Xiao Han is the CEO and founder of the Centre for Responsible Innovation (CforRI) with 15+ years of experience across media, marketing, impact-led technology and responsible innovation.

Before CforRI, Xiao Han founded a B2B2C cloud insights platform that empowered business leaders to make informed decisions. This venture provided her with hands-on experience in innovation management, covering the entire process from R&D to product launch and venture capital raising. Her work also took her to innovation hubs in Canada, the USA, and China, where she gained valuable insights into the innovation processes of industry leaders including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Xiaomi.

Xiao Han's career began in marketing, where she led an international team to deliver large-scale launch, transition and marketing programs at General Electric (GE) and various independent Australian media organisations.

Xiao Han holds a Master of Marketing from the Monash Business School and a Master of Screen Arts and Business from the Australian Film Television & Radio School.

David Court is founder of Compton School, Australia’s first business school for creative people and co-founder of Greenlight Ventures. He is also chairman of Screen Canberra and a director of the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation.

David was formerly Head of Screen Business at the Australian Film Television & Radio School where he developed Australia’s first screen business qualification. David has been involved in the financing of more than a dozen film and television productions including John Weiley’s Antarctica, Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom, Dean Cavell’s The Wiggles Movie and Robert Connolly’s The Bank.

David was founding editor of the highly regarded industry newsletter Entertainment Business Review. As author of Film Assistance: Future Options (Allen & Unwin, 1986), he was the policy architect of the Film Finance Corporation, which was established by the Australian Government in 1988 and invested more than $1 billion in the film industry over the next 20 years. In 2010, with Sir Peter Jackson, he undertook a review of the New Zealand Film Commission for the NZ Government.

David holds a PhD from the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

Abi is a Producer at Midwinter Films.

She has produced short form series Over and Out, and Skitbox. She was Associate Producer on H is for Happiness, which premiered at MIFF and won Best Film at Cinefest Oz in 2019. She co-produced The Butterfly Tree (MIFF and TIFF 2017). Prior to that, Abi worked as a digital producer at The Project Factory with clients including Channel 7, Sherlock: The Network, and Home and Away.

With over 20 years of experience in entertainment, working in technical production, Abi’s career has spanned theatre, events, television commercials, television shows and feature films. She spent a number of years working in operations and business development, with clients including The Wolverine, Australian Ninja Warrior, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here, Handa Opera’s West Side Story on Sydney Harbour, and Where the Wild Things Are.

Abi holds a Masters in Screen Arts and Business, a Graduate Diploma in Producing from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and an honours degree from Victorian College of the Arts in Creative Arts. Abi’s research work has been published in Lumina and The Conversation. She is a member of staff at Compton School, Australia’s first business school for creatives.