Speakers

Dr Michael Rosemann is the Director of the Centre for Future Enterprise and a Professor for Information Systems at the Business School, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.

The Centre for Future Enterprise aims to identify, understand and professionalise those attributes that matter most to future enterprises, and their leaders. The notion and importance of a ‘Future Enterprise’ is reflected in QUT’s joint seminar series with the MIT Sloan School of Management called ‘The Future Enterprise’ and a firm positioning in QUT’s Bachelor of Business curriculum. Here, more than 2,000 each year study how to lead and manage in predictable and unpredictable environments.

Dr Rosemann has a comprehensive teaching portfolio ranging from teaching the first semester subject ‘Future Enterprise’ in QUT’s Bachelor of Business to 2,000 students pa to units on ‘Business Process Design’, ‘Smart Decision Making’ and ‘Advanced Strategy for Global Businesses’ in QUT’s (Executive) MBA program. He is also a regular contributor to QUT’s Executive Education in the areas of ‘Leadership in the Digital Age’ and ‘Trust Management’.

Dr Rosemann’s main areas of research are corporate innovation, revenue resilience, process management and trust management. His work is focused on creating compelling future worlds with today’s possibilities that make current practices obsolete. As a researcher and advisor to board rooms and senior executives he is committed to advancing research-informed knowledge and confidence in order to appreciate the emerging design space and to create an increased ‘sense of ambition’ and innovation appetite.

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Former professional boxer, Dave Letele (AKA Brown Buttabean), is a South Auckland community leader who uses his platform to advocate for families in need.

Having grown up with a father who was the president of the Mongrel Mob and in and out of prison throughout his childhood, Dave understands what it means to struggle.

It took Dave a near-death experience to pull him out of a downward spiral. From there, he embarked on a journey that led to him owning several businesses, playing rugby league all over the world, becoming a professional boxer, losing almost 100 kg in body weight, and starting over.

Dave is an inspiration to thousands of Kiwis, achieving his transformation purely through hard work and dedication. Starting his platform via his private Facebook group where over 10,000 people have achieved life-changing levels of weight loss, Dave went on to found his company Buttabean Motivation (BBM), where he and his team are currently working with public health and social service providers across Auckland to deliver his highly effective BBM programs to improve the health outcomes for obese people.

Often consulted by the media, and even the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, Dave’s bold and no-nonsense approach has changed thousands of lives in his community and around New Zealand. In 2022, Dave was awarded with the Kiwibank New Zealand Local Hero of the year Award for his incredible work across Aotearoa.

Nothing quite beats a real story straight from the heart, Dave will take you on a roller coaster ride of emotions where you will come out the other side understanding the power of determination, perseverance, hard work, taking that first step and hope! Let Dave inspire your audience.

Amber McEwen is a leader with over 20 years' experience in B2B service industries.  She has a proven track record in generating revenues and creating brand differentiation through the development, implementation and management of services over networks ranging from telecoms to energy.

Driving collaboration at many levels (globally, cross-sector and with customers) is a strength of Amber's and is key to the success she has delivered. Throughout her career this has been evidenced at a global level while at Vodafone, and at a cross-sector level while at ESR. She says it is building these relationships and delivering outcomes that make a material difference that she finds most personally and professionally rewarding.

Greg Sawyer joined CAUDIT in January 2020 as Director, Cybersecurity Program and was appointed CAUDIT's Chief Executive Officer in April 2022.

Prior to this Greg was seconded as the Strategic Initiatives Development Manager in 2019 from the University of Sydney. Greg has over 20 years’ experience in the Higher Education sector between the University of Sydney and UNSW Sydney.

During that time he has held technical roles within Communication Services, desktop and infrastructure before moving into management and director roles within Infrastructure, Security and Project management. This included a secondment as the Faculty IT Manager within Engineering at UNSW. Prior to this he completed 11 years in the Department of Defence - Army focusing on electronics, radio communication and cypher including operation service in Cambodia with the United Nations. Greg has represented on external advisory boards including the Australian Computer Society Internet of Things (IOT) and Cisco Mobile Technical Advisory Board. He has presented at numerous conferences including the Palo Alto Ignite, Cisco Live and Questnet.

Greg holds a Master of Business Technology (MBT) and graduated from the CAUDIT Leadership Institute in 2018.

Greg is based in the Blue Mountains in NSW.