Anders Sörman-Nilsson

Anders Sörman-Nilsson (Global EMBA / LLB) is a futurist and the founder of the think tank and trend analysis firm - Thinque, which provides data-based research, foresight and thought leadership assets for global brands. The company's vision is to disseminate and decode ‘avant-garde ideas which expand minds and inspire a change of heart’, and clients include Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, McKinsey, Jaguar Land Rover and Lego. He is an awarded keynote speaker who helps leaders decode trends, decipher what’s next and turn provocative questions into proactive answers. He has published 3 books on digital transformation and innovation, is a member of TEDGlobal, Entrepreneurs Organization where he is the Sydney Chapter's Leadership Impact Chair and was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders in 2019.

He is the host of the 2nd Renaissance Podcast  and his futurist thinking has been shared by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Review, Monocle, BBC, South China Morning Post, Esquire and ABC TV.

AGWA looks forward to hosting Anders Sörman-Nilsson in this important discussion.

Professor Barry James Marshall

Professor Barry Marshall is a Nobel Laureate, WA Life Science Ambassador, Clinical Professor and Brand Ambassador at The University of Western Australia (UWA). Professor Marshall (UWA graduate-class of ’74), and Emeritus Professor J Robin Warren were awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. Professor Marshall returned to Perth and UWA in 1996 after a tenure at the University of Virginia. In 1998 Marshall was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2008 he was elected as a Foreign Member of the prestigious US National Academy of Science, an institution that was established in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. In 2015 Barry Marshall was awarded the China Friendship Award.

Today, Professor Marshall is the Director of The Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research and Training, founded in his honour. In addition to Helicobacter pylori research, the Marshall Centre is at the forefront of infectious disease identification and surveillance, diagnostics and drug design, and transformative discovery. His research has expanded with his group to embrace new technologies including next generation sequencing, and genomic analysis. His innovative thinking has recently led him to develop a novel approach for diagnosis of gastrointestinal disorders through artificial intelligence and analysis of bowel sounds.

Grace Lam

Fashion Director / Founding Sr Fashion Editor VOGUE China

Grace Lam is one of Asia’s most prominent editors, stylists and creative consultants, with over 26 years of experience working in the publishing industry in Europe and Asia.

Born in Hong Kong, Grace began her career at the iconic i-D magazine in London as an editorial assistant and then became a fashion assistant / PA to Edward Enninful OBE who is currently the Editor-In-Chief of British VOGUE. She worked in Shanghai as part of the original team to launch VOGUE China. For a decade, her role as the magazine’s Senior Fashion Style Editor saw her producing editorial content, photo shoots and events while working with local and international celebrities and industry greats including Hugh Grant, John Woo, Jude Law, Maggie Cheung, Daniel Wu, Tang Wei, Lana Del Rey, Alexa Chung, Paolo Roversi, Mario Testino, Annie Leibovitz, Steven Klein, and supermodels including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Gisele Bündchen.

Grace’s work has appeared in renowned publications VOGUE Italia, VOGUE Japan, VOGUE Australia, Harper’s Bazaar Australia, Architectural Digest and Tatler.

Since moving to Perth in 2020, she has been a strong supporter of WA creatives and always pushing creative boundaries to help bring WA to the world stage.

Ken Leung

International Creative Director

Ken Leung is a Malaysian-born, Australian-raised Creative Director whose career has spanned magazine publishing and fashion branding in London and New York.

He has led in-house creative teams, overseeing the visual language for Monocle, 3.1 Phillip Lim, DKNY as well as worked with global clients such as Belvedere Vodka, Calvin Klein and Under Armour. Most recently, he was the Global Creative Director at Uniqlo working across their high-profile collaborations with Jil Sander, JW Anderson and Roger Federer. After nearly two decades away he recently returned to his hometown, trading his fast-paced New York lifestyle for one of balanced creativity and quality of life in Perth.

Anna Louise Richardson

Visual Artist

Anna Louise Richardson is an artist and independent, interdisciplinary curator living and working on a cattle farm in the Peel region south of Boorloo/Perth. Her drawings help her to explore the role of animals in our lives: as food, as business, as part of the environment and as pets.

Richardson is working on a national tour of her solo exhibition 'The Good' co-commissioned by Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and The Condensery with Museums & Galleries of New South Wales. She has had solo presentations in WA, VIC and NSW most recently exhibiting with Abdul-Rahman Abdullah at Fremantle Arts Centre in 2022. She has been a practising artist since graduating with a BA from Curtin University in 2013.

Alongside her art practice Richardson also contracts as an independent curator working with Australian art institutions, festivals and organisations. She has worked for Artsource, The John Stringer Prize and was Lead Curator for ‘The Alternative Archive’ a statewide exhibition series and survey of regional West Australian practice.

Cezera Critti-Schnaars

Director, Performer and Writer

Based in Perth, Western Australia, Cezera is a proud Nyoongar and Greek theatre maker whose passion for theatre started when she was a kid. As a teenager, she branched out into writing her own work, participating in Yirra Yaakin Writers’ Group. She completed the Aboriginal Performance Course at WAAPA in 2018 Since, she has worked with a number of companies in both acting, writing and directing positions. She played the role of Jo March in adaption of Little Women for The Blue Room Theatre and Mel & Sal in 2021 and directed the Ngalaka Daa Ensemble piece for Yirra Yaakin and WAYTco in both 2021 and 2022. Most recently she co-directed Seven Sisters with WAYTco for Perth Festival 2023. For her performance in Hecate (2020) she was awarded Best Newcomer and Best Supporting Actress at the PAWA awards.