Cathy Freeman is a proud Kuku Yalanji and Birri Gubba woman and an Australian Indigenous Olympic champion. She ran her first race when she was five and realised that she loved the way racing made her feel. She won her first gold medal at a School Athletics Championships when she was eight years old.

Cathy Freeman was a member of the gold medal-winning 4x100m relay team at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games, and in so doing became the first female Australian Aboriginal to win a gold medal at an International athletics event. She was awarded Young Australian of the Year in 1991 and a year later in Barcelona became the first Australian Aboriginal to represent Australia at an Olympic Games. Two years later, Cathy won gold in both the 200m and 400m at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. At the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, she won silver with a personal best time of 48.63s in the 400m. She was crowned World Champion in the same event at the World Athletic Championships the following year, was awarded Australian of the year in 1998, and was again World Champion in the 400m in 1999.

Cathy’s most notable achievement, however, came in 2000 at the Olympic Games in Sydney. Her image was beamed into millions of homes around the world when she became the first competing athlete to be invited to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony. She then went on to win the gold medal in the 400m, realising a life-long dream.

Stacy is a Managing Director in Technology leading the Enterprise and Industry Technologies team based in Sydney.

She has over 20 years of leading Business Transformations through implementing technology and has personal responsibility for some of the largest global deployments of these types of transformations. She is responsible for driving innovative and transformational programs with clients in all industries and of all sizes across major platforms including Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, UKG and Workday.

In addition to project delivery activities Stacy manages the ongoing changes to delivery methodologies and ways of working to support these complex technology implementations. This includes supporting Human Centered Design activities, multi-speed delivery programs and helping clients drive ongoing adaption of new and modernized delivery mechanisms.

She has helped transform large organizations through the implementation of technology allowing them to innovate and invent new ways of engaging with their customers and employees and expanding their products and service offerings.

Michael McQueen is a multi-award winning speaker, trend forecaster and bestselling author of ten books.

With clients including KPMG, Pepsi and Cisco, he has helped some of the world’s most successful brands navigate disruption and maintain momentum.

Michael is a regular commentator on TV and radio and his work has featured in publications ranging from the UK Daily Mail to Medium.com and the Huffington Post. In addition, Michael is a familiar face on the international conference circuit having shared the stage with the likes of Bill Gates, Dr. John Maxwell and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Michael has spoken to over 500,000 people across 5 continents since 2004, and is known for his engaging, entertaining and practical conference presentations.

Having been formerly named Australia’s Keynote Speaker of the Year, Michael has been inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame.