Speakers

The speakers for the Symposium include representatives from significant participants in the industry. Speakers' affiliation and their biographies are listed below.

Speaker	Organisation
Jayant Baliga	University of Melbourne
Sean Casey	Intel
Kevin Chen	Google
Ric Clarke	Alcatel-Lucent
Robin Eckermann	Canberra University
Eng-Lim Goh	Silicon Graphics Inc.
Turlough Guerin	Telstra
Prof. Saman Halgamuge	University of Melbourne
Steve Hodgkinson	Ovum Consultants
Sundeep Khisty	EDS
Lachlan Kidd	Cisco
Angus MacDonald	Sun Australia
Tony Morton	Econnect
Luis Neves	Global e-Sustainability Initiative
Jodi Newcombe	The Climate Group
Max Ott	National ICT Australia
Alison O'Flynn	Fujistu Consulting
Dan Pointon	Technical Real Estate
Bill St. Arnaud	Canarie, Canada
Stuart White	University of Technology Sydney
Greg Wickham	AARNet
Glenn Wightwick	IBM
Tom Worthington	Australian National University

Speaker Biographies

Jayant Baliga

Postgraduate Researcher, CUBIN, University of Melbourne 

Jayant Baliga received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and the B.E.degree in electrical and electronic engineering (with first class honours) in 2007 from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the same university. His research interests include optical network architectures and wireless communications

 

M. Sean Casey

Business Development Manager, Enterprise Solutions Group, Intel Australia Pty Ltd

Sean Casey has over 16 years experience with Intel globally, and is currently the business development manager for the Enterprise Solutions Group for Australia and New Zealand assisting enterprise and government accounts deploying Intel technology. Sean has lived in Australia for the last 10 years Intel, and is a proud holder of his Australian passport.

Sean originally joined Intel Corporation in Folsom, California, as a design engineer on the Intel 486 DX4100 in 1992. For two years he moved to Intel.s flash memory team as a technical marketing engineer, contributing to the USB specificaiton and receiving four US patents for flash memory card design and a USB pager.

In 1996, Sean moved to Singapore to help establish Intel.s channel programs within Asia-Pacific emerging markets such as Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam and Pakistan. He joined the Intel Australia channel marketing team in 1998, supporting Intel Architecture products (processors, servers, mobile, motherboards) and training local channel members on the latest technologies from Intel. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in Indiana, USA

Kevin Chen

Google Engineering Operations

Kevin Chen works on various renewable energy initiatives within Google's engineering operations, with a focus on energy generation technology and project development. He holds an S.B from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. from Stanford University, both in Mechanical Engineering.

 

Ric Clark

Technology, Strategy & Architecture, Alcatel-Lucent Australasia

Ric Clark was appointed Chief Technology Officer of Alcatel Australasia in January 2006, responsible for the strategic marketing and development of product and services in the Australasian markets.

With more than 20 years experience in telecommunications, Ric Clark has held a number of senior positions in the industry prior to joining Alcatel. He was Chief Operating Officer for National ICT Australia, Managing Director of Ericssons Research and Development company and Ericsson Asia Pacific Lab Australia. He has also acted as a Director for several ICT start-ups and has participated in Federal and State Government and University advisory groups.

Ric holds a Bachelors Degree in Manufacturing Engineering and is based in Melbourne.

Robin Eckermann

Prinicpal, Eckermann & Associates, Adjucnt Professor, University of Canberra

Robin Eckermann has over 35 years experience in the information technology and communications industry. In the past decade he has gained a reputation as one of Australia's broadband pioneers with his role in leading the establishment of TransACT's FTTK/VDSL network an in numerous other FTTP projects throughout Australia and abroad. Most recently he has become an advocate for using technology to help in efforts to counter global warming and climate change. In 2007 Robin instigated the annual "Broadband Environmental Sustainability Challenge", with the Eckermann-TJA award carrying a $10,000 prize kitty. His academic qualifications are in Philosophy and Computing, and he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra.

Eng-Lim Goh Ph.D

SGI, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Eng-Lim Goh has been with SGI for 18 years, becoming one of the chief scientists in 1998 and chief technology officer in 2001. His tenure includes work in computer graphics algorithms and high-performance computing (HPC) architectures.

He is a proponent of next-generation computer systems designed specifically for customer applications performance. To this, he advocates computational density and energy efficiency when integrating commodity components; and where appropriate, a balanced multi-paradigm approach, across a globally addressable memory, to architectural design.

In computer graphics, Dr. Goh's current research interest is in the relationships between human visual perception and visual computing. He has been awarded three U.S. patents in this field. He is also leading a small research effort to investigate application-transparent, massively parallel rendering.

In 2005, the IDG publication, InfoWorld, named Dr. Goh one of World's 25 most influential CTOs. That same year, he was also included in the HPCwire list of "15 People to Watch." In 2007, Dr. Goh was named in "Champions 2.0" for the bio-IT industry by BioIT World magazine, and received the HPC Community Recognition Award from HPCwire.

Before joining SGI, Dr. Goh worked for Intergraph Systems, Schlumberger Wireline Netherlands, and Shell Research U.K. A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, he completed his Ph.D. research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics. He also holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University, U.K.

Turlough Guerin

Group Manager Environment, Telstra

Dr Turlough Guerin is an environmental professional who has worked in corporate environmental management roles in Rio Tinto, Shell and most recently as the Group Manager Environment for Telstra. Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company with one of the best known brands in the country. Telstra has been voluntarily reporting its carbon emissions for 8 years. Through its cumulative energy efficiency initiatives over this time, the company has delivered $14 M in avoided energy costs in the past financial year.

Turlough's experience includes identifying and managing risks and opportunities in relation to climate change, as well as corporate environmental policy development, strategy, disclosures, auditing and contaminated land management and divestment.

View Turlough Guerin's profile on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/turloughguerin

Saman Halgamuge

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne

Saman is a member of Fluid and Thermal Sciences Research Group of Department of Mechanical Engineering working on optimization and Pattern recognition research. His current research projects in optimization are focused on data centres, hybrid electric vehicles and distributed energy networks. Prior to his appointment to the University of Melbourne, Saman has worked as a Lecturer in Institute for Telecommunications Research of University of South Australia (1996-97) and as a Research associate of Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany (1990-96). He obtained his PhD from Institute for Microelectronic Systems of the same university in 1995.

Steve Hodgkinson

Research Director, Public Sector

Steve Hodgkinson is the director of Ovum.s government practice in Australia and New Zealand. He authors research reports and advises federal and state government clients on a range of e-government strategy and ICT purchasing and management decisions.

Ovum is a UK-based research and advisory firm specialising in the telecoms and IT industries. A major focus of Steve.s research work is eGovernment strategy, developments in web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0 technology trends, and the evolution of software platforms to support collaboration and knowledge work in the public sector.

Prior to joining Ovum he was Director eGovernment Strategy & Policy and Deputy CIO for the Victorian State government in Melbourne. He led a five year program of activity to establish the Office of the CIO and implement shared services and infrastructure consolidation initiatives.

Steve has a depth of business and IT strategy and experience with large public and private sector organisations in Europe and Australasia, and also founded and sold an eCommerce company.

He has a doctorate in Management Studies from the University of Oxford and a first class honours degree from the University of Otago in New Zealand. His doctorate was focused on the role of CIO functions in large multi-business organisations.

Sundeep Khisty

Green Practice Leader, Australia and New Zealand, EDS

Sundeep Khisty is the Green Practice Leader EDS Asia Pacific. In this role, Sundeep is responsible for developing the organisations Green IT service offerings, overall go-to-market strategy and consultancy of this comprehensive portfolio across the region

Sundeep has over 20 years of experience within the IT industry, having undertaken a range of roles across business process outsourcing in BPO organisation, applications services in the leveraged centre (Solution Centre) and information technology outsourcing in the Infrastructure management organisation.

Since joining EDS in 1994 as an Information Analyst and Systems Engineer in the Finance and Administration group in Melbourne. He then moved into the role of Business Process Consultant, focusing on driving operational efficiencies across the areas of infrastructure and document management services for EDS Mortgage Centre in Adelaide.

As Program Director in Asia Pacific for the $US300+ million Digital Workflow project from 2001 to 2003, Sundeep was the Regional Leader established its footprint in Asia Pacific  of this Global industry standard, ITIL-based integrated problem and change process management solution.

As ITO Product Manager for EDS in Australia and New Zealand, Sundeep was responsible for setting the strategic direction for all ITO product marketing across the region to support the organisations growth agenda. The role also involved collaborating with EDS technology alliance partners to develop joint solution designs.

Prior to joining EDS, Sundeep was the Director of Software Development at Lancom Technologies, Melbourne.

Sundeep has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nagpur, India and earned an MBA from the University of Adelaide in 1999. He is an alumnus of the Graduate School of Management in Adelaide.

Lachlan Kidd

Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

Lachlan Kidd is a System's Engineer with Cisco Systems based in the Melbourne Enterprise team. Lachlan has been with Cisco for 3.5 years, focusing on higher education and specializing in security, data center and network architecture. He has 10 years experience working for a number of systems integrators as a pre and post sales engineer and an R&D organization developing cryptographic products. Lachlan holds a BEng (Hons) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Swinburne University and is CCIE #8250.

 

Angus MacDonald

Chief Technologist, Sun Microsystems Australasia

As Sun Microsystems' Chief Technologist and leading technology evangelist for Australia and New Zealand, Angus McDonald is not afraid to make bold predictions, and proffers the good and the not-so-good, in his engaging discussions about the future of the IT industry. In his role, Angus consults to Sun customers and partners about the application and implementation of enterprise-wide architectures. He acts in an advisory capacity to key government departments, providing guidance on the future of the IT industry and what technologies should be encouraged in particular markets.

Angus is a Sun veteran with more than 15 years' experience in various customer facing positions within Sun Australia and New Zealand. Angus identifies this as the rough age of the internet as we use it today and he fondly remembers being able to browse the whole world wide web in a morning. Angus was first attracted to Sun for its innovative thinking and technologies.  Angus believes Sun is at the forefront of technologies used to power the internet today, whether it be the underlying hardware, or the software stack that supports the Web.

Sun's acquisition of MySQL, open sourcing of the Glassfish application server, the Solaris 10 operating systems and its software stack in general, have generated considerable interest in Sun's overall technology strategies and Angus is at the forefront. With over 30 years' IT experience, as an end user (he trained as an industrial chemist), as an application developer and architect, then finally in the vendor environment, he has a strong historical industry understanding. Angus understands where the industry has come from, has an insight into the coming developments and some strong views on where we need to head, which he is not shy in sharing.

As the growth of the Web creates greater demand on a company's IT infrastructure, the flip side of this opportunity is the cost of powering this environment. Cost in both environmental and economic terms. Sustainable IT is another of his passions, and with the emergence of debate around global warming and carbon trading, it is on the agenda for all CIO's. His focus is not the science and debate around global warming but rather the benefits companies can reap, both economic and intangible, by moving toward a more sustainable IT environment.

An entertaining speaker, Angus is able to balance his commitment to Sun with his understanding of the market, the Web, society and our modern IT challenges to deliver talks that are not the normal marketing speak of many "company presenters", and offer a balanced perspective.

 

Tony Morton

Senior Engineer, Power Systems, Econnect

Tony Morton is a Senior Engineer in Power Systems with Econnect Australia, a specialist consulting firm focussing on the integration of renewable energy into power grids and the sustainable utilisation of electricity.  Tony gained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 2000 on the use of direct current in electrical installations.  His research and consulting interests include power system modelling and control, power electronics, nonlinear system theory, renewable energy systems and sustainable transport.  His recent work includes a report to the Government of Western Australia on maximising the penetration of intermittent generation in the South West, and a study for Sustainability Victoria on network impacts of compact fluorescent lamps.

 

Luis Neves

Head Sustainable Development and Environment
Deutsche Telekom

Luis Neves was born in Covilhã, Portugal in 1953. He finished his University degree in History at Lisbon University. Later on he studied law for 2 years at Universidade Moderna, Setúbal, Portugal.
Luis worked for more than 25 years for Marconi (today Portugal Telecom) as Head of Department and lately at the Corporate Office.
After leaving Marconi he started an international career and developed an intensive activity at European and International levels which lasted 14 years. During this period he participated in different international bodies. He was a permanent member of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications in the European Union and "Chair" of diverse Work groups, member of the High Level Group on the Information Society and frequently Delegate to the Annual ILO Conferences in Geneva. He was appointed as "Expert" by the European Commission to different "Working Groups" in the Telecommunications field as well as in questions related to "Information Society "issues.
Luis joined Deutsche Telekom in May 2004 and he is currently the Head of Sustainable Development and Environment at Deutsche Telekom Corporate Responsibility Department.
Luis is member of the ETNO Sustainable Working Group. In March 2006 he was elected as Chair person of GESI, the Global e-Sustainable Initiative.

Jodi Newcombe

The Climate Group, Head of States and Regional Programme, Australia

Jodi recently joined The Climate Group to work with State Governments on climate leadership and to engage with leading corporations in The Climate Group's consumer campaign, Together.

An environmental economist, she previously managed the Economics and Policy Group in the Melbourne Office of URS, a global engineering and environmental services company. Prior to this she worked as consultant with the UK environmental economics consultancy, eftec, providing targeted research and analysis to the UK Government, the UK Water Industry, the European Commission, and the European Environment Agency.  She has also served as research fellow for the Institute of European Environmental Policy in London and the University College Londons Centre for Economic and Social Research on the Global Environment.

Jodi holds a masters degree in Environment and Natural Resource Economics from University College London and a bachelors of Chemical Engineering from Sydney University.

Alison O'Flynn

Head of Sustainability, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand

Alison heads up sustainability for Fujitsu Australia & New Zealand. Alison is responsible for the sustainability strategic direction and actions for Fujitsu; along with ensuring the needs of Fujitsus clients are met through solutions and services. Alison established the national sustainability consulting practice for Fujitsu, which works with leaders to understand the risks and opportunities in response to climate change.

Alison has twenty years experience in a range of industries including technology, transport, telecommunications, and government. Alisons experience spans strategy to implementation in sustainability, marketing, research and development, IT and supply chain.

Alison has a Grad Dip in Technology Management & an MBA. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Williamson fellow.

Dr Max Ott

Research Group Manager, NICTA

Dr Ott is currently the Research Group Leader of the Networked Systems Theme at NICTA since January 2006.

Before joining NICTA he co-founded Semandex, which is a pioneer provider of Content-Based Networks, a new generation of Enterprise Information Integration and Knowledge Management systems. He is also holding a Research Professor appointment at WINLAB, Rutgers University where he is responsible for the software architecture of the ORBIT testbed. Prior to that, he was a technical manager at the C&C Research Laboratory, NEC USA where his responsibilities included providing research leadership in the area of multimedia/Internet software. Before that, he was a visiting scientist at the NHK Science and Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan.

He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Tokyo University, Japan, and an M.S. from the Technical University, Vienna, Austria.

He has worked on many different things over his career including networking, operating systems, software development, any weird computer language, video processing, user interface design, web & semantic web technologies, starting a company, writing a business plan, changing diapers, Lego & toy trains, and kajaking.

Dan Pointon BEng(Hons) MIEAust

Head of Engineering, Technical Real Estate

Technical Real Estate, in cooperation with Galileo Connect, is a developer of world-leading data centre projects, and brings to the Asia Pacific region the latest energy efficient technologies for building, powering and cooling data centre facilities.

Dan is the Head of Engineering at Technical Real Estate and provides extensive experience in design and project management of mission critical data centre facilities. Dan joined Technical Real Estate from a consulting engineering background having worked with major practices in Europe and Australia. He has lead project teams to deliver industry-leading data centre facilities for major corporate institutions and IT providers across Europe and Australia including BarCap, Global Switch, Credit Suisse and Rio Tinto.

Dan is a graduate of the University of Adelaide with an Honours Degree in Engineering. Through his accreditation with the Green Building Council of Australia, Dan also offers specialist experience in strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of data centre facilities.

Dan's email address: dpointon@technicalrealestate.com

Bill St. Arnaud

Chief Research Officer, Canarie Inc.

Bill St. Arnaud is Chief Research Officer for  CANARIE Inc. Canada's Advanced Internet Development Organization. At CANARIE Bill St. Arnaud has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of Canada's next generation optical Internet initiative called CA*net 4. He has also been the principal architect of the concept of Customer Owned Networks and User Controlled Lightpaths (UCLP) allow users to create their own Internet network topologies and peerings.  Currently he is leading a Green IT initiative  of encouraging carbon rewards rather than imposing  carbon taxes to help reduce output of green house gas emissions, through the provision of free fiber to the home and other free Internet services and applications.

Bill St. Arnaud is member of various committees and boards. In 2002 he was featured by TIME Magazine Canada as the engineer who is wiring together advanced Canadian science. In 2005 he also won the World Technology Summit award for Communications.

Stuart White

Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney

Professor Stuart White is the Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has over 20 years experience in research, advocacy and implementation of sustainability practices and policy. His research career started in the area of solar thermal energy, and has since ranged across all aspects of sustainable resource use, including water, materials, waste and transport, as well as improved decision-making and planning methods. He is the Cluster Leader of the Intelligent Grid University-CSIRO Research Program, and has advised a range of governments, utilities, private sector companies and community organizations on sustainability issues over many years.

Dr. Greg Wickham

Program Manager, e-Research for AARNet

Working in conjunction with AARNet staff his role primarily is to provide a conduit for researchers to interact with AARNet. Prior to this, he worked in the Infrastructure Development Group (AARNet) and as the GrangeNet Network Operations Manager. At GrangeNet, in addition to maintaining the network on a day-to-day basis, he liaised with the R&E community (both Australian and international); conducted workshops on network technologies; co-designed the GrangeNet II architecture in collaboration with Cisco optical engineers; and provided support for activities that used the GrangeNet network.

Glenn Wightwick

IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director, IBM Australia Development Laboratory

Glenn Wightwick is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of the IBM Australia Development Laboratory. Over the last five years, he has undertaken a number of assignments in Shanghai, Tucson and New York in areas ranging from large scale system design to managing a team defining the architecture of IBM's enterprise storage subsystems. Since joining IBM in 1987, he has worked on the application of large scale Unix systems to the solution of complex problems in domains including computational chemistry, seismic processing, weather forecasting, transaction processing and highly-available infrastructure. He spent seven months working on RS/6000 systems to support the XVIII Olympics Winter Games in Nagano, Japan during 1997 and 1998, and was involved in the design, implementation and operation of the RS/6000 infrastructure to support the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Glenn has led numerous systems and software development projects and published a number of papers in the areas of Numerical Weather Prediction, Medical Imaging and the Internet. He is a Senior member of the IEEE, and was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2000 and to the Academy Technology Council in 2003. He was appointed an IBM Distinguished Engineer in 2003 and is currently a member of the IBM Corporate Technical Leadership Team. He is also serving a three year term on the Australian Research Council College of Experts.

Tom Worthington

Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Australian National University

Tom is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the Australian National University, where he teaches the design of web sites, e-commerce and professional ethics. Tom has been an expert witness in several court cases involving international patent, computer, web and Internet issues, as well as advising governments and companies on ICT problems. He is the founding chair of the ACS Green ICT Group. Tom is a past president and Honorary Life Member of the Australian Computer Society, a voting member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 1999 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his contribution to the development of public Internet policy.

Tom's web site: http://www.tomw.net.au/