Future Minds

Katharine is an expert on the legalities of what big tech companies can do with our data, what those terms and conditions statements that none of us actually read mean and who else will use all the data that is collected about each and everyone one of us. Katharine is a senior lecturer at Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales. Her research focuses on competition law (particularly misuse of market power), consumer protection and data privacy in financial and tech services. Katharine is the Co-Leader of the "Data as a Source of Market Power" research stream for The University based Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation. She has also practised as a commercial lawyer and as a barrister and consulted to the Competition Commission of South Africa.

David is a Professor at Harvard Medical school, has founded or co-founded around 15 companies, his new book Lifespan: Why we age and why we don't have to, has just come out and is already a best seller. David is a high-profile scientist that is famous for his discoveries of the effects of resveratrol and its effects of Sirtuins and is now one of the top go-to people for all things anti-aging, with specific focus on NAD precursors, nicotinamide riboside or NMN. He is famous for taking these supplements himself and talks about this openly, although he doesn’t make any recommendations to others.

Emma Johnston is the Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales, the president of Science and Technology Australia, the host of the TV show Coast Australia and Professor of Marine ecology. Professor Johnston is a high-profile science communicator, winning the 2015 Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research. She is a regular media commentator and, as co-presenter for the Foxtel/BBC television series,Coast Australia, has helped take Australian marine science to an international audience. Her research investigates the ecology of human impacts in marine systems, combining the diverse disciplines of ecology, microbiology and ecotoxicology to expand fundamental understanding and provide recommendations for management. Her research is conducted in such diverse field environments as Antarctica, the Great Barrier Reef and temperate Australian estuaries.

Amantha Imber is an innovation psychologist, founder of Inventium, an innovation consultancy, and co-creator of the Australian Financial Review’s Most Innovative Companies list. Amantha has a PhD in organisational psychology from Monash university and has helped companies such as Google, Apple, Disney, LEGO, Virgin Australia, to innovate more successfully. Amantha has written two books the “The Creativity Formula” and “The Innovation Formula” and many popular articles on innovation and how to work better.

Adam is the New York Times bestselling author of two books: Irresistible, which considers why so many people today are addicted to so many behaviours, from incessant smartphone and internet use to video game playing and online shopping, and Drunk Tank Pink, which investigates how hidden forces in the world around us shape our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.  Adam is an Associate Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Adam has also written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Atlantic, WIRED, Slate, Huffington Post, and Popular Science, and many others.