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Levi Fordham - Spur (powered by Landgate)          Levi Fordham is the Outreach Coordinator with Spur facilitating international fellowships aimed at improving economic prosperity for developing nations. Levi also runs the HackED program developing enterprise skills in young people and giving them a glimpse into the power of data to problem solve.   Mark Kostner - Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) Mark Kostner is a business advisor for SBDC delivering a series of digital workshops aimed to assist small business develop digital literacy skills. Mark is also a successful digital entrepreneur.   Hasib Sarvari - Hacker Pals Hasib Savari, founder of Hacker Pals a not-for-profit, teaching coding, robotics and start-ups to all ages. Hasib is also the founder of Binary Crate; a cloud based learning environment teaching coding skills directly through the web.   Shane Dowling - City of Swan, Ballajura Library Manager Shane Dowling leads the Futures Lab

Jeremy Hurst - SpacetoCo Jeremy Hurst, Co-Founder of SpcaetoCo - a new sharing economy business for the short-term rental of spaces. SpacetoCo - a business that encourages people to search, find and book Spaces online. Jeremy is a former educator and more recently working in IT consultancy in education.                     Steve Todman - Olive Farm Wines Steve Todman is the Cellar Door Manager at Olive Farm Wines - the oldest winery in Western Australia. With 12 years of experience in the hospitality industry at large multi-functional venues. Steve has been with Olive Farm Wines for the last 18 months managing the sales side of the fourth-generation, family owned business. Steve Brown - Altitude Imaging Steve Brown started Altitude Imaging in November 2012, and is a compelling presenter with significant career experience in marine and subsea operations for the oil and gas sector and the emerging Remote Aviation

Guy Turner is the Insights and Strategy Director at Community News Group. Joining News Corp within the first six month of the launch of their first news website, Guy has been involved in the introduction of mobile apps, Augmented Reality, digital subscriptions and programmatic advertising. Guy has lectured in experience design for ADMA, was Founder of the Women in Innovation awards, and in 2015 won best advertising campaign at the International News Media Awards in New York. Currently Guy is helping to drive the strategic growth program through Community News Group to build a strong multi-media business. Guy is presenting at the City of Swan's Economic Development Forum.

Brian Cross joined Telstra in 2012 running the Telstra store in Rockingham then becoming the Area Manager to Telstra Business Centres in many locations throughout WA. In 2014 Brian undertook the role of delivering the NBN rollout for Telstra in regional WA. Completing the NBN Fibre-To-The-Node roll out in Bunbury in 2015, Brian moved back to Peth to manage all NBN technology roll outs across WA from Kununurra to Esperance for Telstra.   Desmond David is a 20 year veteran in the communications industry. Des has worked as a Telstra Network Solutions Specialist for clients such as WA Police, Catholic Education and the Fire and Emergency Services Authority prior to moving to the Small Business Regional NBN Channel Manager role for Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Currently working on the Complex Migration Space, Des is accountable for the migration of 260,000 business customers across Australia on the legacy Copper Base platforms like ISDN, Frame Relay and Ethernet Lite to equi

Lynn MacMillan is the Senior Account Manager for Hitachi Data Systems with 30 years of experience in IT and Business solutions. Lynn is helping Hitachi and its customers globally to bring about digital transformation that drives business change. Focusing on customer outcomes, with a duty of care attitude to ensure they get: the right results, at the right price, at the right time, in a framework of co-creation. Lynn has 2 favourite sayings; "Think big, innovate small" and "You can't innovate on your own". Lynn and her colleague David Stephens are presenting at the City of Swan's Economic Development Forum and are discussing a particular project that demonstrates the diversity of customers thinking about how IoT technology and data can be used to solve a problem and is delivering business value far and beyond the original scope.

Alexandra Piper is a leader of Smart Connected Cities business at GHD Digital. Alex brings together technical expertise from across GHD to provide Smart Technology Solutions to their clients while driving the market focus for GHD Digital in WA. A Civil engineer by profession with over 20 years of experience mainly in the transportation field, Alex has been part of the digital transformation of transport solutions. These solutions include: Project management of the first variable message signs on Perth freeways, the first wireless detectors for monitoring vehicle flows for Main Roads WA and; the first network operations Strategic Plan for the Gateway WA project, on utilising intelligent transport solutions to successfully operate the road network for the next 30 years. Now Alex is project managing a trial for free public WiFi on Perth's public transport network. Alex has also managed a property business for GHD enabling her to build a unique insight into the function of a city; from the initial planning thro

Wealth Management expert David Alder speaks of the flaws of having a narrow investment strategy that leaves you exposed with your Superannuation returns. 

EDM expert David Barnes from Zulu Labs and The EDM Factory discusses the capture use and future of data use for business to communicate with customers. Stay informed with this engaging information.

Leading Sports and Business Psychologist discusses the fear of success that can limit some people from reaching their potential in their roles. Compelling listening.

Advisor Dean Evans from Leading Minds Australia discusses how not knowing your lesser known competitors can be very damaging to your business, and the perils of complacency.

Banking security and fraud is a massive concern. Australian company Bank Vault has developed ground breaking security for individuals and business. Hear how as we discuss it with Graeme Speak

What would drive someone to enter politics? Especially as an independent. We ask Max Wilson, who is seeking a seat in Wanneroo at the upcoming WA state election.

Capital Pitch partner Emlyn Scott gives an overview of the current state of Venture Capital raising in Australia, and valuable tips on the future of raising funds

Moroku chief Colin Weir discusses how they plan to change how we interact with our banking institutions - or more to the point, how they will deal with us. Their grand scheme is to make banking enjoyable.

Entrepic boss Mark Maloney tells the story of MACS, his father Keven and the Tulla Group move into tech investment and their partnership with Capital Pitch

Entrepreneur Chris Adams discusses the absolute need to innovate to compete.

Emma is a co-founder of Full Profile and as CEO leads all aspects of the business' strategy, stakeholder engagement, blockchain and talent management with oversight of the sales, broader technology and operational environments including project management & delivery, marketing & communications, legal, company governance and culture. Full Profile develops software solutions that bring transparency, efficiency and trust to agri-commodity supply chain management. Full Profile's leading product is agridigital, designed as a global and cross commodity agri supply chain platform that allows all participants in the ecosystem to act with confidence.

Professional matchmaker, Louanne Ward talks about how to meet the right person / partner.

Jamie Holroyd from Stratosfear talks about Donald Trump, U.S president-elect and what this means to Australia.

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