Australian Speakers
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Richard Windeyer
Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy
Richard Windeyer joined the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy in June 2008 as a Special Adviser on the National Broadband Network. He has had extensive experience working on strategic telecommunications policy and regulatory issues having previously worked in the Department and in Ministerial offices.
Before returning to the Department to work on the National Broadband Network Richard had worked in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Transport on national security policy.
The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) provides strategic advice and professional support to the Australian Government on a wide range of significant and rapidly changing policy areas, such as broadcasting and content, broadband, telecommunications, and the digital economy. The Department also administers legislation, regulations, grants and incentives to the communications industry and the wider community.
The Department supports the Australian Government in key priority areas such as the implementation of the National Broadband Network and associated regulatory reform, and is responsible for providing advice on telecommunications and online services, consumer issues and postal services, the digital economy, ICT innovation, convergence, e-security, broadcasting and digital television matters.
Richard Windeyer Talk
Kim Dalton
ABC TV
Kim has worked in the Australian and international film and television industry since 1973 and he has been a practitioner and program maker producing a number of award wining television dramas and documentaries. As an investment manager at the Australian Film Finance Corporation in the early 1990s he was involved in the financing of numerous projects including the feature films Muriel's Wedding and Priscilla.
In 1992 Kim joined Beyond International, one of Australia's leading international film and television companies, and worked on the international financing, production and distribution of a large slate of television and feature films.
From 1999, as Chief Executive of the Australian Film Commission, Kim was responsible for overhauling its development programs, expanding its screen culture programs and ensuring the agency's and industry's engagement with digital and online technology, production and distribution. As CEO Kim led the policy debate around Australian content on television and was a spokesperson for the industry and a key advisor to government on the audio visual industries during negotiations on the Aust/US Free Trade Agreement.
Since joining the ABC as Director of TV in 2006 Kim has made a major contribution to the policy debate around Australian content and the role of the public broadcaster in the digital era as well as effecting significant reform within the TV Division in these areas. In 2009 the ABC received a significant increase in its budget in order to establish ABC3, a dedicated digital children's channel and to increase its output of Australian drama.
Kim Dalton Talk
Libbie Doherty
Hackett Films
Libbie Doherty is a television writer – producer who's been working in Australia and the UK for the last 15 years. After graduating from Charles Sturt University with a BA Arts, Majoring in Broadcast Journalism she started her television career on the multi-award winning programme BEYOND 2000 as a researcher learning the business.
Roles within the BBC, Razorfish, and as an independent producer have contributed to her extensive experience and industry networks. Libbie is passionate about character driven stories and translating these stories across multiple platforms. She loves a creative collaboration and fostering artists particularly within the technical crafts of animation and motion graphics.
Now based at Hackett Films she is responsible for new business, overseeing all production and developing original program concepts and properties for local and international broadcasters. She is also writing a teen fiction novel that she hopes to complete next year.
Hackett Films is one of Australia's leading production companies specialising in groundbreaking animation headed up by award winning Director James Hackett. The company has carved itself an enviable place in the Australian production scene with highly distinctive motion graphics, animation and illustration. The studio has a broad slate or projects including animated TVseries, advertising, film and TV titles and animated storytelling for documentary.
Libbie Doherty Presentation
Kimberlee Weatherall
University of Queensland
Kimberlee Weatherall is a Senior Lecturer in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland. Prior to joining the Faculty in 2007, she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and Associate Director (Law) of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia. She has also lectured at the University of Sydney, and worked as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney. She holds degrees in law from Sydney University, Oxford University and Yale Law School.
Kimberlee teaches and researches intellectual property law, with a particular interest in digital copyright, the relationship between international trade and intellectual property, and the systems for administration and enforcement of intellectual property rights, publishing on these issues in a range of Australian and International journals, and speaking on IP issues in the US, Europe, the UK, Korea, and China. She has given expert evidence before Committees of the Australian Parliament's House of Representatives and Senate and various other bodies on issues of IP law reform. She has been a member of the Law Council of Australia IP Subcommittee since 2006, is a member of the Board of the Australian Digital Alliance and is presently a member of the Intellectual Property and Privacy in Technology Advisory Group advising the State and Commonwealth governments on copyright and privacy issues relating to the Digital Education Revolution.
The TC Beirne School of Law at The University of Queensland is a long-established and leading Australian law school with a distinguished history. Founded in 1936, it is the premier law school in Queensland, committed to providing high quality undergraduate and postgraduate legal education, and to the production of quality, leading edge research.
University of Queensland Website
Horden Wiltshire
m.Net Corporation
Horden Wiltshire is an Australian mobile internet pioneer and has served as the CEO of m.Net for more than six years.
Before being appointed as Chief Executive Officer of m.Net Corporation in 2003 Horden served as m.Net's Director of Projects and Operations from the company's establishment in 2001. In this role he was responsible for the rollout of the company's 3G test bed network and extended public WLAN, managing a number of industry specific mobile application development projects and launching the company's nationwide Innovation program.
Horden has a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), an MBA and a Masters of Science in Technology Commercialisation.
m.Net is Australia's leading full service mobile solutions company having delivered some of the most advanced mobile services in the Australian market over many years. The company was awarded the Australian Mobile Marketing Association award for best mobile promotion for 2008 and m.Net's leadership position was further recognised by the broader Australian digital media community by being named the prestigious B&T Digital Services Company of the Year 2008.
Dr Darrell Williamson
CSIRO ICT Centre
Dr Darrell Williamson is Deputy Director of the CSIRO ICT Centre – a research Division of CSIRO where he is responsible for research capability across laboratories in autonomous systems, wireless technologies, networking technologies and information engineering.
Previously, Dr Williamson has had senior academic appointments at the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University (ANU) including a period as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & IT at ANU. He has published widely in the fields of telecommunications, signal processing and control. Darrell also served for two years as Chief Executive Officer for the Cooperative Research Centre in Advanced Computational Systems, and six years as Chief Executive Officer and Research Director for the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia's pre-eminent national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world with an annual budget of over $1 billion. It staff of over 6400 people based in 15 research Divisions, and nine National Research Flagships located across 55 sites throughout Australia and overseas, carry out research and development in fields of economic, social and environmental importance. CSIRO's core scientific and technical capabilities are broadly in the fields of: agribusiness; energy; environment, land and water; information, communications science and technologies; and manufacturing, materials and minerals. CSIRO works with leading scientific organisations and firms in the United States, Japan and Europe, and with developing countries, especially in Asia.
Kevin Karp
IPv6Now
Kevin Karp is a Director and Business Manager of IPv6Now. He is the founder and Managing Director of PPS Internet and has over 25 years of experience in board level commercial management of ICT and investment industry enterprises. In 1995 PPS established Semper.Net, one of Australia's first Internet managed services networks. In 2007 Kevin negotiated and directed PPS's acquisition of StudentNet, Australia's oldest schools education network, and jointly founded IPv6Now. He is a founding member and Secretary of the Internet Society of Australia, a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA).
IPv6Now Pty Ltd was founded in July 2007. Since then they have established themselves as a primary source of IPv6 resources, expertise, services and provider of products based upon IPv6.
Kevin Karp Presentation
Loretta Johnson
Australian Information Industry Association
Loretta Johnson is General Manager Policy and Government Relations for the Australian Information Industry Association She has extensive legal and policy experience in the ICT sector, and has managed her own consultancy company for ten years assisting ICT organisations to understand government policy constraints and opportunities.
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) is Australia's peak technology industry body. AIIA's role is to lead and represent the ICT industry in Australia to maximise the potential of the Australian economy and society. AIIA's membership encompasses all sectors of the ICT sector including hardware, software, services and telecommunications. It has almost 400 member companies, from individual consultants, small to medium enterprises to the world's leading multinational corporations.
AIIA member companies employ over 100,000 Australians, generate combined annual revenues of more than $40 billion (approximately 5% of GDP) and export more than $2 billion in goods and services each year.
Loretta Johnson Presentation
Raju Varanasi
Centre for Learning Innovation
Raju Varanasi has been the General Manager of the Centre for Learning Innovation, a unit of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, since its creation in 2004. His key responsibilities include the promotion of a culture of innovation and organisational learning through the development and implementation of major teaching and learning initiatives using learning technologies.
He has established effective partnerships with a range of industry, government and educational bodies in order to deliver better outcomes for students. He takes a leading role in state and national policy deliberations and initiatives related to connected learning and associated professional development for teachers
Under Mr Varanasi's leadership, the Centre for Learning Innovation has introduced several highly successful technology-based flagship services for schools and the vocational education and training sector. These include the Teaching and Learning exchange, the Connected Learning Advisory Service, Learncast and the Learning Reference Repository. He was also instrumental in seeding the trials of Connected Classrooms in Western Sydney which led to the NSW Government's Connected Classrooms initiative.
Mr Varanasi is an Australian Fulbright Scholar and was a Director in TAFE NSW for several years prior to joining the Centre for Learning Innovation.
Raju Varanasi Presentation
Grant Hull Bio and Presentation
Enabled Solutions
Grant Hull graduated from the University of South Australia with a degree in Business Information Systems and Honours majoring in information systems security and advances in human computer interfaces. He then co-founded Enabled Solutions as a website development company with the philosophy of bringing real business solutions to an emerging field.
As co-director, he saw the company grow into mutli-disciplined team that thrives in the niche created by media types converging online as broadband becomes more prevalent. He particularly enjoys the creative aspects of his role as well as forging ahead in new business areas. He recently extended the team's capabilities into iPhone and other touch devices.
Today Enabled is a creative digital production firm specialisig in online and mobile deployment. Capabilities span strategy, design, video production / animation, games / interactive and website / mobile application development.
Enabled is known for the ability to create its own award winning content and intellectual property, but also excels in propelling other people's brands and concepts into new platforms such as Web, TV, smartphones and other touch devices.
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Lisa Gray
The Feds
Lisa Gray has been the Head of Content for the Feds since November 2007. The Feds are an interactive media production company working with clients throughout all stages of production; from concept, through development to production.
As a collective of experts on long form television, website creation, iphone applications, virals, mobile content, TV commercials, gaming and feature films, The Feds work together to ensure all media platforms are used to their utmost potential to tell the best story. The Feds are the developers of the award-winning mash up tool software that featured on the Gruen Transfer – the same tool will be used on the Wildspace interactive project, a co-production with the Content Mint and Screen Australia, for ABC 3.
Prior to joining The Feds Lisa worked as a Senior Video Producer for 3 mobile responsible for spearheading one of Australia's first in house mobile "Now on Planet 3", a daily news and entertainment show streamed directly to mobile handsets.
Lisa has worked in television broadcasting for ten years on many formats including drama, factual, documentary, light entertainment, reality television, music, live television and sport.
The Feds are an interactive media production company. The Feds work with clients throughout all stages of productions; from concept, through development to production and can also assist in devising the rollout media strategy for any cross platform project. The Feds have in house experts on long form television, website creation, iphone applications, virals, mobile content, TV commercials, gaming and feature films.
Glenn Geers
National ICT Australia (NICTA)
Glenn Geers is the Systems Engineering Manager for the Smart Transport and Roads Project for National ICT Australia (NICTA).
He worked at CSIRO for seven years. The first two of which were spent working on lossy electromagnetics and the latter five on image processing and biometrics. Technology developed during this period is in use by several Australian companies. He then worked on developing novel optical fibres at JDS Uniphase before taking the role of Sensing Technologies Manager at Zone Products Inc where he developed a multi-sensor intrusion detection system and a network-centric distributed command and control application which has been deployed by several government agencies.
In 2006 Glenn was admitted as a Senior Visiting Fellow in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. He has published in the fields of optical fibres, wavelets, image processing, biometrics and computational transportation science. He is a member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
NICTA is Australia's Information and Communications Technology Centre of Excellence. They are an independent company in the business of research, commercialisation and research training. With over 700 people, NICTA is the largest organisation in Australia dedicated to ICT research.
NICTA is helping to build a sustainable Australian ICT sector by making fundamental advances in ICT that can underpin the development of globally competitive products, processes and services; building innovative ICT companies; and contributing skills and outcomes that are changing the profile of Australia's ICT industry.
Professor Mike Miller
University of South Australia
Professor Mike Miller is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Australia (UniSA), the founder and Chairman Emeritus of m.Net Corporation, and serves on other government advisory bodies, including the Board of the Australia-Korea Foundation. He is the a Director of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Mike spent nine years with Telecom Australia and 35 years in the University of South Australia, where he was Professor of Telecommunications and Foundation Director of the Institute for Telecommunications Research.
Mike has received a number of honours and awards for his work. Among these, he was Australian Professional Engineer of the Year in 1995. On Australia Day 2008, the Australian Government awarded him an AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) for leadership in the innovation and development of future-generation telecommunications technology.
University of South Australia Website
Justin Brow
Queensland University of Technology
Justin Brow is a Senior Research Associate at Queensland University of Technology's Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation where he founded, produces and curates the 60Sox network, an online portfolio showcasing space for emerging creative talent. Justin is driving the development of a series of national projects increasing the capabilities and strength of Australian games and interactive media industries. Partnering with the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Research Council and the Australian Film Television and Radio School, he will join a team of industry leaders and key researchers to investigate sources of creative innovation in Australia's interactive media industries while working with globally recognised Australian-based cross-platform digital media organisations such as Hoodlum, Dr.D Studios, Krome, Firemint, Infinite Interactive and Tantalus Media.
A pioneer of Australia's digital media industries, Justin also holds leading roles in several national government-supported programmes assisting the international competiveness of the Australian digital media industries.
The Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation (iCi)is a multidisciplinary research centre, dedicated to building research capacity at Queensland University of Technology. One of four flagship research institutes at the university, iCi fosters, promotes and manages collaborative research across six faculties, encouraging creative and innovative outputs that advance beyond the boundaries of disciplinary research. iCi delivers groundbreaking multidisciplinary research and commercialisation ventures combining the expertise of professional researchers, PhD scholars, private industry, and government partners. The Institute houses the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and Australasian CRC for Interaction Design, two of the country's outstanding research ventures in creativity and innovation.