AKQA
AKQA is the frontier agency, uniting imagination, design, craft and technology to create new forms of value. For more than three decades, we've helped brands imagine what’s next and make what matters, from pioneering digital to defining the next era of AI. Operating across 19 countries and 30 locations, we work with organisations to build intelligent systems, digital products, connected ecosystems and immersive experiences that shape culture, deepen brand relevance and unlock growth. AKQA is a WPP agency.www.akqa.com
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Sep 14, 2026
Eamonn DixonGUEST
Um, sorry, sorry, Rich.
Eamonn DixonGUEST
Uh, we're, uh, called AKQA in San Francisco, which was a innovation, you know, technology sort of...
Eamonn DixonGUEST
Yeah, very much in that pocket.
Eamonn DixonGUEST
And, and my partner and I at the time, we really wanted to stretch ourselves and see if we could sort of like move further into that space.
Eamonn DixonGUEST
Sorry, Rich.
Eamonn DixonGUEST
Called AKQA in San Francisco, which was an innovation, you know, technology sort of agency.
Eamonn DixonGUEST
Yeah, very much in that pocket.
Eamonn DixonGUEST
And my partner and I at the time, we really wanted to stretch ourselves and see if we could sort of like move further into that space.
Sarah SpainHOST
She's currently preparing for one last fight.
Sarah SpainHOST
She's the creator and host of Between The Rounds, a podcast where she sits down with Olympic and professional athletes to talk performance, mentality, and preparation, and she's an independent brand and sports consultant who previously spent over a decade at multinational creative agency AKQA.
Sarah SpainHOST
She loves getting hit in the face.
Sarah SpainHOST
It's Sarah Cunningham.
Michael KassanHOST
How did your background, and give us a little of that view, how did your background get you ready for what's turned out to be a wonderful run here and literally kind of establishing you as the source authority in Australian advertising and tech?
Henry InnisGUEST
My background was I spent time in first at DT Digital, which was now known as AKQA in Australia.
Henry InnisGUEST
I was hired by a guy called Andrew Billy Baxter.
Henry InnisGUEST
I used to send an email out to the top 20 advertising CEOs and hope that they would reply to my long blogs.
Michael KassanHOST
like Don Draper, huh?
Henry InnisGUEST
Yeah, yeah, I was a little less Don Draper, a little more Ehrlich Bachman, I think.
Henry InnisGUEST
So I ended up getting a job at AKQA.
Henry InnisGUEST
And then I was lucky enough to kind of follow Adam and another mentor of mine, Tim Evans.