_SOUTHSTART is Australia's human-first Innovation, Imagination and Impact Festival connecting humans to ideas, possibilities, and each other. _SOUTHSTART is NOT a conference. It's a conversation. Let's Human.

Music SA is a not-for-profit organisation committed to promoting, supporting and developing contemporary music in South Australia. Music SA nurtures careers in the industry and delivers cultural and economic benefits to artists, residents, businesses, visitors and global audiences.

Empowering Australian Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystems. The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) is aimed at creating one global entrepreneurial ecosystem and helps people in 165+ countries unleash their ideas and turn them into promising new ventures.

Looplabs, the web's first online music creation platform, has been used by tens of millions of people worldwide and used in global marketing campaigns with top global brands including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Bacardi, Heineken, Calvin Klein, Miller Brewing, ESPN, General Mills, Toyota, Volvo, Sony, HP, and many more. It's received numerous awards including a Webby Award, Communication Arts, SxSW, FITC, FlashForward, FWA.A favorite highlight was Steve Jobs personally demoing the software at the 2003 MacWorld conference to showcase the capabilities during the launch of the Safari browser.

CRASH!MEDIA is an award-winning Digital Agency celebrating 25 years of defining interactivity and digital experiences online. We've imagined, created, built and launched national and international marketing campaigns, products, platforms and experiences for top global brands including :Microsoft / Intel / Coca-Cola / Sony / Bacardi / BBC / Heineken / Napster / Adidas / Vodafone / MySpace / Nokia / Rolling Stone / Calvin Klein / American Airlines / The Discovery Channel / Volvo / Honda / Toyota / Chevrolet / Volvo / Ford / Cadillac / Mercedes / Hyundai / ESPN / Miller Brewing / Absolut / Sapporo / Reebok / Gilette / CBC / Warner Music / Universal Music / RocNation / Honda / General Mills / Miller Brewing / HP / University of Toronto / Rogers / McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology / Toronto Symphony Orchestra / Gemini Awards / Boston Symphony Orchestra ...On a range of campaigns that involved :Bob Dylan / Marc Anthony / Paul Oakenfold / Ke$ha / Ministry of Sound / Lebron James / Serena Williams / Jason Derulo / Wyclef / The Ting Tings / Our Lady Peace and many others.A few highlights include :- Developing the Internet's first drag'n'drop interface / UX- Tracking Polar Explorer Ben Saunders solo-mission to the North Pole- Launching the Web's first online music making experience Looplabs- Steve Jobs personally demoing our technology at Apple Keynote- Creating User-Generated Television commercial launched at NBA Allstar game with Lebron James for Sprite online- Launching the web's first online remix competitions and experiences- Handling Digital Marketing strategy for International Latin artist Marc Anthony and launch of Marc Anthony 3.0 Album

Co-Founder of Social Media Content Creation Applications Sqribbles and Maji.

Innovation Bay is an exclusive community of entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders who believe that technology can power innovation and change the world. Our aim is pretty simple, to connect exciting entrepreneurs with the right investors, advisors and connectors so we see more Australian entrepreneurs thrive and succeed.

Worked as mentor and advisor to startup founders in South Australia. Provided customized commercialization, international business, and marketing advice to high-tech startup companies, developing links to investors and markets in North America, and providing strategic advice on building a vibrant startup community.

At 30, Patrick O'Brien was TransFatty, a New York City DJ, Internet personality, and filmmaker. He spent his days as a beer-drinking creative force, making art films about perverts, vulnerable souls, and Howard Johnson's restaurants. Then his legs started shaking. Defying sentimentality, TRANSFATTY LIVES takes you on an emotional roller coaster from Patrick's wild, fun-loving days into the dark heart of ALS (a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's disease). Given 2 to 5 years to live, Patrick first loses his ability to walk, then move his arms, then to swallow, and even to breathe. With the support of his bewildered friends and family Patrick braves the unthinkable and turns his camera onto himself. As the director and star of his own documentary, Patrick films every step of his debilitating journey from first diagnosis through his current paralysis. Forcefully lacking self-pity, he captures the emotion, humor, and absurdity of real life as he makes art, gets political, falls in love, fathers a son, and fights extreme depression and paranoia. At 40, Patrick has completed this film by typing directions to his editors with the movements of his pupils. Miraculously, TRANSFATTY LIVES is not a movie about death. Because, while Patrick's brain stopped being able to control his muscles, it remains brilliantly alive, allowing him to ask: "What if my diminishing physical abilities can be inversely proportional to my journey inward? And, more importantly, "will there be bacon and unicorns once I get there?"

Responsible for the creative vision, design, marketing and product and technology development of the Internet’s first Remix Platform via Licensing of Proprietary Looplabs technology. Worked alongside Music Labels and Publishers as well as award winning artists : Bob Dylan, Marc Anthony, Ke$ha, Jason Derulo, Ministry of Sound, Reverend Run (Run DMC), Willow Smith, Jayden Smith and dozens of others.

As founding Program director of Canada's first interactive design and technology festival I was responsible for developing, organizing and implementing the festival program and content schedule for the entire conference. Calling upon friends, contacts and associates I put together line-ups including some of the best flash and interactive talent in the world including Joshua Davis, Erik Natzke, Colin Moock, Branden Hall, Grant Skinner, Phillip Torrone and many more.Following the success of it's first two years, FITC has gone on to become Canada's leading design and technology conferences expanding to the US, Europe and Asia.