2026 Seminar Agenda

Payment reconciliation is a hidden but costly challenge for many businesses, with incoming funds often lacking consistent information and requiring manual matching. In this session, Christian Westerlind Wigstrom explains how virtual accounts transform this process by assigning unique payment details to each customer, enabling automatic recognition on arrival. The result is faster cash flow visibility, reduced errors and significantly lower operational overhead.

Your business doesn't need more staff—it needs smarter systems. We'll demystify AI automation and show you exactly how to deploy digital team members that handle the boring stuff while your team focuses on growth. Expect honest talk, real examples, and actionable strategies you can implement immediately.       

 

Scaling past 10 employees on hustle alone isn't enough. Discover why strategic HR is your ultimate growth accelerator, not corporate bureaucracy. Natasha Hawker shares practical hiring, performance and compliance frameworks to build high-performing teams, protect your valuation, and multiply productivity. Essential for founders and leaders ready to scale sustainably.

Most businesses don't fail because of a bad idea. They stall because the legal basics were never properly set up, and by the time it matters, it's expensive and painful to fix.

This session covers how to set your business up properly from the ground up: the corporate structure and contracts that should be in place early, the workplace and employment essentials your team needs, the property considerations that come with growth, and even succession planning for the future. Delivered in plain, practical terms, so you leave knowing exactly what to build and when.

Access to capital shouldn't be a barrier to growth. Join FC Capital and Finstro as we explore how businesses can match the right funding solution to every stage of their journey: from working capital and expansion through to large-scale structured and institutional finance. Through real-world examples and practical insights, you'll learn how to think strategically about capital and prepare your business for its next phase of growth.

Fractal Branding: How to help a brand find its identity among others. AI has become a common tool, and prompts have become a common language. The only way not to dissolve is to outrun the algorithms in defining your own essence. Our method extracts the spirit of the brand from its core and turns identity into a working asset.

Many businesses grow through founder-led sales, where success sits with very few people. This session explores how the principles of sales maturity, long applied by the world's largest organisations, enable trust to be engineered into a defined sales engine. By aligning people capability, sales tools, and go-to-market execution, leaders can create repeatable, reliable sales performance that scales without dependence on the founder.

Most SMEs assume hiring HR is the solution to their people challenges. In reality, it often adds cost without fixing the underlying issue. This session breaks down why inconsistent management practices, not the absence of HR, create risk, inefficiency and exposure. Attendees will learn how to build structure, improve decision-making and reduce risk without prematurely investing in a full HR function.

Most founders believe stalling revenue is a sales execution problem. In this session, JD introduces the Commercial Maturity Model, a diagnostic framework that reveals exactly which of five stages your revenue engine is operating at, and why tactics that worked yesterday have stopped working today. You will leave with a clear picture of where you are and one concrete action to move forward.

This seminar explores how businesses can improve cash flow through effective receivables management and strategic debt collection practices. Attendees will gain practical insights into collection processes, debtor segmentation, performance metrics, compliance, and customer relationship management. The session highlights how structured collection strategies can strengthen liquidity, reduce bad debt exposure, improve forecasting accuracy, and support long-term financial stability and operational performance.

Company leaders have a legal duty to exercise due diligence in safety. But what is due diligence in safety and how do you do it? This seminar will explore practical actions to help you meet your duty. It will help you understand your requirements and take positive actions, it does not constitute legal advice. 

After years of hybrid and remote work, many of us feel a little rusty at events. Partying with Purpose is a practical, upbeat guide to networking with intention - enjoying the room while growing real relationships. You'll learn how to set a human goal, open better conversations, respect different comfort levels, use fun as a trust-builder, and follow up like a considerate professional.

As businesses grow, the demands placed on their people grow just as quickly. Yet many business owners continue trying to solve growth challenges by hiring more people, when the real opportunity is developing the capability of the people they already have. Discover why recruitment in isolation won't solve growth challenges.

Small and medium sized businesses can't outspend big brands on advertising, but they can earn attention. In this session, Mercedes Carrin, Head of Marketing at Medianet, unpacks how to win genuine media coverage by pitching journalists a real story, and how to get mentioned and recommended in AI answers. Walk away with a practical guide to building visibility and turning it into real business outcomes.

Across Australia, 77% of employees report being disengaged at work, creating significant and costly challenges for organisations. In this seminar, Envicto Coaching explores why traditional engagement approaches often fail and what leaders can do differently. Introducing The Engagement Equation, a research-informed framework, attendees will learn what drives sustained employee motivation and how leadership behaviours and workplace environments shape engagement, performance, and culture.

Businesses today are under constant pressure to evolve. New technology, restructuring, economic unce ...

This session explores why people often fail to embrace a founder’s vision and how leaders can close that gap through influence, empathy, and reframing. Lachie reveals how personal bias and differing worldviews shape team engagement and shows leaders how to communicate vision in ways that resonate with diverse mindsets. Attendees will leave equipped to turn resistance into alignment and unlock deeper organisational momentum.

SME's typically rely on efficiency-based methodologies to produce value in highly competitive environments - it makes sense. Yet the greatest opportunity for success lies in maximising your people's performance. SME's that dedicate resources to developing leadership capability, talent pathways, and high-performance culture, retain staff, and get better bottom line results. This seminar will inspire you to invest in people leadership as well as offering tips for making impactful change straight away.

Most businesses look outside for answers to their brand. In reality, the most authentic, valuable and enduring brands come from within. In this session, Jason and Graeme will challenge common assumptions and introduce five critical questions that drive clarity, alignment and growth. You will leave with practical insights, including a number of immediate actions you can apply to strengthen your brand.

The broad-targeting era is here, and Meta’s Andromeda has changed the rules. 

With interest-based targeting now dead, your creative is your targeting.

If you aren’t diversifying your hooks, personas, and formats, you’re paying a lazy content tax through sky-high CPMs. Minor tweaks won't save you—major creative evolution will. Join me to learn how to feed the ad algorithm what it actually wants, and drive your sales engine.