VICRA - Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Tuesday Keynote | 9:00 AM UTC

Dr. Jason Fox

Jason_Fox_small.jpgDr Jason Fox is a bestselling author, leadership advisor and wizard-philosopher who shows forward-thinking leaders how to quest for future relevance. His many happy clients include the senior leadership teams of Fortune 500 companies around the world. Jason has lectured at three universities (systems and behavior) and once upon a time was awarded ‘Keynote Speaker of the Year’.

When not liberating the world from the delusion of progress, Jason enjoys partaking in extreme sports such as reading, sun-avoidance and coffee snobbery.

Watch Dr. Fox's Welcome Video


Wednesday Keynote | 9:00 AM UTC

Dr. Thomas Barlow

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Thomas Barlow advises universities on their research performance and strategy. He is the publisher of the Barlow Report, a metrics-based analysis that is widely used to inform strategic decision-making in Australian universities.

His latest volume, The Future in Black & White identifies the underlying forces that shape research at universities. It then places a series of data-driven bets, foreshadowing how university research will change in the years ahead.

He is the author of three books: The Australian Miracle (2006), Between the Eagle and the Dragon (2013), and A Theory of Nothing (2016). He has also served on multiple boards and advisory boards across the Australian innovation system. Previously, he has been a ministerial science advisor within the Australian Government, a columnist with the Financial Times in London, a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and a visiting fellow at MIT.


Thursday Keynote | 9:00 AM UTC

atcheson.jpgListed as one of the UK's Top Most Influential Women in Tech and an international multi-award winner for her services to Diversity & Inclusion in industry, Sheree is a Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Senior Executive (currently at Valtech, ex. Deloitte, Monzo & Peakon) and Contributor to Forbes.

She is the Author of "Demanding More" (with Kogan Page Publishing) - aiming to teach readers about how deliberate exclusion has been in systems and society, so we can be purposefully and deliberately inclusive moving forward.

Having worked in many regions, Sheree developed tailored, data-driven DE&I strategies, with clear goals and lines of accountability to embed success and inclusion that scales. As a passionate advocate for gaining/retaining women in the industry, she launched & led the award-winning U.K. expansion of Women Who Code, the world's largest non-profit globally dedicated to women in tech, where she now sits as an Advisory Board Member.

Watch Sheree Atcheson's Welcome Video