Speakers
Get to know the industry experts and pioneers that joined us in 2024.

Alex Hopkins
Director / Studio Tate

Alex Small
Director / Cox Architecture

Alexandra Donohoe Church
Founder and Director / Decus

Alice Pamment
Builder and Co-Director / Pamment Projects

Amanda Dorset
Founder, Owner, Creative Director / Wilson & Dorset

Amanda Henderson
Founder & Creative Director / Gloss Collective

Andrew Mitchell
Founder / The Design Coach

Anne-Maree Sargeant
Authentic Design Alliance Director / Design-Made Podcast Host

Anthony Joyce
Client Relations Executive / Crown Furniture

Bobby Gordon
Director / ROBERT GORDON AUSTRALIA

Bree Leech
Interior Designer and Trend Forecaster / Bree Leech

Brooke Green
Director & Lead Interior Designer / Blossom Design Studio

Callie van der Merwe
Australia CEO / COOOP

Christine Gough
Home Furnishing Design and Life At Home Leader / IKEA Australia

Cushla McFadden
Director / Tom Mark Henry

Daniel Boddam
Founder & Designer / Daniel Boddam Architecture & Design

Diane Fernandes
Design Manager / APS Design

Genevieve Wild
Design Director / Wildly Illuminating

Guy Walsh
Sustainability Strategist / Living Edge

Hannah Middleton
Product Designer / Baya

Jo-Ann Kellock
CEO / Design Institute of Australia

Joe Ballester
Country Manager ' Australia / Abodo

Joshua Ellis
Brand Manager / Cultivated

Julin Ang
Co-Director / Studioplusthree

Kamaleka Naidoo
Business Development Team Lead / unios

Karie Soehardi
Director / Circular Design Thinking

Kate McCluskey Kyle
Founder and Director / McCluskey Studio

Lexi Kentmann
Director - PR, Brand Marketing + Communications / Alexandra Kentmann Comms

Liz Ride
Associate Director / Studio Tate

Maddison Grisdale
Interior Designer / Plus Architecture

Marie Alford
Head of Dementia Professional Services / Hammond Care

Mark Ojascastro
Principal, Interior Designer / Plus Architecture

Marnie Ogg
CEO / Australasian Dark Sky Alliance

Mathew Dalby
Creative Director & Cofounder / Studiofab

Melanie Mackenzie
Principal / TKD Architects

Michael Cooney
General Manager, Independent Living, Property & Homelessness / Hammond Care

Mike Daish
General Manager / Stoked

Nick Travers
Director / Techne

Rino Brindisi
Partner / iGuzzini

Sally Knibbs
Founder & Director / Sally Caroline

Sarah-Jane Pyke
Director & Design Principal / Arent & Pyke

Simon Rochowski
Director / Studioplusthree

Simon Thorne
Architect / Integrated Design Group

Stephen Major
Business Development Manager - Workplace & Hospitality / Tarkett

Tom O'Sullivan
Business Development Manager - FLOC Wool Acoustic Panels / FLOC

William Yeates
Living Experience Associate Consultant / Dementia Support Australia