See our 2023 Speaker Line-Up

	Anders Sörman Nilsson Global Futurist Anders is a futurist and the founder of the think tank and trend analysis firm - Thinque, which provides data-based research, foresight, and thought leadership. This Swedish-Australian has shared the stage with Hillary Clinton, Nobel Laureates, and European and Australian heads of state. He is an active member of TEDGlobal, has keynoted at TEDx in the United States and Australia, was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, and was the keynote speaker at the G20’s Y20 Summit in Australia. His presentations are meticulously researched, highly energetic, and always fascinating with content tailored to the audience, which is why clients like Apple, Cisco, Mercedes Benz, Hilton, SAP, Gartner, and Macquarie Bank have turned to Anders over the years to help them turn research into foresight and business impact.
	Nicola Clement Renowned and visionary eCommerce leader Nicola Clement is the former General Manager Omni Experience for Myer and a highly regarded eCommerce leader. She has had more than 18 years’ experience across international markets within the retail, travel and services industries. Throughout these years, Nicola's had multi-million-dollar P&L responsibility and ownership of digital strategy, eCommerce, digital marketing, innovation, design, customer experience, social, mobile, and service channels for several brands including MYER, Jetstar, Smiggle, Forever New, Kathmandu, Telstra and Quiksilver/Roxy/DC Shoes. She has worked within many group roles, spanning multiple brands, regions and business structures. Nicola is currently in London studying for her Executive MBA at Oxford University and is looking forward to journeying back to Australia for the iMedia Online Retail Summit to share her wealth of stories, experience and opinions.
	Paul Zahra CEO Australian Retailers Association Paul is a leading figure of Australian retail having worked in the industry for 40 years including in senior executive and non-executive roles and as a company advisor. He has previously held senior leadership positions at Target, Officeworks and David Jones where he was the CEO and Managing Director. Paul leads the team at the Australian Retailers Association – Australia’s oldest, largest and most diverse retail body, representing a $400 billion sector that employs one in ten Australians.
	Lucy Bloom Speaker, Author, Presenter Lucy Bloom is not afraid to break rules. A successful business leader, she is renowned for being an innovative thinker and exceptional communicator. With a strong track record in digital marketing, branding, story telling and fundraising, and having achieved online audiences in their millions, Lucy was Australia's first person to be named in the world's top 30 #socialceos. Her charitable work has transformed lives in Australia and overseas, and her top-selling memoir, Get the Girls Out, was published by HarperCollins in 2019 to rave reviews.

Ben Hare

Director - Chief Operating Officer
Tinyme

As a co-owner and Director of Tinyme, Ben oversees the Finance, HR, Compliance & Risk, IT, Customer Service, and Logistics functions of the business.

Since joining Tinyme in 2010, Ben has been instrumental in developing the company’s export strategy and building out the business platform to sustain rapid growth.

Growing rapidly in sales of personalised children’s products, Tinyme featured in the BRW Fast Starter List 2011 and has been a finalist 30 times in the Online Retail Industry Awards, with the highlight being awarded the Australian Online Retailer of the Year two years running in 2019 and 2020. This goes alongside winning the ORIAs for Best Social Commerce Initiative in 2020 and 2019, Best Pureplay Online Retailer, Best Omnichannel Customer Service, and Best Mobile Commerce Site in 2017, and Best Site Optimisation & Design in 2016. Time has featured in the Power Retail Top 100 Online Retailers for 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Ben served for two years as a Non-Executive Director of the National Online Retailers Association (NORA) and featured in Inside Retail’s Top 50 People in E-Commerce list for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. In 2017, Ben was nominated as a finalist in the Industry Recognition Award at the ORIAs.

Prior to joining Tinyme, Ben spent over 10 years working for Goldman Sachs JBWere, most recently as Director – Infrastructure where he was responsible for co-managing $200 million of investments in Infrastructure securities. During his tenure at Goldman Sachs JBWere, he held a variety of roles with experience in portfolio management, stock research, equities trading, quantitative analysis, sales and marketing, product management, and operations.

In 2007, Ben was awarded the IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Award for the investment industry. Ben holds an MBA from the Melbourne Business School, a Bachelor's degree in Commerce and Science from the University of Melbourne, and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment.

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See our 2023 Speaker Line-Up

Anders Sörman Nilsson

Global Futurist

Nicola Clement

Renowned and visionary eCommerce leader

Paul Zahra

CEO Australian Retailers Association

Lucy Bloom

Speaker, Author, Presenter

Ben Hare

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