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Ben is a successful and effective senior executive in the media, entertainment and events space

Who delivers outstanding results through strong leadership, strategy development and outstanding commercial judgment. He has a unique blend of corporate and legal skills in media, events, digital technology, data analytics, licensing, sponsorship and innovation with a proven ability to deal with diverse stakeholder groups. Ben is a dynamic and versatile leader who is accustomed to driving high performance and achieving results.

Michelle is Head of Enterprise Data Governance at ANZ Bank.

In this role, Michelle is responsible for Data Governance strategy across the group, ANZ Data Privacy and Ethics framework, Enterprise Metadata Management, Data Risk and a Centre of Excellence for Data Quality. Michelle has over 25 years of experience in the world of Data and utilises that knowledge to help foster organised and sustainable large scale analytical environments for commercial success.

Michelle has a particular interest in building frameworks for ethical data use by successfully developing ANZ’s principles for Data Ethics.

Michelle is a regular speaker at Information Management and CDO conferences on Data Ethics, Data Governance and other key data management topics.

Steve is Chief Analytics Officer at data sharing technology company, Data Republic.

With a career spanning more than twenty years in the data industry, Steve has held positions in research, data, analytics and innovation in companies such as Experian and Westfield.

Steve is currently involved with many aspects of the data industry including privacy, compliance, governance, public policy, data science, data for social good, personalisation and data commercialisation. He works with many of Data Republic’s investors and clients to develop greater value from data activities whilst maintaining the highest standards of data governance and compliance.