Keynote Speakers
During her 15 year military career, best-selling author Matina Jewell tracked down warlords, worked with the US Navy SEALs, fast roped out of helicopters onto ships, and represented Australia as a peacekeeper with the United Nations in Syria and Lebanon where she found herself thrown into the middle of a devastating war.
Matina’s lessons of resilience and leadership have transformed some of the biggest companies and her message of courage continues to empower leaders from all walks of life. Her story has audiences on their feet time and time again.
With enthralling footage, stories of hardship and valuable learning from her many life-threatening missions, Matina will take you on a journey that will effect long lasting positive change in your leaders, teams and organizations for years to come.
Matina Jewell
Rodney Haywood
As the head of Architecture for Amazon Web Services in Australia and New Zealand, Rodney Haywood evangelizes the significant benefits of the transition to the AWS cloud from the customer’s real world perspective.
Rodney manages a team at AWS which creates architectural best practices and provides key insights into how customers can use the cloud for business transformation, providing guidance and expertise from enterprises to small-to-medium businesses and leading edge start-ups. This involves not only identifying the success factors to make cloud adoption easier but how to avoid missteps in cloud adoption.
Rodney is passionate about his customers and how the AWS cloud is changing business models, and more widely, how we live and work as a society. Drawing on his 20 years’ experience in IT Rodney is also interested in how people obtain the skills required for today’s innovative workforce – and how we develop the next generation of technical specialists.