Barbara Moore is Chief Executive Officer of the Biennale of Sydney, a not-for-profit organisation that presents the most dynamic contemporary art from around the globe at world-class venues across Sydney, with free admission for all to enjoy. Barbara is the youngest female CEO of any major arts organisation in Australia, and the youngest CEO in the history of the Biennale, commencing when she was 36.

Elisabeth Callot has been a Program Manager at the Google Arts & Culture Lab since 2015. The Lab, located in Paris, is a place where tech and creative communities come together to share ideas and discover new ways to experience art and culture. The Google Arts & Culture team works to make art and culture accessible and engaging for everyone. 

Elisabeth graduated with two Masters degrees, one in international marketing and one in cinema studies at La Sorbonne.

Jan Müller is the former CEO of the NFSA (2017-2020). Before that, he was CEO of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Chair of the Europeana Foundation. He was chair of the Australian Media Literacy Association and the project owner for the NFSA's DNA project which culminated in a unique collaboration with the Olympic Federation for Cultural Heritage and a live projection on the Sydney Opera House in September 2020.

Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science journalist and author, whose work has appeared in outlets including Nature, The Atlantic, Wired UK, The Guardian, Australian Geographic, Scientific American, the ABC and BBC. She is the author of The End: The Human Experience Of Death, editor of the 2015 and 2019 Best Australian Science Writing anthologies and co-author of The Sixth Wave: How To Succeed In A Resource-Limited World. She is also the founding president of the Science Journalists Association of Australia.

Jaja is a Wiradjuri woman and multidisciplinary manager with an aptitude for innovation. Before joining First Nations Media Australia (formerly the Indigenous Remote Communications Association), Jaja was the Label Operations Manager for the CAAMA Music Record Label. She managed the recording of artists and the national marketing campaigns for album releases. Jaja won the National Indigenous Music Award for designing the Album Cover Art of the Year for CAAMA’s premier artist Gawurra.

Dr Asher Flynn is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Monash University. She is a leading international researcher in policy and prevention concerning gendered and sexual violence, AI and technology-facilitated abuse. Asher has published 6 books and around 50 articles and chapters on these topics.

Jason Potts is Professor of Economics and Director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University. His research is on the economics of innovation and technological change and economics of creative industries. He is currently also a Chief Investigator on the new ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Ellie Rennie is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow at RMIT University, working across the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub and the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. Her current research is investigating the social outcomes of blockchain technology.

Annabel Astbury is Head, Digital Education at the ABC and is working with a great team to deliver ABC Splash. She used to be a classroom teacher and has worked closely with students, teachers, government and cultural institutions over the past years promoting history education and learning with ‘digital’ technologies in her role as Executive Director at the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria.

Craig Middleton is a curator at the National Museum of Australia and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.

His book Queering the Museum, co-authored with Nikki Sullivan, was published by Routledge in November 2019.

Libby Cass is the Director, Curatorial and Collection Research at the National Library of Australia having joined in 2016, following 10 years of work in the Pacific. Libby is passionate about metadata, contemporary collecting, connecting communities with collections and collaborating with others to maximise the national impact of cultural collections. 

Vick Gwyn is the Curator, Creative Liaison at the NFSA. Her curatorial practice is centred around inclusivity and diversity and grounded in her experience in museum policy, Indigenous repatriation programming and audience-centred gallery development.