An inventor, author, educator, broadcaster and entrepreneur, Pesce co-invented the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), the first standard for interactive 3D graphics on the World Wide Web.

For seven years Pesce served as a judge on ABC's "The New Inventors", and actively mentors Australia's startup community, judges at Startup Weekend events in both Melbourne and Sydney, and serves as a Grand Judge at the annual LAUNCH conferences.

Robert is the founder and CEO of Tiller Design Pty Ltd, and partner businesses Tiller Scientific+Medical Pty Ltd and Tiller Manufacturing Pty Ltd. A champion of truly diligent design, Robert has over 25 years of experience in product development, design, manufacture and commercialisation.

Kate Carruthers is a business leader who has delivered strategic IT, marketing, web and e-commerce solutions for diverse organisations across the private sector and government. She is deeply involved with social media and the digital revolution. Over the past few years Kate has worked with business, web, and marketing teams to deliver integrated digital and marketing strategies.

Kean’s passion for electronics started when he was a teenager. He loved to pull things apart, and study how they worked. By his mid-teens he had designed and built his own Z-80 based computer, programming it in hand-coded assembler. He has been working with computers, and electronics, ever since, and spends his days doing a mix of IT support, electronics design and prototyping, CNC operation, and all kinds of programming.