Contact

Got an interesting problem?

Email is best. I read everything, I answer most things, and I am fairly quick unless I'm on a stage somewhere.

Tracy@tracywhitelaw.com Tell me who you are, what you're trying to do, and when. Send an email

Speaking

Conference, keynote, panel, exec session or workshop. Tell me the audience, the length and what you want them thinking afterwards.

Boards and advisory

Particularly where digital transformation, AI, governance and emerging technology intersect.

HavenXR

Immersive entertainment, partnerships, venues and investment.

Something weird

Ideas, experiments, half-formed technology questions and the occasional good argument. Usually my favourites.

Speaker kit

Everything an organiser usually asks for, in one place, so nobody has to email me for a bio at 9pm the night before.

Tracy Whitelaw

ONE LINE

Tracy Whitelaw is Chief Digital Officer at the Local Government Association of Queensland and co-founder and CEO of immersive entertainment company HavenXR.

SHORT, ABOUT 50 WORDS

Tracy Whitelaw is Chief Digital Officer at the Local Government Association of Queensland, leading digital, data and AI across 77 councils, and co-founder and CEO of HavenXR. She has been building AI since 2007, ran digital for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, and was named Government Technology Leader of the Year in 2026.

LONG, ABOUT 150 WORDS

Tracy Whitelaw is a technology executive, founder and speaker with more than twenty years across government, critical infrastructure, major events and emerging technology. She is Chief Digital Officer at the Local Government Association of Queensland, where she leads digital, data, technology and innovation and works with 77 councils on AI, cyber and transformation. She is also co-founder and CEO of HavenXR, an Australian immersive entertainment studio. Tracy began working on conversational AI in 2007 at a startup later acquired by IBM, was one of the first social media specialists in Australian local government, and built the digital function for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games from one person to a team of twelve. She holds an MBA and is a graduate of the AICD. She was Women in Digital Executive Leader of the Year in 2021 and iTnews Government Technology Leader of the Year in 2026. Scottish by birth, she lives on the Gold Coast.

Preferred title: Chief Digital Officer, LGAQ, and co-founder of HavenXR
Based: Gold Coast, Queensland. Brisbane, regional and interstate all fine
Formats: Keynote, conference slot, panel, fireside, workshop
AV: Slides supplied in advance on request. Handheld mic preferred
Pronunciation: White. Law. Put them together.
Fees: Reach out and we'll talk.
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