In Fearless Conversations Episode 9: Innovation and Enterprise, we unpack the rapidly shifting landscape of business in 2021, bringing together some of our brightest minds to answer questions such as:
Hosted by The Advertiser’s Joe Tauriello, join Flinders University Professor Melissa de Zwart, Flinders student Eloise Hall, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Taboo Period Products, Tammy Barton, Founding Director of MyBudget, and Andrew Nunn, Co-Founder, Chairman & Executive Director of JBS&G Australia as they discuss the changing faces of innovation and enterprise in the modern world.
Professor Melissa de Zwart
Jeff Bleich Centre,
Flinders University
Professor Melissa de Zwart is Professor (Digital Technology, Security & Governance) Jeff Bleich Centre, Flinders University. She is a thought leader in the effective regulation of technology, particularly space and cyber, and the role that law plays in shaping the use and deployment of such technologies.
Melissa is a Fellow and Board Member of the Australian Academy of Law, Deputy Chair of the Space Industry Association of Australia and Board Member of the Space Law Council of Australia and New Zealand. Formerly Dean of the Adelaide Law School, she has significant experience in academic administration and legal education, as well as the professional practice of law, having practised at Allens Linklaters and CSIRO before completing her PhD at Monash University. She has published widely on issues of internet regulation, surveillance, privacy and the commercial and military uses of outer space.
She also serves as a Legal Officer (Reserve) in the Royal Australian Navy.
Tammy Barton
Founding Director,
MyBudget
Tammy Barton is one of Australia’s most influential business women and female entrepreneurs. She’s the founding director of MyBudget, a service that Tammy started as a home-based business in South Australia more than 20 years ago (1999), and which has since grown into one of Australia’s most trusted and recognised financial services brands.
MyBudget relieves money worries and helps people achieve their financial goals via personal budgeting and money coaching. Today, the business employs more than 270 staff and has helped more than 110,000 clients. Tammy is a respected authority on personal budgeting and money management, who regularly features in the media as a personal finance expert and influential entrepreneur. She has won the Telstra Business Woman of the Year (South Australia) twice, the Australian Government Business Innovation Award among multiple other recognitions, including Ernst & Young’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Central Region.)
Tammy was an advisory board member of BankSA for eight years, and is currently an active board member of the South Australian Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, Project Gen Z, the Advisory Board at the University of Adelaide School of Management and the Adelaide Economic Development Agency.
Tammy’s mission is to continue growing MyBudget. She remains passionately committed to promoting financial responsibility and helping Australians to live free from money worries.
Eloise Hall
Managing Director, Co-Founder, Taboo Period Products
Eloise Hall is the Managing Director and co-founder of TABOO Period Products, a social enterprise that sells pads and tampons in Australia, with all profits dedicated to eradicating period poverty.
Eloise is currently studying business and International relations and is passionate about making structural changes to bridge inequality in our communities. Eloise has been recognised as the youngest of In Daily's 40 Under 40 recipients in 2020, a recipient of the Advertisers, Woman of the Year Rising Star award in 2021, and a 2019 Women in Innovation Finalist.
Andrew Nunn
Co-Founder, Chairman & Executive Director,
JBS&G Australia
Andrew Nunn, Co-Founder, Chairman and Executive Director of JBS&G Australia—one of Australia’s largest privately owned environmental consulting companies—and was awarded EY Entrepreneur of the Year for the Central Region in 2017.
Andrew acts as Director for several companies focussed on property development, private equity investments and entertainment opportunities. In partnership with his wife Alexandra Dimos, he founded the Nunn Dimos Foundation, a philanthropic fund focussed on supporting key social and arts causes in South Australia.
Leader of the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, the South Australian Chief Entrepreneur provides high level, independent advice to the South Australian Cabinet and the business community to enable entrepreneurialism across all forms of business, industry and the public sector.
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