Top Shots Breakfast 2017

TOP SHOTS Breakfast Event

Thanks to our 2017 Sponsor

April 04, 2017, Watt Street Arc

'It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.' James Dyson

PKF and Ideation At Work present the Top Shots of the AFR Most Innovative Companies and other Top of the Business Lists at Watt Street Arc on Tuesday April 04. Our sponsor, PKF were themselves finalists in the Financial Review Client Choice Awards in 2015. It is PKF's innovative approach to everything from their systems to their client relationships that make PKF the perfect host for this event.

Now more than ever businesses need to be innovating. Often all that is needed is a little inspiration to spark incremental, sustainable, disruptive and even destructive innovation.

At this event, executives from Planet Innovation, and other movers and shakers will share their success stories as well as a few trials and tribulations. These diverse companies embed innovation into their vibrant and progressive company cultures, resulting in improving the lives of their clients and their employees while simultaneously improving their bottom line.

Innovation, a healthy organisational culture, and fast iterations, are crucial attributes to small and medium businesses and large organisations.

For more information and media enquiries, please email Ideation At Work

The Speakers

Planet Innovation #1 AFR Most Innovative Companies

Roger Langsdon, Marketing Manager

Roger returns to Newcastle in 2017. This time he will be running a short workshop to help you get your innovation on. 

Roger is a specialist marketing and communications professional with a successful track record in growing an organisation’s reputation and revenue through strategic marketing and high-impact communications.Recognised by the Australian Marketing Institute with its award for Best Business Communications Strategy, Roger has built a reputation in the industry as an inspirational leader who helps organisations take their brand to the next level through innovative thought leadership strategies and disciplined execution across digital and traditional media channels.

At Planet Innovation Roger directs global marketing activities and plays an active role in the development of an innovative culture.

Read why Planet Innovation took out the top spot in the AFR Most Innovative Companies list and were also awarded Most Innovative Culture and a swag of other titles!!!

Planet Innovation

M&C Saatchi #6 AFR Most Innovative Companies, #1 Most Innovative Communications

Ben Cooper, Founder and MD of Tricky Jigsaw (an M&C Saatchi Group company)

Ben Cooper is equal parts digital strategist, creative and technologist, a unique skillset honed alongside the evolution of the medium. With 18 years experience across London, Zurich and Sydney, he is regarded internationally as a forward thinker in this space.

Since March 2014, Cooper has headed the Digital, Social and Innovation capabilities at M&C Saatchi across the group's ten businesses. In May 2014, the company launched the world-first shark detection system 'Clever Buoy'. The project has gone on to win international innovation accolades that include seven Cannes Lions and the coveted Titanium, SXSW, SPIKES Grand Prix, IAB MIXX Gold 'Can't be contained' category and WARC Grand Prix. The Buoy, most importantly, has been backed in a $16m shark mitigation pledge from the NSW government.

Building on this success, Ben has built Tricky Jigsaw, a product, services and experiments business focused on marketing-led innovation. One year in, clients include Optus, CBA, Lexus and Nearmap.

Ben also runs the Australian arm of the international digital collective Creative Social, recently published in its Hacker, Maker, Teacher, Thief: Advertising's Next Generation. Prior to M&C Saatchi he held senior digital roles at creative and content agency The Monkeys, social media start-up The Population, creative agency Host and brand experience agency The One Centre.

He is inspired by what is achievable with passionate, curious people unbound by convention.

Read why M&C Saatchi are in the AFR Most Innovative Companies list and were also awarded Most Innovative Communications and a swag of other creative titles!!!

M&C Saatchi            Awards

Seniors Housing Online, Down Sizing.Com, Seniors Flatmates  Top 50 Women in Tech
Catherine Graham, Co-Founder Seniors Housing Online, Downsizing, Seniors Flatmates

Co-founders Amanda and Catherine have been named in the Top 50 Women in Tech 2016 for Australia and New Zealand by online publication Start Up Daily.

After identifying a real need when trying to find suitable accommodation for elderly family members and hearing similar stories from friends and relatives, sisters-in-law, Amanda and Catherine decided to address this challenge!

They founded a website designed to make it easy for consumers to navigate a very complex system without any prior knowledge.

Seniors Housing Online, Downsizing.com.au and Senior Flatmates is now Australia’s leading retirement property and aged care portal, which is expanding globally, with listings in the US, Asia, China and New Zealand.

Hear about their journey and their future plans for addressing this fast growing and underserved market.

Downsizing.com.au, SeniorFlatmates.com.au, SeniorsHousingOnline.com.au