CANVASCON MELBOURNE 2024
Featured Speakers
Discover our lineup of captivating speakers ready to ignite your curiosity and broaden your horizons.
Meet our Spectacular Featured Speakers
Keynot Speaker
Dom Price
Born to Joy in the harsh Manchester Winter of 77, Dominic has a career that has reached far and wide through Europe, US and Asia Pacific.
An accomplished TED speaker, Dom is proud to work at Atlassian, where he’s spent 10 years helping teams unleash their potential in how they work. As our resident Work Futurist. Dom is Atlassians in house “Team Doctor” helping distributed teams at Atlassian scale by being ruthlessly efficient and effective. He also spends over half his time helping our customers navigate transformation, agility, leadership, and the future of work.
Dom has a deep passion for elite human performance, highly effective distributed teams, and building thriving businesses.
A keen traveller, Dom has traversed over 53 countries so far, but after 20 years on these shores, he calls Australia home.
Chief Academic Officer
Melissa Loble
Melissa serves as Chief Academic Officer for Instructure, where she drives the company’s global academic strategy. With extensive edtech experience as an educator in both K-12 and higher education institutions and in edtech executive leadership positions, she advocates for educators worldwide to have the necessary resources as they face ever-increasing educational barriers. Melissa currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the education industry non-profit 1EdTech, is an instructor at the University of California, Irvine, and holds several advisory roles at other organizations. She has a master’s degree in educational policy from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Martin Bean, CBE
Professor Martin Bean CBE, CEO of The Bean Centre, is a visionary leader shaping the future of education and work.
Co-author of the book "Toolkit for Turbulence," Martin equips leaders with tools and strategies to navigate change, seize opportunities, and foster resilient teams.
Currently a Professor at the University of New South Wales, Martin's expertise lies in exploring the evolving landscape of work and lifelong learning. He shares his knowledge as a mentor at Mentor List, connecting Australia's brightest minds.
Previously, Martin served as Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University, an institution with over 80,000 students in Melbourne, Australia. He also held the position of Vice-Chancellor at The Open University, the United Kingdom's largest academic institution, and served as General Manager of Microsoft's global Education Products Group in Seattle, Washington.
Acknowledged for his contributions to education, Martin has received prestigious awards, including an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of London and appointment as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to higher education.
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