Gigabytes and Giving Back

Keynote speaker: Jacquelline Fuller, Director of Google.org

Jacquelline Fuller leads Google.org which provides more than $100 million yearly to support tech innovators making transformational impact in areas such as education, development and renewable energy. 

Jacquelline joined Google in 2007 and serves as the Managing Director in charge of Google’s philanthropic work and advocacy. Jacquelline previously served as Deputy Director of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she was a member of the senior management team for eight years.

In 2004-2005, Jacquelline and her family moved to Delhi, India where she helped to launch a $300 million health initiative for the Gates Foundation. 

Prior experience also includes serving as speechwriter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Louis Sullivan. 

Jacquelline ghost wrote the inspirational autobiography 'Never Forget' by Kay Coles James. She received her BA in political science from UCLA and a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She serves on the board of the Eastern Congo Initiative.

• Google.org – a better world, faster

Panel discussion

The evening included a discussion panel with the following members:

• Graeme Wood AM, Philanthropist and founder of Wotif.com
• Karen Skinner, National Director, Change.org
• David Scibner, Chief Executive, Virgin Mobile 
• Dr Karen Nelson-Field, Senior Research Associate, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute (UniSA)
• Jamie Moore, General Manager, ‘Hello Sunday Morning’
  
• Jacquelline Fuller, Director of Google.org

Closing presentation:

• Professor Emeritus Ron McCallum AO, Faculty of Law, The University of Sydney