Innovation Pavilion

See innovation in action at the ASFA Conference Innovation Pavilion within the Super Expo.

Why Partner?

The Innovation Pavilion is a new initiative within the Conference Super Expo, with its dedicated fully immersive program to showcase exciting startups and unbelievable new technology.

Partnered by Novigi, the data and technology partner to the financial services industry, this is your chance to meet the creative minds and entrepreneurs behind the new and emerging big ideas.

From innovative new ways to ascertain carbon metrics for private markets, data optimisation AI solutions to help with client and prospect engagement, ways to accelerate regulated organisations to secure and remediate operational data, to new investment tools to help with asset class optimisation and portfolio construction and much more – this is where the future is becoming reality.

Daniel Mulino MP

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Born in Brindisi, Italy, Daniel was a young child when he moved with his family to Australia. He grew up in Canberra and completed his first degrees – arts and law – at the ANU. He then completed a Master of Economics (University of Sydney) and a PhD in economics from Yale.

He lectured at Monash University, was an economic adviser in the Gillard government and was a Victorian MP from 2014 to 2018. As Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer of Victoria, Daniel helped deliver major infrastructure projects and developed innovative financing structures for community projects.

In 2018 he was preselected for the new federal seat of Fraser and became its first MP at the 2019 election, re-elected in 2022 and 2025. From 2022 to 2025, Daniel was chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Economics Committee in which he chaired inquiries; economic dynamism, competition and business formation and insurers’ responses to 2022 major floods claims.

In 2025, he became the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.

In August 2022, Daniel published ‘Safety Net: The Future of Welfare in Australia’, which aims to explore the ways in which an insurance approach can improve the effectiveness of government service delivery.