NSW iAwards Gala Dinner

Details

• CONTACT NAME:JEN LE
• PHONE:0280608398
• EMAIL:JENLE@BESTCASESCENARIO.COM.AU
• PRICE MEMBER:$185.00
• PRICE NON MEMBER:$225.00
• TABLE PRICE MEMBER:$1850.00
• TABLE PRICE NON MEMBER:$ 2250.00

Guest Speakers

PRINT.jpg

The Hon, Victor Dominello MP 
Minister for Finance, Services and Property, NSW Government

Victor was born and raised in the Ryde area. He went to school at Marist Brothers Eastwood before studying law. He was a partner in a commercial law firm, where he represented clients in a number of landmark cases.

Victor was elected as Member for Ryde at a by-election in October 2008. He was re-elected at the 2011 state election.

In April 2011 he was sworn in as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister for Citizenship and Communities. His portfolio responsibilities included multicultural affairs, veterans’ affairs, volunteering and youth.

Following the Liberals & Nationals Government’s re-election in March 2015, Victor was sworn in as the state’s first Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation.

His portfolio responsibilities included Fair Trading, where he led a range of consumer affairs matters including strata title, home building compensation, real estate industry reform, free-range egg labelling, brothel regulation, biofuels, residential overcrowding and the establishment of a consumer complaints register.

Victor was also responsible for implementing the NSW Government’s ICT Strategy and innovation agenda which included the establishment of a whole-of-government Data Analytics Centre and response to the collaborative economy.

In January 2017, Victor was appointed Minister for Finance, Services and Property. His portfolio responsibilities include Property NSW, Office of State Revenue and Service NSW. He has also retained responsibility for the whole-of-government Data Analytics Centre.

Prior to his parliamentary career, Victor cherished the opportunity to travel to many places around the world and looks back fondly on his experiences in India, Central and South America, Europe, the US and Asia. He is also a passionate supporter of West Tigers rugby league team.

Born Global Event, Haymarket HQ, Jobs NSW

Karen Borg
Inaugural CEO, Jobs for NSW 

Karen Borg is a commercial business leader who has worked for blue-chip companies in Asia, the USA and Europe in mature and emerging geographies in fast-moving consumer goods and healthcare.

Karen was inaugural CEO of Jobs for NSW from December 2015 to March 2018.    She created an organisation to better assist businesses to start up and scale, thereby creating meaningful jobs.  To do this, Karen launched a funding vehicle in government that redesigned public sector support for private enterprise.  This resulted in a significant shift from a grant-based approach to recyclable debt funding for growing businesses including, in partnership with First State Super, a $150M equity fund.  Jobs for NSW was also the first organisation in NSW government to engage with the private sector meaningfully, particularly startups, with the most tangible delivery in February 2018 of the Sydney Startup Hub, a dedicated building in the CBD housing over 2000 entrepreneurs.

Jobs for NSW also delivered jobs research and policy, including the release in August 2016 of the Jobs for the Future report which delivered a comprehensive strategy for the creation of new jobs over the next 20 years, identified the 11 industry sectors that NSW has competitive advantage in and specified that it is small to medium enterprises that scale that drive all job creation.

Karen was previously President, APAC for ResMed and a Global Vice President, Marketing for Johnson & Johnson.  She has also worked for Revlon in Eastern Europe, Seagram in Russia, Goodman Fielder in Australia and Taiwan and Nestle in Australia.

Karen was a NSW finalist for Telstra Businesswoman of the Year in 2017 and was on the NSW Export Advisory Council. Karen holds a B.A. from the University of Sydney and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Ted Egan
Vice President, ThreatMetrix  

Ted Is Vice President for ThreatMetrix, a LexisNexis Risk Solutions Company.

Ted is a technology entrepreneur, co-founding multiple security technology companies. He is a thought leader and industry advisor with over 25 years’ experience in Cybersecurity, Risk and Digital Identity Solutions with the last decade focused specifically on developing and delivering mission critical, risk based digital identity and fraud prevention solution for the financial services, banking, payments, lending, e-commerce, government and insurance industries.

In 2005 Ted co-founded TrustDefender with Andreas Baumhof and merged in 2011 with ThreatMetrix. ThreatMetrix was also founded in Australia by David Jones also in 2005. Today the technology is imbedded into over 5000 brands, of which include over 1000 financial institutions and over 300m mobile aps, servicing over 240 countries and territories, completing over 3 billion transactions per month. ThreatMetrix currently protects business worldwide from over a 1 billion cyberattacks per year including but not limited to bots, malware, phishing, mules and social engineering.

Ted is a previous duel winner of the 2007 AIIA iAwards for “financial services” and “security applications” respectively.  Since then his company has gone on to win major global success including in recent years being positioned as a global leader in the “risk based authentication and the digital identity” space by:

Including

1. Forrester – Leader in Forrester Wave Risk Based Authentication Report Q3 2017

2. Javelin – 2017 Javelin Identity Proofing Score card as leader in Tailored, Innovative categories and contender as a leader in the Functional category

Javelin’s Take: “The only company that was a leader in multiple categories, ThreatMetrix’s suite of identity proofing products is among the fittest of all the identity proofing suites Javelin evaluated”

3. Fraud Prevention Market Guide – ThreatMetrix recognized as the Visionary Leader

In January 2018, ThreatMetrix was successfully purchased by the (Dutch Anglo listed) Relx Group, and now is part of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions suite of companies.

Ted is passionate about Australian entrepreneurs, cyber security and the evolution of AI technologies. His passion is to see more Australians get a chance to dream, build and believe and be successful globally.

MC

Kate Mills
Chief Executive Officer | Financial Executives Institute of Australia (FEI) and Chief Executive Officer | The Business Mills

Kate Mills is a journalist, speaker, innovator and creative thinker.

She is currently the CEO of the Financial Executives Institute, a mentoring and networking organisation for ASX 100 CFOs. She works with CFOs to foster innovation and creative thinking in their teams.

Her passions are gender diversity and creative thinking and she leads creative thinking initiatives through her website www.thebusinessmills.net and is currently studying for her MA in Creative and Critical Thinking.

She was previously the Editor at CFO Magazine and BRW Magazine where she interviewed hundreds of senior business figures around the globe. She left Fairfax to set up ProfessionalMums.net, an online community of highly skilled women looking for flexible work opportunities or to return to work. Kate worked with organisations such as PwC, EY and IBM to establish this community, which large organisations could access directly via an annual subscription. Internal recruiters in particular would use the site to find women when creating 50/50 short or long lists for recruitment purposed. Kate sold this business to a client in 2017.

Sponsors

NSW Premier’s iAward for Public Sector Innovation

Major State Partner

Platinum Sponsors

2018 National iAwards Sponsors

Major National iAwards Partner

National Program Sponsors

Major PitchFest Sponsor