SPEAKERS
Check out some of our awesome speakers for 2021!
They’re eager to share their accumulated experiences and expertise with you to help you be the best digital marketer and social media experts you can be!
Amy Hourigan
Digital Marketing Consultant, Amy Who?
Digital marketing consultant Amy Hourigan has spent the better part of a decade perfecting the art of digital marketing with a strong focus on Search Engine Optimisation. Marrying strong technical knowledge with marketing and communication skills that get people clicking Amy drives both organic and paid markets to her client websites with the aim of business growth.
chris illman
Head of Sales and Marketing, Bickfords Group
South Australian born and bred, holding a Bachelor of Economics from the Flinders University and a Master of Marketing from the Melbourne business school, Chris has spent over 20 years in the FMCG and Liquor industries working in senior Sales and Marketing roles at blue chip global companies including Kraft Foods International, Fosters Group, Southcorp and most recently Head of Sales & Marketing at the Bickfords Group of Companies.
Jen Evison
Freelance Marketing Consultant
Jen is a freelance marketing consultant with over 13 years experience in the digital marketing space. She aims to help businesses understand how digital marketing can help support their business goals with the right strategies, tools, resources, and content. Jen has had the opportunity to work with a variety of brands across the US and Australia – from small family run businesses to large organisations that have website traffic from all around the world.
Kathryn Jensen
Social Media Producer, ABC Adelaide
Over the last three years Kathryn has led the social media and content strategy for ABC Adelaide’s social media platforms. Kathryn has a journalism background with over 10 years in commercial radio and 4 years working with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Her recent role as a Social Media Producer sees her working collaboratively with ABC news, ABC Radio programs and ABC TV programming to create content for social platforms that engages audiences.
Louise Gleeson
Digital Marketing Executive | Sealink Kangaroo Island
Louise has spent the last ten years in the social media and digital space, most recently creating content and strategies with the SeaLink Travel Group to promote the Kangaroo Island, Murray River and greater Adelaide regions. She previously has experience in this space in South Australia in the property and international development industries.
Louise will be chatting to us about creating content to promote tourism destinations, harnessing your partnerships to do so, the benefits of influencer marketing, as well as some key insights for how this worked over the past year with COVID-19.
Mal Chia
Chief Marketing Officer, Ryderwear
Mal is an award-winning marketer and leader who helps brands achieve rapid growth. He is the Chief Marketing Officer at Ryderwear, growing the company from $17M to $42M in 12 months with no funding. Prior to this he was an early Uber employee, launching multiple cities and leading UberEATS in South Australia.
Mal has consulted or worked in-house on globally-recognised brands and startups including Coca-Cola, University of Adelaide, Australian Institute of Business, Vodafone and Microsoft.
Polly love
Marketing Manager, Robern Menz
Polly Love is the marketer behind one of South Australia’s most iconic businesses, Robern Menz. In her role as Marketing Manager, she is responsible for the marketing activity across Robern Menz’ portfolio of brands, including Menz FruChocs and Australia’s Violet Crumble.
Having obtained a Bachelor’s degree in International Business, Commerce from Flinders University, Polly started out her career in HR at an Adelaide law firm but soon identified she had more of a passion for what made people tick than she did for payroll, resulting in her move to marketing.
Paul gordon
Partner at Wallmans Lawyers
Paul has a broad commercial skill set, with specialisation in the areas of technology, media law, intellectual property and corporate governance. He is one of Adelaide’s leading experts on social media and privacy law, having been recognised in Doyles Guide for Leading Technology, Media and Telecommunications Lawyers and for Leading Intellectual Property lawyers. As a result of his experience, Paul was named amongst Australia’s Best Lawyers in Commercial Law.
He is very generous with his time, often giving answers to basic legal questions on Facebook groups like Social Media Club Adelaide.
Ryan Jones
Founder & CEO, Refuel Creative
Ryan Jones is the founder of Refuel Creative, with over twenty years’ experience in technology, web design, and marketing. Ryan is a skilled marketer, technology consultant and Google Ads specialist.
Ryan is a Certified Professional Marketer. He’s been a speaker at conferences across Australia and South East Asia on marketing, websites and Google Ads.
Along with his passion for technology comes his close-knit, creative, energetic team who achieve results time and time again.
Sarah-Jane Picton-King
Founder & Principal Marketing Consultant, King Pixel Digital Marketing
Sarah-Jane Picton-King (or SJPK) is an award winning brand marketer turned Facebook Ads obsessed.
Her experience working with big corporate brands such as Westfield, Myer Centre, Harbourtown and Oxfam means she is an expert social media marketer. SJPK is now the King of leveraging paid Facebook and Instagram ads, funnel landing pages, eComm websites and lead generation email nurturing at King Pixel Digital Marketing.
Sinteché van der Merwe
Sociologist & Business Lead, expy & McGregor Tan
Sinteché is a Sociologist with a particular focus on business and organisational culture. She is passionate about creating exceptional customer experiences (CX) by identifying current strengths and challenges for businesses, as well as mapping their opportunities and the way forward. Her previous experience is in academia, where she worked as a senior lecturer at the University of South Africa in the field of group dynamics and workplace culture.
Will Giles
Co-Founder, Filtrd Creative Agency
In his relatively short, yet decorated career, Will Giles has led campaigns for ASX listed companies, Australian political parties, Global not for profit organisations and countless small business’ Australia-wide.
Will has also been invited to tour Instagram and Facebook HQ, and most recently collaborated with Canva to be the face of one of their global social media advertising campaigns.Will’s passion for delivering real results, coupled with a drive for pushing the boundaries of the “digital marketing norm” has seen him nominated for various entrepreneurial awards, such as the InDaily 40Under40 awards.