YConf Australia

Tarra van Amerongen is a design and innovation leader, with a background in strategy, technology and design. At Atlassian she leads multi-disciplinary teams in transforming the company's flagship product, Jira. She led an independent digital product studio, worked in design consultancies, led in-house design and corporate innovation teams, and taught MBA students the skills of entrepreneurship and design to launch their own ventures. Spanning start-up to corporates, Tarra has seen design take many forms in both in-house teams and clients services, within the studio model and in embedded teams. As a design leader, Tarra is focused on making space for designers to do their best work, helping people navigate their creative career and working together to collectively progress the design industry in Australia.

Matthew has spent his career in the tech industry in various roles from software programming, technical lead to technical delivery. He is currently Global Head of Disability Inclusion, driving an inclusive and thriving workplace both at Thoughtworks and clients. As a disability champion and digital accessibility advocate, he sees frictionless and inclusive technology as essential for a social and economic world. Matthew is a trustee of Stagetext, a UK charity that provides captioning and live subtitling services to cultural events and venues. He is also a trustee of Scope, the disability equality charity in the UK helping them to collaborate with tech companies to make the digital world more inclusive. He's on Scope's Big Hack Advisory Board to encourage and embrace inclusive design as a culture and practice. Matthew was born deaf.