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<div>Corinne has worked as a multi-platform journalist for 20-odd years, primarily for the ABC and BBC. She has also worked in the UK with Reuters and the BBC, designing and delivering journalism training in developing countries. In 2016 Corinne joined the L&OD department at Fairfax before setting up as a consultant.</div> <div></div> <div>Since 2017 Corinne has run a consultancy specialising in digital skills training, working with a range of newsroom / NGO / social impact organisation clients. She has worked on contracts for UNESCO, the World Health Organisation and ABC International Development. Corinne also works as a sessional digital journalism lecturer at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, and at Macleay College.</div>

<div class="project-desc"> Fran Austin is an award-winning winemaker. Fran runs Delamere Vineyard in Tasmania's beautiful Tamar Valley. </div>

Marina Pullin is an accomplished management consultant with broad international work experience and specialises in complex organisational redesign with technology integration. She has worked in China, United States, Europe and New Zealand and brings a clear focus on globally orientated embedded solutions. She has worked directly for or consulted to over 50 blue chip companies including ASC, Westpac, AWD, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Commonwealth Bank, Raytheon, ATO, Commonwealth Government and AT Kearny to name but a few. Throughout her 25-year career, she has held a variety of senior roles leading workplace transformations including the Australian defence and the financial services sectors. In these roles she has been entrusted by clients to plan and assist in the delivery of highly complex change, quite often whilst still operating large scale teams. She brings extensive knowledge of organisational design, operational excellence and technology reengineering. Her specific areas of skill are in strategy, enterprise architectural design and innovation.

Martin Newman is a lecturer in journalism at UTS and the editor of the student website <i>Central News</i>. He is also a writer and editor at <i>the Australian Financial Review</i> and has close to 30 years experience in journalism, working on newspapers in Sydney, London and Hong Kong.

Meredith is an Interaction Design Science specialist and PhD Candidate. She has worked extensively as an actor and writer in the TV, film, stage, and radio industries for over 20 years She co-hosts and helps produce the nationally award-winning STEM podcast That’s What I Call Science and is one of two professional gamer hosts of an upcoming international podcast on Women Live-Streamers. Meredith solo hosts a live-streamed science communication show on Twitch TV twice weekly to teach people about science fundamentals through conversation and video gaming. Her PhD research is looking at how tertiary ICT students can better interact with the educational technology they are required to use and each other by harnessing the power of Citizen Science and Human-Computer Interaction. She’s exploring the following: if tech designers (experts) can learn how to build better technology by learning from the real-world usage and wants of students (non-experts) the resulting technologies should be evolutionary rather than fit for purpose. Meredith is also sourcing evidence and creating a new model for the sustainability of Women in ICT for Tasmania, aimed at retaining women by creating role models who can communicate to a wide audience.

Nina Hendy is a professionally trained journalist who started her career working in-house for three newspapers, covering crime, police, court, local news, sport and everything in between. Nina committed to independence as a freelance journalist during the GFC, picking up a weekly gig writing business stories for SMH and then as a feature journalist writing features on leading business luminaries for BRW magazine. Nina is also the Founder and Director of <a href="https://www.freelancecollective.co/">The Freelance Collective</a>, a commissioning agency for freelancers.  

Northern Sound System is entrepreneurial youth music and creative training organisation. <h2></h2>  

<p style="font-weight: 400;">Regina is a freelance content creator and social media manager, working with not-for-profits, small businesses and politicians. She’s a media mentor, strategist, leader and inspiring coach.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Regina’s a former publicist, chief of staff with WIN news and features/promo producer at 9 News Brisbane. Regina has also been a print news reporter, photographer, videographer and guest lecturer.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">She’s also a member of the hugely popular and successful networking group 'Women in Media’. And has spent the last year as the Social Media Manager of their Queensland division.</p>