Jun Ho is an early stage insuretech investor at Tenity, a global accelerator and investor platform specializing in the financial services sector.
With over 8 years of venture investment experience, Jun Ho is in charge of originating and executing investments in promising fintech and insuretech startups at pre-seed stages across the APAC region.
Jun Ho also has extensive experience in connecting startups with global insurers for exploring business collaborations and is particularly interested in B2B and embedded insurance solutions.

Carolina Dreifuss is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sync Technologies (SyncTech).
With over a decade of experience in the building and construction industry spanning multiple countries in the APAC Region, Carolina recognised the challenges posed by inadequate, unstructured data and a lack of visualisation. To address these issues, she and her team developed a digital solution that simplifies overall processes and so reduces time, costs, and resource wastage with a visual first approach. Carolina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Business Information Systems and Data Science.
SyncTechnologies was crowned 2023 Insurtech start-up of the Year, won the 2023 ITC Innovation Award for Australia, the 2023 Lloyds Lab Pitch Competition for Asia and made the 2023 InsureTech Connect and Sønr Global top 50 for APAC.

Julie Hartley is a Senior Associate in the Funds and Financial Services team at Hamilton Locke. She advises clients on niche areas such as discretionary mutuals and aggregate deductible schemes and assists underwriting and broking businesses in navigating the pitfalls of the AFS licensing process. She advises a broad range of financial services industry participants including insurance brokers, general insurers, underwriting agencies and insurtechs and negotiates commercial agreements. She also regularly provides regulatory advice on policy wordings and disclosure documents and provides practical guidance to clients on product design and development, the application of the deferred sales model and insurance distribution structures.
Prior to joining Hamilton Locke, Julie worked at The Fold Legal, which merged with Hamilton Locke on 1 September 2022. Julie has also worked at a commercial firm where she specialised in advising self-managed superfunds (SMSFs). She was highly regarded in this area and wrote a regular column in the Australian Financial Review on issues affecting SMSFs.

With more than a decade of experience in a variety of executive roles at high-growth technology companies, Angus oversees the expansion and development of strategic partnerships for Cover Genius across a number of industries.
Before Cover Genius, Angus was the VP of International Business Development at iClick Interactive, and Head of Publisher Partnerships at Yahoo!.
Angus has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Technology Sydney and is a passionate contributor to rural and youth wellbeing programs through personal efforts and those of CG Gives, the philanthropic arm of Cover Genius.

Craig has significant expertise in strategy, execution and innovation in data science, insurance pricing and analytics. He has held senior roles managing large teams across the insurance and banking sector and has more than 25 years of experience in financial services.
As the Head of Data Science & AI Centre of Excellence, he manages a team of data scientists and analytics professionals building innovative solutions for market leading brands incl. AAMI, Suncorp, GIO and Apia. The team also exists to equip and enable the broader Data Science & Analytics community across Suncorp and maximise the business value the Group gets from its investments in data.

Karen is the co-founder and CEO of BCyber. After over 25+ years in financial services, Karen moved into SME cybersecurity risk management. BCyber works with financial services SMEs to protect and grow their business, by demystifying the technical and helping them to identify and address, cybersecurity and governance risk gaps.
Karen is a columnist with the Women in Security Magazine and is a regular presenter at conferences and forums where she translates cybersecurity risk management into practical actions. Karen was recently named 2023’s inaugural Female Cyber Leader of the Year at the CyberSecurity Connect Awards in Canberra.

Professor Mary-Anne Williams is a renowned expert in business innovation and artificial intelligence, with extensive experience and expertise in entrepreneurship, ethics, and law. She is the Michael J Crouch Chair in Innovation at UNSW and serves as the Director of the UNSW Business AI Lab and Deputy Director of the UNSW AI Institute. The Business AI Lab is a pioneer in Business AI and the lab’s mission is to unlock the benefits of safe and responsible Business AI. Mary-Anne has been the recipient of numerous awards throughout her career, including the Australasian Best Dissertation Award, the Australasian AI Distinguished Research Contribution Award, several Faculty Awards from IBM and Google, and she led her research team to win the World Championship in Social Robotics. She holds a PhD in Computational AI and a Masters of Law. Mary-Anne is an Affiliated Faculty at the Centre for Legal Informatics at Stanford University and a Fellow at the Australian Computer Society, the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering (ATSE), and the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI), the International peak body for AI.

Melissa Collett is CEO of Insurtech UK, the largest formal alliance of insurtechs in the world. Insurtech UK’s mission is for the UK to be the global leader for insurance innovation. It has 130 members and partners and is the representative voice of insurtech in the UK.
Melissa has 25 years’ experience in the UK insurance sector, having previously been Executive Director of Professional Standards at the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), where she was responsible for data ethics, legal, risk management, corporate governance and policy and public affairs. Melissa chaired the Digital Ethics Forum and developed the CII Digital Ethics Companion, and was consulted by the UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation and the World Economic Forum. She has also been an Advisory Board member of Innovate UK, which provides R&D funding for start ups. She is a frequent contributor to the insurance press, a keynote speaker at conferences, and judge of industry awards.
Melissa has an extensive background in consumer insurance and legal issues. She was Senior Ombudsman at the Financial Ombudsman Service, a Director at Fairer Finance and served as a Tribunal Judge. She is also a qualified lawyer, spending her early career at Hogan Lovells, specialising in insurance law. In 2022, she co-authored Female Determination, a collection of portraits and interviews with inspiring women. She was a finalist for Insurance Woman of the Year in 2021.

Nigel Fellowes-Freeman, a seasoned entrepreneur with a proven record of launching successful startups, is the driving force behind Kanopi, an innovative insurtech startup leading the embedded insurance revolution. As a previous Entrepreneur-in-Residence at BCG Digital Ventures and a trusted advisor to early-stage fintech startups, Nigel’s strategic insights and industry acumen further contribute to the growth and development of the startup ecosystem.

Michele is a Partner at Hamilton Locke. She is an innovative and trusted financial services lawyer that acts for clients across financial services, credit, insurance, fintech, insurtech, payments and cryptocurrency. She provides support on all legal aspects, including regulatory advice on product design, service offerings, distribution, licensing, agreements, compliance obligations, transactions and regulator engagement and enforcement. She understands the regulatory environment (current and emerging) and is well placed to advise on regulatory requirements, legal solutions and risk mitigation strategies for businesses of all sizes. She is passionate about fintech and works with Blockchain Australia and Fintech Australia. She is also a mentor at Startupbootcamp.

Hicham has more than 20 years of Technology experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining ClearView, Hicham was Head of Platforms, Investments and Operations at Westpac where he had responsibility for the Technology of the Bank’s BT Financial Group systems. He was responsible for the technology strategy, delivering key change programs and ideas generation.
Hicham is an experienced technology executive and leader. His technical and business skills were honed as a Partner at Mapleleaf Consulting and Head of Delivery at Fiserv. He also previously held a number of senior IT roles at ANZ Bank including Head of Delivery, Insurance and Private Wealth.

Kimberly Randle is co-founder and CEO of FairSupply, a fast growing Australian ESG risk and compliance platform. Kimberly’s deep conviction is that great data is mission critical to transforming how companies engage with people and planet. Since inception, FairSupply has a been a hotbed of innovation, bringing to market two world-firsts: modern slavery footprinting and extinction-risk footprinting. 

Kimberly is an experienced and innovative human rights advocate specialising in modern slavery. Kimberly has over 15 years’ experience working in law and human rights for top tier firms in Australia and the United States, previously holding the role of Senior Director of Corporate and Legal for International Justice Mission Australia. Kimberly is a sought-after expert and speaker in the field of modern slavery and has been called upon to provide evidence for both the NSW and Commonwealth Parliamentary Inquiries into Human Trafficking. 

Aurora Voss is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zemble, a platform delivering real-time, secure data exchange and collaboration for highly regulated businesses, their partners and customers. Prior to Zemble, Aurora ran H2 Ventures, Australia’s earliest stage, fintech-focused venture capital firm having started her career in health technology. Originally from South Africa, Aurora is passionate about getting the best technology into the hands of those who need it most: customers and customer-facing staff.