Key Speakers
Day 1 - Monday, 5 March 2012
| 9:00-9:50pm | KEYNOTE 1: Will the sun rise tomorrow? Yes, but... |
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Sam Mostyn
| SAM MOSTYN
Director, Institute for Sustainable Solutions, University of Sydney and Non-Executive Director, Virgin Australia
Sam is the Director of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at the University of Sydney. Prior to her current role she was Group Executive, Culture & Reputation at Insurance Australia Group.
She has also held senior executive positions with Optus Communications and Cable & Wireless Plc, and was a policy advisor to two Federal Communications Ministers before joining the office of the Prime Minister Paul Keating as a senior communications policy advisor.
In 2005, Sam was appointed as a Commissioner with the Australian Football League, the first woman to hold such a position, and in September 2010 she was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Virgin Australia Board.
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| 12:10-12:50pm | KEYNOTE 2: Economic update - From global to local |
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Sean Aylmer
| SEAN AYLMER
Editor-in-Chief, BRW
Deputy Managing Editor, Financial Review Group and
Deputy Managing Editor, Australian Financial Review
Sean Aylmer is an experienced writer and commentator who trained as an economist and worked for the Reserve Bank of Australia before shifting to journalism. He joined Fairfax Media in 1997 and has worked at the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial
Review and BRW. He has worked in the Canberra press gallery, been a foreign correspondent based in New York and held senior management jobs including
news editor at the AFR. He is currently deputy managing editor of the AFR and editor-in-chief of BRW
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| 4:05-4:55pm | KEYNOTE 3: Enhancing the value of internal auditing |
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Denny Beran
| DENNY BERAN CIA CCSA
Senior Vice President and Director of Auditing, JCPenney Company and Chairman of the Board, The Institute of Internal Auditors
Denny Beran is the Senior Vice President of Audit for the JCPenney Company located in Plano, Texas. He oversees auditing for all JC Penney operations. Denny is a long-time member of The Institute of Internal Auditors (The IIA) . In 1999, he received one of The Institute of Internal Auditors’ most prestigious awards, the Victor Z. Brink Award for Distinguished Services.
Over the years, Denny has served in many positions with The IIA. He recently led The IIA’s efforts to develop a formal value proposition articulating internal auditing’s value to its stakeholders. He is currently the 2011-2012 Global IIA Chairman of the Board.
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Day 2 - Tuesday, 6 March 2012
| 7:30-8:45pm | INTERNAL AUDIT BREAKFAST: Pitch, perception, presumptions, reality |
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Carolyn Miller
| CAROLYN MILLER
Strategic Planning Director, Moon Communications and
Gruen Transfer Panel Member
Carolyn is a highly regarded and well known figure within the Australian creative industries. As a regular panelist on the ABC’s The Gruen Transfer, she is a recognised authority on creative persuasion and is also a writer for both Drum Media and designfederation.net.
She has been working in the Advertising and Marketing industry for over 12 years,and is currently Strategic Planning Director for Moon Communications. She has had considerable experience in both hosting symposiums and delivering exciting and engaging keynote addresses, including Creative Sydney, PHAA Social Media Symposium, and APMRG member events, to name but a few.
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| 9:10-9:50pm | KEYNOTE 4: Leadership for a connected world |
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Steve Vamos
| STEVE VAMOS
Non-executive Director, Telstra and
Founding President of the Society of Knowledge Economics
Steve Vamos is a non-executive Director of Telstra and the founding President of the Society for Knowledge Economics.
Previously, he was the CEO of ninemsn, growing the Microsoft and PBL joint venture from start-up to an online media industry leader, and Vice President of Microsoft Australia and New Zealand until 2007, before moving to the United States to become the company's head of Worldwide Sales and International Operations for their Online Services Group. He also spent 14 years with IBM Australia before becoming Vice President and Managing Director of Apple Computer Asia Pacific and Managing Director of Apple Computer Australia.
He has also been twice named in the top five most influential members of the Australian technology industry by the Australian Financial Review.
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| 12:10-12:55pm | KEYNOTE 5: Technology empowerment - A day in the life of a Googler |
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Stuart McLean
| STUART McLEAN
Australia and New Zealand, Managing Director,
Google Enterprise
Stuart joined Google in January 2011 to lead the Enterprise business in Australia and New Zealand. Google Enterprise helps organisations harness the power of information through fast, relevant search, cloud-based messaging and collaboration, security and archiving services, and tools for building maps and interactive, location specific displays.
In 2001 Stuart co-founded NetReturn and secured the sole rights to launch the online business solution, NetSuite, in Australia and NZ – one of the first online applications of its type. Prior to founding NetReturn Stuart was at Oracle Corporation as Executive Director - Oracle.com. Stuart has held various leadership roles in Oracle, and encompassed a number of positions with Optus Communications, Telstra and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
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| 4:05-4:55pm | KEYNOTE 6: C-Suite Round Table - The business or risk, technology and profit now and beyond |
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Tony Jones
| TONY JONES
Journalist, ABC
One of the ABC’s most experienced and respected journalists, with more than 20
years experience in radio and television news and current affairs. Tony Jones has
been hosting the award winning news and current affairs program, Lateline
since 1999. He has also reported for Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent,
and other TV and radio current affairs programs.
He has collected respected awards for reports such as “Horses for Courses” on the Waterhouse racing dynasty (Walkley), “My City of Sydney” on the city’s development boom (Penguin), and “Frozen Asset” on the exploitation of Antarctica (Gold Medal, New York Film and Television Festival).
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Mike Thornton
| MIKE THORNTON
Director, Group Risk Management
AMP
Mike has over 20 years experience in life insurance and wealth management, all of that with the AXA Group. He has held a number of senior finance roles in both the UK and Australia, as well as spending time working at AXA’s head office in Paris, and more recently, in Asia.
Over recent years has performed Appointed Actuary, Group Chief Actuary and Chief Risk Officer roles, successfully steering AXA Asia Pacific through the global finance crisis. Mike is now focusing exclusively on risk management and was recently appointed
to run the risk management teams in the newly merged AMP and AXA business.
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Day 3 - Wednesday, 7 March 2012
| 9:00-9:50pm | KEYNOTE 7: Handling the manipulative, backstabbing office psychopath |
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Dr John Clarke
| DR JOHN CLARKE
Psychologist and Author
John Clarke’s PhD (completed through the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney) examined sexual homicide offenders and criminal profiling. John is also the main author of a best selling book examining psychopaths, sexual homicide, stalking, sexual assault, and criminal profiling. He has acted as a consultant in the area of workplace psychopaths and criminal psychology for both law enforcement and criminal law practitioners. John has extensive experience lecturing in the areas of workplace psychopaths, sexual homicide, forensic psychology and investigative interviewing to members of numerous law enforcement agencies as well as legal professionals, professional organisations and the general public. He is the author of two books on workplace psychopaths; Working With Monsters and The Pocket Psycho published by Random House.
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| 12:10-2:00pm | CLOSING LUNCH: Building success with opportunity, risk and adventure |
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John Anderson
| JOHN ANDERSON
Founder, The Contiki Group
At the age of 22, John Anderson left New Zealand for a one-year trip overseas. He returned some 20 years later with a wife, four children and the international tourism business - Contiki Holidays.
With just 25 pounds in his pocket, he created one of the world's leading tour operators (the largest catering for 18-35 year olds). When he sold the company a few years ago, it was firmly established as an international 'brand' name. To date, two million young people have travelled Contiki including just over one million Australians.
He now lives in Marlborough, New Zealand where he has just completed writing a book on one of the great untold Australasian business success stories - The Contiki Story - titled 'Only Two Seats Left!".
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