Emmy is a passionate digital nomad, who believes in taking a global view on issues that matter—representation for women of colour and accessibility in technology.

With a background in supporting tech startups, underpinned by a love of social enterprise, Emmy has lead a number of initiatives that have tackled chronic homelessness, as well as refugee and migrant business entrepreneurship.

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Ben has spent more than a decade developing businesses, consulting on digital strategy, identifying market gaps and future trends. He’s founded many successful companies, including digital ventures studio Josephmark, motion design company Breeder, Indigenous creative agency Gilimbaa and trending music platform We Are Hunted, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012.

Ben’s become an influential figure within Australia’s creative and business communities, and his fearlessness in pushing the envelope has culminated in the truly entrepreneurial business that Josephmark is known for.

As JM’s Founder, Ben leads a team who consistently create and launch innovative digital products like Australian startup chart Vest, catch-up news platform Hash and social music discovery site Undrtone.

Sam works in Public Policy and Government Affairs at Google Australia, with a focus on privacy, safety and security.  She is an accredited mediator, technology lawyer and policy advisor with twenty years experience working within the digital media and technology sectors both in Europe and Australia.

Prior to joining Google, Sam established the regulatory function at the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Australia and worked as General Counsel and Asia Pacific Legal Director for Yahoo!’s Australian business. Sam has acted as a media spokesperson and is a regular public speaker on trends and challenges affecting the digital industry.

Motivated by an interest for all forms of social enterprise, Benjamin is an experienced financial administrator having overseen financial functions in a wide variety of organisations.

He is passionate about driving outcomes over simply reporting figures and a focus on sustainable initiatives to create social impact.

With a background in both management and analytics he has driven both social and commercial outcomes to a range of clients ranging from startups to multinational corporations.

Kylie Brosnan is a Director in the Public Affairs division at Ipsos based in Brisbane specialising in social research and social impact evaluations.

Kylie has over 25 years of experience in designing and managing complex data collection methodologies using innovative, technological solutions and in particular has used digital technologies to enable marginalised voices to have their views considered in Government policy and decision-making.

Kylie has been the lead director responsible for policy evaluations as well as bespoke research focused on wicked problems bringing insights to inform better human centric design in complex systems.

Passionate about decreasing disparity and improving life outcomes, she has a particular focus on making a difference for vulnerable people and at risk community groups in Australia.

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Kai is spur:'s resident seeing eye dog in training. He has the incredibly important task of learning how to assist those with vision impairments. Kai is fostered through Seeing Eye Dogs Australia.

Lee is a seasoned innovator and strategist with deep experience working on social impact projects around the world—particularly in mental health, equality, and education.

He has been recognised internationally for his ground-breaking work and approach to social change and impact measurement, and is a Global Laureate Fellow, UNLEASH Innovation Lab winner, representative to the G20 Youth Entrepreneurship Alliance, and D&F Academy Global Fellow.

Living by the motto "Creating awareness is for those that can't get people to take action", he is not only passionate about instigating social change, but ensuring that this is change is both profound and measurable.

Ming is a Southeast Asia Audit Partner based in Ipoh, Malaysia, and has more than 25 years of experience in providing assurance and business advisory services to local and multinational corporations, public and private companies operating in various industries.

Ming’s experience includes financial due diligence review for mergers and acquisitions, review of financial projections for fund raising and acting as reporting accountants for various corporate exercises.

Ming is a member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She is also a Council Member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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Sean has a passion for driving social change through innovation.

At spur: Sean works as a Project Associate for the 123+ project, which allows him to combine his interests in social innovation, LGBTIQ+ rights advocacy and legal reform.

Sean is also President of the UQ Law Society and has worked at a number of legal, community and social organisations including as the State Director of IMPACT Social Enterprise.”

Cat Matson is Brisbane’s Chief Digital Officer and the General Manager of Innovation for the city’s economic development board, Brisbane Marketing.

Cat's strength and love of the digital sector led her to taking a lead on key innovation projects in Brisbane. From educating children on coding to supporting local budding entrepreneurs, as GM of Innovation she oversees Brisbane Innovate, an annual innovation event guided by design thinking to generate solutions for citywide challenges.

As Chief Digital Officer she is charged with the digital transformation of the city and driving Brisbane’s city-wide digital strategy.

Appointed in 2014, Cat was recently recognised as one of Australia’s top digital innovators, winning the Digital Experience Leader for Australia in the 2018 IDC Digital Transformation Awards.

Olivia is passionate about social enterprise and disruptive approaches to social change. With international experience, she is invested in maximising the impact of agency-driven projects.

Olivia also has particular interest in increasing access to quality education for young people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds with her own social enterprise The Unknown Project.

With a decade of experience in strategy, research and analysis, William has consulted to some of Australia’s largest governmental organisations and some of the world’s largest non-profits.

An active social commentator, Will regularly speaks at conferences and on television and radio about social change and technology.

William is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and Davos Annual Meeting panelist, a Gates Foundation Goalkeeper, G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit Australian Delegate and the Digital Brisbane Ambassador to Berlin.

William was also a founding Global Talent for the UNLEASH Innovation Lab in Denmark 2017 and a Talent Facilitator in Singapore, 2018.