Latest Program

7:45am – 8:45am
Registration & refreshments
Morning Theme: Incumbents Dilemma
9:00am - 9:10am
Welcome and housekeeping
9:10am – 9.40am
Keynote Presentation:
Kim Williams, AFL Commissioner
Fortune will favour the brave
Navigating the complexities of a well-established incumbent isn’t
easy. In this keynote address Kim Williams reviews his experience
trying to crash News Corp Australia through to transformation,
and other seminal thoughts on trying to manage your company to
navigate disruption
9:40am – 10:20am
The Incumbent’s Dilemma – Short Stories
From the Frontline / Incumbent executives share their experience:
KCassandra Kelly, Chair, Pottinger
KSarah Vaughan, Director, Developer Evangelism & Experience,
Microsoft
KMarina Go, General Manager, Hearst-Bauer Media & Chair,
West Tigers
KMark Green, Co-Founder & CEO, The Monkeys
10.20am – 10.50am
The Incumbent’s Dilemma – Panel
The trouble with boards in these days of disruption
KMarina Go, General Manager, Hearst-Bauer Media & Chair,
West Tigers
KCassandra Kelly, Chair, Pottinger
KPaul Greenberg, Chairman, NORA
KSandra Hook, Non-Executive Director, the Sydney Harbour
Federation Trust, the Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust,
the Sydney Fish Markets
KSteve Vamos, Non-Executive Director, Telstra
10.50am – 11.10am
Morning tea & Networking in the foyer
Mid-morning Theme: The Economics and Strategy
of Disruption
11.10am – 11.40am
Keynote Presentation:
Didier Bonnet - Senior Vice President & Global Practice
Leader Digital Transformation, Cap Gemini Europe
Transformation Economics
Principles and practices that lead to successful digital
transformation.
11.40am – 12.20pm
Transformation Economics – Short Stories
Theory to practice / Tips from some of our best advisors and the
academics
KMarcos Kurowski, Managing Director, SapientNitro Australia
KAnnie Parker, Co-Founder, muru-D
KKai Riemer, Chair, Digital Disruption Research Group, The
University of Sydney Business School
KMalcolm Alder, Partner, Orchestrate & Board member, AIMIA
12.20pm – 1.00pm
Transformation Economics – The Experts
What three things can make or break me as an incumbent?
KDidier Bonnet, Senior Vice President & Global Practice Leader
Digital Transformation, Cap Gemini Europe
KAnnie Parker, Co-Founder, muru-D
KMalcolm Alder, Partner, Orchestrate & Board member at AIMIA
KKai Riemer, Chair, Digital Disruption Research Group, The
University of Sydney Business School
1.00pm - 1:40pm
Lunch
Catch a healthy lunch in the foyer
Post-lunch theme: Incumbents leading the way
1.40pm-1.50pm
We’ve designed our organizations, our teams, our systems, our
products, relationships and lives such that we can only succeed
under ideal “laboratory” conditions. Anything less than perfection
often means catastrophe. The problem is… that’s not how human
beings work at all.
Dan Gregory and Keiran Flanagan, The Impossible Institute
1:50pm – 2.20pm
Keynote Presentation:
Damien Tampling, Partner, Deloitte Tech, Media & Telecom
Damien steps through live examples of industries in disruption. He
will illustrate how some incumbents are thinking radically about how
they must ‘disrupt themselves’ in order to get to the future.
2.20pm – 3.10pm
Deconstructing Transformation – Short Stories
Incumbents doing well – How some incumbents are transforming
KGerd Schenkel, Executive Director, Telstra Digital & Founder,
UBank
KKurt Solarte, Director, IBM Studio
KMark Henley, Director, Strategy and Digital Transformation, APAC
Adobe Marketing Cloud
KDanny Bass, Chief Investment & Intelligence Officer at GroupM
Australia
KAnnalie Killian, Director Innovation, Communication & Social
Business, AMP AMPLIFY
3:10pm – 3:40pm
Deconstructing Transformation – Panel
What do successful incumbent transformers have in common?
KGerd Schenkel, Executive Director, Telstra Digital - Founder, UBank
KAnnalie Killian, Director Innovation, Communication & Social
Business, AMP AMPLIFY
KDanny Bass, Chief Investment & Intelligence Officer, GroupM
Australia
KStu Stevens, Head of Commercial Partnerships, Yahoo!7
3.40pm – 4.00pm
Afternoon tea & Refreshments in the foyer
Afternoon Theme: Data – The Currency of Disruption
4.00pm – 4.50pm
Customer Data: The currency of disruption
Customer data is your future: how do you get there quicker
KTony Davis, Director, Quantium
KBen Shipley, Director of Content, Colloquial
KTravis Wright, Chief Growth Officer, MediaThinkLabs
KRob Stanley, SVP & GM Asia Pacific, Lithium
4:50pm – 5.30pm
Customer Data Panel : Who Dares Wins
As vertical market boundaries start to blur, who will win in the data game?
KTony Davis, Director, Quantium
KRob Stanley, SVP & GM Asia Pacific, Lithium
KBen Sharp, Managing Director, AdRoll
KJodie Sangster, CEO, ADMA
5:30pm – 5.45pm
Creativity, content, transformation and trauma
Mark Henley, Director, Strategy and Digital Transformation, APAC
Adobe Marketing Cloud
5.45pm till you go
Cocktails - join us downstairs in the foyer at the bar
6:45am – 7:45am
Registration & breakky
Morning Theme: Lessons from Disruptors
7:50am - 8:00am
Welcome and housekeeping
8:00am – 8.30am
Keynote Presentation:
Andy Lark, Chief Marketing Officer, Xero
Lessons from a disruptor
The five Ps of digital and marketing transformation – Participation,
Proximity, Predict, Play and Purpose -- are used to amplify real-world
examples and techniques for out-innovating and out-marketing the
competition.
8:30am – 9:20am
Lessons from Disruptors - Short stories
Inside the mind of a disruptor
KJo Burston, CEO Rare Birds & Job Capitol
KGreg Ellis, Co-Founder, Nimble
KMick Entwisle, Founder, Genero
KTony Faure, Chair, Stackla, Sound Alliance, Pollenizer, Torque
Data
KJane Huxley, Managing Director, Pandora
9.20am – 9.45am
Lessons from Disruptors – Panel
KMick Entwisle, Founder, Genero
KJane Huxley, Managing Director, Pandora
KTony Faure, Chair, Stackla, Sound Alliance, Pollenizer, Torque Data
KZoe Roebuck, Founder, Dr Roebucks
12.50pm – 1.30 pm
Lunch
Catch a healthy lunch in the foyer
Post-lunch Theme:
Elevating the Customer Experience
1:30pm – 2.10pm
The Customer Experience
Creating a seamless customer story
KLucinda Barlow, Chief Marketing Officer, Google
KJohn Batistich, Director of Marketing, Scentre Group
KAmanda Gome, Head of Digital & Social Media, ANZ Bank
2.10pm – 2.20 pm
Nigel Marsh wakes us up for the afternoon run with his thoughts on
disruption and other D words.
Nigel Marsh, Growth Mantra
2.20pm – 3.00pm
Making digital platforms work for you – Panel
Getting more out of the global digital platforms
KEllie Rogers, Head of Agency Sales, Facebook
KMatt Tindale, Director, Marketing Solutions, LinkedIn
K Ian Gardner, Business Development - Start-up community,
Amazon Web Services
KAlice Manners, CEO, IAB
3:00pm – 3:10pm
The Master Wrap
Travis Wright wraps up two days of DAZE
3.15pm Conference closed
9.45am – 10.00am
Morning tea & Networking in the foyer
Mid-morning Theme: Talent and Funding
10.00am – 10.30am
Keynote Presentation:
Ira Kaufman, CEO Entwine Digital, US
Why Are You Here? 5 Digital Imperatives
How can we prepare executives and managers to navigate the disruptions
and respond to the opportunities offered by the digital revolution?
10.30 – 11.10am
Talent, leadership and culture – Short Stories
Organisational development and the talent gap
K Allan Parker, Managing Director, Peak Performance
K Anthony Armstrong, Managing Director, Russell Reynolds
KWillix Hallim, Vice President Growth, Freelancer.com
11.10 – 11.50am
Talent, culture, leadership and transformation – Panel
Insights for managing talent and culture in disrupted companies
KWillix Hallim, Vice President Growth, Freelancer.com
KJeremy Knibbs, Director, Wronghat Media
KAllan Parker, Managing Director, Peak Performance
KAnthony Armstrong, Managing Director, Russell Reynolds
11.50am – 12.10pm
Keynote Presentation:
Yasser El-Ansary – CEO AVCAL
Funding more good ideas and people
12.10 pm – 12.50pm
Funding – Short stories
Creative ways to stimulate our innovation sector
KSimon Cant, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Re-Inventure
KCreel Price, Director, Investibles
KRichard Webb, CEO & Founder, Start Mesh
KEYNOTES:
Day 1
9:10am – 9.40am
Keynote: Kim Williams
Fortune will favour the brave
11.10am – 11.40am
Keynote: Didier Bonnet
Transformation Economics
Day 2
8:00am – 8.30am
Keynote: Andy Lark
Lessons from a disruptor
10.00am – 10.30am
Keynote: Ira Kaufman
Why Are You Here? 5 Digital Imperatives
11.50am – 12.10pm
Keynote: Yasser El-Ansary
Funding more good ideas and people