Speakers
The ALPMA Program Committee are excited to have a range of leading industry speakers for the 2026 ALPMA Summit + ALTACON.
Keynote Speakers
More announcements coming soon.
Jordan Furlong
Jordan Furlong is a strategic consultant, adviser, and legal sector analyst who studies the impact of the changing legal world on law firms and legal organizations. He advises legal leaders on business model innovation, professional development, and the impact of Generative AI, among many other issues. Jordan has addressed thousands of lawyers and legal professionals at dozens of conferences and retreats, in person and online, in North and South America, Australia, and Europe. Read his work at https://jordanfurlong.substack.com.
Jana Pittman
Two times world champion, four times Commonwealth champion - in the sport of athletics, Jana Pittman personifies resilience and determination. When continual injuries hampered her athletic career and could have signalled retirement, she swapped the track for the ice, joining the Australian women's bobsled team and becoming the first woman to represent Australia in both a Summer (2000, 2004) and Winter (2014) Olympic Games.
Off the track, Jana completed a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at Western Sydney University in 2019 (graduating with First Class Honours and the university medal) and is now a 3rd year Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with a Masters of Reproductive Medicine. This busy woman is proud mum to six children:
Cornelis, Emily ,Jemima, Charlie and twins Quinlan and Willow.
Having experienced her own personal scare with cervical dysplasia, Jana became an ambassador for the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation. In 2021, Jana was a participant in the gruelling television show SAS Australia on Channel 7. She made it to the last day of the course and was the final female standing among the 18 celebrity recruits, despite having given birth only five and a half months previously
Jason Clarke
Jason Clarke has been an exhibition designer, a script writer, commercial event and film producer and Creative Director of Australia’s largest multi-media production company. He’s staged Shakespeare, grand opera, experimental avant-garde theatre and even designed a dolphin show for a major marine park.
He’s developed and taught courses in Logic, Problem Solving and Innovation for Melbourne Business School, Mt Eliza Business School, the Australian School of Entrepreneurship, the Stern Business School of New York and the Ben Gurion Business School of Israel.
But he found his real calling in 2000 as a freelance thinker-for-hire, offering creative and lateral thinking services for organisations struggling to embrace innovation and change or just to solve problems, develop strategy, prioritise or even make decisions.
His clients include just about every kind of enterprise, from tiny start-ups to global corporations, from communities and not-for-profits to Local, State and Federal Governments.
Today he’s a regular international speaker and one of the most trusted creative minds in Australia. But he’ll tell you he’s just a Plumber of the Mind, the guy you go
to when your head gets clogged.
Donna McGeorge
From boardrooms to auditoriums, Donna McGeorge sparks practical change that lasts.
A sought-after international speaker, and bestselling author of 15 books,
including The 25 Minute Meeting, First 2 Hours, 1 Day Refund, ChatGPT Revolution and her latest, Red Brick Thinking - Donna helps leaders and teams to cut through noise, creating space and capacity for what’s most important in their lives.
Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company and on national TV.
Whether with 20 leaders behind closed doors or 2,000 in a packed auditorium, Donna
delivers high-energy sessions filled with sharp insights, relatable stories and
immediately actionable ideas - no jargon, no fluff and no one will be checking
their emails, while Donna is speaking!
Jason Clarke
Jason Clarke has been an exhibition designer, a script writer, commercial event and film producer and Creative Director of Australia’s largest multi-media production company. He’s staged Shakespeare, grand opera, experimental avant-garde theatre and even designed a dolphin show for a major marine park.
He’s developed and taught courses in Logic, Problem Solving and Innovation for Melbourne Business School, Mt Eliza Business School, the Australian School of Entrepreneurship, the Stern Business School of New York and the Ben Gurion Business School of Israel.
But he found his real calling in 2000 as a freelance thinker-for-hire, offering creative and lateral thinking services for organisations struggling to embrace innovation and change or just to solve problems, develop strategy, prioritise or even make decisions.
His clients include just about every kind of enterprise, from tiny start-ups to global corporations, from communities and not-for-profits to Local, State and Federal Governments.
Today he’s a regular international speaker and one of the most trusted creative minds in Australia. But he’ll tell you he’s just a Plumber of the Mind, the guy you go
to when your head gets clogged.
Jason Clarke
Jason Clarke has been an exhibition designer, a script writer, commercial event and film producer and Creative Director of Australia’s largest multi-media production company. He’s staged Shakespeare, grand opera, experimental avant-garde theatre and even designed a dolphin show for a major marine park.
He’s developed and taught courses in Logic, Problem Solving and Innovation for Melbourne Business School, Mt Eliza Business School, the Australian School of Entrepreneurship, the Stern Business School of New York and the Ben Gurion Business School of Israel.
But he found his real calling in 2000 as a freelance thinker-for-hire, offering creative and lateral thinking services for organisations struggling to embrace innovation and change or just to solve problems, develop strategy, prioritise or even make decisions.
His clients include just about every kind of enterprise, from tiny start-ups to global corporations, from communities and not-for-profits to Local, State and Federal Governments.
Today he’s a regular international speaker and one of the most trusted creative minds in Australia. But he’ll tell you he’s just a Plumber of the Mind, the guy you go
to when your head gets clogged.
Opening Address
Stephen van Dorp
Stephen is the CEO of SLF Lawyers and has been working within law firms for almost 16 years. Prior to moving into management within lawfirms, Stephen worked in a Chartered Accounting firm for 15 years.
Stephen is a Chartered Accountant and is also a Fellow of CPA Australia & NZ.
Not only is Stephen a finance and operations executive with extensive professional service experience but he has been the ALPMA President for almost three years and has sat on the ALPMA Qld Committee for 11 years.
Session Speakers
Session speakers will be announced from 8 May 2026, once the call-for-abstracts process has concluded.