Ten Speakers to Watch Out For at DMA2020

Naomi Simson

Co-Founder of Big Red Group (BRG), Founder RedBalloon

As one of Australia’s most prominent entrepreneurs, Naomi Simson is the co-founder of the Big Red Group. BRG houses a number of brands including RedBalloon, Adrenaline, IfOnly, Albert AI (Marketics) and Redii.com with the purpose of shifting the way people experience life. Having founded RedBalloon in 2001, Naomi is a pioneer of online marketplaces and the Experience Economy. RedBalloon is one of Australia’s great entrepreneurial success stories with Hitwise identifying the business as the third largest experience marketplace in the world. Naomi is passionate, inspiring and determined – a colourful speaker with rich and vivid stories – she challenges audiences to think differently and is one of Australia’s most sought-after speakers. Naomi is a passionate supporter of Australian businesses, a prolific blogger and business commentator, best-selling author and much sought-after keynote speaker. She has appeared in four seasons of the Australian Shark Tank as the #redshark.

Stephen Esketzis

Founder & Host of Digital Marketers Australia

Stephen Esketzis is the founder of Australia’s leading digital marketing conference, Digital Marketers Australia and is also the founder of the Media Property Collective, a digital media & publishing company. Stephen’s a serial entrepreneur who has grown multiple online businesses and is a leader in customer acquisition and brand building. He’s led the content marketing team at ClickFunnels and also has an expertise in building sales funnels, paid media and organic traffic across multiple niches.

Mike Rhodes

Founder of WebSavvy, PPCSavvy, AgencySavvy & Author

Mike is the Founder & CEO of WebSavvy.com.au a Google-award winning agency based in Australia. Named in 2018 by Google as one of the Top 18 agencies worldwide. Over $100m+ in ad spend managed. He is also the founder of AgencySavvy.com – a community for agency owners who want to improve their digital marketing skills and grow their businesses. Mike is an internationally recognized speaker. Keynoted or spoken at more than 80 conferences globally including Traffic & Conversion Summit, Sydney Digital Forum Moscow, Baby Bathwater & more. Mike will be sharing all this strategies about how to profitably run Google AdWords campaigns and scale your traffic on the Google platform leveraging AI and more.

Ilana Wechsler

Founder of Green Arrow Digital

Ilana Wechsler is the founder and director of Green Arrow Digital. Ilana is a former Data Analyst, turned PPC expert. She has worked at many of the global financial institutions but switched careers many years ago when she finally gave in to her passion for PPC, IT and entrepreneurship. She is truly passionate about working closely with her clients and helping them achieve their business goals by helping them grow their businesses online.

Harry Sanders

Founder & CEO of Studiohawk

Harry is the founder and director of StudioHawk, an award-winning dedicated SEO agency in Australia, specialising in providing quality SEO services to businesses. As a sole founder, Harry has grown StudioHawk to a team of 18 dedicated SEO specialists in 4 years, winning at SEMRush’s 2018 search awards, and named agency of the year at the 2019 search awards. Named as Optus Young Business Leader of the Year & Optus Media, Marketing & Advertising business of the year, being featured in Forbes & the BBC world news, and most recently winning the Australian Business Award for Marketing Innovation – all at just 22 years old. Harry lives and breathes SEO.

Kate Toon

Founder | Stay Tooned

Kate Toon is a writing entrepreneur, as well as a popular coach, speaker, author and podcaster. She’s also a mad good hula hooper.
Her digital education businesses The Recipe for SEO Success and The Clever Copywriting School have helped more than 8000 small business owners grapple the Google beast and write better content.
Kate runs Australia’s only dedicated annual copywriting conference COPYCON.
She presents at events around the world and runs several hugely successful Facebook groups.
Author of the popular business self-help book Confessions of a Misfit Entrepreneur: How to succeed in business despite yourself, Kate lives on the Central Coast of Sydney, where she loves wandering on the beach with her son and her CFO (Chief Furry Office-dog) Pomplemousse.

SERPSTAT: No.1 Woman in SEO 2019
SEMRUSH: Best SEO community 2019
AHREFS: Best SEO Podcast 2019
SEMRUSH: Nominated SEO Personality of the year 2018
AUSPOD: Nominated Business Podcast of the Year 2019/18

Suki Van Koeverden

Founder of Origami Globe

OrigamiGlobe was born in 2015 when Chief Giveaway Guru, Suki van Koeverden quit her corporate travel job to pursue her passion for creating compelling competitions.
Having worked with big names like AAMI, Allianz, Disney, Coles, Pepsi and Woolworths on prize packages for nation-wide and international competitions and campaigns, Suki learnt a LOT about what it takes to run an effective competition that converts.

She decided it was time to take this unique knowledge of competition mechanics, her strategic mindset and passion for meaningful marketing and show businesses how to put competitions to work growing engaged and relevant audiences that become loyal, paying customers.

James Norquay

Founder & SEO Director of Prosperity Media

James Norquay has over 14 years experience in SEO & growth marketing. He started out in digital by building his own websites which generated over 25 million visitors, so he has skin in the game. The Prosperity Media team has worked with some of the largest brands and high growth funded startups in Australia, US and European markets. James founded Prosperity Media in 2012 which was awarded best agency in Australia at the SEMrush awards in 2018. The team of 12 works globally to scale mid to large SEO and digital marketing projects. A regular speaker at events like SMX, DMA, DigiMarCon, StartCon and others, his talks are highly actionable and insightful for all business owners and digital marketing teams.

Alita Harvey-Rodriguez

Managing Director of MI Academy

Alita Harvey-Rodriguez is known as one of Australia’s leading customer experience futurists and the brains behind multi-award-winning application-based training and consultancy provider, MI Academy.

For over a decade, Alita has worked with global brands including REA Group, Mr Toys ToyWorld, SAP, Experian, Mountain Bikes Direct and Alfa Romeo to transform their digital marketing and customer experience. Alita sits on several industry advisory boards, including Girls In Tech Australia, Retail Global, Online Retailer.

Rich Goldstein (USA)

Principal at Goldstein Patent Law

While most patent attorneys do not work with individual inventors, Rich Goldstein has built a career on working with both individual inventors and start-up companies.
His approach includes listening to and understanding their goals and needs.

• Providing custom-tailored representation.
• Offering specific guidance to keep their project moving toward their individual goals.
• He has given critical advice to more than 10,000 inventors, and has obtained nearly 2,000 patents for his clients.

He has educated thousands more about the patent process through his seminars, educational videos, and best selling book: The ABA Consumer Guide to Obtaining a Patent.
He also works directly with executives to help them make effective decisions to protect their IP, meet their business goals, and leverage the value of what they have already created.
Rich regularly attends a wide variety of entrepreneurship and innovation events and actively explores new ways to help his clients achieve their business and personal goals.