Jonny Shannon builds technology companies - and then explains, in plain language, what that technology is doing to the people who use it.

He co-founded Pushpay, which listed on the NZX and ASX and sold for over $1 billion. He went on to found Gamify (featured on Shark Tank) and PostHarvest Technologies. He is an operator, not a commentator: what he says about AI and cyber security comes from work he is doing this quarter.

It did not start that way.  Born in South Auckland with undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD, Jonny was bullied relentlessly and expelled at fifteen for fighting. A school counsellor who refused to give up on him changed the trajectory - through the New Zealand Army, into youth work, and eventually into technology.

Since 2013 he has delivered more than 3,300 presentations to over 250,000 people. For schools he covers online safety, mental health and resilience - work that made him Australian Youth Speaker of the Year and led him to found Cyber Safe Australia, which delivers cyber safety programs into schools nationally. For corporate audiences he speaks on practical AI adoption, the human side of cyber security, and resilience built through failure.

Audiences book Jonny because he has actually done the thing he is talking about, and because he can hold a room - whether that room is a boardroom or six thousand people in a conference hall.