Background: Canva’s meteoric rise has seen it most recently (@Apr 2021) been valued at AUD$19.7B as the world’s fastest content creation and presentations tool - giving everybody the ability to create compelling content in seconds. But speed alone is not enough. Your audience trusts your brand, built up over generations, so you need brand consistency built into your workflows. (SMH Article on $19 billion valuation

Change is the only certainty in this environment, so you need the tools that build resilience across your team. Every day, your team must meet the moment with speed, ease and creativity. Gone are the days when it was enough to create a text-heavy document. We now live and work in a visual economy - visual communication is key.

Meet your audience wherever they get their information - from websites and blogs, mobile apps, podcasts, photos and videos, visualisations and social media. Design once, publish everywhere with Canva.

Canva is transforming workflows - from engaging social media and newsletter content production through to breaking news, quote cards, and even infographics. With the largest library of ready-to-use templates in the world, combined with its advanced brand and template controls, Canva empowers everyone to tell the story, on brand and on deadline.

Speaker: Jonathan Harley, Head of Media Strategy and Development, Canva

Jonathan Harley drives strategic partnerships and industry marketing for Canva. He has spent more than 2 decades working across tech, media and journalism at the intersection of digital transformation and innovative story telling. At Twitter, he led news partnerships in APAC and content partnerships in Australia - delivering Twitter’s first live stream outside the US with the 2016 Melbourne Cup. As a journalist, Jonathan was 60 Minutes Australia Supervising Producer as well as a South Asia correspondent with the ABC, based in New Delhi. Jonathan works with several non-profits, including co-founding the Stanford-based SEP Alumni Scholarship to support outstanding social impact leaders to scale their work globally.


Hosted by Muhilan Sriravindrarajah (Class of 2001)

Muhilan currently leads the Commercial Finance team at Canva. He has over 20 years telecommunications industry experience having worked in organisations across the whole ecosystem (NBNCo, Telstra, HTC Smartphones) as a trusted business partner who delivers superior business results with excellence in customer experience, NPS and delivering optimum ROI. Previous to this, he began his career working in professional services with KPMG & PwC.



Questions: Muhilan (muhilan_s@hotmail.com) or Chris (chris@xoogler.co)