Keynote Presentation: Digital Disruption & The Internet of Things: How can we innovate in WA? Presented by Tom Goerke, CISCO

We are seeing disruption in every business driven by Technology. As the cost to measure everything reduces, how does this impact some Western Australia's core businesses? This presentation will cover what Cisco, Woodside and Curtin are doing within the Cisco IoE Innovation Centre and explore some of the early examples of Digitisation.

About the Speaker:

Tom is the lead for Cisco in its alliance with Curtin University and Woodside for the Cisco IoE Innovation Centre Western Australia.  The centre is an alliance between Cisco, Curtin University and Woodside Petroleum focusing on developing innovative solutions in the areas of Astronomy, Agriculture, Resources and Energy and Smart Campus. 

Educated at Curtin University he has worked for global organisations including Inmarsat, ICO Global Communications and Cisco Systems both in the UK and Australia.  He holds multiple patents in the field of satellite communications. He has over 20 years of experience in ICT including both technical and commercial roles in mobile operators and network vendors.