Modern Media Summit 25 - 27 October 2023
Lake Taupō | New Zealand

Our first 2023 speakers are: 

ShellyDavies

Shelly Davies

Writer, Trainer and Joyful Badass

Meet Shelly Davies, the popping candy of the corporate training world: sweet, exhilarating and effervescent!

Shelly is authentic, vulnerable and commands the room with her lifetime worth of stories and lessons. Degrees, dead husbands, divorces, diets, depression – all the Ds. She started university at 16, taught and studied around the world, buried her first husband on her 24th birthday, drank coffee and red wine for the first time at 38, and Te Reo is her second language. 

With 20 years of experience in education, Shelly has been a high school teacher, university teacher, indigenous educator, researcher and writer. In 2012, she jumped into the communications landscape where she is currently the Managing Director of Hamilton-based, Shelly Davies Writing & Training.

Since then, Shelly’s brand has exploded across a surprising mix of sectors and industries, rivalling players who’ve cornered New Zealand’s writing training market for decades. Because, as it turns out, business writing is more about being courageously transparent than it is about having an impressive vocab or where to put a semi-colon. Also true for life. When we choose to operate with authenticity, integrity, and courage, both our writing and our lives achieve the outcomes we’re craving. Because it’s never been worth your time to pursue bland, boring, or already been done.

DrCatrionaWallace

Dr Catriona Wallace

Founder of Responsible Metaverse Alliance

Catriona is an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse and is an Adjunct Professor, keynote speaker and Founder of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance. Catriona is also the co-author of the book Checkmate Humanity: the how and why of Responsible AI.

As the founder of one of the first Artificial Intelligence companies to list on the Australian Securities Exchange, Catriona has truly lived the life of an entrepreneur and CEO in the emerging technologies field. Indeed, Flamingo AI was the second only woman-led (CEO & Chair) business ever to list on the Australian Stock Exchange.

James-Hurman

James Hurman

Founder/Co-founder of Previously Unavailable, Tracksuit, AF Drinks and Toothcrush

A passionate believer in the power of creativity and storytelling in business, James Hurman works at a crossroads of brand strategy, storytelling, creativity and entrepreneurialism.

As founder and CEO of Storytech, the world’s first ‘brand strategy in a box’ he has turned this theory into practise, allowing start-ups and small businesses to develop a robust brand strategy for a fraction of the traditional cost.

His Auckland-based venture studio Previously Unavailable specialises in the rapid development of innovative products with non-traditional business models, helping companies big and small bring exciting new ideas into the world.

James’ prior career in the advertising industry was recognised with dozens of marketing effectiveness awards, and in 2013 he was named the world’s #1 strategy planner. His 2011 book The Case for Creativity proved the link between imaginative marketing and commercial success and has been republished several times in multiple languages.

Lexi-Sydow

 

Lexi Sydow

Head of Insights at data.ai 

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Ryf Quail

Managing Director, ANZ & SEA, iMedia

Simon Laird

Head of Sales & Partnerships, Google

Phil Zohrab

Managing Director , Ground Control

Byron Sharp

Director, Ehrenberg Bass Institute

Mel Homer

MC, iMedia

Jessica Miles

Country Manager, Integral Ad Science

Sam Ward

Director of Business Development, ANZ, The Trade Desk

Dallas Gurney

Director of News & Talk, Mediaworks

Alison Tilling

Chief Strategy Officer, VMLY&R

Nichola Quail

Founder and CEO, Insights Exchange

Robert Hutchinson

GM Digital - Commercial , TVNZ

David Letele

Life Coach and Founder, The BBM Program

Dina Hay

Chief Data & Insights Officer, Stuff NZ

Martin Tomlinson

Country Manager, NZ, Pureprofile

Skipper Lomiwes

Programmatic Manager, TVNZ