Keynote Speakers

Adam Spencer

Adam Spencer has hosted award-winning breakfast radio shows in Australia’s toughest markets and live current affairs TV. He has won improvised theatre competitions and once interviewed John Travolta in front of 75,000 people. Adam prides himself on the high level of energy, engagement and entertainment that he provides whenever on stage.

With 25 years of experience in television, radio and events, Adam loves curating challenging and thought-provoking conversations. He has interviewed Prime Ministers, Hollywood stars, Fortune 500 CEOs, Nobel Prize-winning scientists and Australians of the Year. He’s informative, fun and guaranteed to impart insights you’ve never heard before.

Sam Bloom

Sam had everything she had always dreamed of. She’d travelled extensively, fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a nurse and was a happily married mother of three young boys. She spent her time raising her family on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and ran, swam, biked and surfed every chance she had.

Without warning, the dream turned into a nightmare. On a 2013 family holiday in Thailand, Sam leant against a rotten balcony railing falling through it and crashing 6 metres onto the concrete below.

Broken and hopeless, Sam reached her outer limits of physical and mental suffering. But with courage, determination and a little help from an unlikely feathered friend, she made her way back from the edge, scarred but undefeated.

Sam and her family’s remarkable story is captured in the internationally best-selling book, Penguin Bloom, as well as a major motion picture starring Naomi Watts.