Women in Media NSW Learn from the Leaders

Women in Media presents a Keynote presentation and fireside chats with some of the media's most inspiring leaders. Come along for tips for putting your best foot forward at work and in the job market. 

Our Keynote presenter is Marion (Maz) Farrelly. MC, Keynote Speaker, Mentor and Host of bespoke Masterclasses, Maz has been to more showbiz parties than a barrel-full of influencers and worked with more international celebrities than a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon.  

She has created and been the boss of some of the biggest media brands on earth - everything from 5 series of Big Brother in the UK and Australia, Dancing with the Stars, The X Factor, The Celebrity Apprentice, The Farmer Wants A Wife, Ready Steady Cook, The AFL Recruit and she co created the long running current affairs show, Q&A, for the ABC.  

Her content has been watched more than eight BILLION times, and she once broke X (Twitter).  Deliberately. 

Maz has worked with everyone from Beyonce, to King Charles, Donald Trump to Snoop Dogg, and now uses the intel and smarts from those world leaders and international superstars, to help you and your business.  

Carly Heaton is Head of Scripted at Fremantle Australia and Executive Producer of the award winning Netflix show Heartbreak High. She was previously at Foxtel and served as an EP on Lingo Pictures’ Upright, and See-Saw Films’ The End as well as Goalpost Pictures’ Fighting Season and both editions of Matchbox Pictures’ Secret City. 

Ellie McDonald is a strategic social, editorial and digital content professional who has worked in publishing and big tech, with more than a decade’s experience in editorial, social media and content marketing.She works at TikTok as a TikTok LIVE Operations Manager, helping creators and brands to grow on LIVE in Australia and New Zealand.

Poppy Reid is the Editor-In-Chief of Australia’s largest youth publisher, The Brag Media, which includes Rolling Stone AU/NZ, Variety Australia, Tone Deaf, The Brag and The Music Network under its umbrella.She is a multi-award winner, having won the Music Journalist of the Year award at the 2022 Australian Women in Music Awards (AWMA), the Publishing accolade at last year’s Mediaweek Next of the Best Awards and was more recently crowned The Champion of Change at The B&T Women In Media Awards.