Talks that make the room uncomfortable — then useful.

Keynotes, panels, moderation and MC work. Kane says what everyone in the room is thinking and nobody wants to say — then gives the audience somewhere to go with it. Army officer training, paramedicine and a decade of founding mean he's as comfortable in crisis as he is on stage.


On tour now
Kane Jackson moderating the Common Wealth ACT premiere panel at a packed ANU Kambri Cinema

Moderating the sold-out Common Wealth ACT premiere — ANU Kambri Cinema, June 2026. Panel: director Kane Guglielmi, Senator David Pocock, Rayna Fahey (Prosper Australia) and Katherine Trebeck (The Next Economy).

Common Wealth — the national release tour

Kane is hosting and moderating the panels for the Victorian screenings of Common Wealth — the Madman-distributed feature documentary on wealth inequality, endorsed by Barack Obama's production company, that opens with the question "why aren't we all happy?". Each screening pairs the film with a live panel of community practitioners building a more hopeful, equal future.

ACT Premiere — Kambri Cinema, ANU, Canberra

Host and moderator of the sold-out national premiere — a second 8:30pm encore session was added by demand. On the panel: director Kane Guglielmi, Senator David Pocock, Rayna Fahey (Prosper Australia) and Katherine Trebeck (The Next Economy).

Fri 26 Jun · Sold out ×2

Melbourne premiere — Cinema Nova, Carlton

Post-film panel with director Kane Guglielmi, Rayna Fahey (Prosper Australia) and Thomas Walker (Think Forward) — Kane Jackson moderating. Tickets →

Tue 14 Jul · 6:40pm

Castlemaine — Theatre Royal

Panel with director Kane Guglielmi, Rayna Fahey (Prosper Australia) and Warwick Smith (Castlemaine Institute), with more guests being announced — Kane Jackson moderating. Tickets →

Wed 15 Jul · 7pm

Geelong — Pivotonian Cinema

One-off post-film panel with director Kane Guglielmi and special guests, hosted by Kane Jackson. Tickets →

Thu 16 Jul

Daylesford — Phoenix Cinema, The Rex

Panel with director Kane Guglielmi, Rayna Fahey (Prosper Australia) and Karl Fitzgerald (Grounded) — Kane Jackson moderating. Tickets →

Fri 17 Jul · 6:35pm

Eaglehawk (Bendigo) — Star Cinema

Screening and live Q&A with director Kane Guglielmi, hosted by Kane Jackson. Tickets →

Sat 18 Jul · 1pm

Ballarat — announcing soon

Final stop of the Victorian leg — venue and panel to be announced. All screenings →

TBA

Keynotes

The Finance Industry Emergency

The finance industry is a quarter of the global economy, used by 78% of humanity — and it's the only industry that sells the very thing its shareholders want back. Why that conflict endangers everything we care about, and what a post-extractive alternative looks like, from the founder building it.

Investing in Systems, Not Symptoms

Fresh findings from a 48-day global research tour through the systemic-investing community — London, North America and beyond. Why impact investing entrenches the status quo, and how capital can actually fund change. For boards, funds and founders.

Building What Shouldn't Exist

The unfiltered founder story: army, ambulance, autism, and ten years building for underserved people. On resilience, ethics under pressure, and why the person who says what nobody else will is the one you want in the room.

The 8-Second Story

How Maslow reached 6.1 million people in a year without spending a cent on marketing. Narrative, honesty and the craft of communicating complex change so a layperson gets it in eight seconds.


Moderation & MC

The host who does the homework.

Kane hosts panels, moderates conversations and MCs events the way he runs his podcast: prepared like an investigation, run like good theatre. Guests are researched deeply, questions go somewhere new, and audiences leave with something they didn't arrive with.

Conference panelsFireside chatsLive podcast recordingsEvent MCFilm Q&AsLeadership offsites
The Common Wealth premiere panel on stage

On stage at the Common Wealth ACT premiere with Katherine Trebeck, Rayna Fahey, Senator David Pocock and director Kane Guglielmi.


Past events

SXSW Sydney — "Finance Industry Emergency: A Threat To Our Future"

Panelist at the inaugural SXSW Sydney, with Prof. Nick McGuigan, Dr JP Monck and Lacey Filipich. Listen to the recording →

Oct 2023

Birchal × Maslow — Insights from a 48-Day Systems Change Research Journey

Live talk, Melbourne CBD and online — findings from the global tour including the Systemic Investing Summit, London.

Apr 2025

Live in Conversation — with Kirstin Hunter

"Hope for Humanity: Lessons from a 48-Day Global Systems Tour" — recorded live. Listen →

Jun 2025

ausbiz TV — "The platform that wants to change the business model of money"

Interview with Simon Thomsen on the Startup Daily show. Watch →

2023
"This was one of the best talks I went to all week… an honest, direct and insightful discussion."
Ilan Hurwitz — designer, Shopify, on the SXSW Sydney panel
"You are all masters at this. Brilliantly done."
SXSW Sydney attendee · more kind words →
"Everyone in that room knew what nobody wanted to say — except me. That has pretty much been the theme of my life."
Kane Jackson