ABC Presents: Q&A Vivid Sydney

Born and raised in Shepparton, square in the floodplains of Victoria’s North East rivers, it has taken Briggs no less than a decade to make his mark as one of the country’s most diverse talents in media, music and comedy.

Starting from home with his break-out rap album ‘Homemade Bombs’ in 2009, radio-play and international touring soon followed. From here, Briggs quickly joined the vast number of his Yorta Yorta countrymen and women to have infiltrated the mainstream Australian psyche.

Briggs casts a wide net in his creative pursuits -  from an ARIA-dominating rap career, to the regular stints in LA writing rooms, to his most recent role as founder and director of his own Indigenous hip hop record label, Bad Apples Music.

Faustina Agolley is a TV host, TV producer, music journalist, writer, actor and DJ.

Her work includes Australia’s top rating entertainment program, The Voice, where she bridged the gap between television viewers and online audiences as the program’s social media reporter.

Faustina divides her time between Australia, Los Angeles and London where she's developing her work in writing, broadcast, music and acting.

Faustina is a graduate of two university degrees that sit proudly on her mother's wall; Media and Communications, and Geography and Social Sciences, from The University of Melbourne and RMIT University respectively. Her philanthropic work aims to close the Indigenous literacy gap.

Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company that helps teams organise, discuss and complete shared work. More than 130,000 large and small organisations across the world, including companies like Spotify, NASA, Mercy Ships, Sotheby's and Visa use Atlassian’s collaboration products to help their teams work better together.

Mike was the youngest person ever to be awarded the ‘Australian Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2006 by Ernst & Young alongside Co-Founder and Co-CEO Scott Farquhar. In 2016 they were awarded Australian Financial Review's 'Australian Business Person of the Year' and in 2017 Forbes named them on their ‘Global Game Changers’ list. Mike was recognised by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Young Global Leader’ in 2009.

Dr Larry Marshall is Chief Executive of CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency and innovation catalyst.

Larry is a scientist, technology innovator and business leader with a wealth of experience in creating new value and impact with science. He has a PhD in Physics and became a global leader in laser research, for which he was honoured as a Federation Fellow and later as an ATSE (Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering) Fellow.

He has 100 publications and conference papers, holds 20 patents, and has served on 20 boards of high tech companies operating in the US, Australia and China. Larry is a Male Champion of Change committed to tackling gender equality. He is a passionate supporter of Australian innovation, returning to Australia to lead CSIRO, which he believes is the essential catalyst to improve Australia’s innovation performance.

Jocelyn is a Sydney-based registered psychologist with a special interest in the psychology of technology and staying human in a digital age.

Jocelyn has 16 years’ experience in public education both as a teacher of high school social sciences and as a School Counsellor/psychologist. Her 2009 psychology thesis explored the impacts of increasing access to Internet enabled laptops on a cohort of grade 10 boys and the emerging area of Problematic Internet Use (PIU), colloquially known as ‘Internet Addiction’. 

Jocelyn is the creator of Digital Nutrition™ – a framework to guide parents and technology users understand the virtual nutritional values of the online media content we consume via apps and games on tablets and screen technology. Digital Nutrition was awarded the NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship for Health Education in 2014, and Jocelyn travelled to the USA in mid-2015 to further explore the issues relating to healthy technology habits and digital citizenship.