Nine of the industry’s most senior leaders took part in a Family Feud style game show at Mumbrella360: Reimagined, to reveal what agency leaders and senior marketers really knew about the true cost of pitching.
Contestants included Spark Foundry CEO Imogen Hewitt, IAG CMO Brent Smart, Cummins & Partners partner Sean Cummins, Tourism Australia’s CMO Susan Coghill, The Hallway’s founder Jules Hall, AANA CEO John Broome, Trinity P3’s founder and global CEO Darren Woolley, with Julia Vargiu as host.

Julia Vargiu played MC at the PRIA national conference in 2023 by hosting a fun game show as the conference wrap up

Julia hosted a panel discssion with agency CEOs leaping from top networks to courageous indie start-up success.
We heard from top agency ‘heir apparents’ Margie Reid and Chris Howatson who left the safety of a big network top job to an independent agency start-up and exploded their growth in an unbelievably short time frame. Julia lead a candid discussion with the two panelists about their journey to exponential growth, and the lessons they learnt along the way.

In this keynote Julia Vargiu and Alistair Angus fom M&A advisory firm, SI Partners, shared fresh insights on the latest global and Australian acquisition trends.
In 2022 central banks took the ‘punchbowl’ away from the party by raising interest rates, making it more expensive to borrow which resulted in a normalisation following the post-Covid boom.
In this session Julia and Alistair shared what that means for the M&A environment and the key elements impacting the global, APAC and local Australian M&A trends.