Mark Ross

MARK ROSS is a longtime media producer, investor and entrepreneur, with more than 35 years in the business of entertainment. He is the co-founder and CEO of Acme Innovation, a holding company that invests in and operates disruptive media and entertainment companies using blockchain technology. He has financed a multitude of entertainment-related companies and startups including Music Audience Exchange, Riptide Music Group, Dequency, Project M, and Audigent, the world’s leading entertainment and media data collection and management platform. He is also the co-founder with Sir George Martin of GrandMaster Music, a boutique production music library, which he sold to Sony Music. As a music executive, he signed several multi platinum artists, most notably Pantera, that have sold tens of millions of records. He is also the former Executive Director of Quincy Jones Productions, and founded and operated his own imprint label through Universal Music Group. Throughout his career Mark has been fortunate enough to work with a wide variety of artists and greats such as Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys, YK Osiris, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Ray Charles, AC/DC, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Andrea Bocelli, Metallica, and Frank Sinatra, and has forged strong personal and professional relationships with entertainment professionals across the industry.

Christina Gerakiteys

Christina Gerakiteys is a catalyst for change, alchemising impossible to possible through the unleashing of human potential. Her purpose is to facilitate the road to a Utopic society, through the opening of hearts and minds.

Christina is on a mission to enable the enablers and to empower and inspire leaders to converge minds, technology and fields, to have maximum impact and solve humanity's grand challenges.

As CEO of UtopiaX, Co-CEO of SingularityU Australia and Founder of IdeaSparx, Christina is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and program designer, creating interactive educational experiences driven by design thinking, purpose, engagement, and play. The programs disrupt current mindsets to Moonshot thinking, exploring what is possible, rather than what is acceptable or limited. Christina has created highly customised programs for clients including Deloitte, IAG, Employment Hero, Entrepreneurs Organisation, Austrade, Bupa, Investa and Dulux.

Christina has presented key-notes and workshops for the Singularity University COVID-19 Summit, Entrepreneurs Organisation, Singularity University Global Summit, Front End of Innovation Conference in Boston, SingularityU Australia Summit, Vivid Ideas, Creative Innovation and Inspiring Women Leaders Digital Conference in Madrid.

Christina writes for several publications, hosts the SingularityU Australia Webinar Future Leaders series, the podcast Inspire for Impact, and speaks on radio about creativity and innovation. She is a contributor to the award-winning Front-End Innovation blog. She is an ambassador for Tech Central, Sydney, on the International Advisory Board for W Startup Community and sits on the Hunter Medical Research Foundation.

Christina is an advocate for innovation committees, produced the annual Hunter Innovation Festival, and lectures in Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is a lifelong learner, undertaking doctorate studies in Creativity and Innovation.

Brad Twynham

SingularityU Global Expert - Brad is an activator, motivator, teacher, practitioner, innovator and change agent. What sets him apart as a speaker is his approachability and authenticity which lifts audiences to go beyond inspiration and to take action.

His special gift is his powerful lived experiences and stories that capture the audience’s attention, build trust and catalyse change. People leave his sessions entertained, and with a lifelong desire to challenge their “traditional ways of thinking and doing things.”

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