Greg graduated from Victoria University in 1992 with a BA in Theatre and Film. During 1993 Greg trained as a Primary School Teacher and in 1994 graduated with a Diploma in Secondary teaching from Christchurch College of Education. Greg has taught in secondary schools in New Zealand and England. He has taught comedy and improvisation throughout the country for 17 years at secondary and tertiary levels. He has held the Secondary Schools, University, National and Commonwealth Theatresports titles. He has represented New Zealand at Theatresports twice - firstly as part of a Commonwealth competition in 1992 and then at the World Championships in 2006. Greg has appeared in movies, television and radio drama and comedy. His years of experience and understanding interaction with an audience makes him ideally suited for his continuing work on numerous television studio shows. Greg looks forward to MC'ing the conference for the eighth year.

Jeanette is a Chartered Engineer with over 20 years’ engineering experience in New Zealand and the UK. She is currently Associate Transportation Engineer with Abley in Christchurch. Jeanette is passionate about transport and constantly teased by her colleagues and friends for taking too many transport photos on holiday. In particular she loves anything to do with active transport and also enjoys creating amazing streetscapes/places in multidisciplinary teams. Jeanette is Vice Chair of the Transportation Group NZ National Committee.

Julie Woods a.k.a. ‘that blind woman’ has never let the loss of her sight hold her back. She has taught herself how to read Braille, cook, juggle single parenting and has carved a career as a professional speaker, coach and truffle maker! After going blind in 1997, Julie has made thousands of truffles, written a book, walked nine half marathons, gone up in a hot air balloon, refereed not one, not two, but three games of nude touch rugby and spoken to the NZ Prime Minister and the Governor General at Government House. In January 2009 Julie attended the 200th birthday celebrations of Louis Braille in Paris and on the way home popped into Petra in Jordan to visit her first wonder of the world. From that day on she set herself a goal of visiting the seven wonders of the world with her husband Ron. When she’d done that, she then set her sights on travelling to 50 countries by the time she was 50! When you hear her speak you will find out which two small words have taken Julie from that hospital waiting room in 1997 to living life as a daring adventure!

Cynthia has in excess of 25 years of experience in commercial and government sectors, at the Australian Federal and State levels, including senior executive roles in State Government where she was responsible for guiding return on investment for the Commonwealth Games in Queensland, leading the NSW rail integration project for the greenfield rail development and developing significant customer service outcome agendas. She has spent three years with KPMG working closely with government agencies on shaping strategic frameworks that delivered government objectives, synthesizing emerging trends and identifying long term opportunities. Cynthia is keen to champion innovation and foster effective working relationships to effect real change for communities.