8 - 12 December 2025 | Perth, WA
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If Innovation Could Talk – Ashley Barker

Meet Ashley Barker. Reinventing, rewiring and pulling things apart is his life mission.

Key Insights:

  • Innovation is a life mission
  • 80% gets you a distinction at university but in the real world, it may not be good enough
  • Push through to get to 100%
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His startup specialises in resolving the difficult and awkward problems faced by the medical and resource sectors. Ashley redesigned the way a CT works and developed a subsea CT scanner to help the oil and gas industry maintain their assets. Listen to why Ashley thinks 80% success is still an epic failure in the real world.