Event info

Event details

Date: 10-11 October 2019

Time: 8:30am - 5:30pm

Location: Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia

Cost: $945 (including GST) per person.

Discounts available for groups of 5 or more - contact us today to discuss.

Why attend TYN Summit 2019?

Exposure to influential speakers and entrepreneurs, subject matter experts and inspiring change makers.
Obtain interactive and practical insight into some of the most relevant issues facing young professionals.
Build personal and professional connections with other attendees.
Gain exposure to new opportunities within the community and potential opportunities to give to others.
Be inspired and empowered to reach your full potential.

How will you benefit?

Receive exposure to fresh perspectives and new knowledge.
Expand critical thinking and problem solving techniques.
Network to create great contacts and opportunities for further career development.
Obtain skills that complement current standard courses and training.
Empower individuals to develop their professional network and leadership skills.

Example Agenda

TYN Summit 2019 delivered a variety of speakers and sessions to inspire and empower attendees to reach their full potential.

We are currently working hard to deliver an exciting agenda for 2019, which promises to be bigger and better than ever before.

Day 1
Day 2

Day 1

Sessions	Agenda
Session 1	Spark your innovative mindset Andrew Walker, BT General Manager, Wealth Reset, TYN Advisory Board member and TYN Summit Executive Sponsor welcomes us to TYN Summit 2019. We explore his career, including pivots from his start-up to corporate life, advice for under 35-year-olds and how to get the most out of TYN Summit 2019.
Session 2	The Oldest Guy at Facebook with Stephen Scheeler. Stephen Scheeler, Former Facebook CEO for ANZ and self-professed ‘Oldest Guy at Facebook’ will inspire audiences with this keynote focused on entrepreneurship, leading through a digital age and the role millennials play in shaping the workforce of tomorrow.
Session 3	Data, Due-Diligence, Divergence and Disruption with Macgregor Duncan, Jana Kapr, Narbeh Yousefian, Natalie Nguyen and Darren Hanna as facilitator. Just as in the 1970s and 1980s technology had to grow into its commercial and managerial maturity, data is now growing in prominence and professionalism. It is an exciting time in the world of data — we stand on the cusp of a new way of doing business, one that will be powered by the information and analytics we have and finding increasingly powerful ways to use data. The financial services sector, like all other digital and data sectors, is changing rapidly. The move to digital technologies, including new regulations and compliance, open source software, and shifting skillsets toward data science and data engineering, are driving significant opportunity in data and analytics. In this session, the panel will discuss the “growing up” of data as a function and the implications it has for people who work with data. The session will also explore the ways in which the pioneers of industry disrupting start-ups are maximising and leveraging this data 'revolution' to create meaningful, interesting and powerful products.
Session 4	1 hour breakout – select 1 of 4 to attend: Work-Life Transition Tactics: Finding a healthy work-life balance is a difficult challenge at the best of times. Changes in work, such as 24/7 digital connectivity are finding many of us struggling with how to ‘switch off’ from work and ‘show up’ in life (and vice versa). While there are many benefits to this new reality, the costs of work-life conflict can be high. Providing an opportunity to get out of ‘automatic pilot’, this session will unpack 7 ‘Work-Life Transition TACTICS’ designed to help us move from work-life interference towards work-life integration! Hack your Habits: Habits – we all have them, whether we like them or not. Habits can have both positive and negative impacts on our personal and professional lives – we can use them to leverage our productivity and increase our success and satisfaction. In this session, attendees will learn the theory behind how habits are formed, and broken and how simple techniques can allow us to shift our mindset and change the way we do things to be more productive with the 24 hours we are given each day. Online Me, Offline Me: Personal and professional branding is critical in a world where role automation is shifting the focus from ‘job title’ to ‘skill set’. Branding is critical both online and offline in this new digital age. This session, led by Matt Tindale, Managing Director of LinkedIn Australia and NZ, will provide clarity to attendees on the power of personal and professional branding and the importance of cultivating and exemplifying a myriad of skills to maximise future career ‘readiness’. The Science of Influence and Change: Through an understanding of the basics of neuroscience and the psychology behind how our brain responds to changes at work or in our environment, attendees will learn to view change as opportunity rather than a threat through a growth mindset and other easy-to-apply strategies.
Session 5	1 hour breakout – select 1 of 4 to attend: Green for Good: Sustainability was once regarded as a competitive and branding parameter for large corporations, a buzzword that was front of mind but not necessarily prioritised in the boardroom. This panel will unpack the current rhetoric surrounding corporate waste and sustainability and then deep dive into the role that innovation will play in the future of sustainability in Australia and Australian workforces. This session will showcase the link between personal and corporate waste, the role that waste, renewables and technologies of tomorrow will play in the Australian workplaces of the future (waste, renewables, technology) and touch on what is needed to boost the ambition of sustainability in the financial services industry and beyond. Tech for Purpose: Technology has materially changed the way humans interact and help one another. As technological developments across all sectors continue to evolve, the opportunity for individuals use technology to deliver benefits to their community has never been greater. This session will explore how young entrepreneurs, designers and leaders across different industries are embracing technology to drive “for purpose” initiatives. Panellists will demonstrate how their technological innovations are helping society realise positive change and will share their thoughts on the power and capacity of technology to disarm geographic, demographic and social barriers. Hack your Social Impact: A vibrant and engaged community underpins any prosperous society. While the rise of social media and an increasingly digitised workforce has helped us connect virtually like never before, the need for community engagement and human connection prevails. In this session, attendees will learn from entrepreneurs, leaders and designers who are passionate about driving positive social change in Australian communities. Panellists will discuss how an entrepreneurial approach to social issues can yield the greatest return for the community at large, and explore the strategies they employed to deliver lasting, positive change. This session will reiterate the important work that community-based organisations deliver and challenge attendees to reflect on how they can harness an entrepreneurial mindset to contribute to and drive positive social impact. Shifts in Global Economic Powers, Emerging Technological Disruption and the International Community: There is a global economic power shift at play before our eyes – the rise of new centres of economic activity in the developing world are expediting new patterns of trade and investment. These trends are encouraging innovative businesses to emerge and are prompting governments to rethink opportunities as well as risk. This session will explore the changing contours of the international community as shifts in global economic powers evolve concurrent with emerging technological disruption, and discuss what this means for big business and individuals alike.
Session 6	Contours of Innovation with Carolyn McCann Carolyn McCann, Group Executive of Customer and Corporate Relations, and TYN Summit Executive Sponsor provides the penultimate keynote address of TYN Summit Day 1. We explore her career, the way Westpac are innovating to improve customer experience and the role of youth leaders in innovating for progress within the financial services industry and beyond.
Session 7	Preparing to seize exponential opportunities with Bucky Beyer. Singularity University is a global learning and innovation community using exponential technologies to tackle the world’s biggest challenges and build a better future for all. Bucky is a Director at Monitor Deloitte and the Sydney Ambassador of Singularity University Sydney Chapter. The purpose of the Sydney chapter is to bring our city, her people, and our team into the global narrative of abundance. As a leading global city Sydney has a robust where yet fragmented innovation agenda, we see our chapter as helping to bring a coherent narrative around innovation, exponentials, and future agendas. We believe the greatest ideas come at the convergence of very different sources. In this keynote, Bucky will explore the latest in exponential technologies and showcase how these technologies are being used to disrupt industries and positively impact the world. Be part of an unforgettable gathering of leaders and change-makers. Explore the exciting convergence of exponential technologies, connect with new people and ideas, and co-create a better world.

Day 2

Sessions	Agenda
Session 8	Resilience, sacrifice and achieving firsts with Nova Peris OAM. Nova Peris OAM is Australia's first indigenous woman elected to federal parliament and the first Aboriginal Australian and Northern Territorian to win an Olympic gold medal. In this inspiring keynote, Nova will take us through her incredible career, the successes and challenges she has experienced and inspire audiences on the importance of sacrifice, resilience and backing yourself.
Session 9	The Land before Avocado with Richard Glover. 'It was simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? Drawing on his recent book, The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover, journalist and ABC Talk Show Host will take us on a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait of a quite peculiar land: a place that is scary and weird, dangerous and incomprehensible, and, now and then, surprisingly appealing. Richard will draw on the enormous strides that Australia has made, how we should be proud of what we've achieved and what we can learn from our past in order to innovate and elevate the future of Australia.
Session 10	1 hour workshop – select 1 of 4 to attend: Productive in a Pickle - Hack your Mindset: Both personally and professionally, we all experience stress and pressure. In this panel discussion, attendees will hear from inspiring individuals who have not only persevered, but flourished in trying circumstances. The session will traverse the topics of how to work efficiently under pressure, how to develop a strategic mindset in high risk and volatile environments and how to focus on a goal, no matter how impossible the odds. With a focus on the diverse career experiences of the panellists, this session will help attendees ‘hack’ their own mindset, and to ensure they remain ‘productive in a pickle’. A Trying Time for Trust: In this session, panellists will discuss the importance of trust: how to build, maintain and restore it in volatile environments. The panel will unpack how communities and customers are demanding transparency from companies more than ever before and examine the adaptations needed for competitive advantage in this environment, touching on examples relevant to financial services and beyond. Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Emotional intelligence underlies our self-awareness, empathy, leadership and resilience. Ina world where the number of people we work with on a daily basis has multiplied, the ability to understand and harness human emotions is critical to success. In this session, attendees will learn how to harness your own emotions and those of others to enhance decision making, improve behaviour and facilitate high performance. Youth Leadership across industries: Leadership is challenging no matter how senior you are. These challenges are compounded further when you are the youngest voice in a room. In this session, we invite panel members to share with attendees their experiences as young leaders and how they have harnessed the power of innovation, design thinking and divergent thought to become industry leaders in their chosen fields. The session will explore how individuals can turn ideas or passions into a career or business, with panel members being invited to share any obstacles they had to overcome in the pursuit of their ideas.
Session 11	Reflection Session: Build your Innovation Toolkit with Luke Hannan. In this 35-minute power session, Luke Hannan will facilitate a TYN Summit first – a reflection session with the aim for attendees to ‘build’ an innovation toolkit of their own. Luke will poignantly direct questions at a personal, table and room level, to ensure attendees reflect on their individual learnings over the past two days and hone in on what they are going to ‘take back’ to their day jobs. This will also act as an opportunity for attendees to hear about the breakout sessions they did not attend, maximising learnings across the two days for all attendees.
Session 12	Integrate to Innovate: Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology with Adam Jacobs, May Lam, Lauren Capelin, Angela Clark and Rob Jarrett as facilitator. Essentially, the vision we have for this panel is to outline that there are many different things that make a successful business tick – employees with entrepreneurial mindset, innovative thought leadership and of course cutting edge technology, business strategy and vision. Our aim is for our attendees to hear from some of Australia’s most dynamic entrepreneurs and thought leaders who have circumvented traditional industries to create innovative, valuable and thoughtful products and services that speak to the constantly changing needs and demands of customers. We are keen for the panel to unpack their personal career journeys, reflecting on how entrepreneurship in the 21st century must extend beyond a job description, title or career journey because arguably, entrepreneurship is a mindset, a way of operating and most importantly, an attitude. The focus on technological innovation will also be a key component of the discussion, as we are keen for attendees to understand how Beem It, The Iconic, Hatch, Assembly Payments and Reinventure have harnessed innovative technology and the changing business/consumer landscape to create successful and viable businesses.
Session 13	Preparing now for whats next with Michael McQueen Michael McQueen is a multi award winning trend forecaster, author and speaker. In this keynote, Michael will inspire attendees and leave them with an action plan for navigating the disruptive industry trends of our time. Michael will explore the five impending disruptions that most leaders and organisations are ignoring at their peril (financial services and beyond), how to foster the mindset and culture required to drive innovation and agility within a team and the key habits and strategies that separate the enduring from the endangered.

Personal

Step outside your comfort zone and open yourself up to new opportunities, ideas and concepts

Professional

Be challenged, extend yourself and learn about new possibilities for your career.

Community

Explore new ways to contribute to the community and build a better future for yourself and others. Be inspired.

The Youth Network Summit 2019