SPEAKERS
MEET OUR INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKERS AT THE HERE TO STAY CONFERENCE 2025
mEET OUR SPEAKERS
AARON TAYLOR
BNB Made Easy & ASTRA
General Manager Growth and Strategy & ASTRA Board
ALESSIO FAMULARO
AirKeeper
Founder and CEO
ALVAN AIAU YONG
Hometime
Chief Operating Officer
BART SOBIES
ibooked.online
Founder & CEO
BILLY CROCK
Hometime
CEO
CARLENE DUFFY
Carlene Duffy Studio
Creative Director
CATHERINE SHIELDS
South Coast Escapes & ASTRA
Owner Host & ASTRA Board
CHRIS DE CLOSEY
Switch Hotel Solutions & Coastal Letting Group
Director
CRAIG MCINTOSH
Homhero
Interim CEO
DAN DE WITTE
Moxxi
Co-Founder & Chief Problem Solver
DANIEL LEIFIELD
Key Data
Director of Business Development
DANNY SHANNON
Homhero
Sales and Onboarding Specialist
DEEPANSHU NIHALANI
PriceLabs
Senior Solutions Consultant
EACHAM CURRY
Expedia Group
Senior Director, Government & Corporate Affairs
eTHAN BROWN
Hospitable
General Manager APAC
FELICITY STEVENS
Sustainable Hosting
Founder
HEATH DELFOS
Alloggio Group
Revenue & Distribution Manager
JODIE ODLIN
The Global Hospitality Collective
Founder
JULIE GEORGE
Million Dollar Host
Director
KARLY BARRETT
Wandering Escapes
Director
KERRY WILLIAMS
Accessible Accommodation
Founder / Director
KEVIN LU
Trip.com Group
Head of Oceania
KIM STEEL
Property Mums
Director
KYLE FITZSIMMONS
Consolia & ASTRA
Managing Director & ASTRA Board
LEIGH SORENSEN
Industry Relations at Tourism Australia
General Manager
MITCH HARGREAVES
Hello Queenstown
General Manager
NICK PEIRCE
Alloggio & ASTRA
Board Director & ASTRA Board
PETE SMITH
RYAN BONDAR
Oceania at Booking.com
Public Affairs Manager
SABRINA SCHWAIGHOFER
MadeComfy
Co-CEO and Co-Founder
HON. MINISTER SAM O’CONNOR MP
Minister for Housing and Public Works
Minister for Youth & Member for Bonney
SAM STEEL
Resly
Co-Founder
SARAH WORKMAN
ASTRA
General Manager
SAVANNAH JACKSON
Hello Queenstown
Director
SIMON LEHMANN
AJL Atelier
Co-Founder & CEO
SRINI GOPAL
Aspin Holiday Homes/ Vieras Hospitality Group & ASTRA
Aspin Holiday Homes Managing Director & ASTRA Director
TEGAN WILDE
Geographe Holiday Homes & ASTRA
Owner / Director PMC &
ASTRA Board
TIM MORTIMER
BNB Made Easy
Founder & CEO
TIM ROSOLIO
Expedia Group
Vice President, Vacation Rental Partnerships, Expedia Group
TODD LACEY
Booking.com
Regional Manager at Oceania
TOM ORMEROD
Luxico/Staylonger
Co-Founder
TRACEY FOXALL
Bachcare Holiday Homes
Managing Director
VERED RAVIV SCHWARZ
Guesty
President and COO
WILL CREEDON
Alloggio Group
Founder + Chief Executive Officer
YOAV TOUREL
Guesty & ASTRA
Managing Director APAC & ASTRA Board Chair