Top Shots Breakfast 2017 Melbourne

TOP SHOTS Breakfast Event

Thanks to our 2017 Sponsor  

Smart Artz Gallery
2 Alfred Pl, South Melbourne VIC 3205, 

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 Smart Arts Gallery on Tuesday June 27. 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, 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 continuous development, are crucial attributes to small and medium businesses and large organisations.

Here's what our past guests have said about Top Shots...

Thanks for a great session - I got so much out of it. I am now going through all my notes!

Fab Top Shots Christina!

Firstly a huge thank you for organising Top Shots. We all found inspiration from all of the speakers at the event and loved the chance to talk with innovative people. From little seeds of thought, big things shall grow!! 

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

The Speakers

Planet Innovation #1 AFR Most Innovative Companies

Roger Langsdon, Marketing Manager

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

Edison Awards, New York City - Silver Medal
International Innovation Award

Jennifer Holland, CEO and Founder, Throat Scope

Jennifer Holland is an entrepreneur and inventor who has successfully ideated, designed, developed and patented the world’s first all-in-one light and tongue depressor, Throat Scope. She is also the mother of four vivacious and curious children.

At a young age, Jennifer knew that she wanted to invent a product that would have great impact on the world. This passion never waned. The right opportunity presented itself in 2009 when Jennifer took her 18-month-old son to the doctors. Heavily pregnant with her second child, the doctor asked her to restrain him as the doctor pried open his mouth with a wooden tongue depressor in one hand, and a torch in the other. This distressing experience served as the lightbulb moment for Throat Scope.

In October 2015, Throat Scope was launched into the Australian retail and health markets. Throat Scope signed several domestic distribution agreements including a retail pharmacy chain. The retail chain signed Throat Scope in two days, breaking their company record. Throat Scope has since secured healthcare and retail distribution worldwide. The device has increased the ease of consultations for medical professionals, hospitals and homes around the globe. Throat Scope is currently available in 146 countries and the demand is growing.

Throat Scope is endorsed by the Oral Cancer Foundation in the USA as the number one device worldwide used to detect oral cancer. Oral cancer often goes undetected and has one of the highest mortality rates if left undiagnosed and untreated.

Positively changing lives is one of Jennifer’s passions and to be able to help others is highly rewarding and gives purpose to the company’s journey

Throat Scope’s mission is to deliver easy to use, top quality, effective and practical medical devices to every home and every health professional in the world. Throat Scope has big plans for growth and is currently prototyping several soon to be released products. Throat Scope will continue to break down barriers between health professionals and patients.

Throat Scope        Edison Awards