Paul Kastner, Director, Industry Solutions and Alliances, Symantec, Asia Pacific and Japan

Paul Kastner is Director, Industry Solutions and Alliances, for Symantec in the Asia Pacific and Japan region. In his dual-role, Paul is charged with initiating and driving Symantec’s industry vertical and partner alliance strategies, business development and sales execution across Asia Pacific and Japan .

His responsibilities include leveraging and developing industry domain sales expertise; driving industry vertical and partner alliance business plans; developing thought leadership for the market and internal stakeholders; and engaging with senior customer executives to bring the right solutions to their strategic business issues. As part of his responsibilities, Paul has a lead APJ-wide role in working with customer executives to best leverage Symantec solutions in the Greening of IT.

Paul has more than 25 years experience in IT management and implementation. Throughout his career, he has successfully delivered major business benefits by leading and enabling change in areas including customer management, product development, distribution, operations, risk management, and IT applications and infrastructure. Paul’s IT experience spans core applications, infrastructure, IT security and compliance and overall IT management. He has also led significant business strategy, cost reduction, organisation change and business process reengineering projects. He has a proven track record in developing new markets and has worked extensively in Asia , Australia , the USA and the Middle East .

He joined Symantec from EMC where he was client solutions director in Australia and New Zealand . Previously he was Partner at PA Consulting Group where he headed the financial services consulting practice across APJ. Paul has also been Director of Financial Services for Ernst & Young, CIO for Saudi Cairo Bank, and Senior Manager for Price Waterhouse.

He holds a Masters in Business Administration from the State University of New York and a Bachelor of Arts from the City University of New York.

Paul Cooper, Industry Director, Public Sector and Cloud Computing Solutions SMS Management & Technology

Paul Cooper has an IT career of 25 years and over that period has lead or participated in a number of technology innovations for corporate and blue chip clients with the end user experience at the centre of his focus. Some highlights include leading the technical architecture effort for the first standard operating environment deployed within a major corporate in Australia. This deployment resulted in a standardised desktop, mail, applications suite and back-end mainframe environment being successfully implemented. Paul also developed an innovative Business Technology Plan for a major Victorian Government Department which resulted in a major standardised delivery environment being established.

More recently, Paul lead the establishment of the Emerging Business stream within his firm with a particular emphasis on the potential of cloud computing and social computing to improve work practices and reduce costs. Paul has a Ph.D in Biochemistry (Melb University) and a Grad Dip in Business (Org Change) from RMIT University. Paul has held a number of senior consulting and management positions with SMS and currently holds the position of Emerging Business Director and Health & Public Sector lead with SMS Management & Technology Ltd.

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 originally joined Intel as a design engineer on the Intel 486 DX4100 in 1992. Sean has lived in Australia for the last 10 years working for Intel, and is a proud holder of his Australian passport.

Jesco d’Alquen, CEO Tradeslot Pty Ltd

Jesco d’Alquen is the CEO of tradeslot Pty Ltd. Jesco has over 13 years of experience in Executive in-house roles and consulting (Accenture, Deloitte, General Motors, TRUenergy), delivering large scale strategy and technology projects in Europe, the US and Australia.

Tradeslot is a Melbourne based IT company working with Governments and companies in Australia and overseas. Tradeslot’s core expertise is in trading platforms that sell resources such as timber, water, gas, licenses and carbon permits. Tradeslot has recently been appointed to assist the Department of Climate Change in the design and simulation of the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme.

Tradeslot’s deep understanding of the Carbon Economy lead the way to the development of a carbon management and optimisation platform marketed as “CarbonNavigator.com.

Jesco’s angle on the Carbon Economy is to bring carbon into the mainstream of the business planning and forecasting process and to move from a footprinting focus to the question: “how can my organisation create competitive advantage”.

Jesco holds a Master of Business from the University of Passau (Germany) and a Master of Advanced European Studies from the University of Basel (Switzerland).

Tom Worthington, FACS, Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd, Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Australian National University

Tom Worthington is the designer of the Australian Computer Society's Green ICT course and founding chair of the ACS Green ICT Group. An IT consultant, he has been an expert witness in several court cases involving computer issues.

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.

In 1999 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his contribution to the development of public Internet policy.

He is a past president, Fellow 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.

Stasys (Stas) Lukaitis, Senior Lecturer, Business Information Technology, RMIT

Stasys Lukaitis (better known as Stas) has been an academic at RMIT Business for over 20 years and is still actively lecturing students and preparing them for the real world of 21st century ICT in the School of Business Information Technology. Stas' current teaching interests include Open Source environments, computer networking and enterprise information systems security.

He holds a degree in Computer Science from RMIT with major studies in Software Engineering, Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence.

Stas is pursuing a doctorate by research in the area of the alignment between the business and its IT function, trying to understand what makes business and its ICT function work for the benefit of the business, and occasionally not work so well.

He has been associated with the ACS as a volunteer for many years and for the last three has been active in facilitating the prestigious Australian Computer Society Foundation Scholarships for students undertaking their Work Integrated Learning year (cooperative education) at RMIT Business.

Stas has extensively consulted to industry during his academic career advising regional libraries (networking), credit unions (strategy and infrastructure), the Scouts Association of Australia (strategy and networking), gaming industry (security), stockbrokers (networking and infrastructure), computer manufacturers (operating systems testing and benchmarking), specialized hardware and operating systems acquisition to numerous companies (hardware and operating systems benchmarking), and several trade unions (information systems acquisitions and development) and some security audit training for the Auditor General’s Office.

Richard Hogg, MACS HLM, Consultant

Richard is a long serving member of the ACS. He is a past National President of the Society as well as a past Chairman of the Victorian Board.

Richard has many years as a Consultant and currently runs his own consulting practice. He is a skilled facilitator and will lead the symposium group toward achieving a consensus position on the subject.

Andrew Parbury, Director, Andrew Parbury and Associates

Andrew has worked in a range of roles, from operations through development to IT management and project management. More recently he has specialised in project management, project quality assurance and risk management. Andrew has experience in many industries, including insurance, banking, retail, utilities, mining, telecommunications, higher education and the public sector. He is currently involved in projects that focus on improving business processes. He believes passionately in the intelligent application of innovative technology initiatives to produce excellent business outcomes.

Andrew's membership of ACS goes back to 1968, and he joined the BEC in 2000. Andrew has served on the Professional Development sub-committee and the IT Quality SIG committee.

Andrew has a strong focus on improving the quality of project processes, particularly in project management. He has specialized in performing QA reviews for many projects, in the project team QA role, in performing project in flight reviews, in performing Post Implementation Reviews, and in rescuing troubled projects. He has run many project risk profiling workshops. He has developed a project quality review methodology, which provides an efficient and effective path to the health of a project, using Key Health Indicators.

Richard Durnall, Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks Australia

Richard Durnall spent his formative years working for Ford Motor Company in their Manufacturing and Supply Chain Systems division, working closely with a number of Lean experts to do battle with the mighty Toyota Corporation (he has the scars to prove it). Following 12 years in the IT industry for major corporations, he joined ThoughtWorks as a Principal Consultant and spends his time working with our global clients to apply and coach Lean principles to improve the software development process.

Brenda Aynsley, FACS, PCP, HLM, ACCE Associate Director Community Affairs Board, Australian Computer Society Immediate Past Chairman ACS SA Branch Director Oz Business Partners

Brenda is an active member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) serving as South Australian Branch Chair in 1999-2001 and 2005-2006 and as ACS National Vice President for 2002-03.

Brenda is passionate about the Internet as a medium of communication and its potential to add to the quality of life which should be enjoyed by all Australians. In 2000 she established the long running ACS PC Recycling Special Interest Group in South Australia to help bridge the Digital Divide by providing no cost/low cost computers donated by organisations and individuals, to those in the community who otherwise would not have access to one. This SIG is continuing today and distributes over 300 computers a year to the community and low income individuals around South Australia . She has presented at various Internet workshops and conferences, provided evidence to Senate Select Committee Hearings and served on the Australian Broadcasting Authority's 1998 Children and Content On-Line Task Force.

Brenda currently spends much of her time tutoring in the ACS CPe Program for ACS Education as well as running Oz Business Partners Pty Ltd. her consulting services company specialising in the use of the Internet for small businesses and education for the community through her company, She remains an active member of Computers in Education SA as well as being an associate of the Australian Council for Computers in Education.

Rob Gell, Rob Gell BSc (Hons) FRGS FEIANZ, World Wind Pty Ltd

Rob is a coastal geomorphologist by training; he taught Environmental Science and Physical Geography at Melbourne State College and Melbourne University, then for thirty years has presented television weather. In his professional life he works as an environmental and communications consultant and is a Director of World Wind Pty Ltd. He is also a published author and a photographer.

He is the national President of Greening Australia Limited, Chairman of the Mornington Peninsula and Westernport Biosphere Reserve Foundation Ltd. and a member of the Victorian Coastal Council. Rob is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an Inaugural Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand. He was Environment Ambassador to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Rob has been a local government councillor and was a councillor of the Australian Conservation Foundation for through the 1990s.

He is also the Patron of the Geography Teachers Association of Victoria, Wildlife Victoria, Life Education Victoria, a Mentor of the Environmental Jobs Network and has been made a Life Ambassador for Australia Day.

Rob Gell is a uniquely qualified individual who has the respect of government, business, environmental groups and the community for his approach to sustainable development. Importantly he is also an excellent communicator who can get the message across.

Dr Robert Argent, AWRIS Project Director, Water Division, The Bureau of Meteorology Vice-Chair, IFIP WG5.11, Computers and Environment

Robert has over twenty years international experience in water and natural resources research, teaching, design, consulting and project management. He has focussed throughout this period on interpretation and delivery of research outcomes, data and information into forms that meet the needs of end users, particularly in environmental model development and integration.

During 1990-2007 he worked at The University of Melbourne on projects including Port Phillip and Western Port catchment water quality, groundwater salinity in Western Australia, environmental flow metrics, bushfire recovery, the catchment modelling toolkit (toolkit.net.au), the E2 catchment modelling software system, and resources management modelling for over 20 catchments across Australia. In early 2008 Robert moved to the Bureau of Meteorology to lead development of the Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS). This world-first system will offer end-to-end coverage of Australia's key water data, from ingestion of data from over 250 suppliers across the country, through centralised data checking and augmentation, extensive analysis and reporting, and delivery of data and information through multiple means to meet a variety of end uses.

Keith Majoos, Director Migababa Pty Ltd

Keith is a self-employed consultant has worked in a variety of roles across the Systems Development Lifecycle over the last 30+ years. Keith is a skilled professional with core competencies in Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis, Project Management and Consulting. He is enthusiastic about Education and Training (or its newer incarnation: Learning and Development). As a sessional teacher, he taught Business Management and Psychology at Swinburne Tafe and University. More recently, Keith has taught Business Process Management, Requirements Gathering, and Analysis and Design courses in the object-oriented paradigm to local and interstate organizations.

He holds a BSc (Maths and Applied Maths), Diploma in Datametrics (Operations Research and Computer Science), M.B.A, Graduate Diploma in Psychology and has recently submitted his PhD Psychology.