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As you've surely noticed, our world has gone digital. New electronic frontiers are being pushed all the time. Ovations helps teams navigate a digital world. Find your industry and sharpen your team's focus by learning from the globe's experts. From consumer psychologists to CX strategists, Ovations is your compass. See future trends analysis from experts in science, fashion, web marketing, transhumanism, leadership development, female empowerment and so much more. Go viral.

Adam Ferrier

Adam Ferrier is a leading Australian consumer psychologist, brand strategist, and founder of Thinkerbell-an agency known for blending creativity with behavioural science. Thinkerbell was named the world's top creative agency in 2021 by BestAds and won Mumbrella's Full Service, Creative, and PR Agency of the Year titles in the same year. Adam is the author of The Advertising Effect and Stop Listening to the Customer, and a regular TV panellist on shows like Gruen Transfer. A Cannes Gold Lion and Effie winner, Adam's speaking style fuses behavioural economics, creativity, and psychology to deliver powerful, unconventional strategies that drive real change.

Adam Franklin

Adam Franklin is the author of Web Marketing That Works. Plus he's an international social media speaker and marketing manager of a web marketing firm he co-founded in 2005. His Media blog has been named in Australia's Top 20 Business Blogs for the last 4 years. He is a regular blogger for Startup Smart and occasionally writes for Smart Company and the Sydney Morning Herald, and he has be ...

Adam Smith

Adam is an expert commentator and consultant specialising in partnership development and network building in and around schools. Adam is a Board Member of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), regular Education Analyst for Channel 10's 'The Project' and a contributor for the Australian Financial Review. As former CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians and Education Foundatio ...

Adam Spencer

Adam Spencer is an iconic star of Australian radio and television, and a leading conference MC and keynote speaker most in demand for AI. He cuts through the hype to leave audiences with fresh, usable insights, but it is his range, from hosting Epic Builds to interviewing prime ministers and Hollywood stars, that has every audience laughing and learning.

Aisling Smith

Aisling Smith is an award-winning speaker on Workplace NeuroInclusion and Employee NeuroEmpowerment. Specialising in teaching managers and leaders on how to empower and support their Neurodivergent employees and create NeuroInclusive Workplaces for all. Combining lived experience as a mother of a neurodivergent child and a late-diagnosed woman with Autism and ADHD with her extensive research and expertise in psychological and neuroscience to inspire and empower her audience.

Alastair MacGibbon

Alastair is Australia’s foremost cyber security leader, and is Chief Strategy Officer at CyberCX.

Innovation / Technology

Alex Allwood

Alex is Australia's go-to authority on customer experience, customer empathy, AI-driven CX and customer retention and growth strategy. A pioneer here, she was among the first to publish on the subject, with Customer Experience is the Brand and Customer Empathy, and a third book due in 2026. Two decades of real-world expertise, powerful insights and storytelling that drives action.

Alex Sion

Alex Sion is a fintech pioneer with over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation in financial services. He has held key leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase, Citi, and fintech private equity firm Motive Partners, and now leads the financial services vertical at Blend, delivering AI-driven solutions. A co-founder of Moven, one of the first Neo-Banks, Alex has shaped the evolution of digital banking and AI-powered finance. A sought-after keynote speaker, he brings deep expertise and forward-thinking insights, helping organizations navigate the next wave of disruption and innovation in the financial sector.

Alex Steffen

Writer Alex Steffen, known as one of the world's leading green futurists and a pioneering thinker on global sustainability, is also that rare kind of speaker who can lead his specialized field, yet explain his ideas to the rest of us in accessible, fun and inspiring ways. Steffen's optimistic, solutions-focused talks have wowed hundreds of audiences around the world with their combination of practical thinking and visionary insight. Steffen built his track record as a visionary by leading the pioneering website Worldchanging.com. Under his guidance, the solutions-based magazine became the second-largest sustainability site on the planet. Its 12,000 articles won many of the Web's highest honors, including being a Webby Official Honoree and a winner of the Utne Independent Press Award.

Alexander Blass

Alexander Blass is an internationally acclaimed entrepreneur and innovator, and serves as President and CEO of an executive consulting and training firm based near Washington, DC. Now 36, he is the youngest grand prize winner ever of the Daily Record's Top Innovator of the Year Award, which credited him with 'revolutionizing charitable giving'. He is the inventor and founder of person-to-person giving technology on the Internet. Frequently interviewed by the media and the subject of several cover stories, he is a highly sought after keynote speaker, Master Class presenter, invited expert and consultant in the United States and around the world. He enjoys sharing his vast expertise, insight, passion, vision and fascinating experiences with business audiences, associations, non-profits, charitable organizations, and university students. He is the guest keynote speaker at many of the world's most prestigious conferences on leadership, innovation, and creativity, including IBM's Innovate in India (2,000 people), EPIC in New York City, and the Abu Dhabi Innovation Forum in the United Arab Emirates, to name a few.