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Paula Rogers
Principal Program Adviser, International Partnerships and Engagement
Perth USAsia Centre
Inaugural Chair QEII Precinct Leadership Group, Board Director Rugby WA and Advisory Council Member ECU School of Business and Law and Strategic Consultant
Recently appointed to Chair the QEII Precinct Leadership Group for the WA Government. Paula is a widely respected leader in the WA business community. After three hugely successful years as the CEO of Committee for Perth increasing the membership and profile of the organisation and launching the 2050 Report and Summit and leading a thought leadership series advocating for the future of the Perth region, she has stepped down from executive roles and is transitioning to a full portfolio career.
Paula has decades of experience in membership engagement, stakeholder management and economic strategy from across the globe, with prior market dealings in the UK and Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Australasia. Since arriving in Perth and prior to Committee for Perth, she has been a publisher, event CEO, marketing and communications manager for aged care and a global law firm and State Director of a national economic development membership organisation.
Known for her collaborative and strategically driven leadership, Paula is passionate about activating Perth and WA towards an ambitious and courageous future. Paula and her young family migrated to Perth in 2002, and the city and State are close to her heart and pivotal to her career.
Paula has held various board director roles including Heritage Perth, North Metro Health Service and Barking Gecko and consulted to government, the public sector, universities, and several clients in the private sector on communication, marketing, events and stakeholder management.
Speaking at
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9:55–10:35amWed 25 MarSummit StageWinthrop HallOpenModerator
Next-Gen Transactions
Trust Under Attack - The Identity Layer We Need for Real Time Money, Tokenization & AI
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Prof. Bill RoscoeDirectorUniversity College Oxford Blockchain Research Centre
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Prof. Michael SmallCSIRO-UWA Chair of Complex Systems, Professor & DirectorUWA Data Institute
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Victoria RichardsonPartnerID Partners
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Dr. W. Scott StornettaChief Executive OfficerSureMark Digital Identity Services
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Dr. Andrzej GwizdalskiCo-founder & ChairmanWestern Australia Web3 AssociationModerator
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Paula RogersPrincipal Program Adviser, International Partnerships and EngagementPerth USAsia CentreModerator
About this session
Speed & convenience mean nothing if systems are fragile, surveillant or easy to break. Discussants will explore how to design digital infrastructures that remain secure, resilient & privacy-safe even under pressure, the safeguards that must be built in from Day One & approaches that are mature enough to deploy now.
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11:55am–12:35pmWed 25 MarSummit StageWinthrop HallOpenModerator
Talent of Tomorrow
Talent as Critical Infrastructure - Rebuilding Work, Skills & Opportunity in the Age of AI
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Amy StanleyChief People OfficerHBF Health Limited
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Prof. David Lee Kuo ChuenChairmanGlobal Fintech Institute
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Dr. Diane Smith-Gander AOChancellorUniversity of Western Australia
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Prof. Lam Khin YongVice President (Industry)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Paula RogersPrincipal Program Adviser, International Partnerships and EngagementPerth USAsia CentreModerator
About this session
Talent and research are crucial engines of digital economies. This session tackles the systemic challenge of tech-driven disruption, examining how to build robust talent pipelines and bridge the gap between lab and market. Experts will discuss how academic research translates into deployable innovations, how industry-university partnerships can be fostered to deliver real-world applications, and how reskilling can be scaled to meet market demand. Attendees will gain outcome-driven insights with illustrative examples from Western Australia's experience as a live testbed for scalable models of collaboration.
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