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With only a few months to go, the time before DO Australia's premier event is ticking down pretty fast. The team have been working hard, sweating it out in the Aussie summer heat, and everything is slotting nicely into place.

We can now reveal the first four confirmed speakers for DO Australia 2014. Get to know them here and stay tuned for more announcements from down under!

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1. Louis-Jacques Darveau / Publisher & Editor of The Alpine Review

Louis-Jacques Darveau is Publisher and Editor of The Alpine Review, an ambitious independent magazine that has been referred to as “a compendium of ideas for a world in transition”. A recovering lawyer and refugee from the land of boardrooms, Louis-Jacques consults independently to both public and private institutions, focusing on new ventures, innovation opportunities, product development and marketing. He has wide-ranging experience working with high-profile clients in Canada, the US and Europe, delivering performance-boosting solutions. His passions include issues of complexity, turbulence, good governance and good society.

2. Michelle Matthews / Publisher & Founder of ‘Deck of Secrets’

Michelle Matthews is a global nomad from Melbourne. She founded the city & island guide publishing company ‘Deck of Secrets’ using print & app formats and now travels the world immersing herself in hospitality culture. Her essential accessories for this life on the road are: AirBnB; her red four-wheeled suitcase and a minimalist attitude. With a mind geared to observation and her Instagram account, Michelle has a SIM for every nation she visits.

3. Nick Jaffe / Ocean voyager, co-founder of Serversaurus & Electron Workshop

Nick Jaffe lives in Melbourne, Australia, with keen interests in independent small business; meaningful living; decentralisation; freedom; aloneness; creativity; voyaging; filmmaking and wildness. Yup, he loves them all. As of today, he has over 45,000 kilometres of water under his keel, through mostly solitary crossings of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in small boats, primarily alone. A 94-minute feature-length film on these voyages was produced by Berlin filmmaker Jack Rath in 2012.

Nick is also the co-founder of green web hosting company Serversaurus and Electron Workshop coworking space in North Melbourne. He enjoys micro-philanthropy and is in the Melbourne chapter of the Awesome Foundation.

4. Steve Killelea / Founder & Executive Chairman Institute for Economics and Peace

Steve Killelea is an accomplished entrepreneur in high technology and international business development. With 30 years experience under his belt, he has applied his vast knowledge of the information technology industry to his philanthropic activities; founding the Institute for Economics and Peace to focus on better understanding the linkages between business, peace and economic development. He is also the founder of the Global Peace Index, the first ever tool for measuring the peacefulness of countries.

A respected authority and regular speaker at global forums on conflict, governance and development, Do Lectures Australia is honoured that Steve will be joining us this April and look forward to hearing his message.