Keynote Session 1: ADAPT
Gus Balbontin, brought to you by ICMI

Starting in the late 90's and continuing for over a decade, TV - Music - Movies - Newspapers - Magazines - Books and other Media Industry players endured a level of disruption and change that had not been seen since the industrial revolution a few centuries earlier. It’s very likely that your industry and business is muscling through similar challenges right now.

Gus will deliver a presentation focused on the adaptability required to chase an ever changing customer. These are lessons learnt over decades of market disruption and business transformation in a variety of industries. His lessons are full of common sense and easy to implement immediately. His presentation is relevant to all size businesses from all industries, private and public as it focuses on simple yet powerful concepts of change, adaptability, transformation, technology and innovation and how we can easily forget the customer and focus our efforts on the business instead.

Let Gus take you behind the scenes to understand what companies did right and wrong during these decades of unparalleled change. The lessons he shares can be applied to all modern business and individuals facing market shifts and the relentless pace of technology.

Gus Balbontin is brought to you by ICMI.

Keynote Session 2: Powered-Up Performers: The Neuroscience of Sustainable Peak-Performance in a Digital Age
Dr Kristy Goodwin, brought to you by Ovations! Speaker Bureau

Dr Kristy will guide AIME delegates through the latest insights to help them thrive, not just survive, in an age of turbulent technological change. Attendees will be equipped with practical, brain-based micro-habits that boost productivity, manage stress and maximise energy—essential tools for planning and delivering high-impact events and avoiding 'digital burnout'. Kristy will decode the neurobiology of sustainable peak-performance in the always-on, digitally-intense world we now find ourselves in. She’ll explore the pronounced gender wellbeing gap that’s revealing far more females than males are experiencing stress and burnout and how this problem is amplified during perimenopause and menopause. Dr Kristy will share how years of stress and burnout almost cost her life and how she’s transformed the ways that she works and lives to ensure she never pays the “success tax” again.

Each participant will leave with a personalised Power-Up Plan to ensure they can effectively harness technology to elevate their event planning capabilities and mitigate the perils of the digitally-demanding world we now live and work in. The audience will learn the simple, science-backed strategies that will power-up their performance and sustain their wellbeing, so they can live a 'high-res', powered-up life.

Dr Kristy Goodwin is brought to you by Ovations! Speaker Bureau.

Global Insights Panel

A Global Insights Panel with leading industry figures will take place within the plenary session. Panelists will be confirmed shortly.