29 July, Melbourne | 31 July, Sydney Ready Summit '26

Dom Price | Work Futurist

Dom Price is a Work Futurist, team obsessive, and Partner at Be Luminous. Formerly Atlassian’s resident Work Futurist, Dom spent 12 years helping scale the company from 600 to 16,000+ employees globally. He operates at the intersection of technology and people, helping organisations navigate change, AI adoption and the future of work. A TED speaker, co-creator of the Atlassian Team Playbook, and advisor to C-suite leaders worldwide, Dom brings practical, lived experience to building better ways of working and creating sustainable change.

Lauren Capelin | Strategist, Systems Thinker & Innovation Leader

Lauren Capelin is a strategist, systems thinker and former startup ecosystem leader with 15+ years of experience across technology, innovation and social change. Her career has included leadership roles with Amazon Web Services, Startmate, Reinventure and FinTech Australia, working with founders, investors and emerging technologies shaping the future economy.

Today, Lauren explores the future of work, learning and leadership, focusing on the human skills needed to navigate change in an increasingly complex world.

Kathleen Webber | Co-Founder and CEO, LiveRem

Kathleen Webber is the Co-Founder and CEO of LiveRem, a real-time pay intelligence platform helping organisations make smarter remuneration and workforce decisions. She works with leaders across Australia and New Zealand to use live market data and insights to improve pay strategy, workforce planning and talent retention.

Through LiveRem, Kathleen helps organisations move beyond outdated benchmarks and make confident, data-driven decisions about their people and workforce.

Jake Scott | Chief Technology Officer, ctrl:cyber

Jake leads technology strategy and cyber operations at ctrl:cyber, overseeing the Risk Operations Centre (ROC) platform, detection engineering and automation initiatives. With a background across engineering, automation and product leadership, he helps scale security operations, reduce complexity and improve threat detection. Jake plays a key role in evolving ctrl:cyber’s capabilities, aligning platform strategy with client needs and business outcomes.

Chris Smith | Head of Innovation, ReadyTech

Chris Smith is Head of Innovation at ReadyTech, leading work on AI, emerging technologies and future skills. He serves on the Board of the Future Skills Organisation, one of Australia's Jobs and Skills Councils, and is widely recognised for advancing alternative career pathways, skills transformation and the practical adoption of AI to deliver economic and social impact.

Rob Findley | Head of Innovation Programs, Australia and New Zealand, Amazon Web Services

Rob is the Head of Innovation Programs for the Australia and New Zealand market at Amazon Web Services (AWS), spearheading initiatives to evangelise Amazon's culture of innovation and facilitate innovation strategy and design thinking engagements with AWS customers across diverse industries and sizes. Rob previously served as a Managing Director at Accenture Digital, and roles at leading financial institutions such as NAB, OCBC Bank, and DBS Bank, as well as in tech firms and digital agencies across Australia, Singapore, and Europe.

Ainslie Williams | Senior AI/ML Specialist, Amazon Web Services

Ainslie Williams is a Senior AI/ML Specialist at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading the implementation of AI solutions for Australia’s leading software companies. With 25+ years’ experience across research, technology and entrepreneurship, Ainslie brings expertise in AI innovation, business intelligence and the ethical adoption of emerging technologies. She previously co-founded Qualie and Reel Reviews, pioneering machine learning-powered research platforms.

Jodie Sims | General Manager People Culture and Safety, Viva Leisure

As General Manager People, Culture and Safety, Jodie champions human-centred leadership to build thriving, safe and high-performing workplaces. With 25 years’ experience across HR leadership and workforce consultancy, she specialises in aligning people strategy with business growth, culture and wellbeing. Jodie is passionate about creating workplaces where people can thrive and bring their best every day.

Lorraine Sebastian | Chief People & Culture Officer, Endota

Lorraine is the Chief People & Culture Officer at endota, Australia’s leading wellness network. With 20+ years’ executive experience across iconic brands like Priceline, Australian Unity and Bevilles Jewellers, she helps organizations strengthen leadership, build high-performing cultures and sustainable business success through practical, commercially focused people strategies.

David Hull | Head of Technology Information, UNSW College

Accomplished Head of IT & Business Technology Partner demonstrating high levels of business acumen, understands business demands and handles the strategy and delivery of organisation’s Digital Technology needs from Architecture, Delivery and Support. Experienced in organisational change management, business-aligned IT architecture, strategy definition and management of third-party suppliers / vendors. Trusted advisor to C-Level executives, Boards of Directors, executive committees and highly recognised for thought leadership, technical acumen, and business-positive approach to managing risks to information.

Jemma Horsley | Partner, Consulting, KPMG Australia

As KPMG Australia's National Skills Lead I ensure we deeply understand and appreciate the rapidly changing world of work, skills and vocational education; and that we mobilise our best people - both within Australia and across our global network - to work with our clients to enable the policy and economic outcomes required for Australia's economy and society to thrive into the future.

In my broader public sector role, I work alongside public clients to provide them with strategic advice to underpin evidenced based public policy development; organisational strategy, design and governance arrangements; program evaluation and review; and business case development.

Min Livanidis | Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft

Min Livanidis is the Chief Security Advisor (Public Sector) at Microsoft. She also serves as non-executive director at the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre; Chair of Advisory Board for the UNSW Institute for Cyber Security; and industry co-Chair of the Resilience Expert Advisory Group with the Department of Home Affairs. Prior to joining Microsoft, Min was Head of Digital Public Policy at Amazon Web Services and a non-executive director at the Oceania Cyber Security Centre, and served on the NSW Government’s AI Assurance Committee. She has also held roles at NBN Co., the Australian Signals Directorate, and as a Professor of Practice at Deakin University.

David Diviny | Chief Data and Analytics Officer and Head of AI, Nous Group

David Diviny is Chief Data and Analytics Officer and Head of AI at Nous Group, where he co-leads the Digital, Design, and Data practice. With over a decade of consulting experience at Nous, David integrates advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities with strategic insight and stakeholder engagement.

Azadeh Nia | AI Tech Lead, Microsoft

Azadeh Nia is an AI Tech Lead at Microsoft with extensive experience helping organisations adopt and scale cloud, data and AI solutions in complex enterprise environments. She specialises in designing and implementing modern data and AI platforms on Microsoft Azure, enabling organisations to accelerate innovation and deliver measurable business outcomes.

With expertise spanning Azure, Databricks and enterprise AI, Azadeh works closely with customers to guide AI transformation from strategy through to implementation. She has deep industry experience across retail, financial services and healthcare, combining technical leadership with a collaborative approach to solving complex business challenges.

Georgie Healy | AI Podcast Host & Tech Storyteller

Georgie Healy is Australia’s leading AI media voice, host of In the Blink of AI, writer of Attention Is All I Need and a tech keynote speaker making artificial intelligence accessible and engaging. With an engineering degree, 15 years in tech, and experience launching Google’s AI accelerator, Georgie cuts through the hype to translate complex AI developments into conversations that resonate. Now based in Sydney, she works with leading organisations to build AI literacy through powerful storytelling.

Richard Breden | CEO, SuperChoice

Richard Breden is the CEO of SuperChoice with more than 25 years of experience across Payroll, Super and HCM. He has led workforce technology businesses including Ascender Cloud Services, FlareHR and enableHR, where he helped shape innovative solutions trusted by thousands of employers across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Richard brings deep expertise in the future of payroll, workforce technology and workplace transformation.

Ross Heron | CEO, Australian Payroll Association

Ross Heron is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Payroll Association, Australia's peak body representing over 11,000 payroll professionals. A co-founder and entrepreneur, Ross has spent his career building and leading organisations at the forefront of payroll, compliance, and workforce management. Most recently, he launched Beryl, Australia's smartest AI-powered payroll assistant, available 24/7 to professionals nationwide.

Primo Lazar | Vice President of Solutions Consulting, TimeEdit

Primo Lazar is Vice President of Solutions Consulting at TimeEdit, a leading academic operations platform serving universities and students worldwide. With over 22 years of experience in education technology across Australia and international markets, Primo has worked at the intersection of product, presales, and enterprise solutions. In his global role, he helps institutions modernise operations, improve efficiency, and deliver more student-centric outcomes through technology.