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Ben is the founder of Digital Directors ANZ, a group dedicated to championing digital governance excellence. He founded the group with a simple idea, helping uplift digital literacy at board level, he's received a huge response with chapters now setup in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and ACT as well as going international with NZ. We talk about his background and experience, the impact of digital directors on performance and why he started DDANZ
Jagdeep has had a diverse, fascinating and hugely successful career. It all started with a choice to turn his back on Civil Engineering and take a chance on moving to Australia and studying in technology. His desire to improve and learn has taken him from retail and sales to leading technology for some of Australias biggest blue chip employers. Jagdeep has always found time to give back and mentor the next generation on their career journeys as well as taking up NED roles and working with startups.
We're joined by Natalia Tapia who is building a startup to address the future of graduate recruitment, her company Gradstack is designed to serve a future without CV's and focusing on competencies not CV writing skills. We talk about Nat and her background, her "why" and how she sees the future in this space.
David Gee is a highly experienced CIO, CISO and Non Executive Director as well as accomplished Author of 2 books, with a third on the way. He talks about how a kid from the country can become a global executive, mastering mindset and helping foster high performing teams across the world.
In this Episode we're joined by highly experienced CISO Sasha Biskup. Sasha has led Cyber functions and teams across Europe, Australia and in the US including working with industry titans like LinkedIn and Fitbit. He talks about the opportunity to travel with Security and the differences he notes between the Australian security culture and those of the more mature markets he's worked in.
This episode could have started with a cliche joke. A HR professional, An Internal Recruiter and an Agency Owner walk in to a bar... All they talk about is AI. Daniel Savva and Careen Matthews bring their considerable experience to the podcast talking all about the future of work, how AI will impact and is impacting HR & Talent teams and what you can do to be ahead of that curve.
In this episode we're joined by the "Voice of Cyber" Karissa "KB" Breen talking about her growing up in regional Queensland, feeling like she never fitted in to now taking on the world as one of the leading Security Journalists globally. We're joined by a special guest host on this one, Luca Marzorati.
Miriam Wood is the founder of Miriam Wood Coaching, she shares her story from going from working in fitness to managing some of the worlds biggest DJ's, working in Ibiza and how this all helped her understand people better.
In this episode we're joined by Tim Trumper. Tim is an experienced company Director and Chair. He's also the Author of the book AI: Game On, a book for executives and others to understand the rise of AI and the impact on the business world. Link to purchase his best selling book:https://thebookadviser.com.au/product/ai-game-on/
Justin shares his story of redemption from falling into hacking and being raided by the Australian Federal Police and FBI twice by the age of 18 to spending 12 months in Jail. His biggest challenge has been securing work, since being released. This talented technologist has put his past behind him but nearly 10 years later he's still unable to work in technology. Justin created a plan whilst in prison, to study, to find work and to make a difference and help others at risk of following his path.