Industry Briefing & AGM Events | Melbourne

Join us in Melbourne this May for the 2025 Industry Briefing & AGM events!

Industry Leaders’ Dinner

Tuesday 6 May 2025, 6.30pm | Sofitel Melbourne on Collins | Register

Industry Briefing & AGM

Wednesday 7 May 2025, 9.00am – 1.30pm | Sofitel Melbourne on Collins | Register

The events will kick off with an Industry Leaders’ Dinner on the Tuesday night, a fantastic networking opportunity to engage with sector leaders and peers. The following day will be the Industry Briefing & AGM, featuring an education program of expert speakers.

Stay tuned as we finalise additional speakers and special guests—you won’t want to miss this Melbourne networking event!

Meet our speakers!

Katherine Boiciuc | EY Regional Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Oceania

Katherine Boiciuc, also known as KB, is the EY Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for the Oceania region.

Prior to EY, KB has more than two decades experience and is one of Australia’s go to professionals on tech. She’s led global teams at Telstra and more recently has been advising Australia’s next generation of CTOs as a Director at Maximus. She also sits on the boards of NSW Bureau of Health Information and Infoxchange (Australia’s largest technology not for profit).

KB holds an MBA and Master of Leadership from Deakin University, is a graduate from the London Business School where she studied Managing the Company of the Future, and is an accredited Futurist with the Institute for the Future in California.

Dean Pearson, Head of Behavioural & Industry Economics, National Australia Bank

Dean Pearson is an Industry & Business Economist with over 25 years’ experience in analysing the economy and assessing the implications both in Australia and globally. Dean leads a team of analysts responsible for monitoring key economic, business and consumer trends and identifying industries and customer segments which are likely to provide the strongest growth opportunities and greatest risks. Dean’s team is responsible for a number of key publications including: NAB Consumer Anxiety Index; NAB Wellbeing Index; NAB Residential and Commercial Property Survey; MLC Wealth Sentiment Survey; NAB Online Retail Sales Index; NAB Diversity Index; NAB Work & Family Survey; NAB Charitable Giving Index; and the NAB Asia-Australia Business Engagement Index.