About — Melbourne Marketing Forum

Taking on a new identity:
The Melbourne Marketing Forum

2002

Previously known as dm Forum, this beloved marketing event was started in 2002 by Frank Chamberlin, direct marketing specialist and director of writing consultancy Action Words.

2022

20 years on, Frank has handed the networking baton to the creative team at ANGRYchair. Come along to check out a new era in one of Melbourne’s favourite marketing events.

Recent Events

26 March, 2024

Natasya Rallios

Commercial Partnerships & Events Executive
The Lume Melbourne

Natasya started her career working in various marketing roles in tertiary education before moving into the sports industry for five years where she specialised in major sporting events. During this time she also facilitated workshops for over two thousand young people, created her own startup specialising in career education, completed her postgraduate degree in Journalism, and had her work published in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, SBS, ABC and Channel 31.

Caitlin Stonehouse-Penny

Senior Internal Communications Manager at Sportsbet

Caitlin is a strategic and creative communications leader, who has spent the last seventeen years guiding global and national brands on how they can authentically tell their stories and communicate even better than before. She has worked across a wide range of sectors, spanning from Australia’s most diverse broadcaster, SBS, through to Vanguard, one of the world's most respected investment managers.

29 August, 2023

String Nguyen

Chubbiverse
Founder & Managing Director

Meet String Nguyen, the CEO of Chubbiverse, an NFT brand, and a 4x Top Voice on LinkedIn. With a decade-long experience in marketing and community growth, String brings her innovative approach to explore the intersection of creativity and community. She's always on the lookout for the latest trends in AI and how it can revolutionise businesses.

Vikki Maver

Refresh Marketing
Founder & Strategic Director

Vikki Maver is the Founder and Strategic Director of Refresh Marketing (RM), Australia’s longest running copywriting agency. Based in Melbourne, RM writes marketing copy, develops brand voices and creates content strategies for a diverse client base.

30 May, 2023

Meg Rayner

GMHBA
Head of Corporate Communications

Meg has worked in corporate communications with organisations such as the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, and for the past six years as National Media Manager for Coles.

She has a particular knack for crisis management, having led media responses during bushfire, flood emergencies, train derailments, needles in strawberries and numerous product recalls. She was responsible for managing media and stakeholder relations for Coles during the COVID pandemic, (who could forget the Great Toilet Paper Panic), and for driving positive PR of the Coles’ brand in the eCommerce and data space.

Ross Summers & Kale Duncan

Smith Brothers Media
Digital Marketing Strategists

Marketing platforms are changing faster than anyone realises. As veterans of the digital marketing landscape, Ross and Kale have seen brands and agencies lose more and more control over marketing campaigns, as platforms are giving more power to algorithms to make strategic decisions. Learn to master the emerging principles of data handling for machine learning, while synthesising that with foundational brand positioning and communication.

4 April, 2023

Ed Frame

Founder of Exemplify

Ed has devoted over a decade to his work to helping businesses provide the best possible customer experience. He knows how just how crucial it is to ensure that the experience a person has of being customer of your brand something that they’ll never forget.

Tim O’Neill

Co-Founder of Time Under Tension

Chat GPT is just the tip of the iceberg. Tim is co-founder of a consultancy focused on how generative Artificial Intelligence can benefit marketing and customer experience teams in agencies and brands. He’ll cover the basics of what you can do with AI, and show you the tools to create effective marketing with it.