A selection of speakers will be at each event. They are subject to change.
Mark Forbes
News Director, The Age
Mark Forbes is News Director of The Age, responsible for content across all platforms, social, online, mobile, iPad and print, as the operational leader of the newsroom.
As an investigative reporter, editor and foreign correspondent, Mark has won numerous awards, including a Walkley Award for an expose of Australia’s role in the international steroid trade and the United Nations Media Peace Prize for a ground-breaking journey into Indonesia’s Papua province.
Previously, he edited The Sunday Age, which was named the Asia-Pacific’s Sunday newspaper of the year in 2012 by PANPA.
Mark has also worked with Channel Seven and Four Corners, and has a Masters in Strategic Affairs from the ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.