Are you looking for a high profile international speaker to add to your next event? Use this list as a resource to keep up to date on the thought leaders and story tellers visiting Australia throughout the year and take advantage of reduced travel rates.
If you'd like the opportunity to have any of these heavyweights present at your next event contact our expert team for more information and someone will get back to you within 24 hours to discuss your event.
Melissa Crawford: Futurist, Technologist & Human Behaviour Strategist
Location and Dates: Australia, September 2026. Available for local engagements throughout the month.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing, Workshop
About Melissa:
A certified futurist with two technology degrees and a master's in psychology underway, Melissa Crawford works at a specific intersection that most foresight practitioners leave unexplored: the human response to technological change. Her presentations move beyond trend analysis to the psychological and strategic implications that organisations consistently underestimate. The cross-disciplinary background gives her earned credibility on terrain most futurists only visit from the outside. In Australia in September 2026, available for local engagements.
Marc Randolph: Co-Founder and First CEO of Netflix
Location and Dates: Australia, 7-29 September 2026. Available for select engagements throughout this window.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing, Q&A Session
About Marc:
Few entrepreneurs can say they built a company that changed how the world watches television, then wrote the definitive account of how it happened. Marc co-founded Netflix and served as its first CEO, steering the company through the uncertain years before streaming became inevitable. He has since founded or co-founded six more startups and become one of Silicon Valley's most sought-after mentors to early-stage founders. His September visit to Australia gives local organisations a limited window to bring his story of building something from nothing directly to their stage.
Chanel Contos: Consent Education Advocate and Campaigner
Location and Dates: Australia-wide, mid-September to mid-October 2026. December 2026 to March 2027. Open to bookings across the window, with flexibility on city.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Panel (Moderator or Participant), Q&A Session
About Chanel:
A campaign that started on Instagram ended in national law reform. Chanel Contos founded Teach Us Consent after former students began sharing their own experiences of sexual violence at school, and turned that groundswell into mandated consent education across Australian classrooms. She built support across the political divide, from state premiers to prime ministers, to get there. Touring Australia through September and October, Chanel is available for corporate and conference keynotes, and for schools wanting her to speak directly with students and staff on consent education. She brings a first-hand account of building a movement from nothing, and what that means for any organisation or institution serious about culture change.
Lydia Lassila: Five-Time Winter Olympian and Olympic Gold Medallist
Location and Dates: Australia, May to November 2026. Available for select engagements across this period.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Panel
About Lydia:
Five-time Winter Olympian, Olympic Gold and Bronze medallist, and the first woman in history to land a quad-twisting triple somersault in competition. Lydia Lassila knows what it takes to perform under pressure when the margin for error is zero, and she has built a Keynote around the frameworks that actually made it possible: deliberate preparation, fear management, recovery from injury, and the discipline to compete again when everything in you says not to. In Australia from May through November 2026, with genuine flexibility for engagements across that window.
Mark Adams: Co-founder of VICE, AI Strategist and Innovation Adviser
Location and Dates: Australia, early September 2026. Available for select local engagements.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing, Panel
About Mark:
Co-founder of VICE, adviser to cultural figures including Barack Obama and Taylor Swift, and a story-first presenter who has been named Speaker of the Year across more than 500 events worldwide. Mark Adams works at the intersection of innovation, AI, and creative strategy, with five co-founded companies and campaigns with 100-plus major awards behind him. He brings a commercially grounded perspective to technology and creativity that goes well beyond trend briefings. In Australia in early September 2026, available for select local engagements.
Chris Lemons: Saturation Diver and Last Breath Survivor
Location and Dates: Sydney and Brisbane, 3-13 September 2026.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing, Q&A Session
About Chris:
Few speakers have contemplated their own death with the composure Chris Lemons brings to a stage. In September 2012, a catastrophic system failure in the North Sea severed his breathing line 300 feet below the surface, leaving him in darkness with five minutes of emergency gas and a forty minute wait for rescue. His survival became the subject of the Netflix and BBC documentary Last Breath, and inspired the 2025 feature film of the same name starring Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu and Finn Cole. Touring Australia this September, Chris shares what the experience revealed about calm under pressure, and how the training and teamwork of his crew turned an impossible situation into a survival story.
Shane Michael Hatton- Leadership, Communication and Culture Expert
Location and Dates: Australia, September and October 2026. Available for local engagements across both months.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Workshop, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing
About Shane:
A two-time author and Gallup-certified coach whose work spans Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and The Australian, Shane Michael Hatton has spent a decade building a practice at the intersection of leadership, psychology, and team culture. His approach is grounded in both commercial experience and behavioural science, and his focus on how people communicate, connect, and collaborate makes him a practical, evidence-based choice for organisations investing seriously in their leadership pipeline. In Australia across September and October 2026, available for local engagements.
Richard Gerver: Educator, Reformer & Expert on Human Potential
Location and Dates: October 2026. Available for local engagements across these windows.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Panel, Workshop
About Richard:
The turnaround of a failing school in under two years earned Richard Gerver a reputation that governments and global corporations have been drawing on ever since. An adviser to Google, Microsoft, and multiple national governments, his work sits at the intersection of curiosity, learning, and human potential, and his ability to connect ideas across very different environments consistently expands how audiences understand their own capacity for change. His delivery combines intellectual substance with genuine warmth. In Australia across May, June, and October 2026, available for local engagements.
Hari Budha Magar: Former Gurkha Rifleman and First Double Above-Knee Amputee to Summit Everest
Location and Dates: Australia, 10-30 November 2026. Open to keynote and event bookings across the country during this window.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Q&A Session, Private Event Appearance
About Hari:
Fifteen years in the British Army's Royal Gurkha Rifles built the discipline. Losing both legs above the knee to an IED in Afghanistan tested it. What Hari did next redefined it. In January 2026 he completed the 7 Summits, becoming the first double above-knee amputee in history to stand atop the highest peak on every continent, a challenge fewer than 500 people have ever finished. His Australian tour follows this achievement, and audiences get the account first-hand: not a story about overcoming disability, but a working method for treating limits as decisions rather than facts.
Dr Ayanna Howard: Robotics Pioneer, NASA Alumna and AI Innovator
Location and Dates: Australia, November 2026. Available for select engagements during this window.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing
About Ayanna:
A robotics pioneer who began her career as a team leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr Ayanna Howard has spent three decades at the frontier of artificial intelligence and human-robot interaction. She is the co-founder of Zyrobotics, a company designing AI-driven STEM education and therapy tools for children with disabilities, which places her at a specific intersection of deep technical expertise and real-world social impact. For audiences grappling with where AI and robotics are genuinely heading, she brings the kind of grounded authority that is hard to replicate. In Australia in November 2026.
Chris Barton - Founder of Shazam, Inventor and Tech Investor
Location and Dates: Australia, November 2026. Available for select engagements during this window.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat
About Chris:
He didn't just build a successful app. He built something that didn't exist, was told it couldn't exist, and watched it become a verb used by 300 million people a month. On stage, Chris Barton is specific where others are vague: speaking from the exact moments where the idea nearly died, and the solution emerged from somewhere unexpected. His Keynotes don't traffic in inspiration. They shift how audiences think about what is actually possible, and what innovation looks like when it's happening in real time. In Australia in November 2026.
Lord Ian Botham - English Cricketing Legend
Location and Dates: Australia, mid-December 2026 until the end of March 2027. Available for select engagements during this window.
Availability: Fireside Chat
About Ian:
Lord Ian Botham is one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of cricket, having represented England in both Test and One-Day International formats. He played first-class cricket for Somerset, Worcestershire, Durham and Queensland. Ian has fundraised for over 40 years, completing 18 long-distance charity walks and raising more than £20 million for a range of causes. He established Beefy’s Charity Foundation in 2013, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. In recognition of his philanthropic efforts, Ian was named the first-ever President of Blood Cancer UK in 2003.
Sir Clive Woodward: World Cup-Winning Coach & High-Performance Leadership Expert
Location and Dates: Australia, January 2027. Open to keynote and event bookings across the country during this window.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing, Panel (Moderator or Participant)
About Clive:
Few coaches have built a winning culture twice, in two different sports, on the world's biggest stages. Sir Clive Woodward took England's rugby team from sixth in the world to World Cup champions in 2003, then went on to lead Team GB's Directorate of Sport through London 2012, delivering the nation's most successful Olympic Games in the modern era. His January visit to Australia gives audiences a rare chance to hear the model first-hand, in the country where his England side won it all. Clive speaks with the authority of someone who has built high-performance teams from the ground up, not studied them from the outside.
Dave Stewart: Musician, Producer and Creativity Strategist
Location and Dates: Australia, early March 2027. Dates flexible within this touring window, confirm availability on enquiry.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing
About Dave:
Co-founder of Eurythmics, his creative instincts have shaped four decades of platinum records, award-winning soundtracks and some of the most recognised songs in modern music. Bob Dylan once called him "lightning in a box," a description that says as much about his unpredictability as his brilliance. Beyond music, he has built brands, produced films and worked at the intersection of art and technology, more recently turning his attention to what artificial intelligence means for the future of creative work. His March 2027 visit to Australia gives organisations a direct line to that thinking, on their own stage.
