Launchcode, KPMG, and FINSIA warmly welcome you to join Del Irani (finance anchor, ABC News) and guest panel for a topical discussion on the latest trends and topics impacting millennials, technology, and finance.

If you’re talking business today, it’s all about millennials. They're quickly becoming the most influential consumers and by 2020, will make up 50% of the global workforce.

So what exactly characterises a ‘millennial’ and why do they behave differently? What does this mean for businesses, banks and financial services, and why should you care? Are today's startups responding to the challenge and can corporations keep up?

About Del

With a finance and journalism career spanning 4 continents, Del Irani is an award-winning TV show host and presenter on Australian and international television.

Del is currently the finance presenter and co-anchor on ABC News’ flagship breakfast show, which airs from 6-9am nationally on ABC and ABC News 24. Del is also one of the creators and presenters of the award-winning talk show, #TalkAboutIt.

The panel

Toby Gardner: is a corporate innovator, startup mentor, and entrepreneur with a financial services and technology background spanning London, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley.

Toby is a 2016 recipient of the ‘KPMG Australia National Award for Deal Advisory’ and ‘40 Under 40' award winnner for creating and directing one of APAC's largest corporate accelerator program, Energise. Toby is a CFA charter holder, has an MBA in Finance & Strategy, and is the Australian alumni ambassador for the University of California, Berkeley. Toby is also an inaugural lead mentor at Stone & Chalk, Australia’s centre for Fintech & Innovation.

Atlanta Daniel: (Lants) is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and one of Australia’s most prominent startup industry evangelists.

Most recently, Lants co-founded Signal Ventures, a new $10 million venture capital fund backed by US and Australian investors. The fund targets seed investing rounds for Australian high-growth startups with a global focus. Lants has spent her career at the intersection of digital, startups, and investing – having worked as Operations Director at venture capital firm, Oxygen Ventures, and founding her own startup, Tetris Digital.

Stuart Stoyan: is founder/ CEO of Australian fintech startup, MoneyPlace and inaugural board member of Fintech Australia.

Stuart is a leading member of Australia’s fintech community and has helped shape National fintech and innovation policies.

Stuart is founder of MoneyPlace, an online marketplace that connects credit worthy borrowers with investors. MoneyPlace launched in late 2015, after becoming Australia’s second fully licensed marketplace lending platform. Prior to founding MoneyPlace, Stuart was the Head of Strategy for NAB Business.

Alita Harvey-Rodriguez: is known as one of Australia’s leading Digital Marketing Futurist and the brains behind Milk it Academy.

For over a decade, Alita has worked with global brands including SAP, Experian, SEMRush, TS14+, Estee Lauder, Myer & Online Retailer. Today, Alita works with retailers and small businesses to help find clarity in digital leadership by leveraging big data and develop better marketing strategies that target the millennial mindset.

In 2015, Alita was appointed to the Board of Advisors for the Australian Technology and Gadget Expo alongside Google Earth inventor David Lorenzini. She is also inaugural committee member of Girls in Tech (Australia).

Chad Barendse: is an aspiring future leader in Australia’s finance industry and is the current chair of the FINSIA Victorian Young Finance Professionals (YFP) committee.

Qualified in information systems, business and marketing, Chad is a Channel Development Consultant at NAB, and is responsible for delivering strategy and projects to support the integration of NAB’s banking and wealth divisions. Prior to this, Chad spent over four years working in the technology team at one of Australia’s most awarded and fastest growing superannuation funds, Plum Financial Services.