Katharina Alf
Entrepreneur
I’m a young entrepreneur who loves all things digital marketing and help other business owners bring more leads into their business. I also love writing and have published 2 e-books covering social media and vegan lifestyle.
Nadia Armstrong
Senior Consultant
Nadia is a Senior Consultant at The ADWEB Agency and Intranet DASHBOARD. She works and lives in Melbourne. Over the years she has mastered a lot of professional skills that put her in the top-notch in her job. Some of the skills she has obtained include intranet, project management and information architecture.
Belle B. Cooper
Co-founder, iOS developer
I’m a co-founder of Hello Code, a Melbourne-based startup. I handle marketing and iOS development.
Amanda Barrett
Co-Founder and at Big Gorilla Academy
Amanda has one goal and that is to prepare kids for the future.
This young(ish!) mum turned her back on the corporate world of business and marketing to make a difference in education. After seeing a massive need for kids to gain access to high quality, engaging programs in the areas of STEM and entrepreneurship, Big Gorilla Education was founded.…
Sambo Bell
Director
Skier, adventurer, student of life, experimenter, writer and guide. I promote top performance. I love encouraging people to look good online.
I’m fascinated with freedom, self-productivity, tech, and business. I try out things related to these subjects and provide the best ones to professionals.
Sophie Benjamin
Engagement editor, Crikey
Much more than just the engagement editor for Australia’s oldest and cheekiest online news publication, Sophie Benjamin is also the talented writer and musician who regularly blogs at her site, sophiebenjamin.com. Sophie graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a degree in journalism. Before beginning her career with Crikey, Sophie honed her skills at Tourism Victoria, Southern Cross Austereo, APN, and ABC.…
Alison Bennett
casual academic
Alison Bennett works in ‘expanded photography’ where the boundaries of photography have shifted in the transition to digital media and become diffused into ubiquitous computing. Bennett’s recent projects explored the creative potentials of augmented reality, stereophotogrammetry, 3D scanning, and virtual reality as encompassed by the medium and practice of photography. As a neuroqueer trans-media artist, Bennett’s work has explored the performance and technology of gender identity and considered the convergence of biological and digital skin as virtual prosthesis.…
Jessica Box
Brand and Marketing Manager
Jessica is a digital marketing, branding and communications professional with an avid zest for learning and over 6.5 years industry experience. Aside from a love of fashion, dance, travel and all things foodie, she’s hugely passionate about digital. By linking business strategies to results-driven digital outcomes, Jess has been able to grow audiences and brands.…
Renece Brewster
Founder & CEO
Renece is a CEO & Founder at Data Creative in Melbourne. Renece is very hard working and always available. She builds strong relationships with everyone she deals with. She grasps complex subjects. And she is always open to input and feedback to deliver projects on brief and budget. Renece is highly professional, highly motivated, and an excellent leader.…
Liliana Brissos
Front-End Web Developer
Liliana is a Web Developer at Barking Bird. Liliana is a creative free-thinker who thrives on multi-tasking, supporting the team, and a 90s hip-hop playlist. Currently studying Web Development and Digital Media Technologies, she is deeply passionate about all things tech, digital, and photography. She has a creative and free-thinking approach to development. She is deeply passionate about all things tech, digital and self development.…
Susan Brown
Managing Director Girl in Tech Australia
Susan is Head of Strategy and Consulting at Odecee. She is passionate about designing and developing innovative digital solutions for my customers. She has extensive experience in transformation projects, working primarily within government and Tier 1 enterprises. Her experience includes digital analytics. innovation consulting, digital portfolio development, customer relationship management, content management, and multi-touch technologies.…
Ren Butler
Community Relations Manager
Ren is a community-driven polymath. She’s well versed in ‘outcome driven events’ production/management/promotion with a strong background in facilitation. She presents on early stage startup education, diversity in tech and cross-cultural strategy as well as finds time to mentor and judge at hackathons frequently. She’s great at bringing diverse groups together to create truly innovative outcomes and connect the resource dots to keep great ideas alive.…
Melina Chan
Founder
Melina Chan is a community organiser and leader with a passion for facilitating groups and individuals to do great things.
In 2008 in Battambang, Cambodia, Melina co-founded the social enterprise Kinyei Organisation to generate and support innovative social projects including a vocational training espresso cafe (Kinyei Cafe) and cultural heritage bicycle tour soksabike.com.…
Aakanksha Chhikara
Business Development Manager
She is passionate about building technology products and pursuing opportunities for business. Skilled at facilitating multidisciplinary teams, she achieves goals within budgetary and other constraints. Her ability to reason critically, adopt a structured approach and communicate effectively helps her deliver outstanding results. She has an entrepreneurial spirit that is upbeat, adaptable and resourceful. She is a connector.…
Cheng Chua
Student
I’m a second year student at The University of Melbourne, studying Communications and Media studies and IT. I’m interested in front end development and UX/UI Design! 🙂
Tamlyn Cocker
Graphic designer
Tamlyn currently works as a Graphic Designer at Retail Savvy Group. For Tamlyn Cocker a Melbourne based Graphic designer, graphic design is a way of life as much as an occupation. Born and raised in a small costal town off the South Western of Australia. Four years ago she spontaneously decided to pack up her bags and embark on a journey across the nullabour seeking adventure, inspiration and new beginnings.…
Natalie Coffin
Senior Digital Producer
Natalie is working at Loud&Clear as Senior Digital Producer. Like most digital marketers, she likes to spend her free time visiting other marketers’ blogs. She gets fired up by things happening online that most people don’t have a clue about. Her niche area of expertise is creating strategic online plans for sport & fitness brands.…
Laura Conti
GM Digital Investment & Commercial
With over 10 years’ experience strategically defining business transformation programs, and transformative strategies, as a trusted business partner; she has built a reputation for ‘getting the job done’, defining change initiatives that push traditional business boundaries, whilst mitigating risk and maximising commercial success. As a leader, she is direct, open and big on delivery – delicately taming cutting edge technology ideas, crafting ‘digital’ into commercial and corporate speak.…
Rechelle Coombes
Founder
Rechelle is the Founder of Socielle. Rechelle is a business marketing expert determined to use her 11 years experience in some of the world’s largest organisations, as a force for ‘good’. Running her own business and also leading a marketing team of 6 for a professional services company. Her experience working across Asia-Pacific for some of the world’s largest organisations (Westpac Group, UBS, Liberty International) has allowed her to have a thorough understanding of big business needs with a marketing and digital eye.…
Jane Crofts
Director
Jane Crofts is a well-regarded Tableau specialist, Tableau Qualified Associate and Managing Director of Performance Analytics, one of the first Tableau Alliance Partners in Australia. Jane has worked with some of Tableau’s largest Australian clients, supporting them through all aspects of their Tableau journeys — from inception to development and production of striking and engaging dashboards and management information systems.…
Sarah Crooke
Digital Analyst
Sarah is currently working as a Digital Analyst at IE Digital. She has worked in the digital industry for over 10 years in various roles: developer, project manager and account manager. She is now using all the skills to implement analytics code, and provide insights from the data it provides. Data has always been a passion of hers and she loves the opportunities it can provide when looked at with the keen eye and digital know how she has developed over the years.…
Lisa Crosbie
Senior Consultant
Lisa works as a Senior Consultant at TotalCRM. Her expertise and interest is in the successful commercial application of technology in small and medium business. She brings over 15 years experience in Sales and Marketing to her role as a CRM Consultant to help managers design and understand their sales. She also consults on the “people side” of technology – good communication, training and change management.…
Frederica Cunningham
Frederica Cunningham graduated with B.Mus (University of Melbourne), B.Mus.Perf (VCA) and B.Mus.Perf Honours (VCAM) and a Grad.Dip.Ed (La Trobe University). Scholarships/nominations include Artstart from Australian Council for the Arts 2013, Optus 50 Grant 2012, EC Wellisch Bequest and VCE Top Class Dance nomination. Frederica is a Theatre Network Australia member.
Frederica was a Principal Artist in “Contact!…
Claire Deane
CEO
Claire is a digital marketer, Google analytics nerd and social media addict. She has worked with big and small brands across a range of industries, from fashion to food with digital publishing platforms to yoga studios, education institutions to wedding accessory designers. She’s developed social media strategies for The Locale Group’s stable of brands (Talulah, Stevie May and Isla), created digital marketing strategies for Dissh, helped a handmade brand get picked up by international retailer BHLDN on the strength of their social media content, and grown digital publisher The Urban List to 200K visitors, and launched across three major cities.…
Michelle Dennis
eLearning Manager
One of the first generation of digital natives, Michelle Dennis is passionate about how technology can be used to innovate and create. After studying Computer Science at The University of Melbourne, she went into education to encourage more girls to step up and become Girl Geeks.
Currently the eLearning Manager at Mentone Girls’ Grammar School, Michelle spends her days encouraging students to play with 3D prints, robots, VR and video games.…
Teresa Deshon
Deputy Principal
Teresa is the Deputy Principal at Kilvington Grammar School where she teaches IT and Mathematics. In her role, one of the many areas she manages is whole school curriculum, assessment and reporting, strategic ICT and innovative IT programs including 3D Printing, Wearable IT, Coding for Girls and Nao Robotics. Teresa is experienced in the development and implementation of 1:1 programs, BYOD and Continuous Online Reporting, Data Visualisation and LEAN business practis .…
Sarah Dimauro
Small Business Owner
Sarah is a Small Business Owner at Madame Valentine. She loves working in retail and she loves to exceed expectations. She enjoys the retail industry. She loves the unpredictability that retail often throws at you. She is in love with the consumers – she loves to analyze strangers’ outfits in the street and pick what type of shopper they are.…
Hollie Doar
Junior UX Architect
Hollie is a Junior UX Architect at BWM Dentsu. With qualifications in anthropology, psychology, and General Assembly’s UX Design course, she has the capability to utilise qualitative research methods, including ethnography, to gain insight into human behaviour and translate them into meaningful user experiences. She gained experience in service design during my time as a Quality Officer at Wesley Mission Victoria, redeveloping the client feedback system in order to make the process consumer centric.…
Amy Dobson
Senior Digital Marketing Coordinator
Amy works at Monash University as a Senior Digital Marketing Coordinator. She is an experienced and ambitious web/digital content and development professional. Her skills include web development and design, web content management, HTML, CSS, CMS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, content writing and editing, user experience, usability, accessibility, user acceptance testing, usability testing, information architecture, graphic design and social media.…
Yulia Edirisinghe
Marketing Services Account Manager
Yulia works as a Marketing Services Account Manager at align.me. She is an exceptional B2B marketing professional – understanding not only the concepts behind sales and marketing strategy, but also what it takes to execute these ideas to produce real business growth. Yulia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Accounting from Monash University, giving her the advantage of a deep understanding of marketing coupled with strong analytical skills.…
Dominik Elias
Product Marketing Manager
Dominik Elias is Tiger Pistol’s Product Marketing Manager, responsible for ensuring that the Tiger Pistol product vision comes to life in the market place. Her passion for innovative technology and marketing has led to a career primarily in the SaaS space, most recently working with Mimecast. Dominik’s specialty for applied data analysis has seen her successfully establish marketing strategies which have resulted in increased brand awareness and growth in leads.…
Jen Fein
Founder
Jennifer is Founder & CEO at YouLi. Driven to constantly improve herself and others by focusing on getting things done and done right. She enjoys connecting people and empowering them to make change. Jennifer is a geek at heart, originally a programer, but she has learned to communicate across functions and she is happiest when she can bring people to the table and move a new product from inception to launch.…
Female Coders Lab
We run beginner-friendly study groups for women interested in web development and design.
Our focus is on practical, shared learning and community involvement.
In our fortnightly meetups we work on personal projects or online courses together, making it easier to ask for help, recommend resources, and learn from one another.…
Emma Franz
Filmmaker
Emma Franz is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker and jazz singer-songwriter with twenty-five years experience in stage performance, television and cinema. She is a cinema director and producer, a cinematographer, scriptwriter and editor. A number of music and film projects have taken her across 6 continents and 33 countries, providing the opportunity to associate and work with a diverse range of people from various cultures, social structures and political histories.…
Sophia Frentz
PhD Candidate
Sophia Frentz is a PhD student in Genetics at the MCRI and the University of Melbourne, looking into potential treatments for early-onset mitochondrial disorders. She completed undergraduate at the University of Otago, also in Genetics.
She was named one of 20 young australians on the cusp of greatness (despite being a kiwi), and was recently featured as “20 in their 20s” in the RiAus Ultimate Science Guide.…
Katie Gall
Creative Director
Katie is the Co-founder and Creative Director of games marketing consultancy, Lumi Consulting.
Katie is always looking for opportunities for industry crossover, alternative games funding models, new technologies to be integrated and support for the growth of the Australian Industry through key relationship management.
Katie has consistently pushed to introduce international and local successes from other industries to look at Australia and Victoria as one of the highest quality and highest growth games development industries in the world.…
Kelsey Gamble
Head of Community
Kelsey is an award winning Marketing professional specializing in Community and Social Media management. She also has great experience in event management, above the line advertising, influencer engagement, PR/media etc. She is an integrated marketing professional who brings a wealth of experience and insight to the table. Be it direct marketing, content design or digital strategy, Kelsey is long-sighted in her approach and always manages buy-in from the key stakeholders of any project.…
Lauren Gardiner
HR Strategist
Lauren works at IE Digital as an HR Strategist. She is an HR Professional with six years of experience working in an IT, Digital and Professional Services environment. She has recently obtained a Master of Commerce (HR) from Swinburne University. She provides Strategic Consulting, Agile Marketing, Platform Development, On-site Teams and Product Incubation to some of the largest and most loved brands in Australia.…
Shahirah Gardner
PR Director
Founder/ director of Launchcode PR, love all things startup, entrepreneurship and connecting with smart, inspiring people.
Michelle Gleeson
Development Team Lead
Michelle has been kicking around the tech scene for 15 years. By day a code-wielding diva crafting beautiful software for Xero, by night a passionate activist helping to level the tech gender imbalance, one empowered coding sister at a time. Supported by two eccentrically-delightful young children, a wonderful husband, and an over-indulged cat, she is living and loving the Melbourne life, indulging a passion for tech, food, wine and all delights her beautiful city has to offer.…
Catalina Gonzalez
Catalina is always keen to talk to recruiters, employers and organisations looking for a can-do and will-do in people. Equipped with not just excellent qualifications and training, she has worked very hard to accumulate skills and experience that have been successfully tried and tested working for global brand organisations such as CSL, The University of Melbourne and La Trobe University.…
Emily Gornalle
I’m an organiser & advisor aiming to make the world kinder. Volunteer @CraigieburnSES, organiser @GirlGeekAcademy. Asexuality advocate & cofounder of ASECI. Views are own!
Penelope Grellet
Senior Development & Capability Lead
An accomplished and future focused Organisational Development professional with over 12 years’ experience working across industries including engineering, tech and banking. Penelope’s experience spans the full spectrum of ‘People & Culture’ including Human Resources and Learning & Development with specialist skills in Organisational Development, Employee Engagement and Leadership.
She has particular expertise and a passion for feeding company culture with innovative and holistic solutions that enable organisational success whilst inspiring and challenging team members.…
Laura Grundy
Operations Manager
Laura works as a Operations Manager at Southern Innovation. She is driven by science and technology’s power to create a better society. She enjoys working in the innovation sector transforming advanced research into commercial products for a variety of industry needs, and she thrives on the dynamic and challenging environment. Laura has formal qualifications in science and intellectual property, and completed an MBA at Melbourne Business School in 2013.…
Sam Hayes
Laboratory manager
Bsc(H)Environmental Science.
Occupational Hygiene Consultant Hazardous Building Materials, Laboratory Manager for Asbestos Identification, Airborne Asbestos Fibre Monitoring, Respirable and Inhalable Dust.
Technical Assessor – Chemical Testing for National Accreditation Testing Authorities
Maeva Heim
Marketing & Brand Manager
Maeva is a Marketing Manager at League of Extraordinary Women. She is strategic and operational Marketer with experience across global luxury beauty, fast fashion and FMCG brands, who takes initiative and thrives in both collaborative and autonomous environments. In addition to possessing an exceptional skill set that combines strategic planning and operational excellence, Maeva has a keen eye for detail and a penchant for creative content generation.…
Yolanie Hettiarachchi
Technical Recruiter
Yolanie is a Consultant at Robert Half Technology. She is passionate about all things tech. Outside her corporate life, she enjoys meeting Melbourne’s change-makers, innovators and entrepreneurs and she is inspired by those who create value in the community. She takes a grassroots approach to recruiting, meeting many of my clients and candidates at Meetups and industry events.…
Jasmine Holmes
Graphic Designer
Jasmine dreams of a world free of spelling errors, an endless supply of paper and where she can always find a pen. As a graphic designer and lettering artist with 8 years of experience, she has a wealth of knowledge in a range of areas. Having freelanced in a wide range of places, from places like Melbourne Business School, Truly Deeply, to large corporations like Officeworks, MacMillan Shakespeare, Uniqlo and her current part time freelance position at Rolex Australia, she is kept busy.…
Karen Hutchinson
HR Generalist
HutchinsonKaren is a Human Resource Generalist at Rockwell Automation. Her position as Human Resource Generalist includes undertaking Payroll, Compensation & Benefits, Recruitment, and SAP Super User responsibilities for the South Pacific region. However, with the organisation’s international bearings, there are times when her position is provided with career developing opportunities that expand outside of my normal responsibilities.…
Emelia Jackson
content and pr manager
Emilia works as a Content and PR Manager at YourGrocer. MasterChef series 6 semi-finalist and former marketing coordinator, she graduated from Monash University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Psychology & Management/Marketing, has travelled extensively and done the whole reality TV show thing. Her love of all things food, namely sugar, is deeply ingrained. She has been an avid cook long before her stint on MasterChef and since the show has only had experiences that have seen her gain experience and love for the field of hospitality.…
Alice James
Academic Dean of Science
I am currently Academic Dean of Science and STEM co-ordinator at Kilvington Grammar School, an independent school in Ormond, Victoria. I completed my education at Cambridge University and completed a Masters of Education whilst working at a school in London. It was while working in London that I developed skills in engaging students through practical, hands on activities in Science lessons and I worked extensively on enriching STEM skills in learners.…
Meegan Jia-Good
Event Designer
Meegan is an event professional who predominantly works with corporate organisations to create events that strengthens culture and focuses on specific business outcomes. Her events range from small workshops, product launches, hackathons to large national conferences. Meegan pops up all over Melbourne, joining panels, facilitating workshops and managing creative conferences for some of the coolest people in town.…
Anna Kamasz
Digital Producer
Anna is an award-winning Digital Producer with a passion for telling engaging stories using new technologies. She works at Australian Children’s Television Foundation. For over a decade, Anna has been working for Australian screen based organisations producing high quality multi-platform programs for distribution to international screens, with an expertise in the creation of innovative content specifically designed for the Australian education market.…
Arna Karick
Astronomer/e-Research Consultant
Astronomer by trade who likes to hack. Spent years in research before moving into an e-Research consultant role – think “big data” solutions and research software training in STEM. I’ve just finished a 3yr stint with Swinburne Research. I’m still figuring out my next career but in the meantime I’m trying to build up a community of tech savvy researchers in astronomy.…
Amandeep Kaur
Software Developer
Amandeep is a Senior Software Developer at ANZ. She has extensive development experience as a server side developer in using Java, Spring, REST, JMS and SOAP web services, XSDs, XSLT, JUnit, Mockito, Spock, Hibernate, iBATIS/MyBatis, WebSphere, Tomcat, JSP and Servlets. She has had a lot of exposure to frontend technologies such as JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS 3, and JSON.…
Melanie Kaw
Digital Designer
I am a digital designer, an experimental photographer, an amateur guitarist, and a traveling aficionado. Working in London and studying multimedia in Paris fueled my passion for innovative user-centered and elegant design. I have worked across a range of brands and have experience in front-end dev, design, photography, marketing and UX.
Tamara Klisaric
Content Manager
Tamara is a Content Manager at Telstra. She is a commercially focused & results driven marketer, with a 10 year track record of delivering effective integrated marketing communications campaigns for a wide range of blue-chip global brands across multiple markets worldwide. Proven track record in retail and digital planning, social media, ATL, activation, delivery & evaluation across industries including financial services and telecommunications.…
Kelly Lai
Having spent most of her life in a city that sees sub 30°C extra-long winters, Kelly decided to wander south of the equator to experience this “four seasons” she has heard so much about. After getting her MBA back in Canada, she worked for a Big 4 consulting firm, providing advisory services to multinational companies as it related to their strategy and operations.…
Lemonade Stand
Lemonade Stand is a 2 day business building and entrepreneurship program for 9-12 year olds.
Our aim with the program is to foster equality through teaching the mindsets needed to succeed in a fast moving century – for girls and boys alike.
By teaching these topics to a young age group we can tackle the biases which come into career decisions later in life.…
Brigitte Lewis
Web Developer/Academic Communications
Brigitte is good at telling stories, creating connections, analyzing where connections need to be made and inspiring change. If it’s content you need – whether it’s digital or print, she will without a doubt deliver it interesting, with innovative SEO words designed for you. If it’s editing you want, her eye for detail combined with her speed will get the job done.…
Krijstelle Liao
UX designer
Krijstelle is a UX designer. She loves UX because it allows her to wear different hats, as an interface designer, researcher, information architect, and interaction designer. Over the years she has developed her skillsets in interface design, in both physical and digital space. Her industrial design background provides her with a strong grounding in Human Centred Design, including problem solving and stakeholder management.…
Natalie Linsdell
Junior Account Manager
Natalie works as a Junior Account Manager in Publicis CUBED. She is a strong communicator with a sound work ethic and the ability to work well within a team. Goal orientated with a thirst for knowledge striving for success in both work and competitive sport. Enjoys working in a culturally diverse environment and relates well with people from all areas of business.…
Michelle Mannering
Co-Founder
Michelle is a Co-founder of Black AI, a collective of creative, talented minds who like to build awesome stuff because they can. The Black team has won a number of awards including Best Overall Prize and ‘Best Cortana/Azure Implementation at the Microsoft Personal Computing Hackathon and 1st place at the Startup Weekend Melbourne. She is an entrepreneurial kind of person, foodie, sports nut, tech head, adventurer, gamer, movie-goer, reader, all-round cultured, amateur digital artist.…
Cat Matteson
Full Stack Designer
Cat is currently working as a Full Stack Designer. She has had a lot of successful projects during her career where she obtained a lot of useful skills such as Graphic Design, Web Design, Web Development, WordPress Development and Communication Strategies.
Michelle Matthews
Founder and publisher of Luckie guides.
Publisher and doer launching Luckie in 2016. Luckie Inc is a brand new, niche travel publishing company by Michelle Matthews, the creator of Deck of Secrets guides.
Caroline McQueen
Manager, Digital Operations
Caroline is a Manager at Jetstar Airways. She is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of Jetstar’s group of websites across 4 airlines, 14 countries and 9 languages. Her current portfolio includes analytics, optimisation, digital content, SEO, translations and regionalisation. Prior to this, Caroline worked in a variety of digitally focused roles including analytics, product management, project management, consulting and customer retention.…
Nicole Meaker
Project Manager
Nicole is currently working as a Project Manager. She is a creative computer engineer and experienced project manager, freelancing to education and community focused organisations who have a design or technology project in the built or urban environment.
Deanna Michael
Digital Producer
Deanna is passionate about all things advertising, digital and UX. She is highly commercially-driven Senior Project Manager / Creative Producer with extensive experience in Digital and Creative Service Management, Operations and Account Management. Well versed with managing multiple deadlines, budgets and resources, she has spent my advertising and marketing career delivering integrated campaigns across all channels.…
Anne Miles
Managing Director
Anne Miles is Managing Director of International Creative Services, specialists in match-making brands with marketing and advertising suppliers across all platforms. Anne has over 30 years experience producing content for brands of all shapes and sizes having been Head of TV in multi-national advertising agencies. Now trained as a business coach, with additional training in consumer psychology and marketing, Anne oversees the business across broadcast, digital and print.…
Lindsey Mineff
Director
Lindsey’s passion is in the arts. She is s well established photographer and graphic designer by trade. She regrets no jobs she has done in the past, as they were all stepping stones to get her where she is headed. She is now the proud director of Hardcopy Cartel. For her, there’s no greater feeling than helping businesses present themselves to the world though branding that reflects their values and mission.…
Eve Mizzi
Founder
The Founder of SHE IS KIND with a vision for the future where women praise, encourage, complement & support one another & themselves! Eve’s works with women to increase their self-awareness, self-worth & create a positive mindset. SHE IS KIND is also a place to celebrate amazing, kind, self-aware women. And for these women to get to know each other, build friendships & working relationships to create positive change in the world.…
Sarah Moran
CEO
I’m Sarah Moran, an Australian woman with a love of humans, the internet and a good session of karaoke. I love meeting new people and specialise in giving hugs.
I write here. I’m a bit ranty and foul-mouthed but I am passionate and unapologetic in the right way. Sometimes I also publish my writing on Huffington Post.…
Alexandra Morey
Senior Engineering Consultant
Alexandra is a Human Factors and Safety Engineer with experience in designing systems to improve safety in both Medical and Rail related industries. Besides a Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, she has undertaken formal qualifications in Cognitive Engineering, Product Management and Safety System Interface design, holds a Masters in Human Factors Engineering is a qualified trainer with Cert IV in Training and Assessment and has undertaken training in Product Management.…
Lilly Moyle
Digital Communications Coordinator
Currently working in the health promotion sector. Interested to increase my digital skills.
Ines Norman
Digital Producer
Digital Producer. 24. Australasian lady. Often questioning how I get covered in Glitter & Sparkles.
Jen O’Brien
Director
Jennifer is working as a Director at 5Flags. She is a collaborative, outcome focused leader, with over 15 years experience working within the private and public mental health sector in a range of clinical, training, project management and leadership roles. Currently she is working in management positions at two organisations; Foundation House and 5Flags. Well known for her broad work towards improving the health and community sector through training, education and utilising technology to support organisations to work effectively and efficiently with their stakeholders.…
Grace O’Hara
Experiential Marketing Coordinator
A creative young thing, with a passion for making the world a better place.
A few things that I enjoy are…
– Creatively disrupting outdated social norms
– Collaborating with unlikely combinations of people
– Measuring success in terms of happiness
– Finding new problems to solve, friends and adventures
Kate Olsson
Digital Marketer
Kate is currently working as a Digital Marketer at Loud & Clear Creative. She is a creative, adaptable, results-driven digital marketing coordinator with a passion for technology, innovation and continued learning.
Vikki Ong
Illustrator
Melbourne based Illustrator, Animator and Designer with a passion for colour, character concepts, movement and storytelling. I’m here to learn all I can and create something meaningful.
Stephanie Pagano
Product Owner
Stephanie is a Product Owner at MYER. She has an incredible work ethic and produces high quality work. Her attention to detail in terms of visual merchandising is evident with the presentation of the MYER website. She plays the crucial role of co-coordinating any marketing/promotional activity, liaising with Marketing, Online, SEO and Digital teams. As well as this, Stephanie provides endless support to the Online Merchandise team, utilizing her extensive knowledge in online content management systems to provide guidance and direction to the team.…
Caroline Parisy
Head of HR
Years of experience working with emergent technologies, I am responsible for the development and implementation of all HR and organisational strategy and initiatives to support the business strategy. Working for the benefits of IE’s best assets, its people, and making sure that everyone enjoy their work! I have a specific interest in employees engagement and the latest HR technologies, to empower businesses and employees with the right tools, efficient communication systems, professional growth and decisions making processes.…
Charlotte Petris
Founder & CEO
Charlotte founded Timelio, Australia’s leading peer-to-peer invoice finance platform, after experiencing first-hand how difficult it was for businesses to raise finance. A Chartered Accountant and corporate financier with 20 years of experience advising and helping businesses access capital, she understands the constraints many people face trying to grow a business without access to finance. Having lived and worked in NZ, UK, Singapore and Australia, working in some of the world’s largest banks, she sees Timelio as an opportunity to “do it different” in the world of finance.…
Rhiannon Poley
Office Manager
Office Manager for Mighty Games Group, creators of Shooty Skies. On study hiatus from a BA in Internet Communications. Interested in writing, marketing and social media. Also coming up with mad game ideas I have no intention of making.
Kira Poole
Senior Digital Marketing Executive
Kira is currently working as a Senior Digital Marketing Executive at APT. She is a digital marketing professional specialising in social media marketing, content management and digital advertising. An innovative and driven individual with a strong passion for digital marketing and extensive experience working with B2C, B2B AND FMCG companies. She has an exceptional mix of creative and project management skills which makes her perfect for the digital world.…
Danielle Price
Founder
As the founder of She Will Shine, I am passionate about supporting women in business and have created a village for female business owners across Australia. It’s a village born from a desire to genuinely connect with other like-minded women who completely understand the highs and lows of being a business owner. The wins and successes, the isolation and frustration – in addition to the responsibilities of everyday life.…
Alice Pryor
Campaigns Manager
Digital media guru Alice is passionate about supporting parents to make positive change. Formerly Deputy Mayor at Moreland City Council, Alice is a seasoned champion of community rights and has previously worked in digital communications. Mum to Charlie (5) and Annabel (18 months), Alice gets that parents are always learning and loves exchanging tips and advice with Parents’ Voice online community
Sue Qi
Content Creator / Blogger
Sue is a young but ambitious woman who works in the media industry by day and creates beauty content for brands and her blog by night.
Remya Ramesh
Experience Design Lead
Experience Design Lead at Seamless, Remya Ramesh loves creating simple, task-focused, inclusive digital experiences. Ten years in digital, she comes with diverse experience ranging UX/CX design, business analysis & strategy, product innovation and project management. A meetup community member for 6 years Remya co-organises Ladies That UX and Girl Geek Dinners Melbourne. She also loves to crochet and dance.…
Ange Recchia
Website Developer
Ange has networked online and created websites since 2006. In that time, she has been involved in online communities across various social media platforms and forums ranging from WordPress related to Entrepreneurs to Health and Sports forums. Her goals and priorities are to inspire others, build networks of likeminded people and work with individuals and companies who require Web Content and Social Media Management.…
Jennifer Rickward
Freelance Animator
I’m Jennifer Rickward. I’m an animator. I like to make pictures and make them move.
Motion graphics tickle me pink. I am enamoured by illustrations that are choreographed to rhythmic melodies and harmonies.
Having not too long ago graduated from the field of Interactive Entertainment. I now solicit my services and skills to those who seek creativity, innovation and a fresh unadulterated perspective.…
Ahmed Salama
Creative director and founder
Ahmed works at That Startup Show as a Creative Director and Founder. He is an award winning creative director, designer, developer and patent author. Ahmed’s passion for startups began when he began designing and selling websites door to door at age 14. Since then, he’s won numerous awards and nominations (two time Directors Guild Award Nominee, AIMIA Award winner) for his prolific work in digital storytelling.…
Sharon Samson
Digital Delivery Manager
Proud Mum of 2. Delivering Digital Technology @ANZ_AU. Advocate for #diversity #womenintech #STEMforkids #fintech. Love to work, play and swim.
Rachel Service
PR
I help ace work and life in workshops and talks as the Happiness Concierge. I also help people and businesses get known as experts as a public relations professional.
Anne Sidebottom
Chief Executive Mum
Anne works as a Digital Producer at Paradise Seeker. She is a natural problem-solver and approaches all opportunities and challenges with a unique mix of pragmatism and empathy. Considers herself obsessed with learning and bringing a positive, optimistic view to every scenario. She loves working with like-minded people (colleagues, customers, suppliers) to solve problems and create mutually rewarding relationships.…
Bron Thulke
Web Developer
I’m a full stack web developer, with a software engineering background. I work with a variety of development stacks but mostly .NET, and I love sharing my knowledge and passion with others!
Out of hours I’m a mum, a gamer and a gadget lover. I also love playing with electronics and have a dream of one day having the time and energy to really sink my teeth into some “making”!…
Hima Tk
Business and Technology Consultant
I like problem solving and finding innovative solutions to the problems faced by the businesses. I analyse data to develop insights and design solutions. I am currently the part of the team building the Robotic Process Automation capability within the organisation. Working across three continents (Asia, North America and Australia) over these years has exposed me to a wide range of industries and cultures.…
Angela Tuazon
Consultant / Operations Manager
Angela works at Good People HR as a Consultant. She is focused on providing high quality recruitment and executive search services. Angela is responsible for strategic candidate sourcing methodologies to fulfill positions at all levels across a range of different industries. Her goal is to deliver a high quality recruitment to reduce the risk of poor hiring decisions.…
Kadri Uljas
Digital nomad
Kadri is a Digital nomad at Tech Sisters in Estonia. She and her team think the world needs a more diverse group of people taking part in developing new technological solutions. So they are aiming to encourage women to step out of their comfort zone, to experiment and learn new things. They organize awesome Rubi on Rails hack events, Monthly Networking event, write tech-blog to Estonian biggest women magazine Anne&Stiil and just try to spread the love for technology as much as they can.…
Mel Vanroyen
Mobile and New Media Marketing Manager
Mel works as a Mobile and New Media Marketing Manager at Monash University. Having worked into the fields of culture for such a long time, she is always a good person to talk to because she is ‘obliged’ to know something about any theme. Her greatest passion is Heather Graham movies.
Jessica Vovers
PhD Candidate
Born in Thailand and raised in the US, Cameroon and Adelaide, Jess has completed her BSci (Chemical Systems), DipLang (Japanese) and MEng (Biochemical, with Distinction) at the University of Melbourne, with a brief exchange in Japan. Jess is undertaking her PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with a focus on sustainable solvents. In particular she aims to replace petrochemical solvents for bio-derived ones in the extraction of natural products, specifically pharmaceutical compounds from opium.…
Maize Wallin
Composer and audio engineer
Maize Wallin is a Melbourne based composer (technically educated at VCA), a curator and creator of live art shows, as well as teaching Sound for Interactive Media, and Composition at the Australian Institute of Music.
Maize works predominantly in installation and live art, most recently directing Encounters, a large scale public art installation for Summer Salt and White Night festivals by Microsoft Social NUI lab and VCA.…
Ally Watson
Developer @ Deepend, Co-Founder of Code Like a Girl
.NET developer by day, founder of Melbourne-based organisation Code Like a Girl by night/weekends
Caitlin Watson
Office Administrator
I’m the Office Administrator for Women’s Legal Service Victoria (WLSV) – a NFP community legal service for women experiencing relationship breakdown and family violence. Over the past four years with WLSV I have enjoyed maintaining and developing the website and social media accounts, assisting with a range of in house projects, coordinating many events, coordinating our large volunteer program, and providing governance assistance to the CEO and Principal Lawyer.…
Kirsty Watts
Academic Dean of Technology/eLearning
Kirsty is currently working as an Academic Dean of Technology at Kilvington Grammar School in Melbourne. She is teaching Maths and IT classes for Year 7 to Year 11. Her top skills are educational technology and teacher training.
Jessica Welsh
Designer
I work as a designer for an online hospitality training company called Typsy. I also run my own side project business called Jessica Marree which is an online print shop selling fine art prints for your home. Jessica Marree is also available for commission-
• Custom Wedding Stationery
• Logo Design
• Illustration
• Textile and Surface Design
Jessica Williams
Freelancer and Consultant
Jess Williams has worked in both sales and marketing for over five years, helping grow some of Australia’s fastest growing companies including those on BRW’s fast 100 list.
Jess has a passion for entrepreneurship and created Entrepreneur Social Club last year, already one of Australia’s fastest growing and largest startup communities, attracting over 2,000 members in only 6 months.…
Cassandra Wright
Digital Media Worker
_xd83d__xdc4d_ B. Comms (Media) + Grad Cert. Marketing Graduate
_xd83d__xdcbb_ Digital Marketing & Social Media Coordinator
_xd83d__xdcfb_ Presenter on 3RRRFM’s Byte Into It + Board Secretary of SYN Media
Zerafina Zara
Communication for leadership and video presentation skills coach, Founder
My background is in the music industry, and I was even on MySpace, trying to create connections with my music (yes, that long ago.)
I’ve been coaching nonverbal communication for leaders, and found a lot of work with people having video conference meetings. This has led to working more with video and small businesses, both in how they are coming across on video, and in how to empower themselves with as much know-how about the equipment for making video, and how to connect online with their video content.…
GIRL
GEEKS
ARE
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We want to raise the profile of women in technology and encourage more of you to speak, teach and be visible to the women on their way up. We need more role models and yes – you are one!
We invite you to become a member of Girl Geek Academy so we can say: “Here’s what Girl Geeks look like and here is what they do”.
For $99 we will:
– help you write your bio if you don’t already have one
– give you first access to our events, which usually sell out in 24 hours
– share with you the Girl Geek Academy personal brand kit
Help us reach 1000 women and let’s continue to create #SheHacks, #SheMakes and #SheMakes_Games and also help us launch new initiatives the Girl Geek way.
We have plenty more up our sleeve and we need your help to make it happen. If you’re up for helping us get to one million girl geeks become a member today!