Contributors
Alison Pennington
Chief Economist, McKell Institute
David Keane
CEO and Co-founder, SCX ai
Aubrey Blanche
Director of Ethical Advisory & Strategic Partnerships, The Ethics Centre – also Founder, The Mathpath
Bill Simpson-Young
Co-founder & Chief Executive, Gradient Institute
Annaliese Williams
Specialist Advisor, auDA
David Reilly
Co-founder & CEO, Emergence Quantum
Angie Abdilla
Founder & CEO, Old Ways New
Simon Kriss
CEO, Sovereign Australia AI
Scott Shaw
Crew Lead, Generative AI Platform, Commonwealth Bank
Liza Noonan
CEO, Cicada Innovations
Dave Lemphers
Co-founder and CEO, Maincode
Greta Bradman
VP Agentic AI, Culture Amp
Peter Lewis
Cori Stewart
Founder, ARM Hub (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub)
Marina Yastreboff
President and Chair, AUSCL
Anton van den Hengel
Professor of Computer Science; Chief Scientist, AIML University of Adelaide
Rita Arrigo
Founder, AI Native Futures
Alex Fischer
Australian Resilient Democracy Network
Michele Levine
CEO, Roy Morgan Research
Andrew Horton
Managing Partner, The Horton Group
Justine Lacey
Director, Responsible Innovation (Future Science Platform), CSIRO
Matt Healy
Clare Brennan
Head of Policy, UTS Human Intelligence Institute
Michael Outram
Petra Andrén
CEO, Quantum Australia
Hitesh Mehta
Co-founder, Nutromics
Sandra Davey
Director, auDA and Screenrights and TACSI
Lizzie O’Shea
Founder and Chair, Digital Rights Watch
James Riley
Editorial Director, InnovationAus
Marina Yue Zhang
Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
Bill Bartee
Main Sequence
Sue Keay
Director, UNSW AI Institute
Emerald Sage
Co-founder & CEO, Digital Resilience Project
Alan Hsiao
Founder and CEO, Cognitivo
Kara Bombell
Co-founder, EthicAi
The Digital Sovereignty Forum acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Countries on which we gather for our events. We recognise the sovereignty, knowledge and community of First Peoples and pay our respects to the Ancestors and Elders who pave the way for future Leaders.
We walk with great reverence on the various places the Digital Sovereignty Forum team live, work and visit. Always was, always will be.
