Lessons Learned in Failure

Murray Galbraith

Best known as co-founder and Creative Director of Myriad, Australia's most influential tech and digital culture event, Murray's multi-award winning career spans several industries and disciplines, including design, media, advertising, technology and events. 

A serial entrepreneur, insatiably exploring the intersection of culture and technology, Murray is the creator of cult streetwear label Because Design, one of Australia’s very first successful Kickstarter projects - Pretty Rad For A Dad along with literally dozens of other startups and side projects. 

A founding board member of BDO for Startups, The Healthy Dads Advisory Board with Beyond Blue and The Aboriginal Art Company, Murray is currently serving as Head of Innovation at Cohort, designing programs to help accelerate the future of health. 

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Yasmin Grigaliunas

Yasmin is an entrepreneur of impact, who loves people and has an innate passion to help others - it's her native genius. She loves to win, but more importantly, she loves to see others win. Her mission is to make a difference and create meaningful impact daily.

Having worn many hats throughout her career including sales, business development, manager/leader, project management, training & admin, HR, customer experience, intrepreneur and most recently an entrepreneur, Yasmin has energy levels that are the envy of most. In her spare time, she also competes in Ironman Endurance Events to help burn off energy!

In 2017 she ditched a lucrative salary to commit full-time to her role as CEO and Co-founder of The World’s Biggest Garage Sale (WBGS), a Brisbane based start-up/scale-up, designing solutions to commercialise the circular economy through the activation of dormant goods for good. Via WBGS she wants to provide a platform for positive impact for people, planet and profit for purpose on a global level. 

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Chris Platt

Chris has been working in media and creative agencies for 20 years, experiencing the excellent highs and epics lows that this great industry brings across London, Sydney and Brisbane. His career started in digital in the ‘90’s just as it was finding it’s feet, moving into communications planning and then strategic roles working with brands such as Gillette, BP, Ford, Amex, Tatts Lotteries and Tourism and Events Queensland. More recently Chris was MD of an agency, which brought a whole new level of intensity as he balanced the human, technology and financial aspects of running a modern day business. Chris is now part of BCM Group, a Brisbane based independent full service agency. 

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Panel Facilitator: Liam Fitzpatrick

Liam has over a decade of experience in media and tech comms across North American/European/APAC markets. He's founder of Commswork, a consultancy helping business leaders refine their voice in industries plagued with jargon. Liam is also host of Cut the Cliches podcast, which explains the buzzwords in business and technology.

Graduating from City University with a BA in Journalism and Psychology, he now helps translate what businesses want to say into something their audience want to hear. Working with The Walt Disney Company for a number of years in London, he helped craft its narrative around brand partnerships. He has offered counsel to clients including Google, Microsoft, Havas, iProspect and TBWA.

As head of ANZ comms at Freelancer.com in Sydney, he worked together with the chief exec to develop corporate strategy and coordinate with product heads. The communications campaign for StartCon, Australia's largest startup conference, helped sell out the 3,500 person event.

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