Lisa Andrews

Lisa Andrews's Biography

Lisa Andrews is a sought-after speaker, thought leader, entrepreneur and impact investor. Lisa helps individuals and organisations leverage exponential technologies and a new way of thinking to solve the world’s greatest challenges, leaving humanity and the world in a better position for the future.

As an aspirational keynote speaker, Lisa has a unique ability to engage an audience like no other, blowing their minds with what's possible and completely changing the way they look at the world, sharing what the greatest minds around the world are working on and the impact they are having globally.

Lisa leaves her audiences excited, motivated and energised, ready to tackle disruption head-on with a new way of thinking. Her financial, data and engineering background gives her the unique ability to view solutions from a numbers point of view, as well as a big-picture impact and humanity point of view. Lisa's true passion is in helping as many people as possible exercise their "Maximum human potential at each stage of their lives" leaving a positive impact on the world for all of us.

One of the ways she achieves this is by helping 'remove the friction of financial, human, and community capital' through her business WAVIA. As the CEO, WAVIA is a collaboration platform that connects businesses with investors and advisors to help them scale and innovate fast for impact and with purpose.

Lisa had her first successful exit from an engineering business in 2012 and is now an investor in multiple companies focusing on profit with purpose. She is currently working on projects with international organisations such as Singularity University, United Nations, ACTAI, Extreme Tech Challenge and EO. Focusing on solving the world’s greatest challenges with exponential technologies. As a future maker and strategic planner - she sees the first step as achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the second as creating a vision for the world in the next 100 years.

Lisa is a certified international faculty speaker for Singularity University and a board member of The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA). Lisa is on the judging panel for many worldwide competitions that support entrepreneurs with technologies that will impact the world for positive change. These include the Extreme Tech Challenge, GSEA and the Global Impact Challenges with SingularityU. Lisa is a community collaborator with ACTAI Global - a team that supports extreme innovators, entrepreneurs and athletes to influence and inspire a new world generation.

Speaking Topics Include

The Evolution of Humans and the Future of Business

Humans have evolved over the past 65000 years to where we are currently, however the next 100 years will see an unprecedented change at an exponential pace, are you ready?

Now, more than ever, is the time to think outside of the box about the role and power of technology and how it could be better applied to the world you work in. From nanotechnology, bionics, and robotics to artificial intelligence, networks, sensors, AR and VR, the technologies used in our daily lives in the next decade are increasing at an alarming rate. While technology can be used to solve some of the world's biggest problems, the convergence of tech and what this means for businesses and leaders also presents a huge opportunity.

CEO and futurist Lisa Andrews will give an insight into some of these technologies that exist as well as explore the mindset that will be required to execute on a new type of strategy.

A Future of Perfect Knowledge

How devices and sensors will change everyday life for people and organizations in the next 10 years.

Humans have evolved over thousands of years. The next 100 years will see an unprecedented change at an exponential pace. Are you ready?

Now is the time to think outside of the box about the role and power of technology and how it could be better applied to the world you work in. From nanotechnology, bionics, and robotics to artificial intelligence, networks, sensors, AR, VR and synthetic biology, the technologies used in our daily lives in the next decade are increasing at an alarming rate. While technology can be used to solve some of the world's biggest problems, the convergence of tech and what this means for businesses and leaders also presents a huge opportunity.

CEO and futurist Lisa Andrews will give an insight into some of these technologies that exist as well as explore the mindset that will be required to execute on a new type of strategy. Expect to come away feeling inspired and empowered to implement something new to future-proof your business.