Sydney, Australia

A multi-disciplinary practitioner & researcher passionate about nurturing better connections between people, place and habitat.

Founder of STORYBOX and Esem Projects, author of Platform Urbanism (2020), Sarah’s work advances digital methods and tools for advancing practices of care and regeneration in communities, currently supported through a Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellowship at RMIT.

Melbourne, Australia

With a background in community psychology and the WHO Healthy Cities program, Iain has extensive experience working within and across government, higher education, and the community sectors.

Iain supports planners, researchers and communities to build partnerships to identify how well places ‘work’, and for whom; where the gaps are; and how to make them more liveable for everyone

Sydney, Australia

A socially-minded executive, passionate about making the world a better place and the role that organizations play in creating the new economy

As a Transformation Partner at KPMG Australia, Catia has over 20 years of experience working with public and private organizations across five continents.

Sydney, Australia

Scott is the Founder of Shapeable and has over 20 years of experience working with global organizations, including the World Economic Forum, where he was a member of their leadership team for seven years.

Whilst there Scott led digital innovation strategy and design across their platforms for data-driven knowledge and communities of global leadership.

Oxford, UK

Board-level corporate affairs professional with over 20 years experience in international communications across Europe and SE Asia.

Co-founder and leader of Future Agenda. Corporate clients include Amazon, Astra Zeneca, the LEGO Group and Macmillan Cancer Support.

Sydney, Australia

Sheridan leads research and report production. She has a formidable track record with narrative development, and a keen understanding of what drives motivations and aspirations, due to her background as a screenwriter of romantic comedies, novelist, script mentor and editor, producer, director, and journalist.

Cambridge, UK

Accomplished start-up builder with a track record of commercialising mission-oriented products and emerging technologies.

Curious, commercial, collaborative, and thrives by inspiring cross-functional teams to innovate and delight customers through joined-up hardware and big digital services.

Melbourne, Australia
& San Francisco, CA, USA

A globally-minded social entrepreneur focused on longevity, wellness and civic innovation.

Co-author of Growth Champions (Wiley 2015) and Longevity Ecosystems (MIT, forthcoming 2024). Currently, Fellow, Healthy Longevity at SOMPO Digital Lab, Managing Director of Fordcastle, and curator of the Looking Forward newsletter. 

Melbourne, Australia

David is presently a serial entrepreneur but has worked in various senior roles in the private and public sector. He has always been driven by building innovation programs and assisting them onto the pathway of commercialisation.

He has been involved in numerous programs that have affected peoples lives through healthcare but feels there is much more to do.

Sydney, Australia

Social entrepreneur and technology innovator with a track record of advising and building mission-driven innovations.

Ex-McKinsey consultant, now building toward systems change of our misaligned healthcare and economic system, connecting the dots between East and West, from ancient wisdom to cutting-edge technology.