Four Keynote Speakers. Fifteen minutes each. No slides, no one needed, no filler. On Thursday 23 July, Saxton Live Melbourne brings together four of the country's most compelling voices under one theme: Leadership, Technology, Impact, Connection.
Last year's Saxton Live Sydney showcase drew a packed room for a line-up spanning medicine, aerospace and entrepreneurship. This year's Melbourne edition raises the bar again, and it is the one afternoon a year where event organisers, corporate clients and anyone shortlisting Talent for their next conference can experience Saxton Speakers in the room, not on a proposal page
What Is Saxton Live?
Saxton Live is Saxton's own showcase event, built for the people who book Speakers rather than the people who watch keynotes for a living. Four Speakers deliver short, sharp fifteen- to seventeen-minute keynotes, guided by an MC, in a single afternoon. No pitch decks about Saxton. Just the Talent, live, so you can see exactly what your audience would experience.
This year's Melbourne edition runs at Alto Event Space, atop the Melbourne GPO building, and brings together a Founder, a charity executive, an AI researcher and a chef, four entirely different rooms they have each commanded, and four reasons this year's line-up is worth clearing your afternoon for.
Bec Daniher — Leading FightMND's Fight for a Cure
Bec Daniher was an elite rower, representing Australia at the 2013 World Championships, and a qualified accountant, before her father Neale Daniher's Motor Neurone Disease diagnosis changed the direction of her life entirely. As FightMND's Executive Director and first employee, she has helped grow The Big Freeze from a two million dollar campaign into one raising over twenty million dollars a year, and leads Daniher's Drive, which engages rural and regional communities nationwide.
Bec speaks with the kind of authority that only comes from building something under real pressure. Her session explores what it means to lead with purpose when the stakes could not be higher.
Bryony Cole — Where AI Meets Human Connection
Bryony Cole has spent years asking the question most leadership teams are avoiding: what happens to trust, judgment and culture when AI starts doing the emotional labour once done by people? A globally recognised expert on emotional AI and human connection, Bryony has taken the stage at TED and SXSW, and her insights have featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Wired and TechCrunch.
Her Saxton Live session brings a practical lens to a topic every organisation is grappling with right now: where AI strengthens leadership, and where it quietly starts to erode it.
Noah Yang — Proving Homelessness Is Solvable
Noah Yang left a management consulting career with six thousand dollars in the bank and no fallback. What he built instead is We Are Mobilise, a technology-driven charity that has distributed more than four million dollars directly to people facing homelessness, supported over 1,500 people into housing, and built a partner network spanning every state and territory, with a team of eight.
Noah was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Social Impact in 2026, and Mobilise has been the charity partner for the Triple J Hottest 100 Countdown two years running. His Keynote is a direct challenge to any leader sitting on something they have not yet committed to.
Ben Shewry — Obsession, Culture and Twenty Years of Attica
Ben Shewry decided he wanted to be a chef at five years old. By ten, he was in a commercial kitchen. Today he owns Attica, one of the world's most celebrated restaurants, and his story has been told everywhere from Netflix's Chef's Table to his own memoir, Uses for Obsession.
Ben's Keynote draws on the "4 C's" that built Attica's culture, community, creativity and committed perspective, and what nearly two decades of running one of the country's most demanding kitchens has taught him about leadership under pressure.
The Room: Alto Event Space
Perched atop Melbourne's iconic GPO building, Alto Event Space offers panoramic CBD views through floor-to-ceiling windows and an open-air rooftop terrace. It is the kind of room that makes a showcase feel like an occasion rather than a conference session, which is exactly the point.
How to Join Us
Saxton Live Melbourne runs from 12 pm to 3 pm on Thursday 23 July at Alto Event Space. Spaces are limited, and this event is designed for event organisers, corporate clients and anyone with a stake in booking Talent for 2026 and beyond.
Register your interest here to secure your place.
