Speakers
Cam Sullings
Joy Siller BA (Lib Sc), MBus (Marketing), ARIM (Life)
Chris Foley
Pinakeen Shah ARIM
Carol Stainbrook
Maddison Lamont
John Chambers
Giovanni Forero MIRM
Chezelle Boevink
Stream 1 | The Palladium Stage
Get ready for one of the most laugh-out-loud, high-energy sessions of the convention! Information Feud takes the classic gameshow vibe of Family Feud and gives it a sharp, witty twist for the world of information governance and AI.
Two powerhouse teams - Team Australia 🇦🇺 and Team Everyone Else - will go head-to-head in a fast-paced battle of buzzers, banter and bragging rights. Here's the twist: nothing on the board is made up. Before the convention we surveyed RIMPA Live Convention 2026 attendees and turned your real answers, the funny, the relatable, the "oh-that's-so-us" ones, into the questions our teams have to guess. Expect topics only records and information people would even think to ask each other.
Watch two teams try to read the room (and each other) as they guess which answers made the cut, and in what order. There'll be wildcard guesses, cheeky call-outs, and plenty of friendly rivalry between Australia and the rest of the world. With plenty of audience interaction, you won't just be watching, you'll be gasping, laughing, and yelling out your own guesses from your seat.
This session blends humour, insight and a touch of competitive chaos, celebrating the everyday absurdity (and hard-won wisdom) of life as an information professional.
Who will win - Australia or Everyone Else?
There’s only one way to find out 🔔
Cam Sullings is a long-time radio, television and online presenter and MC who’s been working in the media industry for over 20 years. He's hosted events with Prime Ministers, heads of state, leading academics and even sports events.
He has worked as a radio host, TV presenter, and voiceover artist. Through all of these experiences, I've developed a keen sense of what audiences want and how to keep them engaged.
He's excited to be your host for the RIMPA Live Convention in October. Where you'll have the opportunity to experience presentations from thought leaders in the industry, learning labs, and insights from keynote speakers, as well as delve into the crucial components of successful organisations. From Microsoft 365 to the latest technological innovations, these educational sessions will equip you with the tools to excel in your field.
As your host, I cannot wait to reconnect with everyone I had the pleasure of meeting on the Gold Coast, in Adelaide and Melbourne!
Chris Foley is an experienced information management professional. He has worked across multiple industry sectors and job roles, wearing such hats as: records manager, information management architect, archivist, and consultant. His current role is an IM professional with The Salvation Army where he seeks to clear the digital junkyard and champion data as a vital business resource.
Chris is also an avid consumer of science fiction and historical fiction. And when he can’t get hold of the stories he wants to read or watch, he writes and publishes his own. Combined, these two things have taught him that the future is not only coming, but it came yesterday.
Pinakeen has 21+ years of experience in the Engineering/Asset Information Management (AIM) domain and brings multifaceted experience working with Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management (EPC/EPCm), IT and Supplier organizations. Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in establishing and optimizing various information management functions, driving efficiency and excellence.
A few of the highlights include setting up an AIM practice from scratch and scaling the services to Centre of Excellence team for an IT services major, managing a large team of about 200 members for an EPCs major that provided cross functional AIM expertise across Life Cycle Information Management, Data Management and Document Control.
Being a RIMPA Global Ambassador he is in the process of strengthening RIMPA’s global presence by establishing Community of Practice (CoP) for India and facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing among information management professionals on a global scale.
Pinakeen holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai and completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Technical Writing from Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning (SCDL) and MBA in Materials Management through the Indian Institute of Materials Management.
He lives in Mumbai, India with his wife and two daughters. In his free time, he play chess and enjoys reading, practicing Pranic Healing and Acupressure Therapy.
The digital age rushes forward, demanding information governance (IG) across myriad electronic platforms. CAROL STAINBROOK, Executive Director of Cohasset Associates’ consulting practice, responds to these demands with expertise and innovation. Her ongoing consultation with Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Box, Dell/EMC, IBM, and others, has facilitated an evolution of retention, preservation and disposition capabilities in their solutions’ designs. Collaboration with these tech giants informs Carol’s thinking in her work, particularly when clients employ technology to resolve IG related problems. Her 20 plus years of experience enables IG implementations for domestic and multi‐national clients that support business goals, increase information value, improve compliance, and mitigate risk. Carol deftly deciphers her clients’ operational paradigms, technology complexities and regulatory challenges, achieving IG results her clients can measure. As a thought-leader, Carol is an author, and a frequent speaker on information-centric topics.
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www.cohasset.com
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www.linkedin.com/in/carol-stainbrook-08715993/
Maddison (Maddy) Lamont is an Information Management Analyst at the City of Rockingham, a local government located approximately 40 kilometres south-west of Perth, WA. She has worked at the City of Rockingham for the past five years, starting as a Graduate Information Management Analyst before progressing into her current role as both she and the position grew and evolved.
Maddy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Librarianship and Corporate Information Management from Curtin University. While her current passion is information management, she dreams that one day, far in the future, she will be an old lady working in a library.
Giovanni Forero has extensive experience assisting organisations with their information needs. With experience in United States of America, and Australia implementing information and record solutions for clients across all multiple verticals, consulting and developing information strategies to understand the information needs and behaviours of users and organisations.
With a Master on Information and Knowledge Management from UTS, he is currently in the latest stages of his Doctoral research for UTS, investigating the information practices of scientists when researching highly resistant bacteria.
Giovanni has contributed to various Information Science conferences, currently directs the Intelligent Information Management (IIM) practice at Konica Minolta, where he advises organisations to implement information solutions, from discovery to implementation and continuous improvement.
Chezelle Boevink is the Deputy University Secretary for James Cook University, based in Townsville and has a degree in Public Sector Management, is Baseline Protected Security cleared and has completed Queensland certification in Information Privacy Act, Privacy Complaint Management Training and Right to Information Act.
Her role at JCU includes the responsibility of the university’s Records Management obligations and system, the Secretariat Services of the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor’s Committees as well as Right to Information, Privacy and Data Protection. Prior to her role at JCU she spent 14 years working for a federal government department.
Gina Thurman is the Information Manager at the New Zealand Law Society Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa and describes herself as someone with a knack for solving problems that do not always come with instructions. She grew up in Texas and has spent most of her adult life in Wellington, New Zealand, so she knows something about adapting.
With more than 20 years’ experience in information management and related roles, Gina enjoys fitting together the puzzle pieces of people, information and technology and then making it all make sense. She is particularly interested in information governance, Microsoft 365 and how AI can change the way we manage and share knowledge.
She holds a Master of Information Management from Victoria University of Wellington and Bachelor degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.