Speakers
Marcus Barber

Marcus is a Strategic Futurist and one of Australia's top Value Systems specialists with particular focus on assisting clients with advanced strategic thinking and innovation creation. His skills have been utilised by the likes of Telstra, Victoria Police, Swinburne University, Deakin University, City of Greater Dandenong, CPA Australia, Gold Coast Water, General Motors, Fosters Australia, the Australian Sports Commission, Ernst and Young, and DIIRD among many others.

He is the facilitator of the strategic futures block at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in Canberra, the premiere management training program for the Department of Defence that brings military personnel from around the globe to a year long residential strategy training program.

Marcus was the co-presenter on the National Geographic Channel's TV series 'Future Matters', author of 'The Money Tree and How to Grow One - Creating Success in Your Business' and the soon to be completed 'Killing Trends: the Graceful Art of Innovation' ; the founder of the Australian Strategic Planning Institute and is an advisory board member of the Australian Bill of Rights Initiative. Marcus has been published in a number of Journals around the world and is a regular contributor to Australasia's leading innovation magazine 'Fast Thinking.
 
Andrew Mills

Andrew Mills is the Chief Information Officer for the Government of South Australia, leading the development and implementation of across-government ICT strategy, policies, frameworks and standards.

Andrew's previous role was the Director ICT Strategic Sourcing in the Office of the CIO, accountable for central ICT sourcing support, procurement projects for a range of ICT products and services and the strategic management of the vendors responsible for ICT infrastructure delivery on behalf of the government.

Andrew has worked in the public sector for 30 years, for both the South Australian and Australian Governments. He has been an executive for the SA Government since 1998 and in that capacity, worked on a range of projects including an innovative spatial information industry facilitation project, an ICT infrastructure project for the Parliament of South Australia and an Aboriginal Heritage project.

Before joining the SA Government he undertook a broad range of roles in the Defence Department, including operational management, procurement and contract management, training and lecturing, ICT strategy and policy development, systems engineering and personnel management
 
Simon Hackett

Simon Hackett is one of Australia's best-known technology entrepreneurs. As managing director of national broadband trailblazer Internode, Simon leads Australia's largest privately owned broadband company. Established in 1991, Internode has more than 150,000 broadband customers and 360 employees, a carrier-grade international telecommunications network and a range of value-added broadband services.

Simon leads Internode with a unique combination of technical insight and entrepreneurial energy. While renowned for its customer-friendly service, Internode constantly pushes back the boundaries of broadband innovation. In 2005, Internode was the first Australian company to launch commercial ADSL2+ broadband. In 2007, the company pioneered ADSL2+ Annex M services. In July 2008, Internode became the first national ISP to offer its customers direct access to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) as part of its standard service.

In August 2008, Simon's achievements were acknowledged with the Telecommunications Ambassador award from the Communications Alliance. This annual award recognises an outstanding individual who has shown strong leadership and made a significant and visible contribution to the Australian communications industry. Simon won the Bulletin-Microsoft Smart 100 IT & Communications Award in 2004 and was an SA winner in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards in 2005. Simon is also a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society.
 
Steve Adcock

Steve Adcock is the CEO of Electronics & ICT Association.

Professionally, Steve is an Economics Graduate from Adelaide University and former Associate Fellow of both the Institute of Management and the Australian Marketing Institute. He has 30 years professional experience in Systems, Sales, Marketing and Management.

He has worked in small, medium and large organisations, both public and private, and from start ups to mature organisations.

After leaving University in 1975, he spent 2 years in the Public Sector in the area of Organisation and Methods, and then spent 11 years with Wang Australia, rising from Word Processing Sales Representative to State Manager, managing a business turning over $30M with a staff of 70.

Upon leaving Wang, he left the I.T. industry all together to take a Senior Management role with the then SGIC, Managing 20 retail outlets, agencies and telemarketing, a business of $70M turnover, and a staff of 140.

Steve successfully ran his own consulting and contracting business (11 years), working with Government, and Companies such as ERA (Electronics Research Association - Leatherhead UK), Pilkington, SANTOS, Elders and AWA Transponder. His company provided Y2K consulting services for both embedded and software Y2K issues for many South Australian organisations.

After 3 years with Computer Associates (CA), he worked in building technology companies in areas as diverse as Foreign Exchange Software in London (for Adelaide based Velocity Systems International), and SharkShield, an Adelaide based electronics company.

Steve has been a Director of Medic Alert, the Rotary Club of Adelaide and the Blackwood Golf Club.
 
Prof Andy Koronios

Prof Andy Koronios, BE, Grad T, MLitt, PhD, FACS Head of School of Computer and Information Science, and Director, Strategic Management Laboratory, Advanced Computing Research Centre, University of South Australia

Professor Andy Koronios is a university Professor at an Australian University and holds academic qualifications in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Education and holds a PhD from the University of Queensland.

He is an accomplished researcher in the area of Strategic Information Management and has extensive IT Consulting experience. He has assisted both large and small organizations in system procurement, development, in strategy as well as training.

Andy has established two University Research Labs and a funded centre. He is currently Research Program Leader of a federally funded centre for system integration in engineering asset management and has attracted more than $2M in research funding.

He has over twenty years experience in the academic environment and has received numerous awards, including the University of Southern Queensland Award for Excellence in Teaching.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and has been a professional speaker on IT Business models, strategy and e-Commerce both in Australia and South East Asia.

Professor Koronios has published ten books, several chapters as well as numerous research papers in diverse areas of Information Technology.
 
Philip Argy

Philip Argy is an experienced mediator and arbitrator, having successfully resolved hundreds of technology disputes, many of them highly complex involving tens of millions of dollars. He also specialises in intellectual property, science, technology and competition law and has been a computer buff for over 35 years as well as being an experienced programmer.

Philip is on the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) panel of arbitrators for the resolution of intellectual property disputes, especially those involving domain names. Euromoney's Best of the Best has repeatedly listed Philip as one of the best information technology lawyers in the world.

Philip is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Immediate Past President of the Australian Computer Society. He remains national Chairman of the eCommerce Committee of the Law Council of Australia, a Past President and founding member of the New South Wales Society for Computers and the Law, and a long standing member of the Australian Corporate Lawyers' Association. Philip is also a member of the NSW Law Society's Legal Technology Committee and is a former chairman of the Webcast Committee of the International Technology Law Association.
 
Phillip Nyssen

Phillip Nyssen is chairperson of the national GreenIT Taskforce supported by the ICT industry associations ACS and AIIA.

Career highlights include
- Fujitsu Consulting Director, Brisbane lead for Sustainability and Enterprise Value Management
- ACS Queensland Vice Chairperson
- Brisbane 2010 World Computer Congress committee member
- Delivered strategy and management consulting throughout Australia, Asia and Europe with McKinsey & Co, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the global Swiss materials company, Holcim.

Phil is focusing his unique combination of experience and expertise to champion improved professionalism, governance and sustainability within the ICT industry and the clients he serves.
 
Tom Daly

Tom Daly is a senior performance engineer in Sun's ISV Engineering organisation. Based in California but residing in Adelaide Australia Tom has been working with large Independent Software Vendors like Oracle, IBM, SAP as well as open source communities such as Postgres and MySQL for many years now and has seen the rise of Web 1.0 and 2.0 up close. Tom has been working to improve java and web application performance and particularly performance of the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) application platform used in conjunction with open source databases. Tom is a member of the team that has created the industry standard J2EE performance benchmark SPECjAppServer (www.spec.org) and is Sun's representative the the SPEC osgjava subcommittee. Tom has a passion for OpenSource and in actively involve in promoting the One Laptop Per Child project.
 
Con Zymaris

Con Zymaris has been the CEO of Cybersource Pty. Ltd. for the past 18 years, the convenor of Open Source Victoria, a government-funded industry cluster, the co-founder and former director of Open Source Industry Australia - the national industry body, the former editor of the Australian Unix Users Group Journal, the Open Source columnist for Internet World magazine in the 1990s and co-creator of the Australian Linux Journal for Next Publications.

Con has written several books and several hundred published articles on IT topics. While his career began with software development in the 1970s, his current professional focus is on the strategic alignment of open source software with business and government. Con has a degree in Physics.
 
David Munro

David Munro is the Associate Director, IT Strategy and Architecture at the University of Adelaide - a new position at the University which David took up in February 2009. He has overall responsibility for all aspects of University IT Strategy ensuring that IT supports and enables the strategic objectives of the University. Prior to this position, David was an Associate Professor and Head of the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide.

David has worked in the University sector for nearly 30 years firstly as a systems programmer in the University of Aberdeen's IT services branch then on to the University of St Andrews as a developer and implementer of national network protocols standards for UK Universities computers. From there, David worked as the systems manager in the School of Computer Science at St Andrews where he pioneered a suite of systems management processes and procedures, many which would now be considered best-practice. During this time, David completed a PhD and contributed to the teaching and research output of the School.

In 1998 David emigrated to Australia taking up an academic position in the School of Computer Science at Adelaide and establishing the Software Architecture and Distributed Algorithms research group. In addition to his role as Head of School, David was concurrently the Associate Dean (IT) for the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences.

David is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT Professional, a member of the British Computer Society and a member of the Australian Computer Society.
 
P Y Wong

P.Y. Wong comes from an engineering background developing everything from mission critical systems for defense forces to engineering unmanned aeronautical vehicle system prototypes. More recently he has completed his MBA and has turned his attention to the business and sustainability side of enterprises.

Currently P.Y. takes care of Innodev’s BDM functions as well as looking after development of their mobile business solutions arm Mobusol (www.mobusol.com).

His specific areas of expertise include:

- Marketing.
Development of marketing strategy for engaging the B2B field worker productivity solutions market. Responsibilities included the development of customer target segmentation, evaluation and communication strategy.

- Organizational Sustainability.
Helping organizations to become native to the planet again.

- Project management.
Management of a team of software development and system test engineers. Responsibilities span the entire Software Development Life-cycle (SDLC) and include: development project artifacts, capturing key reporting metrics and status reporting to upper management.
 
Andrea McCarthy

Andrea has been with the Electronics and ICT Association (EICTA) for the past 4 years and she has been the Skills and Workforce Manager for most of those 4 years. Andrea heads up the EICTA skills project The Electronics ICT Education Initiative, also known as (ei)2. (ei)2 aims to increase the number and quality of suitably qualified graduates, from SA-based tertiary institutions, and facilitates the ongoing skills development for the electronics and ICT industry. Andrea came to the organisation with a degree in communications and marketing from the University of South Australia.
 
Jack Burton

Jack Burton's professional background has spanned a diverse range of disciplines, including sales management, management consulting, ICT management and - for the last 8 years - ICT consulting. Currently, Burton is Director of Saosce Pty Ltd (a consulting firm he founded in 2002 with a focus of Unix and open source software), Deputy Chairman of the Australian Computer Society (SA Branch) and Founding Treasurer of OpenSA, Inc. (the industry body for open source businesses in SA).
 
Rob Farley

LobsterPot Solutions' principal consultant Rob Farley has over ten years experience working in consultancies around the world, establishing himself as an expert in databases.

He runs the Adelaide SQL Server User Group, is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award for SQL Server. He has written courseware privately and on behalf of Microsoft, and helped create several Microsoft certification exams.

He also writes a blog at http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley
 
Daniel Brown

Daniel is a Senior Application Developer and Senior SharePoint Architect at Hostworks in Adelaide, Australia. At Hostworks Daniel’s main duties include maintaining their internal SharePoint Farm and developing internal applications as well as client SharePoint implementations.

Previous to being employed at Hostworks, Daniel was employed at OBS as a Solutions Consultant dealing with both SharePoint Portal Services 2003 and WSSv3/Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Daniel has a solid knowledge of C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

In January of 2008, Daniel founded the Adelaide SharePoint User Group in the interest of benefiting and educating the local community around SharePoint and in April of 2008, Daniel took over as President/convenor of the ACS I.T Architecture Special Interest Group.

Daniel was awarded the Microsoft MVP award in July 2008 for his contribution to the community and his technical knowledge of both WSS & MOSS, making him the first SharePoint MVP in South Australia.

At the Australian Computer Society AGM, Daniel was elected Vice-Chair of the Branch Executive Committee for South Australia.
 
David Burela

David Burela, a Senior .Net Developer for Readify, has been in the ICT industry for the last 6 years. For a 25year old he's had a lot of unique experiences which he uses to try and help other young ICT professionals.

He has a bachelor & 2 Masters degrees from the university of Tasmania, was a finalist for Young Australian of the year, and last year won an international Microsoft programming competiton called the 'Imagine cup'.

He likes to point out that although he started in Tasmania, ICT is global and as long as you are continously upgrading yourself then where you start isn't a barrier. Nowadays David is focused on emerging cloud technologies and their potential impact on businesses & society.
 
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