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Joining Forefront.mp3 from the New York offices of tech giant Google is Jake O’Leary - the Australian-born, incredibly modest mastermind behind Youtube’s global artist marketing strategy. Exuding a contagious energy, Jake discusses the places, spaces and people around which music collides with modern culture, and his sentiments on the industry he’s helping to shape.

Enter Gary Aspden, the man Jake aptly calls the “don” of influencer marketing as it’s come to be known today. Having spent decades at the heart of the sport, street and culture-shaping machine that is Adidas, it is certainly Gary’s depth of knowledge, informed by lived experience, that has lead him to forge a path now followed by many, in engaging brands with youth and street culture.

Dialling into the discussion from Sydney is Marina Go, a formidable leader in the Australian corporate landscape. Chair and non-executive Director for organisations as diverse as Energy Australia to the West Tigers NRL Club, Marina’s expertise bridges industry, gender and cultural gaps to demonstrate that women can and should operate at the top of our industries - all of them. Here she shares with Forefront.mp3 her candid take and, ultimately, her hopeful approach to life and work.

This conversation is to be continued at the Forefront Summit on July 19, 2018 in Sydney, Australia. Tickets selling now at Forefrontsummit.com.

[This podcast produced by Margaret Zhang and Samantha Oliver (Background)// Edited by Bede Benjamin-Korporaal and Margaret Zhang]

Elizabeth Jens builds rockets for a living......... just going to let that one sink in. She dials into Forefront.mp3 from Pasadena, California, sharing (with may too much chill) the inner workings of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and how she is *literally* conceptualising, building and testing the future of global space exploration.

"That's so incredible to think about" - Margaret (yes, yes it is).

Enter Margaret Zhang, the Australian-born, globally recognised creative powerhouse who has never and will never conform to a job title that fits a 140 character count. Joining Forefront.mp3 on one of the rare occasions she finds herself actually at home in her New York apartment, Margaret shares her candid take on the global fashion and creative industries, and the place she has forged for herself within them.

Late to the party, but inevitably worth the wait, music, culture and lifestyle enigma Acyde joins Forefront.mp3 from Los Angeles, California, in the midst of laying groundwork for a new record label launching in 2018, on-the-go consulting work for footwear and apparel giant Converse, and the perhaps underestimated hustle/fine art of "finding out what everyone's up to".

Standing far apart, and yet oddly close, in vocation, upbringing and approach, Forefront.mp3 session 001 brings Beth, Margaret and Acyde into dialogue around the current landscape and future direction of science, innovation and the creative arts.

This conversation is to be continued at the Forefront Summit on July 19, 2018 in Sydney, Australia. Register now at Forefrontsummit.com.

[This podcast produced by Margaret Zhang and Samantha Oliver (Background)// Edited by Bede Benjamin-Korporaal and Margaret Zhang]