JJ Chen is the founder of the Captain Bagrat Media Production (CBMP) and its various multimedia platforms bringing the Australian and Asian creative and business communities together. She has over fifteen years of professional experience in managing operations and teams across private companies, the Australian Government, startups, and volunteering for the NGO/NFP sector.

She was a graduate at Airservices Australia and as a team was awarded the Chairman’s Award for Professional Excellence. JJ’s time in Beijing included the role of acting general manager for AustCham Beijing and rebranding the prestigious Westpac Australia-China Business Awards in 2013 with the help of Zambreors' co-founder, Katie Radojkovic. JJ later invested in a rapid scale start up, 123 Childcare and furthered their expansion across China by establishing a partnership with Rovio’s Angry Bird’s learning department.  

After returning to Australia, JJ was the business owner of a hip Asian-Fusion bar in Canberra and started her creative journey with Byron Keane Creative as interpreter and field producer. Her first project was with MasterChef Adam Liaw and the Willoughby Council. 

JJ graduated with a B Science / B Asian Studies and Masters of Strategic Affairs from The Australian National University. She plays an active role with the ANU alumni community, cultivating networks and events across Beijing, Canberra and Sydney. JJ is also part of the ANU Chapter for the Golden Key International Society.

Helen Vatsikopoulos is a Walkley Award winning journalist who has worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australia Network, and for the Special Broadcasting Service.

In a career spanning 30 years she has worked on programs such as the ABC News, the Midday Report, the 7.30 report, Dateline, Lateline and Foreign Correspondent. In that time she has specialized in International Reporting and has covered history-changing events like the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, the Rwandan Genocide, the HIV-Aids crisis in West Papua, the Sri Lankan Civil War, the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, and the Bali Bombings- among many others. Her reporting on the collapse of the USSR won her a coveted Walkley award.

Helen has presented many studio-based television programs including Face the Press, News Extra, Talking Heads and Dateline for SBS; The 7.00 pm News and the Midday Report for ABC1 and Asia-Pacific Focus for the Australia Network. She has also made three documentaries: New World Borders and the award-winning documentaries Agatha's Curse and Getting Gehry.

Helen completed her Doctorate of Creative Arts in 2018 it was a exegetical investigation on identity and nationalism with an autoethnographical memoir on the Greek Civil War. Helen teaches Journalism and Writing at the University of Technology Sydney and her research areas include diversity of storytelling as well as mentoring diverse media start ups. 

Mayu is a bilingual Japanese-born actress. She has been working in Tokyo, New York, Chicago, and recently moved back to Sydney. Her recent projects include a leading role on SBS’s Top Knot Detective working with Lee Lin Chin, Sydney Theatre Company’s production Pearl and host of Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo.

She is often told her nationality is ambiguous, since she speaks her mind like a Westerner, but doesn’t fully look like an Easterner but she still does the V sign in photos. Go figure!

Mayu is also the co-founder of Bubbletent Australia, voted the top eco-tourism destination in Australia. Mayu enjoys working in collaborative projects within various mediums whether in the creative arts industry or business. 

Her education and training span across international borders at NIDA, UNSW, Japan Academy of Moving Image, Atlantic Theatre Company in New York, and SITI. She also works as a translator and freelance movement teacher (currently at NYFA). 

Mayu is very excited to return to Australia and continue to build her creative experiences in the Sydney community. She is equally passionate about building the Asian + Australian community and advocating for more representation of Asian Australians in the film/tv/theatre industry.