Let’s Look to The Future!

Future Horizons returns on 20th Feb 2025, bringing you insights and inspiration from Australia’s top voices. Join Us!

Future Horizons Speakers

  • Ben Pfisterer

    Ben Pfisterer

    CEO - Co Founder - Zeller.

    Driven by a passion for innovation, Ben's extensive experience includes establishing US payments company Square in Australia and later leading Square's APAC operations. Prior to this, he held innovation-focused leadership roles at Visa, NAB, and Jetstar.

  • Tarra Van Amerongen

    Tarra Van Amerongen

    Design Lead - Atlassian

    Tarra is enhancing core UI surfaces. With a background in venture building, accelerators, and start-up advisory, she collaborates across product, design, and engineering to create scalable digital and service experiences for millions of users.

  • Jay Demetillo

    Jay Demetillo

    Design Lead - Canva

    With 10+ years of experience in NYC, SF, and Singapore, Jay Demetillo has designed for Twitter, Pinterest, Yahoo, Grab, and more. A former adjunct professor, speaker, and advocate for inclusive design, he now works on key initiatives at Canva.

  • Justin Angsuwat

    Justin Angsuwat

    CPO - Culture Amp

    Justin works across the people, product and customer teams to help tens of millions of people around the world do the best work of their lives. His experience is far reaching including Blackbird Ventures, PwC and Google for GTM with 10,000 employees globally.

  • Sarah Anderson

    Strategist / Coach

    Sarah Anderson is an award-winning strategist, visibility advisor, and holistic mentor. She helps visionary leaders align energy, purpose, and power, blending corporate leadership expertise with ancient wisdom to drive impactful, soul-aligned transformation for individuals and organisations.

  • Kim Hansen

    Kim Hansen

    Co-Founder - Cake Equity

    Kim Hansen, co-founder of Cake, simplifies equity for global scale-ups. A former software engineer and tech incubator leader, he helps startups grow and thrive. Passionate about authenticity, persistence, and mission-driven leadership, he empowers teams to build value and enjoy the journey.

  • Craig

    Craig Swann

    Creative Director -_ Southstart

    Craig is an award-winning Creative Director, Technologist, and Web Audio pioneer who revolutionised online music creation with Looplabs. Recognised by Steve Jobs, SxSW, and the Webby Awards, he builds global communities, designs innovative experiences, and advocates for creativity through technology.

  • Aishwarya Kansakar

    Aishwarya Kansakar

    Co-Founder - Syncrowin

    Aishwarya Kansakar, 2025 Young Australian of the Year for Victoria, is an AI engineer, entrepreneur, and STEM education leader. She co-founded Syncrowin and leads Women 4 STEM. Her pioneering STEM model, backed by $3.2M, impacts 40,000 girls and 2,700 educators.

  • Paul Labagnara

    Paul Labagnara

    Director - The Lab Strategy

    The Lab decodes culture, exploring human behaviour, and mining millions of data signals. The world is changing faster than ever. This isn’t a new or abstract concept. It’s a mercurial and exciting context.

  • Vicki Stirling

    Vicki Stirling

    CEO The Startup Network

    Driven by her passion for elevating human potential, Vicki is an award winning CEO, with experience spanning the UK, Europe and Aus, in global brands and Aussie Unicorns, using her innovative mind to create deep transformational change (inside and out)

This year Future Horizons is bought to you by our good friends at Zeller for Startups, and is supported by myob, Cake Equity and the City of Melbourne

A huge thank you to all of our sponsors, partners and speakers for coming along to support our community.

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