Speakers
From global tech leaders to regional innovators, hear from the minds behind the strategies that are working.
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Yamini Rangan is chief executive officer at HubSpot. Prior to becoming CEO, Yamini served as HubSpot's first-ever chief customer officer, overseeing the marketing, sales, and services teams.
Upcoming Sessions:
HubSpot Spotlight
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Paralympian, disability advocate, author, and philanthropist Dylan Alcott AO is one of Australia’s most successful and well-recognised Paralympians. A multisport Olympian, Alcott was the youngest member of the gold-medal winning team at the Beijing 2008 Paralympics, competing in wheelchair basketball. After winning silver at London in 2012, Dylan returned to wheelchair tennis, winning 15 Grand Slam tournaments as well as double Paralympic gold in Rio. In 2021, Dylan became the only male in any form of tennis to win the ‘Golden Slam’ – winning the Australian, French, Wimbledon, and US Open Championships. Dylan has been in high demand as a speaker, with powerhouse talks for TEDx, Johnson & Johnson, Oracle, Salesforce, McDonalds, Meta, LinkedIn, Deloitte, and more. Alcott was named Australian of the Year in 2022, and GQ Australia called him “a champion for the ages.” In 2017, Dylan launched the Dylan Alcott Foundation with a mission to help young Australians with a disability achieve their goals in the workplace, on the sporting field, or at university. Alcott is also the Founder of Get Skilled Access – a consulting firm committed to making inclusion a reality for organisations of any size. Dylan was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2022 for distinguished service to Paralympic sport, particularly to tennis, and as a role model for people with disability, and to the community through a range of organisations.
Upcoming Sessions:
When The System Doesn't Serve You: How Courage, Vulnerability And Purpose Drive Modern Leadership
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Duncan Lennox is the chief product and technology officer at HubSpot, where he is responsible for the HubSpot product portfolio and leads Engineering, Product, UX, Next Bets, and IT & Security, in service of our mission to help millions of organizations grow. Prior to HubSpot, Duncan held multiple roles at Google and Amazon Web Services, most recently GM for the Applied AI team in Google Cloud, which builds conversational and agentic AI enterprise applications. Previous roles at Google included leading Ads Privacy and Safety, as well as Reliability Engineering for the largest consumer services in the world, including Search, Maps and Ads. At AWS, Duncan was the general manager for Elastic File System, an enterprise storage service. Duncan also spent two decades as the co-founder of two enterprise SaaS startups, where he held both CEO and CTO roles. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and math from University College Dublin. Originally from Dublin, Ireland, Duncan lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, three daughters, and two dogs, Seamus and Reilly. He can often be found drinking Irish tea and talking endlessly about Star Trek or airplanes.
Upcoming Sessions:
HubSpot Spotlight
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Megan Hughes is the Managing Director and VP of Sales for HubSpot in the Japan and Asia Pacific region. for the Australia & New Zealand markets. She is responsibility for growth and business performance across the region. With a career spanning more than 25 years in the technology sector, Megan has honed her expertise with the last 15 years dedicated specifically to technology sales. Her professional journey in the tech sector originally began in marketing and presales before shifting to focus on sales and sales leadership. Megan's leadership ethos revolves around core values of trust, transparency, and authenticity, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and unwavering commitment to high performance. Beyond her professional commitments, Megan finds fulfillment in her role as a parent to her two children, and lives in Sydney, Australia.
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Welcome to GROW ANZ Closing Remarks
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Hamish Grant is an experienced marketer, strategist and business leader with a passion for new technologies and hyper-growth companies. He specialises in category-defining growth strategies from startup to enterprise, and has held a number of senior tech marketing roles in Australia and around the world.
Upcoming Sessions:
From AI Sidekick to System: SafetyCulture’s Playbook for Scaling
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Chris Spence is a senior revenue and go-to-market leader with over 25 years of experience helping organisations adapt to changing buyer behaviour across SaaS, ERP, and enterprise technology. He is currently GM, Enterprise Revenue Growth at MYOB, with accountability for revenue, EBITDA, and customer success across Australia and New Zealand, working closely with partners to modernise go-to-market execution for the cloud and AI era. Chris has held senior leadership roles at Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe, and Hewlett- Packard Enterprise, where he led high-performing, cross-functional revenue teams through periods of platform change, buyer disruption, and operating-model transformation. His experience spans enterprise sales, partner-led growth, revenue lifecycle management, and AI-enabled commerce and pricing models. Known for his customer-centric leadership style, Chris focuses on rebuilding trust between buyers and sellers by aligning sales, marketing, service, and partners around how customers actually buy today. He brings a practical, operator’s perspective on how revenue leaders design unified teams and sustainable growth models in an increasingly AI-powered buying environment.
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Erika Fisher is the Chief Legal Officer at HubSpot, where she leads global legal and compliance functions and helps shape responsible, secure AI innovation. She previously served as Chief Administrative and Legal Officer at Atlassian, overseeing Legal, People, and Customer Support. A tech industry veteran with over 15 years of experience, Erika began her legal career at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. She holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from the University of Miami. She also serves on the board of the Business Software Alliance.
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Hayley Saddleton is a brand strategist with over a decade of experience shaping how global platforms show up in market. Her work sits at the intersection of culture, creativity and commercial strategy, building narratives that give brands clarity and momentum. She began her career in agency strategy, spending several years at EssenceMediacom where she led brand and communications strategy across technology, retail, government and FMCG. It was here she developed a sharp instinct for turning insight into direction, and direction into work that actually lands. Since then, Hayley has held senior brand leadership roles across TikTok and Reddit. At TikTok, she worked across brand strategy, marketing communications and content solutions, helping define the platform’s commercial story across Australia and the APAC region through flagship programs, vertical go-to-market frameworks and scalable storytelling tools. More recently at Reddit, she leads business marketing in Australia, shaping the platform’s narrative with advertisers and agencies and helping drive long-term brand and revenue growth. Hayley is known for her clear-eyed, human approach to brand building; simplifying complexity, backing creative ambition, and helping teams move forward with intent.
Upcoming Sessions:
How Community-Driven Research is Reshaping B2B Purchase Decisions
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Scott Fox is the Chief AI Officer at MOBI, where he leads next-gen AI strategy that’s reshaping how hospitality works. Known for building human-centric systems that deliver results, Scott turns complexity into clarity, unlocking real productivity and real impact. From frontline teams to executive leadership, he’s redefining what’s possible with AI.
Upcoming Sessions:
Force Multiplier: How MOBI Built a Human-AI Team That’s Outpacing Competitors
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Marcel Peifer is Head of Digital at Wilderness, a leader in New Zealand’s tourism and motorhome sector. He is responsible for the company’s digital ecosystem, including core systems, custom platforms, integrations and digital strategy. His work sits at the intersection of technology, customer experience and service operations. Marcel has a strong focus on innovation, the practical use of AI, and using technology to enable teams to spend more time on what humans do best. In a customer-centric business, he balances long-term trust with commercial outcomes, ensuring technology enhances experiences without losing the human touch.
Upcoming Sessions:
Making the Call on AI Agents: Navigating Risk, ROI, and Customer Trust
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Aja Frost is HubSpot's Senior Director of Global Growth, leading the team who drives HubSpot's top-of-funnel demand through SEO and LLM optimisation. She conceived and launched HubSpot's AI Search Grader, the first free tool to help companies understand and optimise for their visibility in AI search. Frost has spoken at SearchLove, SMX, INBOUND, Digital Summit, and her work has appeared in TechCrunch, Fast Company, Business Insider, and TIME, among other publications.
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Kat Warboys is the Senior Marketing Director, APAC at HubSpot, where she is responsible for growing HubSpot’s business across India, Singapore and Australia. She leads a regional team focused on brand, communications, field marketing, revenue marketing, and customer advocacy. As a recognised voice in marketing, Kat is regularly featured in marketing and business publications and is a sought after speaker. Kat champions Loop Marketing - HubSpot's framework for driving growth in the AI era. She advocates for building hybrid teams where humans and AI work together, with humans leading on strategy, creativity, and brand judgment while AI accelerates execution and personalisation at scale. With 15 years' experience in CRM, Kat's expertise spans both B2B and B2C organisations, with a focus on revenue optimisation through connected systems and data-driven strategies.
Upcoming Sessions:
From AI Sidekick to System: SafetyCulture’s Playbook for Scaling
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Marilia Adamson has 15+ years of experience in customer success and solution sales across APAC, with expertise in building high-performance teams and delivering exceptional client outcomes. As Director of Customer Success for JAPAC at HubSpot, she drives strategic initiatives that transform how businesses engage with their customers and leverage technology for growth. Throughout her career at industry-leading organisations including IBM, LinkedIn, Apple, and HubSpot, Marilia has consistently demonstrated her ability to forge strong client relationships and deliver measurable results. Marilia is known for her data-driven approach to optimising customer experiences, streamlining operational workflows, and uncovering valuable insights that drive business transformation. Her passion lies in understanding clients’ unique business challenges and implementing solutions that create lasting impact and value. As a customer success leader, Marilia continues to champion innovative strategies that enhance customer retention, advocacy, and growth across the JAPAC region.
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Graham Hawkins is an award-winning, internationally recognised authority in B2B sales, a bestselling author, and a keynote speaker known for helping organisations rethink how they sell in the Age of AI. Having spent most of his career in the high-tech sector, Graham is widely recognised for his expertise in go-to-market strategy, modern sales leadership, and commercial transformation. Graham is the author of the 2025 bestseller Deep Selling — How to drive growth in the Age of AI. As an in-demand keynote speaker, he delivers practical, provocative insights that help leaders and sales teams adapt, scale, and win in rapidly changing markets. He holds an Executive MBA (Distinction) from RMIT University and is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. Graham is also a part-time lecturer and mentor in the RMIT Executive MBA Program. Today, Graham is the Co-Founder of GRO3 and Co-Founder of Qoos.ai, the world’s first AI-guided selling platform.
Upcoming Sessions:
Deep Selling: A New Sales Mindset, Skillset and Toolset For Sales Leadership
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Jason King is the Director of Corporate Sales, ANZ at HubSpot, where he is responsible for the strategic direction and growth of the corporate sales division. In this role, Jason leads his team through complex market shifts, specifically focusing on the transition into the large-scale enterprise segment. His leadership is defined by a commitment to cross-functional collaboration, ensuring Sales operates in alignment with Marketing and Customer Success to provide a unified customer journey. With a career background that includes executive roles as a General Manager and Digital Director in the media sector, Jason brings a wealth of experience in operational performance and change management to the SaaS landscape.
Upcoming Sessions:
When Buyers Skip Your Funnel: Unified Revenue Frameworks for the AI Era
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Gabrielle Weiss leads Revenue Marketing for HubSpot across APAC, specialising in aligning sales and marketing teams to drive business growth. With 15+ years of experience, she designs targeted marketing initiatives that identify high-intent buyers and convert them into revenue. Her extensive background spans both technology and financial services sectors, having held key marketing leadership positions at Atradius, Colonial First State and Macquarie Bank. Gabrielle excels in customer-centric strategy and data-driven methodology, creating thought leadership events, developing account-based marketing strategies, and implementing content that effectively serves both marketing and sales goals. She loves when marketing teams are goaled on deal creation and revenue, this goes a long way in solidifying how marketing and sales teams align to drive better revenue outcomes.
Upcoming Sessions:
When Buyers Skip Your Funnel: Unified Revenue Frameworks for the AI Era
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Liz Cherry is the Head of Marketing at MOBI, wiring AI into every step of go-to-market. After leading large teams with big budgets, she now runs a one-person, AI-augmented marketing function—using AI to multiply output without sacrificing craft. From brand to pipeline, she ships faster, proves impact, and scales what works.
Upcoming Sessions:
Force Multiplier: How MOBI Built a Human-AI Team That’s Outpacing Competitors
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Amiria is the Head of Integrated Marketing for HubSpot in the APAC Region. Amiria is responsible for growing awareness, consideration and driving business growth for HubSpot across ANZ, Singapore and India. Together with her team, she leads regional brand marketing, communications, and integrated marketing campaigns in the APAC region. With experience in the B2B, B2C and not-for-profit industries, Amiria has nearly fifteen years of marketing and communications experience. Her specialities and passion lie in connecting brand and strategic narratives to integrated campaigns that drive real business outcomes, and in how marketers optimise their human creativity with AI through hybrid, agent-supported team models.
Upcoming Sessions:
The Loop Marketing Playbook: Restructuring Your Go-to-Market for Continuous Growth
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21 April
08:55 AM - 09:00 AM
Main Stage - Pyrmont Theatre
Welcome to GROW ANZ
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21 April
16:00 PM - 16:30 PM
Main Stage - Pyrmont Theatre
When The System Doesn't Serve You: How Courage, Vulnerability And Purpose Drive Modern Leadership
Track: GROW ANZ Session
When the world around you is constantly reshaping, leadership isn't about having all the answers - it's about having the courage to be human.
Drawing from his journey as a world-class athlete, Dylan Alcott shares how embracing vulnerability, rewriting outdated rules, and leading with purpose helped him perform at the highest level. A powerful reflection on resilience, trust, and what it takes to lead when the path forward is unclear or uncharted.
GROW ANZ Session
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21 April
14:00 PM - 14:30 PM
Parkside 2
Force Multiplier: How MOBI Built a Human-AI Team That’s Outpacing Competitors
MOBI is an Aussie-founded restaurant technology company competing against players with ten times the resources - and winning. Their edge: AI embedded across every function, transforming a lean team into a scalable operation serving 4,000+ businesses across 15 countries.
Join MOBI's Chief AI Officer, Scott Fox, and Head of Marketing, Liz Cherry, for a candid look at the leadership decisions behind their AI strategy.
In this session you'll hear how they:
-Prioritised AI investments for immediate ROI
-Built organisational buy-in without disrupting operations
-Deployed hybrid teams delivering 5x campaign velocity, 50% faster onboarding, and AI support resolving half of enquiries
-Navigated where to start, team structures, and realistic outcomes for resource-constrained organisations
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21 April
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Parkside 2
When Buyers Skip Your Funnel: Unified Revenue Frameworks for the AI Era
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AI has transformed both how buyers research solutions and how sales teams engage them. Revenue leaders now face dual trust challenges: externally, when to deploy AI automation vs human engagement with increasingly AI-savvy buyers; internally, how to align sales and marketing around shared frameworks when traditional handoffs are breaking down.
Join Jason King, Corporate Sales Director at HubSpot and Gabby Weiss, Head of Revenue Marketing, HubSpot, for a strategic conversation on the frameworks and leadership decisions required to navigate this new reality.
In this session you'll learn:
-How to build buyer trust in an AI-mediated world—balancing automation with human engagement
-Frameworks for aligning sales and marketing teams, and the organisational shifts required to make them work
-Decision-making approaches for human versus AI engagement at different stages of the buyer journey
-Practical strategies for sales-marketing alignment that work within your existing org structure
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21 April
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Parkside 1
How Community-Driven Research is Reshaping B2B Purchase Decisions
B2B buying behaviour has fundamentally shifted. Today's decision-makers validate vendors inside trusted peer communities long before they engage sales, marketing, or even search. These conversations increasingly shape AI-generated answers, meaning your brand is being evaluated in places you don't own, can't control, and may not even be monitoring.
Join Hayley Saddleton, Senior Lead, Business Marketing at Reddit, for insights on how community-driven discovery is reshaping B2B decisions and what this means for leaders responsible for growth, pipeline quality, and marketing ROI.
In this session you’ll learn:
-Where buyers form opinions before sales enters - and why attribution models miss it
-How peer validation influences complex B2B buying decisions
-How leaders assess community platforms alongside traditional channels and what signals matter
-Why community conversations feed AI discovery and long-term brand defensibility
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21 April
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Main Stage - Pyrmont Theatre
From AI Sidekick to System: SafetyCulture’s Playbook for Scaling
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SafetyCulture faced a scale challenge beyond human capacity: 500,000 signups from 180 countries, all requiring go-to-market support. Their response wasn't to hire more people—it was to build AI agents as operational infrastructure. But how did they make the leap from AI experimentation to agents running core workflows, and what can other leaders learn from their approach?
Join SafetyCulture CMO Hamish Grant for a candid conversation on how his team moved AI from productivity tool to operational backbone.
In this session you'll learn how SafetyCulture's team:
-Evaluated where AI could deliver immediate ROI and built the investment case for GTM engineering
-Deployed agents across lead enrichment, outbound, and lifecycle workflows
-Managed cost and maintained quality at scale
-Navigated the shift from experimentation to operational dependence
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21 April
13:00 PM - 13:45 PM
Parkside 2
Deep Selling: A New Sales Mindset, Skillset and Toolset For Sales Leadership
Join Graham Hawkins for a compelling session on how forward-thinking sales organisations are shifting from volume-driven tactics to value-driven relationships that create lasting competitive advantage.
This session addresses the strategic decisions facing sales leadership today:
-Why traditional sales execution is failing – and what the data reveals about modern buyer behaviour
-Auditing your current model – how to assess your team's execution against best-practice frameworks
-Transforming to Digital-First, Data-Led selling – the signals-based approach aligning your GTM around real buyer intent
-Leading the shift – what it takes to rewire mindset, skill-set and tool-set across your sales organisation
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21 April
14:00 PM - 14:30 PM
Parkside 1
The Loop Marketing Playbook: Restructuring Your Go-to-Market for Continuous Growth
The internet that built our marketing playbooks is gone. AI overviews intercept 60% of search traffic before buyers reach your website. Organic social reach has collapsed while paid media costs continue rising. For marketing leaders, the question isn't "how do we optimise the funnel?" It's "what operating model actually drives growth now?"
Loop Marketing is HubSpot's answer: a continuous cycle where teams express brand perspective, tailor messages to individuals, amplify through diversified channels, and evolve in real time. Rather than fixing a broken funnel, it's a fundamentally different approach to how marketing creates momentum.
In this session, you'll gain decision-making frameworks for three critical marketing transformations:
-Channel diversification strategy: where to reallocate budget as traditional channels decline
-Brand perspective as competitive advantage: why defining your unique perspective cuts through AI-generated content saturation
-Continuous experimentation operating model: how to shift teams from rigid campaign cycles to rapid testing
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21 April
15:00 PM - 15:45 PM
Parkside 1
Making the Call on AI Agents: Navigating Risk, ROI, and Customer Trust
AI agents are no longer a future consideration, they're a present-day competitive differentiator. But for most leadership teams, critical questions remain unanswered: How do you assess the risk of putting AI in front of your customers? What does genuine ROI look like beyond efficiency metrics? And how do you build organisational confidence in a technology that's evolving faster than your governance frameworks?
Join Wilderness' Head of Digital as they share how they evaluated, implemented, and scaled AI agents across their customer experience operations.
You'll hear how these organisations:
-Built the business case for AI agents and secured executive alignment
-Balanced risk appetite with speed to market, and the decision criteria they used to determine readiness
-Connected agent performance to revenue and retention outcomes
-Navigated organisational change as AI reshaped team structures, workflows and customer expectations
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21 April
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Main Stage - Pyrmont Theatre
HubSpot Spotlight
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Track: GROW ANZ Session
Join Yamini Rangan, CEO, and Duncan Lennox, Chief Product and Technology Officer, for this special opening session to hear the latest on HubSpot products and strategy direct from HubSpot’s leadership team.
GROW ANZ Session
GROW ANZ 2026, hosted by HubSpot, brings together 1,000 senior leaders across Australia and New Zealand for a one-day conference.
Learn from global tech leaders and regional innovators through strategic keynotes, executive roundtables, and unmatched networking opportunities with the region's decision-makers.