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CQUniversity Beef Australia 2018 Industry Symposium See it, taste it, love it CHRIS RIDDELL Chris Riddell will officially open the 2018 Symposium and will be the MC for the day. Chris Riddell is Australia’s most sought-after futurist, and an award-winning, industry- recognised keynote speaker on digital. He is also a renowned strategist and global emerging trend spotter for businesses and leaders in today’s disrupted world. Chris Riddell was the first-ever Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for MARS Incorporated in Australia and New Zealand, architecting the corporate digital strategy behind brands such as Whiskas, Pedigree, Wrigley, Starburst, Masterfoods, Snickers and Maltesers. He is frequently called on as a futurist, speaker and expert commentator to give insights into consumer technology trends within traditional media. Chris is a regular on Channel 7’s The Morning Show, The Daily Edition prime time shows, and ABC 774 Radio. His insights and expertise as a trend spotter extend far beyond the walls of the corporate world. Chris Riddell is a senior advisor to businesses across industry verticals, with consulting expertise in the technology, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, finance and communications sectors. He is a current board member of the Museum for Australian Democracy at Eureka and writes columns for online digital agencies and corporations, providing deep insights into the world of digital, disruption and future change. He is Australia’s futurist for the leaders of tomorrow and keynote speaker for businesses of today. Page 2 Session one: Setting up the Disruption Agenda Key Note Speaker, Hamish Macdonald will discuss the impact of global digital disruption on the Australian beef industry, the opportunities arising from it. HAMISH MACDONALD – 2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Hamish Macdonald is an award-winning Broadcaster and International Affairs Correspondent. Most recently he became a Fellow at Harvard University. Hamish has covered war in Ukraine, Afghanistan and Libya, as well as the rise of ISIS in the Middle East, the rise of Donald Trump in America and the search for missing schoolgirls in Nigeria. Hamish is a dynamic media professional with the capacity to shift between hard- hitting political interviews on daily breakfast programs, to hosting prime-time comedy news programs, in-depth investigations, podcasting, digital strategy consulting and live events. In 2013 Hamish was appointed International Affairs Correspondent for America’s ABC News, after a career anchoring and reporting for Aljazeera. At Australia’s Ten Network he was Executive Producer & host of prime-time series ‘The Truth Is?’. Hamish has received a prestigious Walkley Award for Journalism and a Human Rights Australia Award for Journalism. Britain’s Royal Television Society named him “Young Journalist of the Year” in 2008 and GQ Magazine named Hamish “Media Man of the Year” in 2012. Page 3 Session two: The Global State of Play Panel Topic 1: The Economic and Political Climate Macro level current topics on disruption on a political and economic macro level that are happening globally. This will then lead into the second Panel to talk about the repercussions of this in the beef industry on a global and domestic level. Facilitator: Paul Barry Panelists: 1. Andrew Robb 2. Hamish Macdonald 3. Peter Fitzsimons 4. Neer Korn PAUL BARRY - FACILITATOR Some journalists might see upsetting the Packers and Murdochs as career suicide, but Paul Barry has built his highly successful and respected career out of doing just that. It’s not that he deliberately sets out with an agenda to make himself unpopular with business moguls, but the award-winning reporter and bestselling author’s hard hitting reports are renowned for taking no prisoners and brooking no favours. Paul studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University. In 1973 he graduated with First Class Honours. Soon afterwards, he began his journalistic career in Lon- don as economics correspondent for the Investors Chron- icle. Born in England, Paul has lived in Australia since 1986 and is now one of the country’s most respected journalists. His films for the ABC’s Four Corners in the early 1990s won him every major TV award in Australia. One of the hardest hitting of Bar- ry’s reports was on multi-millionaire Alan Bond. This led to his first best seller, The Rise and Fall of Alan Bond. Since then his books have dominat- ed the best seller lists. His second book, The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer, was the top selling biography of the 1990s. He followed up with Going for Broke, the story of how Alan Bond hid his fortune, and then revealed how the Packers and Murdochs lost $950 million in One. Tel in Rich Kids. His latest book is a biography of James Packer titled Who Wants to be a Billionaire? Paul Barry’s experiences and observations provide an interesting take on the media and a somewhat colourful view of ‘corporate crooks’. He recently launched thepowerindex.com.au, a website that explores who really runs Australia. Page 4 ANDREW ROBB - PANELIST Until his recent retirement from politics, Andrew Robb was Australia’s Minister for Trade and Invest- ment. In this role Mr Robb negotiated Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Japan and China, as well as the 12 country Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement and the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with Singapore. Additionally he conducted 85 investment roundtables with 28 countries. Mr Robb is currently a Board Member of the Kidman cattle enterprise, Chair of Asialink, Asialink Busi- ness and CNSDose, and strategic advisor to Beef Innovations Australia, as well as a range of national and international businesses. His agricultural experience began as an animal health officer, with major involvement in the successful brucellosis and TB evaluation program in Australia’s beef herd. Subsequently, as an agricultural economist, Mr Robb worked on public policy issues across a wide range of agricultural industries. He then was appointed the Executive Director (CEO) of the Cattle Council of Australia, before his appointment as Executive Director (CEO) of Aus- tralia’s peak farmer organisation, the National Farmers’ Federation. Mr Robb stood for Parliament in 2004 and was elected to the Federal Seat of Goldstein until his move back into the private sector at the time of the recent 2016 election. As a Member of Parliament, he held positions as Chairman of the Government’s Workplace Relations Taskforce, Assistant Minister to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and then Minister for Vocational and Further Education. In Opposition, he held positions as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Climate Change, Chairman of the Coalition Policy Development Commit- tee and Shadow Minister for Finance, Deregulation and Debt Reduction. Following the Coalition victory at the 2013 election, Mr Robb was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister for Trade and Investment. In 2003, Mr Robb was awarded the office of the Order of Australia (AO) for his service to agriculture, politics and the community. As well, Mr Robb is the author of “Black Dog Daze: Public Life, Private Demons” (Melbourne University Publishing). Page 5 HAMISH MACDONALD - PANELIST See page 3 for bio. PETER FITZSIMONS - PANELIST Peter Fitzsimons is a rugby star, best-selling author, well respected columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald and a television presenter on Fox Sports. He speaks four languages, has played rugby for Australia, co-hosted radio shows with Mike Carlton and Doug Mulray, interviewed famous people around the globe from George Bush to Diego Maradona and written over twenty best-selling books including Batavia, Tobruk, Kokoda, A Simpler Time, Little Theories of Life and biographies on Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake, Nene King, Les Darcy, Steve Waugh, Nick Farr-Jones, Kim Beazley, John Eales and Charles Kingsford Smith. In 2001 he was Australia’s biggest selling non-fiction author, duplicating that feat in 2004 with Kokoda. One of the ten most popular after-dinner speakers in Australia, he is married to Today Show co-host Lisa Wilkinson and they have three children. Born on a farm in Peat’s Ridge, Peter went to Knox Grammar School, before accepting an American Field Service Scholarship to go to Ohio for a year. He returned to complete an Arts degree at Sydney University majoring in government and political science. In 1984 he broke into the Wallabies under the coaching of Alan Jones, then lived in France and Italy playing rugby for the next five years whilst learning both languages as well as Spanish. Upon his return to Australia he again played for the Wallabies, under Bob Dwyer, going on to play seven tests. In 1989 he joined The Sydney Morning Herald full-time and has been one of their most popular columnists since. Andrew Denton has called him “Australia’s finest sports journalist.” Peter Fitzsimons boasts an impressive list of interview credits including ex-president George Bush, Sir Edmund Hillary, Jodie Foster, Nicki Lauda, Joe Montana and Carl Lewis as well as all the major Australian sporting figures from Shane Gould to Lionel Rose and Allan Border. He has interviewed every Australian Prime Minister from Gough Whitlam through to Julia Gillard. Page 6 NEER KORN - PANELIST Neer Korn is an expert on Australian people. He has been studying social trends and consumer insights for major brands such as Nestlé, ABC and Sanitarium for 20 years. He has documented Australian attitudes in extraordinary detail and has unparalleled insight into Australian culture. Neer has written over 120 large scale reports on Australian society of people aged 7 to 70. Neer is an expert advisor to Australia’s leading blue chip companies such as AMP, as well as government departments and not-for-profits. Filled with learnings, ideas and provocations, Neer’s presentations are highly entertaining and innately interesting.