Speakers

Angeline Achariya has spent 25 years doing one thing: taking innovations that work in a lab or on a whiteboard and turning them into products, processes and business models that make money at scale. She has done that across some of the world's most demanding manufacturing environments. Mars. Fonterra. Mondelez. Yum! Brands. Simplot. More than 1,200 innovations commercialised across Asia-Pacific, with a combined commercial value exceeding $500 million. She has sat at the table when supply chains fracture, when geopolitical shifts rewrite trade routes overnight, and when a partnership that looked good on paper starts costing more than it returns.

That experience is what she brings to the stage. A commercialisation playbook built across two decades of making manufacturing businesses grow, tested in real markets, under real pressure, with real commercial consequences. That same commercial lens now sits around the board table. As a Non-Executive Director at Wine Australia, Industry Innovation and Science Australia, she works on the conditions that shape what Australian manufacturers can build, export and compete on globally. She is CEO of Innovation GameChangers, a 2025 Victoria's Trailblazer Award recipient, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.