Something Digital | South Brisbane QLD 4101, Australia

About Something Digital

Something Digital celebrates Brisbane’s digital ecosystem and the incredible people that power it. Designed as a festival, its aim is to showcase the great innovations, businesses and initiatives which are based right here in our backyard and across Australia.
The digital landscape is a vast one - spanning from tech innovations such as machine intelligence or blockchain; to powerful developments around data, customer experiences and automation. Our content is being curated to help you leverage these developments, increase the digital capability in your organisation and stimulate debates around the digital future we want to create.
Something Digital will bring together participants from all corners of the digital economy from startups to mature and traditional organisations, specifically in roles which foster thought leadership, tech development and marketing.
Centered around a digital showcase, the festival will feature multiple stages of mind blowing content; a mix of local and international speakers; plenty of opportunities to play and collaborate and a digital hangover to remember!

Features

- Four International keynote speakers
- Two stages of mind blowing sessions
- A digital showcase and demo lounge
- Plenty of opportunities to play and collaborate
- A digital hangover to remember

Reasons to Attend

1. Experience a conference program that has been curated together with some of Brisbane’s greatest digital heroes.
2. Wander between two awesome stages featuring four themes: Breakthrough tech, The digital mindset, The customer experience and Harnessing digital opportunities...
3. … and attend all four international keynote speakers featuring data, AI, tech for good, blockchain, ethics and future trends. Mind blowing content to fuel your day!
4. Engage with over 30 local and interstate speakers who will help you build digital capabilities within your teams and organisations.
5. Take the unique opportunity to collaborate with digital legends from across various industries, ages, sizes, types - cross pollination at its best!
6. Participate in Open Studios on day two - taking Something Digital out of the convention centre into Brisbane offices.
7. Play with some of the best innovations built in our own back yard with our interactive showcase.
8. Nurture tomorrow’s digital leaders through our High School component - Something Digital: Next Gen.
9. FOMO is real and so are the early bird rates!! Secure your ticket today.

Speakers

Adam Bonnifield

VP Artificial Intelligence, Airbus

Justin Hendrix

Executive Director, NYC Media Lab

Mariana Dahan

Founder and CEO, World Identity Network

Caroline Sinders

Digital Anthropologist, Machine Learning Researcher and Artist Convocation Design

Jannah Baker

Innovation, Research & Development Program Officer, Urban Utilities

Chris Beaumont

Service Design and Implementation, Partner Endeavour Foundation

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Vanessa Brennan

Chief Brand & Customer Officer, Michael Hill

Katrina Donaghy

Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Civic Ledger

Alexander Dreiling

CEO, Clipchamp

Michael Gillespie

Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Domino's Group

Edda Hamar

Co-Founder & CEO Lána

Paul Harapin

Vice President and General Manager Asia Pacific Japan, Domo

Ben Johnston

Co-founder, Josephmark

Tracey Kay

Co-founder, Axalon

Sue Keay

Chief Operating Officer, Australian Centre for Robotic Vision

Leanne Kemp

CEO and Founder, Everledger

Rylan Kindness

CEO & Founder, Parking Deals Australia

Stewart Koplick

Service Delivery Learning Leader, Endeavour Foundation

Anne Kovachevich

Australasian Foresight + Innovation Leader Arup

Marek Kowalkiewicz

Chair in Digital Economy, QUT

Agenda

08.30
Registration + morning caffeine

09.00
Welcome to Something Digital.
Cat Matson, Brisbane’s Chief Digital Officer, Brisbane Marketing
Marek Kowalkiewicz, Chair in Digital Economy, QUT

09.25
Keynote Speaker Introduction
Paul Harapin, Vice President and General Manager Asia Pacific Japan, Domo

09.30
International Keynote: Tech without boundaries. Building responsible Artificial Intelligence.
Adam Bonnifield, VP Artificial Intelligence, Airbus

10.00
International Keynote: How blockchain technology will save lives and make the world a better place.
Mariana Dahan, Founder and CEO, World Identity Network

10:30
Morning break: Time to play and collaborate

Breakthrough technology

11.00
MC updates.
Cat Matson, Brisbane’s Chief Digital Officer, Brisbane Marketing

11.10
Welcome to the capital of Robotics.
Sue Keay, Chief Operating Officer, Australian Centre for Robotic Vision

11.35
Ushering a new era of digitisation. How 5G will transform the way we connect people, spaces and things.
Deon Liebenberg, Vice President Innovation & Strategy, Optus Business

12.00
Unlocking the potential of an AI-Blockchain relationship.
Katrina Donaghy, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Civic Ledger
Tracey Kay, Co-Founder, Axalon
Moderated by:Cat Matson, Brisbane’s Chief Digital Officer, Brisbane Marketing

The digital mindset

11.00
MC updates.
Marek Kowalkiewicz, Chair in Digital Economy, QUT

11.10
Preparing for your disruptive future.
Anne Kovachevich, Australasian Foresight and Innovation Leader, Arup

11.35
Actionable ways to foster authentic digital thought leadership.
Edda Hamar, Co-Founder & CEO, Lána
Ben Johnston, Co-Founder, Josephmark
Moderated by:Llew Jury, Executive Chair and Director, Advancer

12.00
Culture and innovation: Two sides of the same coin.
Melissa Witheriff, Head of Digital Innovation, CUA

12.30
International Keynote: What’s in a word? Language, algorithmic bias and data.
Caroline Sinders, Digital Anthropologist, Machine Learning Researcher and Artist, Convocation Design

13.00
Lunch

The customer experience

14.00
MC updates.
Cat Matson, Brisbane’s Chief Digital Officer, Brisbane Marketing

14.10
Customer first. Ways to create a frictionless experience.
Michael Gillespie, Group Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Domino’s

14.35
Strengthen your CX through data driven decisions.
Kshira Saagar, Head of Analytics and Data Science, The Iconic

15.00
Marketing IRL. Put the human back in your brand
Vanessa Brennan, Chief Brand & Customer Officer, Michael Hill
Alexandra Sloane, Head of Marketing – ANZ, Facebook
Moderated by:Llew Jury, Executive Chair and Director, Advancer

Harnessing digital opportunities

14.00
MC updates.
Marek Kowalkiewicz, Chair in Digital Economy, QUT

14.10
Enhancing organisational outcomes through mixed realities
Chris Beaumont, Service Design + Implementation Partner, Endeavour Foundation
Stewart Koplick, Service Delivery Learning Leader, Endeavour Foundation
Jannah Baker, Innovation & Research Program Officer, Queensland Urban Utilities

14.35
Panel: Under the hood – Leveraging digital opportunities to scale and grow sustainably.
Alexander Dreiling , CEO, Clipchamp
Rick Wingfield, General Manager, Innovation, Australia Post
Josephine Marsh, Director Government Recordkeeping, Queensland State Archives
Moderated by: Marek Kowalkiewicz, Chair in Digital Economy, QUT

15.00
Case study: Using big data to deliver insights and automation in the mining industry
Gavin Wood, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Newcrest Mining

15.25
Afternoon break: Time to play and collaborate

15.50
Power panel: From local to global. Traits of successful leadership, culture and growth
Leanne Kemp, CEO & Founder, Everledger
Chris Macauly, Co-Founder & CEO, Advvy
Holly Cardew, Founder, Pixc
Moderated by:Cat Matson, Brisbane’s Chief Digital Officer, Brisbane Marketing

16.20
International Keynote: 2030 Vision: The decade ahead in media & technology
Justin Hendrix, Executive Director, NYC Media Labs

16.50
Close

17.00
After Party