For over twenty years, Amber has been helping clients use technology as a tool to serve their business and quite simply – make it better. Inspired to improve the lives of people at their moments that matter, today as the Leader of Insurance, capital markets & banking for Microsoft Australia & New Zealand, Amber is working across financial services to drive AI transformation. Prior to Microsoft, Amber spent 10 years at IBM building strategic partnerships across the property, real estate investment trust and media and entertainment sectors. In 2011, Amber made the move to Microsoft working with the public sector and for the past decade, dedicated to financial services in Australia creating strategic partnerships for broad reaching impact across Australia. Amber is Mum to 12 year old and 2 year old girls and a passionate advocate for women in technology & financial services.

Nathan leads ASIC’s Credit, Payments, General Insurance and Indigenous Outreach Program team, which is within ASIC’s Regulation and Supervision group. Nathan’s team has primary responsibility for the supervision of general insurance providers, credit intermediaries (including mortgage brokers), consumer and small business credit, and electronic payments. He also oversees ASIC’s Indigenous Outreach Program. Previously, Nathan was ASIC’s Senior Executive Leader for Market Infrastructure and he also held senior roles in the Market Supervision team.
He has more than 20 years experience in financial markets, regulation and public policy. Most recently, Nathan was the Director of Wholesale Compliance at the National Australia Bank. He has also held roles at the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Australian Treasury, the UK Financial Conduct Authority and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities in London. Nathan holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment.

Dylan advises clients across all stages of the corporate life cycle, from early-stage start-up companies, emerging growth and pre-IPO companies, fast growth companies, to mature private and public companies. His work mainly focuses on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, as well as fundraising transactions. His work with innovative companies of this type means he is at the cutting edge of corporate and transaction structuring. He also advises venture capital firms, private equity firms and other institutional investors in undertaking strategic transactions.
Dylan principally advises in the technology sector, and also has strong credentials in the consumer goods, food and retail sector, particularly in the private M&A space.
Dylan is a leading advisor in employee share option plan (ESOP) formation and structuring, assisting companies to attract, retain and incentivise staff throughout the company’s growth journey. Dylan has recently worked with many emerging-growth companies and fast-growth companies on their ESOP structuring, particularly as many companies in that space restructure their ESOP arrangements.

Josh Doolan is the Managing Director for APAC at Endava, leading the company’s regional growth, delivery excellence, and innovation strategy. With more than 15 years’ experience across technology, design, and digital transformation, he oversees Endava’s expansion in key APAC markets and the integration of newly acquired businesses. Before joining Endava, Josh co-founded Mudbath, a digital design and engineering consultancy that he scaled to over 100 specialists across Australia. His entrepreneurial mindset and strong technical grounding continue to shape his people-first, innovation-driven approach to leadership.

Laura Drabik is a trusted advisor to insurers seeking to harness disruptive technologies to their competitive advantage. An accomplished executive, presenter, and product strategist, she’s known for turning cogent insights gained in the field into category-leading solutions for Guidewire customers. Her website, blog, videos, email newsletter, and podcast interview series have earned industry acclaim as indispensable resources for understanding the trends transforming the P&C landscape. And her role in launching and leading Guidewire’s Insurtech Vanguards incubator program has been pivotal in connecting insurers with vital new technologies. Laura is also renowned for inspiring the next generation of industry leaders through her influential TEDx Talk, keynotes, and advocacy for women in technology.

Joseph D’Souza is the founder of ProNavigator (now a Guidewire company) and the original architect of its knowledge management platform. Since 2016, his leadership has scaled the platform to serve thousands of professionals across leading insurance organizations, earning industry recognition for innovation. At Guidewire, Joseph continues to focus on embedding AI-powered insurance knowledge into core workflows – improving productivity and accelerating cycle times for carriers globally.

Maha is CEO elect of GFTN Solutions, an organisation that helps governments and institutions build financial innovation ecosystems. Currently she is the Centre Head, BIS Innovation Hub Singapore. The centre develops public goods in the technology space to support central banks in how they discharge their roles in a digital economy.
Prior to this, Maha was Head of Department for Early and High Growth Oversight leading the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) response to the Kalifa review of Fintech. A Senior Leadership Team member, she is setting up this new department from the ground up as part of the FCA’s strategy. She joined the FCA in 2017 to set up the first Payments Department and was responsible for crafting and implementing the FCA supervisory strategy for the UK Payments Sector.
Maha served as Chief Payments Officer at Pay.UK on secondment from the FCA, responsible for running the payments operations of BACS, Faster Payments, Image Clearing Services and related managed services.
Maha has a keen interest in observing and participating in the many exciting changes that are unfolding in the financial services, innovation and fintech environment. She is particularly interested in safe and responsible innovation and is the author of the book ‘Fintech Regulation in Practice’. A book that helps the fintech ecosystem navigate the complexities and opportunities of regulation.
She has a Degree in Commerce from Macquarie University and a Masters in Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Richard Enthoven is the founder, and former Chief Executive Officer (1999 to 2021), of The Hollard Insurance Company Pty Ltd and the co-founder of Greenstone Financial Services Ltd and PetSure Australia Pty Ltd.
Richard currently serves as the chairman of Greenstone and a director of Hollard Holdings Australia and PetSure Australia. Richard is also a director of Trupanion Inc, a leader of medical insurance for cats and dogs throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Puerto Rico and Australia.
Richard served as a director of the Insurance Council of Australia from 2013 to 2024, including deputy president from March 2017 to November 2017; president from 2017 to 2019; and deputy president from 2021 to 2024.
Richard also served as a director of The Hollard Insurance Company and The Hollard Life Insurance Company in South Africa from 2004 to 2014, including chairman of both companies from 2008 to 2014.
Richard holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California.

Emma Fawcett is an accomplished executive and commercial business leader, currently serving as the CEO at Compare Club, in Sydney Australia. Prior to that she held Executive leadership roles with MYOB and News Corp Australia. With a robust track record in delivering exceptional customer and financial results in B2B, B2C and digital businesses, Emma has a passion for building and scaling new ventures, transforming analogue businesses, and leading diverse teams to achieve outstanding outcomes. At Compare Club she leads a team of several hundred, who are dedicated to demystifying complex financial and insurance decisions for consumers, and providing ‘incomparable’ comparison services across Health, Life and Travel insurance; and Mortgages and Utilities. Emma’s career is marked by her dedication to customer growth and her recognition in various trade publications, including being named among ‘women to watch’ and ’30 under 30′. In 2020, she was a finalist for the Women in Digital ‘Executive Leader of the Year’ award.

Felipe Flores is a Data & AI leader with 20+ years of experience driving transformation across banking, financial services, insurance, and healthcare. He has built and led data science functions at ANZ, Liberty Financial, and Honeysuckle Health, following a decade in consulting.
As SVP of Data & AI at Endava APAC, Felipe is focused on helping organisations unlock the value of AI at scale—embedding AI into operations, accelerating delivery, and enabling human–AI collaboration to create meaningful business impact.

Scott Gunther is the General Partner of IAG Firemark Ventures, the corporate venture capital unit of IAG.
Scott and the team are bringing the outside world in, by investing and partnering with startups, to transform the future of insurance.

Steve Hind is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lorikeet, a platform that helps insurance, financial services, healthcare and other businesses with complex support needs build a universal concierge for their customers. Under his leadership, Lorikeet has become the trusted AI partner for companies that need automation they can actually trust, helping them safely scale customer operations and resolve complex and sensitive issues.
Before founding Lorikeet, Steve spent over a decade building and scaling enterprise software products in San Francisco and New York, including leading product teams at Stripe and Watershed, where he built tooling to support complex processes like carbon accounting and financial reporting. Steve was also an investment professional at Bridgewater Associates, consultant at BCG, and holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Charmian is a Partner in the Funds & Financial Services team at Hamilton Locke. She provides legal and compliance advice to a broad range of financial services industry participants including insurance brokers, general insurers, underwriting agencies, fintechs and insurtechs. She is often engaged to provide legal sign off on product design and development and insurance distribution, including group purchasing arrangements. She is sought out for her niche expertise in innovative insurance solutions including parametric products, discretionary mutuals and aggregate deductible schemes.
Charmian advises on all aspects of financial services law, she loves nothing more than devising new risk products and solutions – like peer-to-peer models and other alternative risk vehicles. She thrives on helping businesses grow and develop over time, from seed funding through to acquisition or IPO. Startups often seek her out when they need a sounding board to refine their ideas. She creatively finds new solutions that are within the boundaries of the law yet commercial in their execution.

Luke is an experienced life insurance professional with 15 years of experience across the private and public sectors. He has broad experience in financial and non-financial risk management, policy and strategy, prudential regulation, corporate governance and insurance claims and litigation.
At CALI, Luke is responsible for setting and executing the public policy agenda for CALI which spans the Life Insurance Code of Practice, accessibility of financial advice and life insurance, retirement, industry sustainability and mental health, and conduct and prudential regulation.
Prior to CALI, Luke held a number of senior roles at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and MLC Life Insurance.
Luke is admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Adele Moynihan is a seasoned investor and operator in technology-enabled health and insurance innovation. Currently serving as Chief of Staff, Market Expansion at Hola Health, a rapidly growing on-demand healthcare platform, Adele drives strategic growth initiatives and business operating rhythms.
Prior, Adele led Bupa Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of the health insurer Bupa in the APAC region, where she built and scaled the fund from inception. The CVC funded high-potential and strategically aligned health tech startups and sought to further advance their growth through unlocked commercial agreements with the corporate.
Before joining Bupa, Adele was a core member of Antler Australia’s leadership team, contributing to the fund’s launch and growth in the region and supporting the development of hundreds of early-stage founders and companies. Her venture capital experience spans deal origination, portfolio support and scaling early-stage ventures across tech sectors.
Adele’s career blends deep expertise in startup ecosystems, corporate venture strategy and operational leadership, underpinned by a passion for supporting founders who are transforming how people engage with insurance and healthcare. Her insights into strategic investment, innovation frameworks and market expansion make her a compelling voice on the future of insure-tech and health-tech convergence.

Anita Mustac is the Founder and CEO of Dokotela, a leading Australian digital mental
health platform delivering specialist psychiatric care through secure telehealth. Under
her leadership, Dokotela has become a nationally recognised provider, working closely
with insurers, employers, and primary care networks to improve access to timely, high quality mental healthcare and reduce systemic pressure across the health ecosystem.
Alongside her role at Dokotela, Anita brings extensive experience in investment
management, institutional client engagement, and capital markets. She has held senior
leadership roles across Australia and New Zealand, advising superannuation funds,
insurers, and large institutional investors on strategy, risk, and long-term value creation.
Anita began her career as a corporate lawyer in mergers and acquisitions, later
transitioning into investment banking and funds management, where she advised
across real assets, healthcare, and private markets. This rare combination of legal,
financial, and entrepreneurial expertise allows her to bridge commercial discipline with
healthcare innovation.
She holds a Bachelor of Laws (with Distinction) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the
University of Western Australia, with international legal studies undertaken in Europe.
Anita is recognised for her ability to translate complex healthcare and investment
challenges into practical, scalable solutions — particularly relevant to insurers
navigating mental health, workforce wellbeing, and cost sustainability.

Nick has been a member of the Chubb Cyber and Technology Industry Practice team since 2015, working in underwriting, product, and management roles in New York City and London, and now Sydney.
In 2024, he stepped into the role of Cyber and Technology Industry Practice Manager for Australia and New Zealand, where he is responsible for leading and managing the Cyber insurance proposition and overseeing Chubb’s Technology Industry Practice in the region.

Craig is Suncorp’s Head of AI & Data Science and in that role leads a team of Data Scientists and AI Engineers that build and integrate AI applications across the Suncorp Group, for brands such as AAMI, GIO, Shannons and Vero. He has a particular interest in the application of AI capabilities within the Insurance sector to improve the value that customers get out of their interactions with the organisation. He and his team are also involved in the use of these technologies to drive intelligent automation and the decision support of core operational processes. Craig is a qualified actuary with over 20 years’ experience in Financial Services and is Chair of the AI & Data Science Practice Committee of the Actuaries Institute. He sees great potential for data & AI to help organisations do well while also doing good.

Amar is the Chief Technology Officer at Blue Zebra Insurance (BZI), one of Australia’s largest underwriting agencies, and overseas BZI’s technology and IT teams locally and abroad. With close to 15 years of experience in the insurance industry, Amar has held roles spanning across strategy, distribution, product, marketing, and technology.

Amar is passionate about digital disruption in the insurance industry, and the ways in which technology can help improve outcomes for all involved in the sector. At BZI this has translated into building a high performing technology team that has developed a cloud-native intelligent insurance system.

Beyond work, Amar enjoys cooking and spending time with his young family.

Austin Rosier is Principal Risk Adviser at Omnisure, bringing deep expertise in risk strategy and management to the insurance and technology sectors. Known for his practical insights and comprehensive forward-thinking approach, Austin works collaboratively with organisations to ensure that they are proactively managing their risk, and best positioning themselves for future growth and sustainability. He is passionate about fostering collaboration between industry leaders to address emerging challenges and educating businesses as to how these impact their operations. At Omnisure, Austin leads the Major Accounts and Specialty team, and has a keen focus upon emerging and challenging risks.

Nafay is the AI Business Solutions Lead at Microsoft Australia & New Zealand, where he helps financial services and professional services organizations harness the power of AI to drive business transformation. With over four years at Microsoft and prior experience as a Business Solutions Strategist at VMware, Nafay brings a strong track record of delivering strategic outcomes through intelligent agents and enterprise-grade AI solutions. He has led complex global rollouts across Asia, Europe, and North America, enabling multinational clients to scale innovation and navigate change with confidence. Known for his ability to bridge business strategy with cutting-edge technology, Nafay is a trusted advisor to senior leaders seeking to unlock new value through AI. A passionate advocate for responsible and human-centered AI, Nafay combines technical expertise with a deep understanding of industry dynamics. Outside of work, he is married and an avid cricketer, proudly representing the Manly Leagues Cricket Club. Whether on the pitch or in the boardroom, Nafay is passionate about teamwork, strategy, and continuous improvement.

Will leads go-to-market engagements across some of OpenAI’s largest accounts in APAC, working with strategic industries to scale responsible, high-impact AI adoption.
He brings deep experience across Financial Services, Payments and Commerce from prior senior roles at Google and PayPal, working with large organisations on platform-led growth, digital transformation, and data-driven business models.
At OpenAI, Will operates at the intersection of strategy and execution, helping complex and often highly regulated enterprises translate advances in large language models and agentic systems into measurable commercial and operational outcomes.

Emma Thomas is the Chief Executive Officer of Achmea Farm Insurance and a financial services leader working at the intersection of agriculture, insurance, and digital transformation. With more than 20 years of experience across agricultural and financial services, she brings a grounded and forward looking perspective shaped by her early years on her grandparents’ merino sheep farm in Central Otago, New Zealand.
Emma’s career spans senior financial, sales, and leadership roles in both New Zealand, Australia and the USA, including a decade at Farmers Mutual Group before being appointed CEO of Achmea Farm Insurance in 2017.
A passionate advocate for the company’s purpose of keeping farmers farming, Emma leads a growing and geographically dispersed organisation dedicated to strengthening the continuity of agricultural businesses through a focus on risk mitigation, resilience and flexible insurance solutions. Her leadership also emphasises digital transformation to meet the evolving needs of Australian agribusinesses, reinforced by Achmea’s cooperative heritage and client partnership approach.
Emma’s practical understanding of agriculture alongside deep financial services expertise, shape Achmea Farm Insurance’s collaboration with farmers, technology partners, and industry innovators to build more resilient communities in an increasingly digital world marked by growing climate variability.
At Achmea Farm Insurance, Emma leads with a clear vision: to protect and enhance the sustainability of Australia’s agricultural sector by reducing risk, strengthening on-farm resilience and ensuring clients have clarity and confidence when it comes to insurance. Under her leadership, technology is adopted not to replace personal connection, but to complement the trusted, on-farm and personal service Achmea Farm Insurance is known for; enhancing the client journey while keeping people at the centre. Her commitment to Achmea’s cooperative principles and to the people who feed the world underpins every aspect of her work.

Lynn Thompson is the Global Head of Strategy and Partnerships of QBE Ventures, who invest in and work alongside early stage and tech companies with the potential to transform insurance.
Lynn has led and been involved in the build of new insurtech products and solutions centred around alternative data, new partnerships, Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Before joining QBE Ventures Lynn worked in a data start up and set up IAG’s Firemark AI hub in Singapore.
Lynn is passionate about investing in strategic partnerships to bring innovative solutions to global problems faced by insurers, customers and business partners.

Peter Tilocca joined ClearView on 30 June 2025 as Head of Underwriting. Peter is an accomplished and well-respected leader within the underwriting community with a career spanning over 20 years in life insurance. He is widely accepted as one of the thought leaders in advancing underwriting in Australia, having led underwriting, operations and claims teams at Zurich, Noble Oak, One Path Life and RGA Australia. Peter’s experience, technical knowledge, and commitment to building strong internal and external partnerships will enable ClearView to accelerate growth through new business and refine underwriting capability.

Paige is a senior financial services executive who has over 20 years of experience in the Insurance industry, in roles covering sales and underwriting, product portfolio and pricing, claims management, business improvement, supplier management, data and analytics, strategy and compliance and risk management. Paige has led several portfolio remediation and claims transformation programs resulting in improved profits close to $80m and improved claims cost reductions of 6%.
She has also used her experience in preparing key executives for the Royal Commission into Financial Services as well as driving a customer transformation program to address shifting community and regulator expectations resulting in uplift of customer satisfaction by 10 percentage points.
Paige was a director on the Insurance Reference Services Board and The Cyclone Testing Advisory Board in her previous capacity as Head of Suncorp, GIO and Vero with Suncorp Group.
Paige is currently the Chief Operations Officer for Hollard Insurance Company. Hollard is a global financial services provider, distributing a wide range of innovation insurance products with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe, India and China.
Paige is Chair of Insurance Council Australia’s (ICA) Consumer Advisory Committee, a member of the ICA Strategy Committee and represents Hollard on the ICA Insurance Inquiry Committee.
Paige has a B.Bus from the Australian Catholic University and is a Graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Having spent the last 7 years in insurance, Aurora Voss is the Co-Founder of Zemble, a client data management platform for insurance brokers. She leads product and strategy, helping brokerages streamline operations, surface actionable insights, and win more business by harnessing the value hidden in their customer information. Aurora has been involved in the Insurtech Australia community since its inception and previously served on its board and continues as a proud Insurtech member.

Jason is Co-Founder of Open, a digital insurance company offering embedded car, home and travel products, agentic solutions that support customer purchasing, and data tools that help brands deliver more personalised insurance offers. Operating in Australia and the UK, Open partners with leading brands across telco, health, automotive and banking.

Currently Co-founder and CEO of pet health and insurance business, Fetch.
Phil has 20 years of insurance experience running both large scale operations and more disruptive plays in Australia and overseas. He headed up IAG’s Satellite business – IAG’s end-to-end disruptor business – launching new business models to market, building a start-up culture and running IAG’s largest partner business. Prior to that, he was MD of More Th>n, one of the UK’s leading personal lines insurers and one of the largest pet insurers in the market. He’s also led Strategy, Marketing & Customer for RSA’s $4bn Scandinavian insurance businesses as well as its International Division, covering markets that included Ireland, Italy, and Canada.

Deborah is a leader from the global regulatory innovation community with over three decades of experience driving transformative initiatives across technology and finance. As the founding CEO of The RegTech Association, she played a pivotal role in shaping global attitudes and adoption of regulatory technology. She recently established her own advisory practice. Her first client is Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance / Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii) team and is working with them to deepen global regulatory engagement and launch the global Women Regulators Network. This work aligns to Deborah’s mission is to elevate trust and standards in citizen-facing ecosystems through collaborative frameworks that drive innovation, sustainability, and financial inclusion. She is a sought-after speaker worldwide on innovation, inclusion and regulatory innovation. Deborah has worked across financial services including superannuation and insurance and for nearly a decade worked alongside the venture capital and private equity industries.