Hey You, Ordermentum and Food Tech with Adam Theobald

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Building on his success as the Founder of Hey You (a consumer ordering and payments app), Adam Theobald continues to forge hospitality industry change with Ordermentum – a B2B ordering platform for the food and beverage sector.

Driven by a passion for technology and its ability to create a more seamless and efficient experience, Ordermentum is bringing new ways of working to supplier, retail and technology companies and has become the chosen platform by more than 28,000 hospitality venues and hundreds of wholesale suppliers around Australia.

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Australia’s Fastest Growing QSR, Fishbowl with Nic Pestalozzi

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Today, Nic Pestalozzi, Co-Founder of Sydney salad group, Fishbowl shares the story of his growing brand and two more, with Side Room and Fish Shop. 

Five years since starting the business, Nic and Nathan have self-funded over 30 venues for Fishbowl alone and been awarded as Australia’s fastest growing QSR.  

With over 300 staff, Nic has no plans of slowing down with a national expansion already underway.

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Deputy and Global Workforce Management with Ashik Ahmed

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Ashik Ahmed’s career is devoted to building technologies that create better, more efficient organisations. In 2008, along with co-founder Steve Shelley, he started Deputy, a global workforce management platform for employee scheduling, timesheets and communication.

Today, Deputy services more than 250,000 workplaces across 120 countries and Ashik’s mission is to improve the lives of shift workers and small business owners worldwide.

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Urban List with Susannah George

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Susannah George is the award winning CEO & Founder of Urban List – Australia and New Zealand’s largest independent lifestyle publisher. 

Identifying a gap in the Australian market for an independently curated city guide, Susannah built the brand from her bedroom in 2011 and has since established a platform with over three million visitors every month.

10 years later, her dedication to digital publishing has led her to be recognised with several accolades and collaborate with brands like Mercedes Benz, Bank Australia, Intrepid and Rolling Stone.

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The Amazon of Foodservice with Ben Lipschitz

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Ben Lipschitz is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at FoodByUs, a wholesale food marketplace for restaurants to order from hundreds of suppliers.

Dubbed ‘Amazon for the foodservice industry’ FoodByUs is the market leader and has received Venture Capital investment from, amongst others, Macquarie Bank’s Venture Capital division.

Prior to founding FoodByUs, Ben founded and sold international footwear company, Flipsters. He has a Bachelor of Arts/Law (UNSW).

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Data-Driven Customer Engagement and SevenRooms with Joel Montaniel

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Joel Montaniel is the CEO and Co-Founder of SevenRooms, a fully-integrated, data-driven guest experience platform for hospitality operators. SevenRooms is venture-backed by Amazon, Comcast Ventures and Providence Strategic Growth and has been named on Inc.‘s Best Workplaces and Forbes’ Best Startup Employers lists. The company’s clients range from independent restaurants to global enterprises including MGM Resorts, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Topgolf and Live Nation. 

Joel’s experience is wide and varied from investment banking – dealing with Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) – to global AI-powered messaging technology. 

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Squad Ink with Terry and Matthew Squadrito

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Identical twin brothers, Matthew and Terry Squadrito are the co-founders of Squad Ink, a design and branding studio based in Sydney, Australia. 

Founded in 2008, Squad Ink have helped shape some of the most successful forward-thinking food and beverage, destination and wellness brands in Australia including: Archie Rose, Felons, Sofi Spritz and The Grounds of Alexandria – just to name a few. 

As one voice (almost literally, you’ll hear today), Matthew and Terry share a combined storytelling passion that stems from a childhood learning of their rich Italian heritage, its food and culture.

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Broadsheet, Food Culture and Publishing with Nick Shelton

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Nick Shelton has built one of the hospitality industry’s most powerful consumer publications.

By focusing on quality, Broadsheet has become a name that foodies turn to – a city guide covering fashion, food, art and entertainment.

In the changing face of publishing, Nick has managed to stay agile and adapt over the business’ ten year history, to find an audience of almost 3 million people a month and partner with Mini and Disney.

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The Only National Restaurant Critic with John Lethlean

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  • “John Lethlean is Australia’s only national restaurant critic. A journalist by trade, John has written full-time about restaurants, food and the people involved with this exciting landscape since 1996, at publications including The Age, Delicious and Gourmet Traveller.” – The Australian
  • On a bad day, John may be received with some unfortunate names – and we discuss that – but he says what he believes, as an objective voice in the media. Now the courage to do that in an environment riddled with paid ads and cunning advertorials demonstrates his character – above his experience as a journalist.
  • I hope you enjoy the conversation we have traversing hospitality, media, technology and more.

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Artistic Expression Through Food with Joe Grbac

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Working with industry greats like Gordon Ramsay, Philip Howard, George Calombaris and Scott Pickett, Joe Grbac has seen kitchens across Melbourne and London, heading some and stepping back to learn in others. In late-2017, he embarked on a solo adventure with Saxe – where the interview takes place today.

From watching his Mum roll gnocchi on Sundays to ultimately developing a unique flavour and style of cooking, Joe has seen the culinary world from many perspectives and it’s a pleasure to share our creative discussion together.

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