Summit: syd15


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Cassie McCullagh - Presenter, ABC RN, Best of the Festivals & The List

Cassie McCullagh is a keen media observer, a TV addict and is often found lurking in dark corners of social media and the web.

Cassie spent more than 15 years as a magazine writer and newspaper journalist. She was a staff writer at Good Weekend magazine and a senior newspaper features writer with Fairfax’s Illawarra Mercury.

Since joining the ABC in 2007 she has presented and produced a wide range of programs for Radio National, Local Radio, Classic FM and Digital Extra.

She has been executive producer of RN’s extensive broadcasts of the Sydney Writers Festival for the past two years, and of the 2011 TEDx Sydney event. She has also co-ordinated a number of RN’s multi-platform projects, including the Beyond Seven Billion and McLuhan Centenary projects.

Ben Wong - Admissions Manager, General Assembly

Ben has corporate and startup experience - having previously been in financial advising at Westpac Private, he pivoted into creating his own online job marketplace along with a social networking mobile app, which stemmed from a win at Sydney Startup Weekend 2014. He now works at General Assembly as an Admissions Manager and is passionate about user experience and digital marketing.