Celebrate QLD Women's Week with us and join us for Wine, Cheese and Conversations about choosing to challenge!

Hear from an expert panel of women who are dominating their industry on the topic of Challenge, and network with other inventors who may be able to help you with your own business challenges.

Guest speakers include:

Faith Rees - Founder and CEO of SixPivot and Cloud Ctrl

Faith Rees is the Founder and CEO of SixPivot and Cloud Ctrl. SixPivot is a cloud first innovator which helps startups, SMEs, corporates and governments by building software that creates real change. Cloud Ctrl is a multi-cloud service management platform, providing customers with insights and financial control of their cloud subscriptions. Faith is an advocate and role model for the IT industry sitting on a number of advisory boards as well as being a formal mentor and chairperson for the Queensland Government Mentoring for Growth program, mentor for Mentor Walks Australia, Guru and advisor to Girl Shaped Flames, and Professional Advisor for the Australian Advisory Board Centre. She is an industry awards judge and has won numerous awards and accolades herself including the 2016 ARN Women in ICT Entrepreneur of the Year and also Start-up of the Year Award.

Megan Avard - Founder and CEO of SurePact

Megan is a business leader with 30+ years of experience across the public, private, NFP and community sectors. Megan's award-winning track record of building, designing and delivering integrated and innovative strategies resulted in the formation of SurePact. "My mission was to create a solution to a problem that I knew existed"

Ami Bateman - Co-Founder of Pleasant State

Ami loves solving problems that no-one else is willing (or silly enough) to take on - be it in the corporate, start-up or not-for-profit landscapes. She’s never accepted the status quo and always fights against injustice. Ami looks after all the business side of things and ensures our team is moving together in the right direction. She holds an MBA and has a long history in big business and knows there’s a better way of doing things. She is compelled to prove that ethical decision-making is good for business, people and planet. Ami lives on the Sunshine Coast with her partner. You’ll often find her on the weekend patrolling the beach in her reds and yellows.

Sian Murray - Co-Founder of Pleasant State

An advocate for adventure, conscious living and creative endeavours, Sian left her marketing job, packed up her life in Melbourne and moved to Noosa in 2019. The go to dreamer of the group, Sian has years of experience in Creative Digital Marketing, Social Media Management &; Public Relations. You’ll find Sian in front of the camera spreading the Pleasant State mission far and wide, but if by chance she’s not there, she’s probably snuck out of the office to go for a surf while she thought nobody was looking. Most importantly, Sian believes that we exist in a pivotal time in which it’s our responsibility to protect and change the way we interact with the planet.