Image gallery – FESPA 2026 Leaders Meet & Greet
With this year’s FESPA conference inviting delegates to learn skills to help them Disrupt. Innovate. Lead their businesses, an important anchor to the conference itself is the preceding social event, this year held at Sydney Cidery.
Pictured above: congratulations to all this year’s 2026 FESPA Leaders Program graduates: Steph Wilbow, Beth Corbin and Anthony Zuabovic from Easy Signs, Gabriella Bartolo from IVE Group, Coadie Bingham (Factory One), Daniel Buerker (Tiger Corp), Jacky Chan (HVG Graphics Media), Kathy Doan from Corrective Services NSW, Chris Gardiner (The Print Factory), Louise Paton (VMG Print Group), Tammy Roos (Formul8) and Kris Pratt (Orafol)
The FESPA 2026 Leaders Meet & Greet Drinks also follows immediately after the intense two-day FESPA Leaders program, which revealed Louise Paton from VMG Print Group as the 2026 FESPA Australia Leader and Easy Signs’ Customer Experience Manager, Beth Corbin receiving the second place nomination, as voted by their peers on the course. Both will now receive subsidised trips to attend FESPA Global Print Expo in Munich in April next year.
FESPA Australia President Nigel Davies says: “Surrounded by their peers and colleagues from the industry, this event has become the ideal time and place to make these announcements. We are really proud that this program, now in its fifth year, has created an alumni of more than 60 printing industry leaders – many of them in attendance here too – who are taking the lessons they have learnt through the program into their businesses and into the future of this industry.”
L-R: Sonya Beers and Gabriella Bartolo from IVE Group
L-R: Adam Parnell (Easy Signs), Coadie Bingham (Factory One) and Daniel Lamont (Lamont Print + Sign)
L-R: Lisa Michalanney (Signageworld), Karen Lawler (Cactus Imaging) and Daniela Mastroeini (Orafol)
L-R: Andy Fryer (Easy Signs, Louise Paton (VMG Print Group), Kai Hennig (Carr Group) and Jayden Davis (Carr Group)
L-R: Beth Corbin (Easy Signs), Kathy Doan (Corrective Services) and Gabriella Bartolo from IVE Group
L-R: Tammy Roos (Formul8) and Anthony Zupanovic (Easy Signs) and Jacky Chan (HVG Graphics)
L-R: Mariano Imbrioscia, Nigel Davies, Ben Templeton and Yves Roussange
L-R: Brett Wark (Smartech) and Daniel Lamont (Lamont Print + Sign)
L-R: James Merhab (Ball & Doggett) and Daniela Mastroeini (Orafol)
L-R: Jacky Chan (HVG Graphics), Samantha Wong (Orafol) and Fatima Concalves (HVG print Group)
L-R: Daniel Watts (Veritas Print Media), Dale Hawkins (Zund) and Lisa Michalanney (Signageworld)
L-R: Keith Ferrell (Cactus Imaging), Troy Cavanagh (ImageBox) and Dale Hawkins (Zund)
FESPA Australia President, Nigel Davies with this year’s peer-nominated FESPA 2026 Leader, Louise Paton from VMG Print Group
Davies also noted that the program is only made possible by the generous support of the sponsors, acknowledging Gold Sponsors, Durst Oceania, Easy Signs and Smartech; Silver sponsors, Cactus Imaging, IVE Group and Mimaki; Bronze sponsors Ball & Doggett and HVG Graphics Media; and Supporter Sponsor Kissel + Wolf.
