Brian Fanzo
Brian Fanzo is a proud Dad of 3 girls, Pittsburgh Sports Fan, Social Media Geek and Technology Evangelist. Currently a Change Evangelist helping enterprise technology companies utilize new technology such as Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud Computing to be more productive and become more involved in their communities as a social business! Brian’s true passion is… read more
Emilie Wapnick
Emilie Wapnick is a speaker, career coach, blogger, and community leader. She is the Founder and Creative Director at Puttylike.com, where she helps multipotentialites (people with many passions, skills, and creative pursuits) integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling and fruitful careers and lives. Unable to settle on a single path, Emilie studied music,… read more
Daniel Flynn
Daniel Flynn co-founded Thankyou at the age of 19 with a simple idea: what if purchasing everyday items could provide life-changing solutions for millions of people in poverty? Seven and a half years on, Daniel’s disruptive approach to making ideas a reality has resulted in Thankyou becoming one of Australia’s leading social enterprises, impacting hundreds… read more
Natalie Sisson
Natalie Sisson is No #1 bestselling author, podcaster, speaker and adventurer who believes everybody has the right to choose freedom in business and adventure in life. She’s on a mission to ensure 1,000,000+ entrepreneurs do just that by 2020 over at the SuitcaseEntrepreneur.com Born in New Zealand Natalie’s built her multiple six figure business… read more
Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse is the founder of ProBlogger, Digital Photography School and various other blogs and online ventures. He’s been blogging since 2002 and his blogs are read by over 5 million visitors a month. His social media connections exceed 1 million followers across a variety of networks. Darren is known as one of the top… read more
Nicole Avery
Nicole Avery is a Melbourne mum to five beautiful kids aged 17 to 7 and the master organiser behind the successful blog, Planning With Kids. Since starting her blogging journey in 2008, Nicole has grown her blog into a platform enabling her to establish herself as a freelance writer, consultant and product creator. Nicole runs… read more
Dan Norris
Dan Norris is not your average public speaker, in fact respected internet entrepreneur James Schramko refers to Dan as the anti-speaker. With Dan you won’t get “rar rar” and you won’t get the same regurgitated message pumped out from event to event. Dan is not a public speaker, he’s an entrepreneur that loves sharing his… read more
Nikki Parkinson
Nikki Parkinson is a former journalist-turned blogger and author. She blogs at award-winning fashion, beauty and lifestyle blog, Styling You. Last year Styling You was the first blog business to win a Telstra Business Award: the 2015 Queensland micro business of the year. Her book, Unlock Your Style, was published by Hachette Australia in 2014…. read more
Kelly Exeter
Kelly Exeter has been a designer for nearly 15 years. In the past six years she has worked with some of Australia’s top bloggers including Styling You, Fox in Flats and Woogsworld. A blogger herself, Kelly‘s approach to blog design goes beyond simply making things look nice. She also works hard to ensure the blogger’s… read more
Samantha Jockel
Sam Jockel first launched into the digital world in 2010 when she started the Facebook page ALDI Mum which grew from nothing to over 106,000 followers and counting. In 2012 she co-founded Social Media Agency Good Funny Smart. She now runs countless social media pages for a variety of different blogs all boasting great numbers… read more
Nathan Chan
Nathan is the Publisher & Editor of Foundr Magazine, a digital magazine for young entrepreneurs on the App Store & Google Play store. Nathan launched Foundr in March 2013 from his bedroom and in a small period of time it has become a top 10 ranked ‘Business & Investing Magazine’ on the app store. As… read more
Angela Ponsford
Angela Ponsford is one half of Dotti Media and is a self-confessed Facebook Ads nerd. She loves geeking out over clients’ Facebook Ad campaigns and figuring out how to get them the best results. Angela also works with clients doing one-on-one Facebook Ads coaching, runs Facebook & Instagram workshops and is the co-creator of ‘Get… read more
Jim Stewart
Jim Stewart, CEO of StewArt Media, is a recognised digital marketing expert. Jim is ProBlogger’s SEO subject matter expert and he will be sharing his vast SEO knowledge over the course of the conference, including what are the top SEO tools and why you must be using them and 5 things bloggers do wrong. Jim… read more
Kate Cook
Kate Cook has been a Digital Marketing Consultant and Social Media Specialist for over 5 years. Starting her career working in agency and later moving to head up the social media marketing for Domino’s Pizza Enterprises, Kate has a breadth of experience across a multitude of industries. Kate shares her digital marketing learnings on her… read more
Jeanette Jifkins
Jeanette is really passionate about identifying the practical legal solutions that fit your business. Her strategy is to ensure that legal problems are avoided, or at least contained and managed quickly in the unlikely event that they occur, to give you the opportunity to stay focused on growing your business with confidence. With more than 17… read more
Laney Galligan
Ngahuia “Laney” Galligan is General Manager of ProBlogger and the founder and director of Agents of Influence, a service focused on bespoke brand partnerships for bloggers beyond the sponsored post. Laney has secured hundreds of thousands of dollars in sponsorships for bloggers and events, and is a skilled corporate negotiator and sales professional. Her main focus is… read more
Stacey Roberts
Stacey Roberts left behind journalism and a career in academics to start a personal blog six years ago, and has never looked back. Now a full time blogger, Stacey blends technical know-how with a lifelong love of writing on both her blog Veggie Mama, and in her role as Managing Editor of ProBlogger. She loves… read more
Ed Dale
Ed Dale is the creator of The Challenge, responsible for teaching over 400,000 people to start a business online for free. He partnered with Legendary Copy Writer Gary Halbert and has created promotions and launches responsible for millions of dollars in revenue. Ed will be imparting his particularly engaging and results-driven copywriting approach in two… read more
Lisa Corduff
Lisa Corduff has a successful online business helping real people eat more real food, in the real world. She created the innovative Small Steps to Wholefoods program when the youngest of her three children was four months old – the eldest was four years old! Proving that Mums can get shit done – she has gone… read more
Colin Gray
Colin Gray is a podcaster, a writer and a PhD in education from Scotland. He specialises in engaging through content, with podcasting at it’s core. His company, The Podcast Host helps businesses to grow an audience by combining podcasting, blogging and video to cultivate fanatical fans. These days, Colin writes regularly on podcasting and content… read more
Sharon Gourlay
Sharon is a travel blogger and affiliate marketer who is passionate about working online and the freedom it brings. After convincing herself and her husband that they should set off overseas indefinitely while building an online business at the end of 2014, Sharon not only pulled it off but built a successful travel blog and… read more
Elly Awesome
‘Elly Awesome’ is a well-known food and lifestyle YouTube channel with almost 250,000 subscribers and a total of 28 million video views. ‘Elly Awesome’ had its origins reviewing popular mobile games and all things tech. But it has since evolved to its current form, a predominately comedic onslaught of light-hearted food reviews, recipes and travel ‘vlogs’… read more
Justine Flynn
Justine Flynn co-founded social enterprise Thankyou when she was just 21 years old, acting on a passion to do something with her career that would positively impact people in need. Justine’s drive for creating positive workplace cultures and implementing cutting-edge marketing has helped build Thankyou into a brand that is disrupting the industries it operates… read more
Emily Toxward
A published writer for nearly 20 years, former journo Emily Toxward cut her teeth on a daily paper in NZ and can turn her hand to any style of writing. She’s a whiz at using words to pack a punch and writes for various online and print publications. With almost 2000 blog posts under her… read more
Karly Nimmo
Karly Nimmo is a born communicator. She’s an ex-radio jock, producer & copywriter, current in-demand Voice Over Artist and has run her successful Voice Over Agency (Killer Kopy) for over a decade. She’s worked with everyone from Telstra, BHP, eBay, Panasonic, Qantas to Coles-Myer and ANZ. Karly’s also an avid and successful podcaster, with her… read more
Vanessa Anderson
Vanessa Anderson is a YouTuber, blogger and cake decorator whose passion for pretty cakes has taken her from being just a baker who sells sweets at the markets, to one of the most popular food YouTubers in Australia. She has a passion for piping, buttercream flowers, and loves to see students bringing her ideas to… read more
Rachel Corbett
Rachel Corbett is a writer, radio/TV personality, podcaster and voice over artist who is passionate about bringing out people’s inner presenter and giving them the confidence to start their own show. She’s presented radio shows across the country for the 2Day FM, Triple M and NOVA and can be heard on the weekly podcast, ‘Paul… read more
Guillaume Deront
Guillaume is a Partner Manager at YouTube for Australia and New Zealand. He works with thousands of Australian video creators across all content genres. He helps grow their presence and build their Brand on YouTube and across various social platforms. Guillaume has been at Google for 7 years in various roles prior joining the YouTube… read more
Brooke McAlary
Brooke started out as a blogger and is now the host of The Slow Home Podcast – named by iTunes as one of the top podcasts of 2015. She also founded podcasting network Jackrabbit.FM which produces her co-hosted #1 Health show Let It Be, and four other podcasts each week. She is also a passionate advocate… read more
Alita Harvey-Rodriguez
Alita Harvey-Rodriguez is known as one of Australia’s leading Digital Marketing Futurist and the brains behind Milk it Academy. A training platform to advance marketers skills into new school digital leadership roles. For over a decade Alita has worked with global brands including SAP, Experian, SEMRush, TS14+, Estee Lauder, Myer & Online Retailer. In 2015… read more
Sam Nordberg
Sam Nordberg shows people just like you how to take their passion and knowledge and create an online course that sells. With over 10 years’ experience training others, she’s taught a huge range of people including training members of the Australian Defence force, Emergency Services, Government Departments and Surf Lifesaving Foundation. She knows how to… read more
Shayne Tilley
Shayne Tilley loves working at the heart of growing online businesses. From product management and innovation through to monetization techniques, community development, support and social media. His practical, to-the-point style has garnered lots of fans and his ability to build lasting businesses with proven digital marketing techniques has created a well-deserved reputation. Shayne has been part of the… read more
Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham is a writer, speaker, and trainer living in Brisbane, Australia. Paul has been blogging for over 10 years, and has self-published more than 10 eBooks and training courses since then. After more than 15 years in the industry, he recently left the world of IT consulting to focus on his online business full… read more
Chantelle Ellem
Chantelle is the blogger behind Fat Mum Slim. She’s been blogging for the past 8 years, has run successful blogging eCourses, created a best-selling photography App, was once voted Most Clickable Woman in Australia and also founded the Photo A Day challenges which has people all over the world sharing photos daily. Of all the… read more
Emma Stirling
Emma Stirling blogs at The Scoop on Nutrition and is a highly experienced Accredited Practising Dietitian who specialises in nutrition communication. She is a health writer for magazines, speaker and is director of Scoop Nutrition consulting to the food, health and hospitality industries. She will be moderating the Strategy, Ideas and Inspiration panel discussion on “Using… read more
Miranda Ivey
Miranda Ivey is the co-owner of Dotti Media and is all about the ‘big picture’ when it comes to social media and online strategy. With over 10 years experience in Marketing and Publicity, Miranda’s goal is to uncover the best version of ‘you’ possible and sell it to the world. Quite possibly the worlds only… read more
Michaela Skovranova
Michaela Skovranova is Sydney based filmmaker, photographer and director. Michaela is also the creative power house behind her Instagram featured account @Mishkusk, Australian Life 2015 Photography Prize Winner 2015 and is one of Photo Boite’s 30 under 30 Women Photographers 2016. Michaela has produced a diverse range projects applying her distinctive style both above and… read more
Kristie Galea
A passionate, innovative and collaborative marketer with over 12 years experience in brand and product marketing. Kristie currently leads Olympus’ brand and product strategy as they redefine the camera industry with their OM-D and PEN cameras. Originally landing herself at Samsung as the youngest and only female product manager (way back) in 2004 with the smallest… read more
Sarah Rosborg
Sarah is the hardest working, committed and borderline crazy charity CEO. She lives and breathes helping and caring for others to have a better and safer life. She has a creative and overactive mind which is programmed permanently to raising funds and awareness for Rafiki Mwema. Sarah is a full on mum to her amazing… read more
Alexx Stuart
Alexx Stuart is on a mission to share the importance of a low tox life, and to help people transition to this in a positive and empowering way – all guilt and shame is left at the door. Having had a full career spanning the cosmetics and hospitality industries, Alexx’s passion for uncovering the truth… read more
Caro Ryan
A TV Producer/Director/Editor by trade (the ultimate slashie) Caro started lotsafreshair (blog and YouTube channel) to encourage people to get into hiking and the outdoors, by providing inspiring imagery and stories, mixed with practical tips and how-to’s, in a supportive and friendly style. When not out in the bush, she is owner of Juicy Projects,… read more
Melissa Smith
Melissa (Liss) Smith is a mum to six amazing small people aged 2-13, a hand-lettering artist, social media geek and coffee snob. To fit business around family life, Liss works from home, most often in her pyjamas! She has built a large, active community on Instagram around her unique take on modern calligraphy, with a… read more
Alex Paterson
Alex Paterson is a part time school teacher and fashion stylist. She gave up her full time teaching career to pursue her blog whatttheteacherwears. Alex has always had a passion for style, grace and elegance in fashion, and wanted to give other ladies ideas and tips about how to put together fashionable (while not ridiculously… read more
