Speakers

Scott Farquhar Atlassian Software Systems

Profile:

Scott Farquhar is the Co-founder, and Co-CEO of Atlassian Software Systems. Since Atlassian was founded in 2002, it has grown to be one of Australia's largest software exporters. Last year exporting over $AUD 20m of software to over 8,000 customers in more than 90 countries. Its customer base reads like a who's who of global companies, and includes technology giants like Apple, Cisco, HP, Oracle, SAP; every major investment bank (BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, World Bank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Merrill Linch), NASA and the European Space Agency; GE, 3M, BHP Billiton, BMW, the McLaren F1 team and so on.

In 2005, both Deloitte and BRW named Atlassian as Australia's fastest growing software company. Scott has also been awarded the 'Australian IT Professional of the Year', and the 'Entrepreneur of the Year' in both the young and overall categories, and went on to represent Australia at the July 'World Entrepreneur of the Year' in Monte Carlo.