Dheeren Velu, former ICT Professional of the Year, is a strategic futurist committed to helping organisations and individuals thrive in today’s era of fast-paced disruptive technological change. He is the head of Innovation at Capgemini, a global technology consulting firm and helps enterprise organisations and visionary leaders transform to meet the escalating expectations ahead. Dheeren's expertise and experiences ranges from A.I. to Blockchain to Web3 across multiple industry domains like Retail, Public Sector, Telco, Banking and Financial Services. He is a globally recognised thought-leader in applied & open innovation, battle-tested consultant, and known for his ability to turn difficult concepts into easy-to-understand ideas that drive meaningful outcomes and actions.

Narelle Clark joined IAAin 2019, becoming its firstChief Executive Officer in June 2020. Specialising in the application of networks and systems, Narelle has a broad technical and strategic view of Internet scale ICT delivery and has been a user, builder, operator and researcher of Internet networks through her extensive career with major telcos, research agencies and consumer bodies, as well as a leadership and governance background in the not-for-profit sector. On first discovering the Internet in 1989,when a Lab Manager at UTS,Narelle set about wanting to connect every computer and piece of test equipment on her campus only to soon find herself in the teamrunning the entire university network and all of the AARNet NSW regional network as well! This, in turn, led to a decade at Optus where ultimately she led network architecture and their R&D programworking closely with Singtel in areas like IPv6 adoption, data centre construction and OSS. After leaving Optus she spent time with CSIRO leading their networking technologies research, sat on the Board ofTrustees for the global Internet Society, then a stint in consumer advocacy and research before acting asPrincipal Consultant with Pavonis Consulting where she advised companies in telecommunications regulation, operations and technology. Narelle is a currentmember of the Australian Computer Society,a former member of the ACS Technical Advisory Board,a Senior Member of the IEEE, an Honorary Fellow with the University of Wollongong,and holds a seat on the board of the Public Interest Registry which operates the .Org top-level domain.Narelle has a degree in applied physics, a masters in telecommunications engineering and a post graduate diploma in management.

Lizette has worked closely with over 100 early-stage startups. She was the 'first hire' of INCUBATE, Australia's first university-based startup program. Lizette spearheaded supporting founder wellbeing, which demonstrated invaluable results: inter-startupcollaborations, lengthening companies' lifespan, ripple effects in positive impacts. Alumni of the multi-award-winning accelerator have raised over A$50M to date.Her experience includes having owned an award-winning small business, leading innovation projects, and working within a fast-growth startup. Lizette's work comes down to taking a human-first approach and creating growth environments. She is passionate about inclusion and diversity, with a special interest in mental health.

Ming Johanson is the CEO of Marketing Jumpstart and fondly referred to by her community as the Mother Of Unicorns.Ming has been involved in the digital marketing industry and startup space for over 10 years.She is passionate about leadership, marketing culture & digital transformation that helps organizationsfitinto the modern world of hyper-connectivity.In her spare time, Ming is a regular tech expert contributor in the Australia media, an active ambassador for mental health and a winner of the Women In Tech 20+ Awards.

Emma Lo Russo is CEO of Digivizer, Australiaʼs leading digital marketing technology and activationscompany, which she co-founded in 2010. Digivizer helps businesses make better decisions abouttheir investment in digital marketing, across organic, earned and paid social, search and websitemedia. Emma is also CEO and founder of goto.game, a leading data-driven agency and destinationfor all things gaming and esports, which she founded in 2017.

Emma won Carnegieʼs Den in 2014, is a Portfolio CEO for Heads Over Heels since 2015, received theAGSM Anita Prabhu Women Leaders in Business Award for entrepreneurship, innovation,leadership and business acumen in 2015, won the Pearcey Foundation Tech Entrepreneur of theYear Award for NSW 2016, the ACS CXO Disruptor of the Year in 2018 and received an ACS award forThought Leadership in 2019. She won Entrepreneur of the Year in the 2021 ARN Women in ICTAwards. She holds an MBA from the AGSM at UNSW, and has completed further education inLeadership and Negotiation with Harvard University.

Pooyan oversees Data, Analytics, BI and AI for the group. Pooyan has over 15 years’ experience in the Business Intelligence, Data Science and Machine Learning fields. Pooyan’s team is dedicated to providingseamless access to data and analytics across the business and supports teams to solve their complex problems with the help of data. Pooyan’s team also actively provides cutting edge AI and BI solutions to internal and external stakeholders.

Before joining Domain in 2014, Pooyan was Director of Analytical Products for HLA Global, working with a number of high-profile health care organisations such as Cancer Council of Australia and centre of disease control (CDC) in the United States to build cutting edge AI solutions for the medical sector.

Pooyan has a Bachelor of Software Engineering from Tehran Azad University, a Master in Information Technology from Macquarie University and PhD in machine learning and natural language processing (IT) from the University of Sydney.