2020 Speakers and Featured Delegates

Aarti Desai

Aarti joined Creative Victoria in November 2015 and has worked across funding programs and research. She is currently the Senior Arts Officer managing the Music Works grants programs. With a love for music, Aarti spends a lot of her spare time working on and volunteering for music causes and festivals.

Aengus Finnan

Aengus Finnan is an artist, educator, and arts administrator. He serves as the first non-US Executive Director of Folk Alliance International. Prior, he worked with the Ontario Arts Council, Community Futures, and the founding Artistic Director of the Shelter Valley Folk Festival. He spent 10 years as a touring artist.

Andrew Orvis

Andrew is the Festival Director for Queenscliff Music Festival Inc., a not-for-profit community organisation that annually presents the QMF on the last weekend in November, and a multi art Festival, Low Light Queenscliff, in June. Andrew is also a board member with Platform Youth Arts in Geelong.

Bonnie Dalton

Bonnie Dalton is the General Manager of the Victorian Music Development Office (VMDO), where she works with her incredible team to help grow the prosperity of Victorian music businesses. Prior to the VMDO, Bonnie worked as an artist manager and festival producer.

Brian Taranto

Music and festival promoter, merch person to the stars, art director, tour manager, book publisher, food truck owner, dreamer, swimmer, football lover, father, lover of fine music and good times. You may know some of my work over the last 35 years.