Speakers

Liz has pioneered many first time digital transformation initiatives that have had lasting impacts including starting up the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse(ATDW) and being its CEO for over ten years.

Today, Liz is Managing Director of Digital Coaching International – a network of experts who assist businesses through digital transformation of their marketing and operational processes. Liz is able to pull together a team of tourism experts with the relevant, specific experience to meet the clients’ needs.

Liz is also co-­‐founder of the innovative online learning community, Tourism Tribe, which launched in July 2015 and is already providing online coaching and support to eight hundred tourism operators around Australia and the world to make digital work better for them. Tourism Tribe was awarded in the Queensland Tourism Industry Innovation Awards in 2016 and in its inception in the UNWTO Innovation Awards in 2015.

2017 consulting projects have included:

• Implementation of a digital capability training program across 10 destinations in Queensland
• Digital strategy and capability building program for 300 Northern Territory businesses
• Development of the Digital Business Scorecard and Training Program for the Department of Digital Economy in Queensland
• Development of an online health check and raking model to benchmark the digital maturity and effectiveness of destinations and tourism business

Liz is an experienced speaker, facilitator and trainer and leads her sessions with a philosophy of shared knowledge and collaborative learning. Some of Liz’s speaking commitments have included:

• MC for the Australian Chamber of Commerce Mobile-­‐ising Women in Business conference in 2016
• Facilitated the Digital Tourism Masterclass, Destination Queensland conference 2016
• Keynote at the Welcome to the Dry conference in Darwin 2017

Liz is a Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Australian Institute of Management and holds an Advanced Diploma in Business from University of Southern Queensland.

Liz has been a director on several boards, including Tourism and Events Queensland and presently, Queenslanders Credit Union. Liz is also President for Women Chiefs of Enterprise, Queensland.

Under her leadership, the CNN International Ad Sales business in the region has seen exponential growth with acquisition of key clients in the South Asia region and embraced new product categories. There has also been greater engagement with Digital only clients for local as well as international campaigns. From engagement with government to corporate clients, Chatterjee has also overseen the strengthening and expansion of client interest and investments in CNN’s green platforms creating beneficial long term partnerships

A media industry veteran, Chatterjee has holistic experiences across genres including news, sports & entertainment. She has worked in sales as well as creative client solutions and has been deeply involved in the branding exercise of many clients. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University and enjoys reading, listening to music and solving cryptic crosswords in her leisure time.

Based in Hong Kong, Sarita spearheads all of production in Asia including news, features and planning. She supervises the team for the region’s prime time evening show, News Stream, anchored by Kristie Lu Stout; oversees all the feature non-news programmes including Talk Asia, and CNN’s franchise series and theme weeks; she also manages the planning team which works on original content for news programmes worldwide including lining up key newsmakers.

Sarita works closely with the news and feature production teams in Atlanta, London and Abu Dhabi. Working alongside the Hong Kong news desk, she is responsible for pushing content from the Asia-Pac region and works with her counterparts in various production hubs on programming changes according to breaking news of the day.

Sarita started as an intern with CNN International in 2001 and took up a fulltime position as a writer in 2004 after graduating with a Bachelors in Journalism. She has held various different positions at CNN including producing news and feature shows, executing planning and breaking news coverage for major stories such as Typhoon Haiyan, missing Malaysian airliner MH370, Arab Spring, Japan Earthquake, Mumbai Bombings and the Asian Tsunami. She’s been involved with some of CNN’s big field coverage operations like the Royal Wedding of William & Kate in 2011 and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Sarita is from Hong Kong, but has lived in Thailand and the United States.

Founder of Atlas, the first blockchain platform for travel industry.

Global leader and regular speaker in the luxury travel space with extensive knowledge and network in the hotel and travel industry.

6 years with Morgan Stanley in investment banking and PE investment division at Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai office.

She previously worked for Lazada (an Alibaba company), as a VP of Performance Management and Planning in their regional operation team. She worked closely together with the CEO and CFO of their logistic arm helping them build the entire logistic infrastructure for the company. Prior to that, she has worked across several industries, functions and geography - mainly across Europe and Asia.

She is an expert on creating successful methods for travel brands to work with when collaborating with boggers as she has done previously with ITB Berlin. She will share many examples and best practices to optimize top travel influencer collectives and as a result drive an effective marketing campaign.