Our Speakers

An accomplished, commercial leader with experience in delivering strong people performance in large, complex businesses. With a background in law, she has moved into leadership roles with iconic Australian businesses with a focus on building great, safe workplaces with talented teams delivering strategic outcomes for the customer.

Karen is PwC Australia’s Chief People Officer and a member of the Management Leadership Team.

Karen is a seasoned enterprise leader with specialist skills in people, culture and transformation, as well as broader experience in customer advocacy, corporate affairs and government relations, reporting to CEOs and boards of major Australian companies.

Karen’s work spans the professional services, real estate, retail and transportation sectors in Australia, Asia, the USA, Europe and Africa. She is passionate about enhancing culture, leadership, employee engagement and performance while positioning organizations for growth and helping them navigate complexity and disruption.

Outside of her business life Karen loves to travel, particularly with her family, and she is a prolific consumer of podcasts across a range of genres.

Consultants are at the bleeding edge of AI … by Jim Berry

Consultants are at the bleeding edge of AI and Agentic impacting their operations - so she has lots of lessons learned to share.

Dom Price is a Work Futurist, team obsessive, and Partner at Be Luminous and someone who has lived the chaos of scaling a business from the inside out. Joining Atlassian as employee #600, Dom stayed for 12 years as their resident Work Futurist, helping grow the company to over 16,000 people globally. That’s not theory - that’s scar tissue.

Dom operates at the intersection of tech and humans, and his mission is simple: upgrade the human operating system of how we work. Because as he’ll tell you, “a fool with a tool is still a fool… you’ve just made them faster.” In a world drunk on AI and the next shiny solution, Dom is the pragmatic voice asking whether your people are actually set up to use it well - driving change that’s sustainable, not just spectacular.

As a keynote speaker, Dom doesn’t trade in polished frameworks or borrowed wisdom. He shares real, lived experience the messy, hard-won kind which is exactly why he’s in demand. Less thought leader, more battle-tested practitioner.

Co-creator of the Atlassian Team Playbook, TED speaker, and advisor to C-suite leaders globally. Dom believes that work and life should be about thriving, not just surviving. A keen traveller and veteran of 53+ countries, he calls Australia home. Manchester made him. The rest? Still very much in progress.

Dr Juliette Tobias-Webb is one of Australia’s leading behavioural scientists, helping organisations understand and shape human decision-making in a rapidly changing world.

With a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge, she works at the intersection of behavioural science, AI, and emerging technology.

Dr Juliette is an Adjunct Professor at the AI and Cyber Futures Centre and the founder of a behavioural science consultancy working with organisations including Mastercard, Google, Publicis Groupe, Citibank and Atlassian. She has previously held senior behavioural science roles at the Commonwealth Bank and Ogilvy Australia.

Her research is published in leading psychology and neuroscience journals, and her expertise is frequently featured in media such as Triple J Hack, ABC, and The Australian Financial Review.

Dr Juliette has been recognised as one of Australia’s Superstars of STEM and was selected among 100 women in STEM to take part in an Antarctic leadership expedition.

David began his career in 1987 coding enterprise software for ten years. He then founded an ASEAN data science firm and exited after ten years to then spend the next 20 years as an IT executive at ANZ Bank, DBS Bank in Singapore — which became the world’s best bank — and most recently he was the CTO of Westpac Bank. Now he’s the founder of Activate, an organisation helping organisations become future-ready, an adjunct at UNSW where he chairs the AI Institute External Advisory, and an independent director and advisor to start-ups and multinationals.

With over three decades of experience in global businesses, I currently serve as Chief People, Sustainability, and Community Officer at AMP, leading initiatives in workforce strategy, AI capability, employee experience, talent management, leadership development, diversity and inclusion, cultural transformation, and corporate communications. My role also includes accountability for sustainability, The AMP Foundation, and Customer Dispute Resolution. My career reflects a consistent focus on business, customer & workforce transformation, stakeholder management, and change management. I am deeply committed to fostering inclusive workplaces, driving customer focused organizational transformation, and ensuring strategic alignment to deliver meaningful business outcomes.

Jim founded ADAPT with a vision to help Australia thrive commercially, now and for the future.  To enable that, Jim leads ADAPT’s mission to connect, inform and equip our local business and tech leaders.

Leading the development of ADAPTs agenda’s and content strategy whilst also advising executive leadership teams from global technology service providers, Jim is uniquely experienced to be the voice of the end-user, the customer and the vendor.

Bringing his deep knowledge of the local market, Jim regularly presents “Know your Customer” webinars and guides the world’s largest vendors with their G-T-M and content strategies.

Through entrepreneurial product development and a servant leader mentality with his team and clients, ADAPT grows annually with clearly differentiated value for all stakeholders.

Gabby’s primary role is managing ADAPT’s overall strategy for Data Analytics. He has extensive experience in using data to identify trends in technology that help shape Australian organisations. Utilising modern Data Science techniques, he provides ADAPT and their customers with confidence in the accuracy and validity of the information used for ADAPT’s Research, Advisory, and Events.​

With a passion for creating stories with data, Gabby is consistently rated as one of the top speakers at ADAPT Events. In round table discussions, he specialises in using statistics to initiate thought-provoking discussions. Gabby is effective in translating information into insights, enabling ADAPT’s customers to become more data-driven.​

Gabby’s primary areas of expertise are: ​

• Advanced AI and ML practices, including AI ethics.​
• Building models to benchmark and predict IT performance.​
• End-user behaviour and human-centred design.​
• Cross-functional team design and value, such as DevSecOps.​

Peter Hind has spent the last 25 years as an analyst and commentator on the ICT industry. He says his primary areas of interest are the potential of technology to transform the way organisations operate, the change management obstacles executives encounter in realising this potential and the tactics and techniques leaders have deployed to overcome these difficulties.

Peter now takes on multiple roles within ADAPT including the moderation of private events and roundtables, interviewing business executives about the strategies they are pursuing and assisting with the structuring of our delegate surveys and the interrogation and analysis of ADAPT’s treasure trove of end-user and C-level data

AboutExecutive transformation leader who brings clarity to complex environments and converts strategy into delivery momentum. Experience spans enterprise technology leadership (Microsoft, T-Mobile, public sector) and consulting across Australia / Asia Pac, the US, EU and LATAM. I work with senior leaders to frame decisions, align business and technology priorities, and shape modernisation pathways that are practical, sequenced and measurable. Known for clear thinking, executive facilitation, and translating between commercial intent, technical reality and operational constraint to keep teams aligned and outcomes moving.

Focus areas:

- Business and technology transformation
- Executive facilitation and decision support
- Data and modernisation strategy
- Customer and employee experience uplift
- Cross-functional leadership and coaching
- Turning complexity into clear choices