Mike Cannon-Brookes to headline National Smart Energy Summit

Mike Cannon-Brookes, a major renewables investor and CEO and co-founder of Atlassian, will be a keynote speaker at the National Smart Energy Summit at the Sydney Hilton on 10 December.

Mr Cannon-Brookes will be in conversation with Simon Holmes a Court, Director of the Smart Energy Council and Senior Adviser to Melbourne University’s Energy Transition Hub.

Last week Mr Cannon-Brookes announced that early stage funding had been secured for the $20 billion Sun Cable project, which will include a 10 gigawatt solar farm and 22 gigawatt hour battery storage project, with a cable to deliver the output to Singapore and beyond.

National Smart Energy Summit — 10 December 2019

Mr Cannon-Brookes joins an extraordinary line-up of speakers, including:

  • Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister;
  • Audrey Zibelman, CEO Australian Energy Market Operator;
  • Matt Kean, NSW Minister for Energy and Environment;
  • Ian Learmonth, CEO Clean Energy Finance Corporation;
  • Professor Martin Green and Dr Zhengrong Shi; and
  • CEOs and senior executives from Cbus Super, IKEA, QBE Insurance and Telstra.