| Chair Opening Remarks | Annabel Hodges | 8.25 - 8.30 | Main Room |
| Diversity in leadership & the impact it has on emerging talent | Lottie Laws | 8.30 - 9.00 | Main Room |
| A look into how diversity at executive leadership level influences tomorrow's leaders, and why it's essential for companies to embrace. Why it's important for aspiring career women to surround themselves with not only a diverse support ecosystem, but also to have positive role models. | |||
| Purpose to Profit: The new business paradigm | Susie Bayes | 9.00 - 9.30 | Main Room |
| We’re in the midst of a business revolution where there’s increasing demand from consumers, employees and investors for brands to stand for something more than just profit - and this demand is proven to translate into driving actual business results. But much of the time this shift doesn’t seem to align to the work we’re doing in digital. How can women of the web bring purpose to life in their everyday work and be taken seriously. How can you be an intrapreneur who helps drives the conversation around purposeful profit? | |||
| Career Changes: Writing your own script | Adeline Tan | 9.30 - 10.00 | Main Room |
| Careers in digital are fluid and progression is often not linear. Adeline will share her professional journey and three key pivots she’s made from tech to marketing, marketing to digital and financial services to e-Commerce with some key challenges and lessons learnt along the way. | |||
| Break | Day 1 | 10.00 - 10.20 | Main Room |
| Why representation matters & how to do it better | Melanie Mahony | 10.20 - 10.50 | Main Room |
| Online media and advertising plays a huge role in shaping how people see the world, what they think matters and what's considered ‘normal’. Therefore as creators, curators and gatekeepers of the web it's our responsibility to be conscious of how we cover and capture the world. This talk will cover how and why we need to take action towards better diversity and representation in who we choose to create, host or feature in news, content or advertising. | |||
| Workshop: The Future is Feminine led by Taminda Pollé & Kathryn Alexander | Kathryn Alexander Taminda Pollé | 10.50 - 11.05 | Main Room |
| This unique and highly controversial subject will be used as a backdrop to illustrate how to measure and validate the impact of applying feminine attributes within the architecture of next-generation digital technologies and transformation programs. | |||
| Panel Session: Content Is Queen | Sarah Liu Jess Blanch Jocelin Abbey Angela Blackman | 11.05 - 12.05 | Main Room |
| As content continues to diffuse & the lines between platform & publisher continue to blur, how do digital media companies stay relevant? What other new (or old) areas of content are brands investing in? How do networks, studios, digital publishers, etc. collaborate to build meaningful partnerships that reach new audiences in today’s world? What are the biggest challenges/obstacles you face in your day-to-day job as it relates to distributed storytelling? The challenges & ethics around data and how one uses data to craft digital & media strategies, including content production, audience growth & competitor benchmarking. How are you shaping your digital offerings & driving new customer experiences? | |||
| Lunch | Day 1 | 12.05 - 13.00 | Main Room |
| Owning the change | Carla Webb-Sear | 13.00 - 13.30 | Main Room |
| Change is a constant. That’s nothing new, but that doesn’t mean that it’s always easy. Carla’s been in the industry for more than 20 years. She’s seen a bit of change and learnt a lot along the way. She’ll speak about how to set yourself up for constant change as a leader, how to drive change yourself and how to work with those around you to empower change. | |||
| Is having it all a myth? | Gemma Howells | 13.30 - 14.00 | Main Room |
| This generation of women have more opportunities and choices than ever before and were brought up to believe they could 'have it all'. However, sometimes it feels like ‘having it all’ is a myth. Gemma shares her experience as a Mum and breadwinner, explores some of the trade-offs faced by working parents and how embracing flexible working can help get us closer to this goal. | |||
| Group Surgery: Empower & Lead | Day 1 | 14.00 - 14.10 | Main Room |
| In this session, the 'patient' will share the biggest leadership related pain they are experiencing at work. 'Surgeons', aka the person sitting next to them, will diagnose the problem and treat the issue. | |||
| Panel Session: Normalising the Conversation: Discussing Diversity, Gender Pay Gap & Sexual Harassment | Zoe Dattner Michelle Tucker Rookaya Saleem-Fernandez Ella Chapman Tarla Lambert | 14.10 - 15.10 | Main Room |
| Being a Boss: The obstacles, challenges & stereotyping you have encountered. Diversity & Inclusion: How inclusion differs from diversity; How to create a culture of inclusiveness & promote diversity. Tackling & Unpacking Unconscious Bias (in the workplace). Sexual Harassment: Have you ever encountered any? How did you deal with it? What stops employees from raising issues internally? Gender Pay Gap & Parental Leave: How to bridge the gap & who's responsible - men or women? Defying entrenched & outdated stereotypes that surround ‘Caregiving’ & ‘Caregivers’. | |||
| Break | Day 1 | 15.10 - 15.25 | Main Room |
| Five leadership lessons I learned the hard way | Susannah George | 15.25 - 15.55 | Main Room |
| You only need one person to believe in you to succeed. And it’s a whole lot easier if that person is you. Having the confidence to back your idea is a challenge for all of us. But believing in your dream while flying solo requires an extra layer of leadership. From finding the confidence to launch a business from her bedroom in 2011, through crises when she nearly lost it all; Susannah will share the top five learnings that have seen her build Australia’s largest and most-influential youth media company today. | |||
| Taking charge of your career growth: A data engineer’s perspective | Harini Janakiraman | 15.55 - 16.25 | Main Room |
| Harini will share the lessons she has learned along the way to becoming an Engineering Leader, managing multiple teams and data engineering projects. She will discuss some of the challenges and roadblocks she has faced and provide tips on navigating your career path as a woman in a large corporate environment. | |||
| Being a boss in digital | Kirsty MacCulloch | 16.25- 16.55 | Main Room |
| Kirsty will chart her career evolution; from her initial focus supporting mums returning to work, to her current goal - enabling a more flexible workforce and team. She will delve into her experiences and workplace policies referencing real life examples of ‘winning’ and ‘challenges’. | |||
| Chair Closing Remarks | Annabel Hodges | 16.55 - 17.00 | Main Room |
| Drinks Hour | Day 1 | 17.00 - 18.00 | Foyer |
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