Welcome toFuture Founders Festival 202023-27 September

Grace is a lawyer turned tech entrepreneur and the founder of Liven, a mobile payment and rewards online wallet. Motivated by a burning desire to make her mum proud, in 2014 she left her law career behind to start Liven. Today, Grace is the company’s Chief Evangelist. She travels the world spreading Liven’s mission and forges relationships with industry heavyweights like Bill Tai and Roger Ver. She even pitched to Sir Richard Branson himself on Necker Island. Along the way, she has won a slew of awards including B&T 30 Under 30 and recently took home Bitfury’s 2019 XTC Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Prize with her pitch at CES (Consumer Electronics Show), Las Vegas.

Ivan Lim is the CEO and co-founder of Brosa, the leading direct to consumer retail brand in Australia's $14 billion home and living market. Backed by some of Australia's most esteemed investors, including AirTree Ventures and Bailador, Brosa harnesses both software and deep vertical integration to simplify the painful and stressful process of buying furniture.

Ivan has been listed in Forbes Asia's 30 Under 30 list, which recognises leaders who are revolutionising their industries. Ivan continues to lead Brosa on its mission of making it simple for Australians to create a home they love.
 

Wai Hong Fong is Chieftain and co-founder at StoreHub, an omnichannel operating system for over 15,000 retail and restaurant businesses across Southeast Asia. Raised in Malaysia, Fong spent four years in Singapore as an ASEAN Scholar and lived in Melbourne for a decade. Soon after completing his BA at the University of Melbourne, Fong co-founded OZHut – a multi-niche online retailer – and served as managing director for five years.

Fong was named Australia's Best Young Entrepreneur in 2011 by StartupSmart, and listed among Melbourne's top 100 Most Influential People by The Age that same year. Fong spent a year and a half studying Mandarin in Shanghai, before eventually returning to Malaysia in 2013 and founding StoreHub.