Dr. Kara Burns, PhD

Dr. Kara Burns, PhD is an experienced health professional working across business development, innovation, research, education and transformative technologies. In 2017 she co-founded Hacking Health Queensland and has developed health innovation programs for eHealth Queensland and the World Hospital Congress and has taught strategic marketing in the QUT Business School.

Kara’s PhD, which was published in the worlds #1 health technology journal JMIR, explored engaging and empowering patients with health technology and she has gained an adjunct research fellowship with the Menzies Health Institute, Griffith University to explore Transformative technology.

Troy Haines

Troy Haines has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs across Australia, winning many awards for his work in the startup, innovation and ecosystem development sectors. As the Chapter lead for Australasia Troy brings a deep passion for Transformative Technology and a lust to support those developing ideas that can expand the human experience.

Years of meditation practice has fostered Troy’s deep appreciation for what is yet to be discovered in theSPACE beyond the mind and an excitement for how technology can support that. Troy Haines is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of theSPACE Australasia, a startup and innovative incubator that helps entrepreneurs to commercialise ideas.

Dr. Omar Ibrahim, PhD

Omar is a genomics, behavioural science, and applied machine learning expert. His diverse professional background spans advertising at multinational corporations, project management at a UN-funded sustainability initiative, mental health clinical work, neurogenomics research, clinical trials, and innovation management.

His equally diverse education includes political science, psychology, biotechnology, and genetics. Throughout his brief research career to date, he has demonstrated the potential of machine learning and novel genomics technologies to upscale clinical bottlenecks in common conditions such as post-concussion syndrome and rarer ones such as multiple sclerosis. He has collaborated with world-renowned researchers as well as entrepreneurs and diplomats

Ruben Sen

Ruben Sen is passionate about delivering client focused, human centred outcomes. Ruben enjoys collaborating and managing multi-disciplined, skilled, international project teams, virtually or in person. He is extremely competent working on projects that need to handle detail and data. Ruben can apply this analysis to big picture story telling. This approach results in holistic solutions to help people meet their engineering digital technology and asset management goals.

Anuraj Ghambir

Anuraj Gambhir is an internationally recognized Strategic Business/Startup Advisor, Technology Visionary, Exponential Thought Leader and multi-award winning Innovator. He has over 30 years’ global experience across 5 continents and is a trans-disciplinary expert. His practical knowledge spans executive management, innovation, entrepreneurship, conscious leadership, exponential technologies, design thinking and holistic wellbeing.

Key domains of focus include future of Health/Wellness, Learning/Education, Media, Transportation, Telecom & Space as part of emerging Smart Cities/Communities. He has been an early pioneer in the design and development of the smartphones and the convergent smart mobile devices revolution.

Amanda Bennett

Amanda is a qualified Dietitian, Epidemiologist and Coach of Innovation and Entrepreneurship with over a decade experience working in capability building and project management. More recently, Amanda applied these skills developing innovators and innovation systems for one of Queensland’s largest public health services. As a community mobiliser Amanda connects government, university, community and private sector to build a local ecosystem which has supported a range of initiatives including grass-roots innovation, hackathons, challenge-driven innovation and accelerators.

Prior to her innovation work, Amanda spent many years leading community-based nutrition and chronic disease prevention and management programmes in Queensland and across the Pacific where she focused on working alongside local community groups, government and leaders to understand local challenges and develop solutions which improve the health of the community.