Online Growth & AI for 2025

Join us on November 14 at NBN Co in Docklands for Online Growth & AI for 2025 — the must-attend event for small businesses! Come hang out with us for a half-day event full of practical tips and tools to help your business thrive. Explore what AI can (and can’t) do for your business with Accenture, learn unified commerce strategies for digital growth from Shopify agency Punch Buggy and discover Australia’s data trends with NBN.

This is a free half-day event running from 9:30am to 1pm. It includes:

🧁 Morning tea with light refreshments

📢 Three small business mini-workshops from Accenture, Shopify agency - Punch Puggy, and NBN Co

🤝 Networking opportunities with other small business owners and entrepreneurs

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Session:  What AI can (and can’t) do for your business

In this session we will explore how small businesses can automate personalised experiences and marketing to drive growth much more efficiently and cheaply than traditional marketing efforts. 

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Presented by Akshay Jain, Director – Data & AI, Accenture 

Akshay has 20+ years’ experience as a technologist and 6+ years as an executive member in consumer facing industries. He specializes in leveraging Data, Digital, AI and enterprise technologies to create / uplift business lines, digital ventures and modernise business functions, in essence closing gap between strategy and execution. His professional mission is to help organisations be a pioneer in their sector through Data & AI led continuous reinvention.

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Session: Unified commerce - your digital growth engine - Embrace unified commerce for accelerating business growth

Empower your business with unified commerce and unlock new ways to transact, optimise and grow online.

Takeaway 1: Unify, integrate and automate digital commerce

Takeaway 2: How to ride the social selling wave

Takeaway 3 Tools that skyrocket your conversions

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Presented by Ryan Fitton - CEO/Co-Founder, Punch Buggy (Shopify Agency)

Ryan leads an enthusiastic team of highly passionate creatives, developers and marketers who live by the mantra live it, love it, master it! With 19 years of experience in all things digital, Ryan loves crafting bespoke marketing strategies, fuelled by his love for behavioural psychology and conversion-driven design, but there isn't much he doesn't get excited about in this incredible digital space. Outside of work, you'll find Ryan catching waves surfing or seeking adventure on his mountain bike and always enjoying quality time with his two kids.

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Session: Business NBN Co

As 80% of all Australian data traffic runs through its network, nbn reveals interesting data on how Australians are going online. You will be surprised to learn about Australia’s busiest data day of the year, rapidly increasing number of devices in homes, and data hungry suburbs during this entertaining presentation. 

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Presented by David Pollock, National Business & Industry Stakeholder Manager at NBN Co.

Dave is the National Stakeholder Engagement Manager (Business and Industry) at nbn. He is a management professional with over 30 years extensive global and local experience in both B2C and B2B sectors. Dave has been at nbn for 7 years, working in Marketing, Channel, Commercial and Corporate Affairs teams.

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