Meet the Sydney Experts.

Get to know the industry experts and pioneers that will be joining us in October.

Janet Schorer
Commissioner / Safework NSW
Fiona Murfitt
Vice President of Sustainability / Evolution Mining
Corey Grandin
Director, Industries and High Risk Work / Safe Work Australia
Helena Kockza
Health Safety and Wellbeing Lead / Westpac
Kim Grady
Chief Health, Safety & Wellbeing Officer / The University of Sydney
Dr Martin O'Neil
Head of Health & Safety / Boral
Robbie Hoade
Health and Safety Director / CPB Contractors
Sasha Abram
Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Director / Suntory
Sarah Withell
Executive General Manager HSE / Whitehaven Coal
Carmel Soccorsi
Executive Director Health and Safety / Sydney Metro
Paul Stathers
Director - Work Health & Safety / Transport NSW
Rohan Pandit
Regional EHS Manager Asia-Pacific / Pepsico
Jo-Anne McDonald Singh
Corporate HSEQ Advisor / Liberty Industrial & NSW Women in Safety Ambassador
John Collie
CEO / Fire Protection Association Australia
Amanda Anderson
Global Mental Health Project Leader | Mental Health Ambassador / L'Occitaine Group
Ally Orr
Health and Wellbeing Business Partner / Aurecon
Dr Manuel Seidel
Founder & CEO / ecoPortal
Jodie Deakes
CEO / Asbestos and Silica Safety & Eradication Agency
Kurt Warren
Head of HSEQ & Sustainability / Hansen Yuncken
Yvonne Hinch
Director / Transport NSW
Katharine Davies
Associate Director Safety Health Environment AU/NZ / AstraZeneca
Dr Patrick Aouad
Founder and CEO / CU Health
Erika Groll
Assistant State Inspector / SafeWork NSW Respect at Work
Julie-Anne Whitfield
Workplace Manager / R U OK?
Alanna Ball
Founder and Principal Consultant / Women in Safety
Lachlan O’Neil
Principal Inspector / SafeWork NSW Metro North
Kate Podryhula
Manager / SafeWork NSW Regulatory Engagement
Holly Castor
Field Advisory Officer, Silica Team / SafeWork NSW
Dianah Brown
A/g Director Psychosocial Policy / Safe Work Australia
Jayson Withers
WHS Project Lead and (acting) NSW WHS Manager / Georgiou
Georgie Chapman
Partner / HR Legal
Dr Eleanor De-Ath Miller
Senior Consultant / Transitioning Well
Dr Georgi Toma
Director / Heart and Brain Works
Dr Daniel Grynberg
Chiropractor and Health & Safety Consultant / Active Health Partners
Mike Hagan
Human Resources and Health, Safety & Wellbeing Specialist / Mike Hagan Consulting Services
Laura Sowden
Partner / Mills Oakley
Scott Barber
CEO / WAHA
Melanie Moffatt
Senior Corporate Health and Wellbeing Lead / Medibank
Jimmy Lee
CEO / Rapid
Ezequiel Gonzalez
Head of Sales / Rapid
Darcy Myring
Prompt Engineer / AutogenAI
Sam Marciano
Director of Heavy Industry / Ideagen
James Atkinson
HSE IT Systems Manager / Holcim
Plum Stone
CEO & Founder / The Safer Air Project
Christina Knorr
Director & Accredited Fire Safety Engineer / CJK Fire & Safety
Robert Wentzel
CEO & Managing Director / The Jonah Group
Dean Smith
Category Manager Bool PT / TRu Brands
Mark Inglis
Arc Flash Survivor & Brand Ambassador Bool PT /
Paul Donovan
Director / The Change Company
Adam Mansueto
Founder & Managing Director / Workstrong Health Solutions
Guy Terkelsen
Certified Partner / Physiotherapist / FitWorker360
Chrissie Vitale
Senior Manager, Claims Operations / EML
Noeline Bridge
Member / Family and Injured Workers Support and Advisory Group
Rae Bonney OAM
Workplace Mental Health, Safety & Wellbeing Specialist /
Charlotte Jameson
Founder & Director / Wellbeing Gets Real
Shailendra Tripathi
Head of Safety / Sydney Markets Limited
Adrian Connolly
HSE Specialist, Control of Work and Contractor Management / bp Australia
Samantha Wedlock
Account Manager / Ideagen
Dr Charles Phillis
Clinical Medical Director / Logic Health
Michael Greenup
Category Manager - Hand Protection / TruBrands
Senan Dawood
Principal Engineer / SAGE Automation
Byron Spurling
Technical Consultant, Machine Safety / NHP
Rashmi Karanth
Chief Product Officer / Quasar
Michael Cratt
Chief Executive Officer / Av-Comm Space & Defence
Gursimrat Bawa
Head of Strategy and Operations / Space Machines Company
Zamara Rodriguez
Optus Industry Fellow / Space Industry Association of Australia
Scott Morrow
Enterprise Account Executive / Industry
Tony Williams
Director Construction / SafeWork NSW
Louise Thompson
Psychosocial Health and Safety Director / Foremind
Patrizia Cassaniti
Founder and Director / Touched by Christopher Foundation
Darrin Tucker
NRMA Corporate Driver Training / The NRMA
Kelli Jovanovski
Principal Inspector / SafeWork NSW
David Levingston
Global Chief Marketing Officer / Aero Healthcare
Niru Tyagi
Principal Consultant / WHS Guard
Jeff Walker
Principal Consultant & Trainer / JKG
Mark Rawlings
A/ State Inspector / SafeWork NSW Silica Team
Peter Matthews
CEO / Solar Service Guys
Courtney Dixon
Director & Co-Founder / Work Nook
Mostapha Kourouche
Community Ambassador / R U OK?
Hon Sophie Cotsis
Minister for Work Health and Safety /