Future Friendly conference series.
Our rolling conference series gathers leaders and change-makers from a broad range of backgrounds to understand how they are redesigning their organisations and services for a better future.
1st May: Why new world services – what will society need in a post-pandemic world?
28th August: Designing digital public services - how do we switch our services rapidly to digital delivery?
20th November: Designing for financial wellbeing - how do we understand the nuances of money and its effect on culture, community and relationships?
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Nick Gower, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Future Friendly
Anson Parker, Head of Product, Up Banking
Gareth Gumbley, Founder and CEO, Frollo
Ryan Gonsalves, Director of Strategy and Implementation, Banking and Financial Services, NSW Treasury
Deirdre Boyle, Chief Product & Marketing Officer at BankVic
Carmel Franklin, CEO, Care Financial Counselling Service and the Consumer Law Centre of the ACT
Mohamed Khalil, GM, Group Financial Wellbeing, Commonwealth Bank
Henry Cho, formerly Head of Digital Wellbeing & Design Commonwealth Bank
The link between financial wellbeing and mental health
Greg Jennings, Head of Workplace & Home, Beyond Blue
Understanding the cost of living
Kristin Bamford, Product Manager, SNSW
The cost of doing nothing – the effect an individual can have on the financial sector
Mariko Braswell & Vinita Godinho
Move 78 & Financial Resilience Australia
The role language plays in the redesign of our public services
Sarah Yassien, SBS
Acting on purpose
Amanda Gordon, Head of Creative, Future Super
How NSW is delivering great digital services in a post-pandemic world
Victor Dominello, Minister for Customer Service, NSW Government
Designing for mental health and resilience
Robert Koch, Founder, Ally Health
Finding Umami
Vicki Tan, Spotify Podcasts
Supporting a Mentally Healthy Australia during COVID
Caroline Edwards, Associate Secretary, Department of Health
Reimagining Financial Resilience for a post-COVID world
Vinita Godinho, Founder, Financial Resilience Australia
Accelerating Health in the Post-COVID world
Steven Issa, Chief Digital Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency
Glitch or new normal?
Henry Cho, Formerly Head of Digital Wellbeing & Design, Commonwealth Bank
Silver linings & pitfalls of the COVID19 Response
Rebecca Cross, Coordinator General for the COVID 19 response, ACT Government
Creating better public services
Anthony McGuiness, Canberra Founder & Policy Design Partner, Future Friendly
Test, learn, adapt: The importance of experimentation
Dr Rory Gallagher, Managing Director, The Behavioural Insights Team
Digital experience in a changing world
Peter Buckmaster, Director of Digital Experience Design, NSW Education
Past Future Friendly conference Playbooks
Co-created between our design team, speakers and audience we have captured the inspiration, action and learnings from our previous conferences.