Tai Snaith is an artist, author and broadcaster living and working on unceded Wurundjeri land.

Her multi-disciplinary work celebrates the intersection of stories, collections, people and place. She is interested in how objects like books, vessels and other utilitarian items can be powerful tools to illustrate the times we live in as well as the past. How, like literature, objects can convey a deep emotional point of view and energy. Tai also has a longstanding love of animals and interest in biodiversity. She has 6 published books with Thames and Hudson, which all use animals as a way for children to connect with ideas of place, self, mindfulness and environmental action.

Tai has artwork held in both private and public collections including Artbank, City of Banyule, NGA and State Library of Victoria as well as recently commissioned series for Andaz Prague and a current public sculpture commission for the Great Victorian Rail Trail. Tai has an ongoing podcast of conversations called ‘A World of One’s Own’ originally commissioned by ACCA, which is now in its third season. Tai also has 6 books published with Thames and Hudson Australia with her most recent book ‘Wonders Under the Sun’ was released in September 2022.

Vernon Ah Kee’s conceptual text pieces, videos, photographs and drawings form a critique of Australian culture from the perspective of the Aboriginal experience of contemporary life. Ah Kee’s works respond to the history of the romantic and exoticised portraiture of ‘primitives’, and effectively reposition the Aboriginal in Australia from an ‘othered thing’, anchored in museum and scientific records to a contemporary people inhabiting real and current spaces and time.

Ah Kee’s work has been exhibited in a number of significant national and international exhibitions, including ‘Revolutions: Forms that turn’, the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008); ‘Once Removed’, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2009); ‘Ideas of Barack’, National Gallery of Victoria (2011); ‘Tall Man’, Gertrude Contemporary (2011); ‘Everything Falls Apart’, Artspace Sydney (2012); ‘unDisclosed’: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial’, National Gallery of Australia (2012); ‘My Country: I Still Call Australia Home’, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (2013); and ‘Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art’, National Gallery of Canada (2013).

Chris Bush is a Melbourne-based AI expert, educator, and Churchill Fellow who specialises in integrating artificial intelligence into schools. With over a decade of experience in secondary education, Chris empowers educators to harness AI's potential to transform teaching and learning.

He helps educators reduce workload, streamline planning and assessment, and create personalised learning experiences using AI tools. Chris combines technical expertise with hands-on educational insight to translate complex AI concepts into actionable strategies. His approach supports ethical and effective AI implementation, inspiring educators to confidently embrace innovation in their classrooms.

Jessie Hughes is an internationally recognised new media artist, technologist, scholar and screenwriter whose innovative works have been exhibited at Sundance, SXSW, Cannes and the Tate Modern.

Over the past decade, she has collaborated with major players including Meta, Oculus and Adobe, leading the charge in emerging creative technologies. Now based at Leonardo.Ai , she pioneers generative tools that push the boundaries of how we make, teach and imagine in the digital age.