media experience across the US and Asia Pacific.

Roshni is also actively involved in the start-up community. In 2015, she founded the Female Founders Network, a group of over 2,000 female founders. She also sits on the board of TIE Singapore and is a mentor at JFDI and the Crib where she works with early stage start-ups.

Besides her interest in the start-up world, Roshni is also an Executive Producer of Untouchable: Children of God – A 2014 documovie about young girls in the brothels of India and how they are sold and trafficked from Nepal. The film won the Humanitarian Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival 2014 and is currently playing on Singapore Airlines flights.

Roshni has graced the cover of multiple magazines and newspapers in the region. Her company has been mentioned in over 200 media outlets ranging from the BBC to the Singapore Straits Times.

His vision is for Bupa to become the ‘global health destination’, and to help improve the health of people all over the world. To make this vision a reality, Matt is focused on embedding an enterprise-wide content marketing strategy and introducing a new operating model that creates scale and efficiency, as well as fuels commercial returns.

Matt previously conceptualised Bupa’s award winning publishing hub the Blue Room, and led the team who turned it from a dream into a reality. In addition to reshaping how Bupa engages with customers, the Blue Room has helped build brand love, as well as improve customer engagement, acquisition, and retention. Similarly, Matt was the architect of Bupa’s internationally acclaimed Health Influencer Blog Awards.

For more than 15 years, he’s helped businesses create commercial advantage through content and social marketing, brand strategy, digital disruption, and corporate affairs.

Prior to Bupa, Matt worked for Wizard Home Loans and various PR agencies, managing clients including Shell and Country Racing Victoria.

He is also incredibly passionate about giving back to the community. He’s been a Board member of Special Olympics Victoria, and has been involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Matt has deep internal communications, issues management, CSR, government relations, media relations, corporate communications, and PR expertise. And he likes to laugh a lot, mainly at himself!

Alexandra is the Managing Director and Publisher of The Big Smoke. Passionate about start-ups and media, Alexandra is leading TBS to become the definitive platform for some of Australia’s boldest, sassiest, angriest and funniest voices. TBS is also home to virtual marketplace ‘The Emporium’; a platform for small brands to connect with readers Australia-wide. TBS will be launching a sister-branch in the USA in 2015 overseen by Oregon based publisher, Greg Gerding.

She has a Masters in Business Management, is currently completing her Juris Doctor of Law and sits on the board for not-for-profit human capital organisation, P4P.

She has had her articles and business advice published amongst a variety of sources including The Age, BRW, The Australian, Business Insider, Management Today, Australian Financial Review, News.com.au and SMH.

Alexandra also regularly appears as a social commentator on talkback radio.

Bobbi Mahlab is the Founder and Managing Director of Mahlab, a content marketing agency that celebrates it’s 20th birthday this year.

Based in Sydney, Mahlab employs 37 staff including writers, editors, strategists, designers, videographers and producers and draws on an extensive network of freelancers in Australia and abroad. Clients include Cisco, HBF, Engineers Australia, Australian HR Institute, Fitness Australia and Commonwealth Bank to name a few.

Mahlab is a two-time global finalist for Content Marketing Agency of the Year in the prestigious USA Content Marketing Institute awards. The company has won numerous awards for its content led websites, b2b content strategies and print magazines.

A former board member of Publishers Australia, Bobbi has experience on many non-profit boards and is currently a member of the Sydney Women’s Fund Advisory Board and Detour House, a refuge for women and homeless teenage girls.

Bobbi began her career in journalism as a graduate cadet in the business section of The Melbourne Herald. She then moved to The Sunday Age as a general reporter.

Bobbi is a past judge of the Telstra Business Awards and in 2015 was chosen to participate the inaugural EY Asia-Pacific Entrepreneurial Winning Women program.

Last October, she co-founded Mentor Walks Australia, a ‘speed mentoring’ event where senior women walk and talk with aspiring female leaders for an hour once a month. Mentor Walks take place in Sydney, Brisbane and soon Melbourne.

Kate Cox is Commercial Content Director at Fairfax Media. She has spent almost two decades with the publisher, with previous roles including editor of The Sun-Herald, editor of Sunday Life magazine, Features editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and numerous reporting rounds. She was also national managing editor of food and drink across the group. She works on innovative digital, print, audio, social and video campaigns for clients including GE, Tourism Australia, Samsung and Airbnb; her team recently won an INMA for their Decoding Genius branded podcast. She is a regular Today Show panellist, and appears frequently on television, radio and as a speaker at events.

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Ralph is a world authority on effective audio marketing.

He started his career as an agency writer in 1987, winning a Clio Award for one of his first radio ads. He got the hint and has specialised in audio ever since.

Ralph founded Eardrum in London in 1990, and launched Eardrum’s Australian agency in 2006. It is now the most awarded radio and audio agency in the world, producing effective radio campaigns, podcasts and other branded content for advertisers, agencies and radio networks around the world.

His passion for the audio is fuelled by a determination to innovate, subvert and explore new ways for brands to connect to their audience through sound.

Each year, Ralph’s work is recognised at the world’s leading award shows. Recent highlights include three Gold Lions at Cannes, One Show Grand Prix, New York Festival Gold, and being named Radio & Audio Agency of the Year three years in a row by the London International Awards.

In recognition of these accolades, he was selected as one of the ‘advertising legends’ to serve as jury President at the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Lions Festival.

His creative workshops never fail to enthuse advertisers and inspire creatives.

One day his Mother will know what he does for a living.

Twitter: @ralphvandijk

With a rich history tracing back to 1972, Oliver has the privilege of leading an amazing team that has grown over 600% in 3 years operating across APAC. Octomedia is Australia’s leading B2B niche media (print, digital & events) platform with a portfolio covering retail, FMCG, small business, third sector, franchising and e-commerce. In addition to our media business Octomedia is a key driver in new technologies, with a host of collaborations and proprietary technologies developed for the business.

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