Program speakers

2023 Academic Program


  • Deepa Balakrishnan

    Director, Research Grant Development and Transformation, Co-Chair, La Trove University Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Working Group, Research Office, La Trobe University
  • Professor Duncan Bentley

    Vice-Chancellor and President, Federation University Australia
  • Jackie Besley

    Managing Partner, Devereaux Consulting
  • Dr. Janin Bredehoeft

    Chief Executive Officer, Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE)
  • Rita Cincotta

    Leadership Development Practitioner
  • Associate Professor Rachael Hains-Wesson

    Academic Director WIL HUB, Associate Professor of Work-Integrated Learning, The University of Sydney
  • Associate Professor Deborah Heck

    Dean, School of Education and Tertiary Access, University of the Sunshine Coast Australia
  • Professor Jane den Hollander AO

  • Professor Liz Johnson

    Alfred Deakin Professor and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Deakin University
  • Ann Lau

    Principal, Board Member, Hayball Architects
  • Professor Birgit Loch

    Dean of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law, University of New England
  • Professor Sally McArthur

    Director, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University
  • Ms Jessie Mitchell

    Director, Office of the CEO, Homes Victoria, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing
  • Associate Professor Sara Moridpour

    Dean, Student Experience (Engineering), RMIT University
  • Professor Sarah O’Shea

    Dean, Graduate Research, Charles Sturt University
  • The Hon. Jaala Pulford

    Vice Chancellor’s Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Chair of MTP Connect, Director, Cyban and the Children’s Cancer Foundation
  • Emeritus Professor Judyth Sachs

    Principal, Judyth Sachs Consulting
  • Professor Elaine Saunders

    Managing Director, Bingarra Scale-Up Solutions
  • Professor Simone Taffe

    Professor in Communication Design, Swinburne University of Technology
  • Professor Michelle Trudgett

    Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership, Western Sydney University
  • Professor Wendy Wright

    Dean, Graduate Research and Professor of Conservation Biology, Federation University Australia

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