The Bold Move: Build Confidence & ReInvent Your Career in the Age of AI
Event description
The Bold Move: Build Confidence & ReInvent Your Career in the Age of AI
📆 Date: Thursday 8th May 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
📍 Location: Rydges Melbourne CBD – 186 Exhibition St, Melbourne CBD
🥂 Drinks and Canapés included
🎟️ Tickets (2 options)
1. FREE TICKET with the purchase of "The Bold Move" book
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2. 🎟️ Regular Tickets: $35
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Work is accelerating; caution won’t keep you competitive.
Join us for a high-energy night where confidence becomes a skill, reinvention becomes a system, and AI becomes your advantage.
The Bold Move is a live experience designed to equip you with the mindset, tools, and community to lead your next chapter with clarity and courage.
Expect actionable frameworks, real-life stories, and future-ready insights from those who are already redefining what leadership looks like in the age of AI.
📅 What to Expect
6:00 PM: Doors open – drinks, canapés & networking
6:55 PM: Opening words
7:00 PM: Panel discussion – The Bold Move
7:45 PM: Audience Q&A
8:00–9:00 PM: More mingling & connection
Meet Your Panellists
Carina Parisella – LinkedIn
Carina Parisella is a purpose-driven executive with over two decades of experience building high-performing, engaged teams across technology and people functions. Known for her warm and energetic leadership style, she fuses empathy with execution to create cultures where people thrive and deliver impact.
She is soon to step into the role of Chief People Officer at Andromeda Robotics, where she will help scale a purpose-led tech startup with humanity, creativity, and bold thinking. Previously, as Head of Technology Workforce & AI at ANZ, Carina led transformation across a 15,000-strong global technology team, designing enterprise-wide workforce strategies, embedding AI tools such as Copilot, and launching the AI Immersion Centre, which reached more than 4,000 leaders across four countries.
Carina is passionate about inclusive pathways into technology. She created ANZ’s award-winning Return to Work program for career-breakers, the Tech Talent Marketplace, and the Alternative Pathways strategy—initiatives that now represent over 10% of ANZ’s global technology workforce and have influenced adoption across the sector.
Her work has brought her into collaboration with academia, government, and industry, and she has presented talent strategies to global leaders, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. She has been named among the Top 101 Global Engagement & Experience Influencers for three consecutive years.
Outside of her corporate roles, Carina has founded and led several community initiatives, from leading Australia’s My Room Children’s Cancer Gala Volunteer community to the Docklands Sports Club, fostering grassroots inclusion. She has also curated and hosted panels and summits across Melbourne’s innovation ecosystem.
Sarah Carney – LinkedIn
From the Australian Army to Microsoft’s tech frontier, Sarah Carney’s journey is anything but ordinary. As the National Technology Officer for Microsoft in Australia and New Zealand, Sarah is the go-to for spotting emerging tech trends and helping the biggest enterprise and government customers navigate the future. She’s also the Responsible AI lead and a proud member of Microsoft’s regional AI product Red Team.
Sarah’s career has taken her across continents and industries—from think tanks in Europe to marketing in the Middle East, and even a stint attending ballet for a living!
Named the 4th most powerful woman in tech in Australia by B&T in 2025 and winner of ARN’s Rising Star award for 2024, Sarah brings a unique, adventurous lens to innovation and the power of technology.
Wendy Zveglic – LinkedIn
Wendy Zveglic is a transformational business leader at the intersection of technology, strategy, and human potential. As Signature Success Executive at Salesforce and Founder & Host of Our Hive Podcast, she helps organisations unlock double-digit growth, accelerate innovation, and lead with purpose in the age of AI.
With over two decades of experience spanning tech, finance, and product innovation, including senior roles at Fluent Commerce, Westpac, NAB, and Salesforce, Wendy is renowned for blending human-led leadership with AI-driven insights to deliver measurable impact. A 2025 Women in Tech AI Impact Finalist, she champions inclusive cultures where strategy meets execution, empowering people to show up, speak up, and thrive.
Our Mission
Sisterhood Club exists to ensure women thrive in the future of work. Through education, storytelling, and access to opportunity, we’re building a more diverse, empowered, and human-centred tech industry.
Whether you’re a leader, learner, or visionary — you belong here.
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