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Spark brings to the forefront an experienced and diverse range of legal principals, business experts, award-winning accounting professionals, technologists, innovators, and motivational speakers.

Speakers & Session Information

Smokeball Spark brings to the forefront an experienced and diverse range of legal principals, business experts, award-winning accounting professionals, technologists, innovators, and motivational speakers.

Keynote Speakers

Sam Bloom

Sam Bloom is a 2 x World Para Surfing Champion, bestselling author, and inspiration behind the 2020 #1 Australian box-office, and international global Netflix hit movie, Penguin Bloom starring Naomi Watts as Sam.

Paralysed in an accident in Thailand in 2013, Sam suffered debilitating injuries that left her paralysed from the chest down. She has since gone on to win two Oceania KL1 Para-Canoe Championships, and become a 2 x World and Australian Para Surfing Champion.

Sam works with numerous spinal cord injury charities around the world to support the quest for a cure, and is a global ambassador for the RedBull Wings For Life World Run.
Session: Heartache and Birdsong
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What is resilience? And how can we cultivate it when things don't go to plan? Sam answers these questions and more in her visually immersive and deeply personal presentations, sharing her experience of a dream life turned to a nightmare in an instant. 

Leading us through the extraordinary highs and painful lows of life before, during and after a near-fatal accident in 2013, Sam shares how family, love and a unique connection with the natural world supported her journey back from deep physical suffering and depression to become a bestselling author, 2 x World Para Surfing champion and inspiration behind the international hit movie Penguin Bloom. 

Sam’s true story holds powerful messages and new perspectives for us all as we navigate our own personal and professional challenges, inspiring us to be the best version of ourselves, and to live and be grateful for each day as we never know what tomorrow holds.
Watch: Sam's Story
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Holly Ransom

Holly Ransom is a globally renowned content curator, powerful speaker and master interviewer with the belief that if you walk past it, you tell the world it’s okay.

Named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review, she has delivered a Peace Charter to the Dalai Lama, was Sir Richard Branson’s nominee for Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List’ of Future Game Changers to watch and was awarded the US Embassy’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence in 2019. Having interviewed the likes of Barack Obama, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Branson, Billie Jean-King, Condoleezza Rice, Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and the world’s first humanoid robot Sophia, Holly fights complexity with curiosity, apathy with empowerment and fear with fact.
Session: Change is Inevitable But Growth is Intentional: Turning Innovative Ideas into Action
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Research has shown, persistently for two decades, that 90% of companies fail to execute their strategy due to poor execution, and McKinsey data tells us that 70 percent of organisational change efforts fall short of desired results. Against the backdrop of a world and business landscape that is changing at a greater velocity than ever before, we need to continually evolve the way that we work and lead so we can continue to achieve excellence.

This talk will explore best practice on leading change and executing ideas. Specifically, this presentation will focus on empowering leaders to be able to build their own change roadmap- from framing the messaging and building cultural momentum around ideas, to approaches to ensure ideas get executed.
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Session Speakers

Amanda Little
Principal Solicitor,
Amanda Little & Associates

Session
Implementing a
Roadmap for Growth
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Talya Faigenbaum
Director, Nest Legal
Former Research Fellow, Centre for Legal Innovation
Session
Why Innovation Should be a
Part of Your Firm’s DNA
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Clarissa Rayward
Founder,
Happy Lawyer Happy Life
Session
The 6 Superpowers of a High-Performing, Happy Lawyer
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Hunter Steele
CEO,
Smokeball
Session
Automating Your Practice
with Smokeball
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Terri Mottershead
Executive Director,
Centre for Legal Innovation
Session
The Keys to Success in Today’s
War for Legal Talent
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Clayton Oates
Founder,
QA Business
Session
Building a Financially
Thriving Practice
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Bianca Bowron-Cuthill ​
General Manager,
Smokeball Australia
Master of Ceremonies
Simon Dennis
Global Head of Partnership,
Smokeball
Master of Ceremonies
Fiona Kirkman
Founder & CEO,
FamilyProperty
Session Moderator
Top Technology Trends Happening Right Now
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John Ahern
Global Head of Property,
InfoTrack
Session
Top Technology Trends Happening Right Now
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Paul Hugh-Jones
Partner,
Beaton Research & Consulting
Session
Designing a
Seamless Client Experience
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Tom Dreyfus
CEO & Co-Founder,
Josef
Session
Top Technology Trends Happening Right Now
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Karen Finch
President,
ALTA
Session
Top Technology Trends Happening Right Now
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