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Kylie Speer

Host
Key Media

Kylie Speer is a television host, media professional and author with international experience spanning more than 15 years. Since graduating from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Kylie’s career has seen her assume posts in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Dubai, Los Angeles and New York across numerous print, online and broadcast television media outlets including The Sunday Telegraph, nineMSN, the Nine Network Australia and Sky TV in the UK.

Shannon Karaka

Country Leader, A/NZ
Deel

Shannon Karaka is the Country Leader and Head of Expansion for Australia and New Zealand at Deel. Deel makes it easier for businesses to hire anyone, anywhere in the world. Founded in 2019, Deel’s technology offers payroll, HR, compliance, and benefits needed to hire and manage a global team.  
 
In his role, Shannon helps ANZ businesses use global hiring to address chronic talent shortages, to quicker expand into international markets and to retain key staff that want or need to move away from Australia and New Zealand, ensuring that key talent continues to work effectively for local companies. 
 
Before joining Deel, Shannon worked in business development roles for WeWork, Salesforce and Google, witnessing first hand the power of platform and Saas based companies to achieve business transformation.   
 
As a side hustle, Shannon was the founder of Get Happy Co, a happy clothing brand advocating for mental health. Shannon is also an investor in healthcare startup Smart Doctor, a virtual care platform in Latin America that connects doctors with patients who do not have health coverage or have limited access to medical services.  
 
Shannon is a life-long advocate for medical and mental health care for all, and promotes flexibility and a healthy work-life balance as way to maintain a positive mindset. 

Rebecca Roberts

Chief People and Culture Officer
St. Vincent’s Health

Rebecca is a versatile executive with an extensive background in People and Culture and law who has led organisational change to ensure operations are strategic, optimised and service focused. After a career in law both within Australia and internationally, Rebecca joined St Vincent’s as Executive Director Legal and Commercial Services in 2014 at St Vincent’s Public Hospital Melbourne. In 2018, Rebecca was appointed to lead the People and Culture and Corporate Services and 2021, Rebecca took up the same role at St Vincent’s Public Health Network Sydney. Rebecca commenced her role as Chief People & Culture Officer at St Vincent’s in early 2023 where she now proudly leads our 30,000 people who deliver incredible care to those we serve.

Pritho Saxena

Director HR – China, Australia & Southeast Asia
Amazon

Pritho currently leads HR for Amazon’s consumer businesses and corporate teams based in Australia, China, Singapore and Philippines. He has helped build and run billion dollar businesses across a number of countries (India, China, Singapore and Australia) and industries (Devices, Digital Content, Publishing & Consumer Retail) He has over 17 years of experience in enabling business strategy execution through people as well as leading diverse teams across geographies. Prior to Amazon, he was at IBM where he led large scale programs focused on workforce research, diversity, rewards, education assistance and case management. He is an alumni of IBM’s prestigious Corporate Service Corps. Pritho is passionate about helping people unblock their potential and simplifying things.

Lisa Schilling

former Project Director, International Recruitment Program
Department of Health, Victoria

Lisa Schilling is a highly experienced workforce planning and recruitment strategy and engagement professional, specialising in the development and management of international and domestic workforce programs aimed at building and sustaining a capable health and human services workforce. Lisa was previously the Project Director, International Recruitment Strategy at the Department of Health. This involved leading the development, implementation and monitoring of an International Recruitment Program (the Program) that incentivised and supported the recruitment of skilled international healthcare workers by Victorian health services. The program successfully recruited over 2000 healthcare workers and Lisa and team were recently awarded the Best Recruitment Campaign category at Australian HR Awards.

Lisa also managed the Recruitment, Strategy and Engagement Unit at the Department of Health and Human Services developing, implementing, monitoring, and review many
large scale, workforce strategies and programs to address critical workforce needs. This involved building and leveraging relationships with overseas and domestic educational institutions, councils and accreditation bodies to create and establish a solid pipeline of frontline workers into metropolitan, regional and remote areas. Negotiating and establishing contractual arrangements with key suppliers including recruitment agencies and media and communication agencies to support workforce initiatives was critical to this role.

Kylie Speer

Host
Key Media

Kylie Speer is a television host, media professional and author with international experience spanning more than 15 years. Since graduating from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Kylie’s career has seen her assume posts in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Dubai, Los Angeles and New York across numerous print, online and broadcast television media outlets including The Sunday Telegraph, nineMSN, the Nine Network Australia and Sky TV in the UK.

Olivia Boyle

Clinical Psychologist & Senior Manager Clinical Governance
TELUS Health

Olivia Boyle is the Senior Manager, Clinical Governance for APAC for TELUS Health. Olivia oversees the clinical excellence for the APAC region and is responsible for clinical matters related to compliance, process, policy, and clinical quality. She is a Clinical Psychologist with two Master’s degrees in psychology and has worked directly with clients for almost 10 years.

Brianna Cattanach

National Manager Mental Health Strategy and Delivery
Allianz Australia

Brianna is the National Manager of Mental Health Strategy and Delivery at Allianz, sitting across workers’ compensation, CTP, NDIS and other personal injury lines. She brings specialty to this space as a registered Senior Occupational Therapist with additional tertiary psychology qualifications, specialising in behavioural neuroscience.

Brianna’s career commenced working in direct mental health service provision before transitioning to occupational rehabilitation focusing on complex psychological injuries and claims management. As her passion for injury prevention grew, Brianna took on consultancy-based roles exposing her to a wide range of industries and challenges where she led teams and projects across organisational development, people management and leadership, peer support and psychosocial safety.

In her current senior leadership role at Allianz, Brianna is responsible for shaping and supporting internal capability, client value proposition and claims and rehabilitation management strategies for mental injuries and psychosocial risks. Brianna’s role focuses on driving the programs and initiatives that lead to safer workplaces, better return to work and recovery outcomes and innovative practices across the personal injury industry.

In addition to her work with Allianz, Brianna is an active advocate for the role of Occupational Therapists in the mental health and occupational rehabilitation space and supports the profession through her involvement as a key committee member and special interest group conveyor with OT Australia and by providing sessional academic work and lecturing to Swinburne and La Trobe University, where she is also on the Academic Advisory Committee. Brianna is also an expert advisory board member to SuperFriend one of Australia’s leading workplace mental health research and intervention agencies.

Leyla Parbery

Head of Benefits and Wellbeing APAC
Datadog

Leyla Parbery is an accomplished professional with over a decade of experience in human resources, benefits, and wellbeing management across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. In her role as the Head of Benefits and Wellbeing at Datadog APJ, Leyla has been a key driver in the development and implementation of comprehensive benefits and wellbeing strategies. Her career has encompassed significant roles at Deutsche Bank, where she successfully introduced and managed various benefits programs, along with spearheading vital mental health and wellbeing initiatives. Holding a Master’s in Human Resource Management and a Bachelor’s in Business Studies, she also carries certification in mental health first aid. Leyla’s unwavering commitment lies in cultivating a thriving workplace culture that places employee wellness and growth as its central focus.

Andrea Vienet

People Experience Partner
Carman’s Kitchen

Andrea Vienet is an experienced HR professional with extensive experience in learning, organizational development, and operational HR across diverse industries. She is currently the People Experience Partner at Carman’s with a broad remit on building capability and enhancing the people experience. Prior to this, she led the learning and organisational development team at Epworth, with a significant portion of this through one of the most challenging periods in healthcare. She has built a reputation for implementing pragmatic, impactful programs aligned with business strategies. With prior roles at Sportsbet, Asciano, and Sensis, Andrea has demonstrated her ability to adapt and deliver results.

Kylie Speer

Host
Key Media

Kylie Speer is a television host, media professional and author with international experience spanning more than 15 years. Since graduating from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Kylie’s career has seen her assume posts in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Dubai, Los Angeles and New York across numerous print, online and broadcast television media outlets including The Sunday Telegraph, nineMSN, the Nine Network Australia and Sky TV in the UK.

David Bellas

Director, LinkedIn Talent Solutions
LinkedIn

David Bellas is a Director for LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions business for Australia and New Zealand. David and his team are responsible for helping organisation the way they plan, hire, and develop talent. This is possible through the disruptive technology and unique data and insights from LinkedIn’s 875+ million members and 57 million companies.

He is passionate about investing in people, everything sales, turning business visions into reality and working with customers to meet their business objectives.

Over the past 10 years at LinkedIn, David has had the opportunity to lead the growth and distribution efforts across all sectors at LinkedIn. When LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in 2015, an online learning company, David was appointed as Head of Learning for Australia and New Zealand and helped oversee the successful transition to LinkedIn Learning.

Over the past several years David has been recognised with awards such as Diversity and Inclusion Manager of the Year and LinkedIn Manager of the Year and has a reputation for inspiring, coaching and developing talent.

Luke Fleming

Director of Human Resources
ICC Sydney

ICC Sydney’s Director of Human Resources, Luke Fleming, is a business events and hospitality industry specialist with over 20 years’ experience in managing expansive workforces both in Australia, Asia and the United States. Luke was an integral part of ICC Sydney’s pre-opening stage having joined the premier Convention, Exhibition and Entertainment venue in March 2016. 
  
Initially responsible for managing ICC Sydney’s sizable permanent and casual workforce planning requirements, Luke’s strengths in strategic business planning, talent acquisition and onboarding, employment relations and industrial compliance earned him a sound reputation as a highly effective people leader. 
  
Luke was recognised by his peers winning the Extraordinaires Awards in 2019 in the Innovation and Creativity category and again in 2021 by the Human Resource Director Magazine as the Australian Human Resource Manager of the Year. Luke is an avid champion of ICC Sydney’s Diversity and Inclusion program. He is a Diversity Inclusion Trainer, certified DISC Practitioner, trained Mental Health and First Aid Responder and key member of ICC Sydney’s internal COVID Taskforce.  
  
A long standing member of the Australian Human Resources Institute, Luke’s Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Human Resources, coupled with being a qualified Trainer and Assessor holds him in good stead to bring business best practices to his role. 
  
Luke is highly skilled at leading top performing, multi-disciplinary teams; developing and maintaining key relationships with stakeholders to drive quality and exemplary service delivery in the business events sector while ensuring team member safety, health and wellbeing remains a focal point. 

Katherine Zangari

Head of Culture, Leadership & Learning
Findex

An experienced organisational development leader who enables people to lean into their strengths, grow their skills and achieve their full potential of becoming great leaders and contributors. Katherine has the ability to make clear, tangible connections between business strategy and practical day to day imperatives. She is comfortable traversing the full range from strategy development through to execution, and follow up embedding support with her stakeholders.

Demonstrating strong relationship management, teamwork and consulting skills, she is able to deliver outcomes for leaders and their teams which achieve personal growth, team performance and business success. She is self-motivated, disciplined and has a strong reputation for delivering for her client groups.