Ron Addie received his BSc degree from Monash University in 1972 and completed his PhD at Monash University in the area of semi-Markov queues in 1986. From 1972 to 1992, he worked in Telecom Australia Research Laboratories where he was involved in the development of ATM, teletraffic, and network analysis and design.

In 1992 he moved to the University of Southern Queensland, where he is holds the position of Associate Professor.

David Airehrour is a PhD student at the Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. He received his BSc and MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Benin and the Bayero University, Nigeria respectively. His current research focuses on secure trust-based routing for Internet of Things, attacks mitigation in sensor networks and trusted routing for sensor networks. His other research interests include mobile computing, network security, wireless sensor networks, information processing and trust management.

Mostfa Mohsin Albdair was born January 1, 1974 in Thi-Qar, Iraq. He did his undergraduate work at College of Education for Pure Science / Ibn al-Haytham - University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq in 1996. After college he got a job as physics teacher in Yemen from 2001 to 2005. Then he came back to Iraq and worked as physics teacher between 2005 and 2008.  After that he received his master degree from Malaysia in 2010 in Information and communication Technology he began work on his Master of ICT in Mesan University, Iraq as assistant Director of Computer Center.

Matthew Allen is the incoming Head of School, Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, having previously been Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University. Matthew worked at Curtin University since 1994, establishing and sustaining a program of Internet research and education from 1999 onwards. Matthew is the author of various articles and papers on things Internet, as well as online learning, television, popular culture and Australian history, most recently focusing on Web 2.0 both as a social construct and as an opportunity for innovative teaching and learning.

National University of Mongolia

Tom is an ethnographer that specializes in researching digital media technologies. His previous writing has covered broadband policy, digital games, digital literacies and pedagogies, mobile media, and social inclusion. Tom is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he convenes the Masters degree in Public Relations and Advertising.

Jean Armstrong is a Professor at Monash University, Australia, where she leads a research group working on topics including optical wireless, radio frequency and optical fiber communications. She has published numerous papers including over seventy on aspects of OFDM for wireless and optical communications and has six commercialized patents. Jean Armstrong was born in Scotland and before emigrating to Australia worked as a Design Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Ltd., Scotland.

Gunela Astbrink has worked in disability and technology policy and research for 25 years both in Australia and internationally.

She led projects at the Telematics and Disability Centre of Telia (Swedish Telecom) and the European Union-funded project, COST 219 (Telecommunications: Access for Disabled and Elderly People) in the 1990's. Gunela was part of the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre's user-centred design group and led a project on multi-modal mobile devices.

Dr Greg Austin is the author of Cyber Policy in China (Polity 2014) and a recent article, “Managing Asymmetries in Chinese and American Cyber Power” (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, October 2014). He has published several books on China’s strategic policy and one book on the Russian armed forces. He is a Professorial Fellow with the EastWest Institute (New York/Brussels/Moscow), and has held posts in defence intelligence, diplomacy, academia and NGOs.

I am currently researching a Doctorate investigating the creation of Art using immersive Virtual Reality at the Auckland University of Technology. I undertook a Master’s degree in Digital Media Art at the University of Brighton in 2014. Previously I engaged in a career as an IT Professional for around 30 years and spent some years as a secondary school teacher. A photographer from the age of eleven I became fascinated in creating digital art pieces from photographs.

Dr. Joan Barata Mir is a Fellow at the Centre for Internet and Human Rights at European University Viadrina, in Germany.

Dr Renee Barnes is a senior lecturer and program co-ordinator for journalism at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. She is a member of the university’s research cluster Engage, which is concerned with researching and develop interactive technologies where users can become involved, informed and inspired to change their world. Her research interests are focused on the online news audience, alternative and independent news media and social media.

Dr Kevin Barrell is a technology strategist with the Alcatel-Lucent CTO Office for Oceania. He is a graduate of the University of Queensland (BE Elec, Hons), and the Australian National University (PhD) where his research centred on light propagation in optical fibre. Over a 35 year career in telecommunications, Kevin has held senior technical pre-sales, product management, solution development and program delivery positions for leading technology providers. Spanning the Asia region, these have included Telstra Research Labs, Honeywell-Bull, Nortel Networks and currently Alcatel-Lucent.

Arul Baskaran heads the Multiplatform Production department within ABC TV. Arul is responsible for ABC TV's vision, strategy and execution around four areas: Internet broadcasting; online content, development of new services, tools and applications, and social media and communities around ABC TV content.

Arul is responsible for ABC's industry leading iview on-demand internet television service as well as Australia's leading video podcasting service.

Andrew Bettison's quixotic career has led him to hand craft real-time sampling and sequencing software for computer musical instruments, fair-share the Unix kernels of American and Japanese supercomputers, synchronise digital audio with motion pictures, ride a Swedish dot-com through the Spanish and Portuguese economies, fuse tactical sonar, trace infra-red rays over tropical seas, deliver mobile phones to Spain's socially-networked teenagers, and mesh-network smart-phones during disasters. 

Amie Bingham is a socio-epidemiologist.

Thomas is a senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong interested in the interface between sustainable development and grassroots innovation. Before Wollongong he worked at the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University in the UK in a project which examined the past and future impacts of 3D printing on mobilities, travel and transport and involved futures scenario-building exercises with designers, engineers, consultants and policymakers.

Brett Bowden is Professor of History and Politics at Western Sydney University and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.

Philip Branch is an Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. Before joining Swinburne he was Development Manager of Interception Management Systems with Ericsson AsiaPacific Labs, responsible for the development of key interception systems sold by Ericsson worldwide. His research interests are in the broad area of distributed applications and the network architectures necessary to support them, which he investigates within the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA)

Michael Brealey is ABC TV's Head of Strategy and Governance. Michael is responsible for managing ABC TV's industry policy engagement on issues as diverse as spectrum scarcity, local screen content policy frameworks and accessibility to ABC TV services. Michael also manages ABC TV's classification and editorial policy advice.

Paul Budde is the CEO of BuddeComm, an independent research and consultancy company, focusing on the telecommunications market and its role within the digital economy. The research offered by BuddeComm's worldwide network of senior analysts encompasses 190 countries, 500 companies and 200 discrete technologies and applications.

Michelle Caldwell is the Research Project Coordinator of the 1 in 4 Poll (a national online survey designed for people with a disability) within the School of Psychology. A member of the steering committee, comprising Deakin University and Scope (Vic) Ltd staff, Michelle is responsible for coordinating activities relating to this project. Scope (Vic) Ltd is a partner with Deakin University on this project.

Dr Robert Campain is a Research Fellow with Scope (a disability services provider in Victoria, Australia) and an Honorary Research Fellow with Deakin University. He holds a doctoral degree in sociology. He has conducted research into a number of areas related to disability, particularly in relation to the social inclusion of people with disability, person centred approaches, and outcomes measurement for people with disability and their families as a result of service provision.

Ian was a senior manager in Telecom from 1975 to 1991 and in the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (AOTC), later Telstra, from 1992 until retirement in 1994.

Kate Carruthers'  current role is Manager of Data Governance and Business Intelligence for UNSW Australia.  She is a business leader who has delivered strategic IT, marketing, web and e-commerce solutions for diverse organisations across the private sector and government. She is deeply involved with social media and the digital revolution.  

She has worked in senior executive roles with a broad range of organisations including – UNSW Australia, Westfield Ltd (Scentre Group), NSW State Treasury, General Electric, AMP Limited, and Citibank. 

Chris Chaplow is the founder and Managing Director of andalucia.com, a tourism portal for Southern Spain, with 400,000 visitors a month.

Chris was awarded an honours degree in Civil Engineering at Kings College, London. In 1993 he created the first digitized database of Spanish images capable of being transmitted to the worldwide media.

Andalucia.com was founded in 1996, and in 2008 was awarded the inaugural “Costa del Sol - Business of the Year” by the Junta de Andalucia (regional government).

Dong Chen received his MPhil in Computer Networks from the School of Computer Science and Technique, Jilin University, China, in 2011. Since late 2011, he has been enrolled as a Ph.D candidate in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Newcastle, Australia. Currently he is working on the heterogeneous network architecture for M2M Communications and IoT Systems. His research interest includes wireless sensor networks, wireless local area networks, smart grid communication and the Internet of Things (IoT).​

Dr Peng Cheng received the B.S. and M.S degrees with great honors in communication and information systems from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2006 and 2009 and the Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2012. From August 2011 to August 2012, he was a Visiting Student with CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia, where he is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His current research interests include cooperative communications, network MIMO, OFDM and compressive sensing theory.

Dr. Suelynn Choy completed her PhD in 2009 in the area of GPS Precise Point Positioning (PPP) at RMIT University, Australia. Since then, she works as a full-time academic staff in the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at RMIT University. She teaches land surveying, geodesy, and GNSS navigation to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her current research interests are in the areas of multi-GNSS PPP and using GNSS for atmospheric and ground remote sensing.

Ken has 25 years’ experience in broadband networks and applications, as well as telecoms technology from high-level R&D, through product commercialisation, to expert advice for field deployments. Much of this experience was gained from 1990-2005 when he worked at Telstra’s Research Laboratories in a wide variety of roles. He has authored over 30 journal articles and conference papers, including several invited ones.

Margie Comrie is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. A former newspaper reporter and radio current affairs producer, she has taught public relations and journalism studies since 1990. She is a Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of NZ and her research interests include news media, political journalism and health communication.

Stuart Corner is one of Australia's most experienced writers and commentators on telecommunications. He started his career in journalism in 1984 with IDG working on Computerworld Australia, and in 1986 co-founded C&C News Pty Ltd which launched Australia's first weekly newsletter on telecommunications and Australian Communications as a full colour monthly magazine.

For more than 20 years he wrote and published the weekly, and later daily, newsletter Exchange. He is now a freelance writer covering all aspects of the telecommunications industry.

John Costa (MIEAust) is Principal of John Costa & Associates, advising Australian and overseas clients on international telecommunication regulatory issues. He is also engaged in network technology and multimedia consulting, sometimes pro-bono to needy non-commercial organisations.

Andrew Crouch is a Senior Research and Projects Officer, specialising in remote area telecommunications.  His research interests include access to and usage of Information and Communications Technologies by residents of remote Australian Indigenous communities.  He has recently contributed to the development of telecommunications policies for the Broadband for the Bush Alliance.

Professor Cummins holds a Personal Chair in Psychology at Deakin University. He is an active researcher and supervises higher degree students.

Xuan Thu Dang was involved in the ambient orb project in 2010 that explored using ambient technology to create a presence in the classroom for hospitalised children. Prior to that, he worked as a lecturer of interpreting and translation at Hanoi University, Vietnam. Thu is currently a doctoral (Ed.D) student at La Trobe University, undertaking research on the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in language teaching in Vietnam. His research interests include technologies in teaching, learning and research, e-learning and mobile learning.

Dr. Stan Davies has professional engineering experience in Rural Lines Divisions and in the Transmission and Advanced Technology Branches of the Telstra Research Laboratories of Telstra (formerly Telecom Australia; formerly the Post Master General’s Department).  His latter research experience included antennas and propagation, optical fibre transmission, microwave radio and cellular mobile radio systems, electromagnetic compatibility and broadband digital subscriber line systems.

Jan de Nijs is Senior Consultant at TNO in the Netherlands (since 2003), with a specialization in fixed broadband networks (fiber, DSL and coax), network roll out strategies and network regulatory policies such as third party access.

Dr Melissa de Zwart is an Associate Professor, Adelaide Law School, and a Member of the Classification Review Board (Cth). She has published widely on matters affecting the regulation of the online environment, including copyright, virtual worlds, social networking and contractual communities. Her current projects include a book examining the consequences of the WikiLeaks experience for the future of online communication and a multidisciplinary project considering governance of virtual worlds.

Paul Peng Deng is an experienced and enthusiastic sensor network application developer. Paul is interested in developing hardware and software for ambient technologies and has previously been employed as a research assistant at the Department of Computing and Information Systems.

Phil Dobbie is a journalist, podcaster and marketer. His CrossTalk and Twisted Wire podcasts provided commentary on the telecoms industry for seven years and he has presented almost 1,000 business podcasts for CBS. He is a former head of marketing at OzEmail, Engin, COMindico, worked online at Telstra, ran an ad agency for several years and headed the Australian office of the British Tourist Authority. These days he switches between journalism and creating online content for corporations. You can find out more about him here.

Wendy Doube is a lecturer in the Digital Media department at Swinburne University. Her research covers the intersection of cognition, motivation and multimedia.

Dr. El-Moghazi is the spectrum management research and studies director at the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt. He was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship to join the Master of Communications Management (MCM) program at the University of Strathclyde. He has also obtained his PhD degree from the University of Strathclyde on the interaction between international spectrum regime and national spectrum management policies.Throughout his career at NTRA, Dr.

Edouard Estaunié is Writer-in-Residence at the West Melbourne Institute.

Dr Scott Ewing is a Senior Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology’s Institute for Social Research. He has more than twenty years’ experience as a social researcher, both at Swinburne and in the private sector.  He is currently managing the Australian component of the World Internet Project, a global survey of internet use and non-use. Scott has considerable expertise in information policy, the social impact of new technologies, the use of quantitative data and economic evaluation.

David Fatseas was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1963.

Liz Fell is a freelance communications journalist, whose coverage of the telecommunications industry began in 1982 with contributions to Communications Australia and weekly broadcasts for ABC Radio Australia and ABC Radio National. She became a contributing editor of International Communications Digest, Communications Update and Hub, and a regular contributor of keynote interviews to Australian Communications and CommsWorld.

Richard works as a Research Data Analyst, at Australian National Data Service (ANDS), a joint project led by Monash University, with Australian National University and CSIRO. ANDS, a $100M NCRIS innovation project, encourages Universities to manage, share, reuse and add value to data. Richard also separately pursues Innovation and Value research, as ANDS funding precludes research. Richard has a particular interest in broadband and telecommunications as an area of significant innovation and value creation.

Allan Forbes is, or was, an Electronic and Software Engineer with a BTech (Electronic Engineering), awarded in 1964 by the SA Institute of Technology. He started work at the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury SA, in 1964, and retired from DSTO Salisbury  - same place, different name - at the end of 1999..

Heather Forrest is a Senior Lecturer and the Associate Dean, Learning & Teaching in the Law Faculty of the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. She has lived, studied and worked in the United States, England, France, Switzerland and Australia. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association and is licensed to practise law by the State of New York, USA. Heather is proficient in English and French and has basic Swedish and Spanish language skills.

Julie Freeman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Canberra, Australia. Julie received her PhD from Monash University in 2011 for a thesis entitled ‘Local E-Government: Politics and Civic Participation’. Her research focuses on local e-government, citizen engagement, political representation, digital democracy, and the policy contexts of e-government.

Dr Hartmut Fünfgeld is a Senior Lecturer and research program leader in the Centre for Urban Research, based in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne. His research focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of local and regional climate change responses, including how organisations can adapt to climate change impacts through long-term planning. Hartmut has over ten years of experience in working on climate change, sustainability and local governance issues with the public sector and communities in Australia, Europe, Africa and Asia.

National Research Council CNR, Italy

Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (with a cross appointment in the Department of Economics). Prior to 2011, he was the foundation Professor of Management (Information Economics) at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne and prior to that he was at the School of Economics, University of New South Wales. In 2011, Joshua was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research (New England). Joshua holds a Ph.D.

Dr Gardner-Stephen is the founder of the Serval Project, where he is creating open-source software for mobile phones that allows them to communicate without reliance on infrastructure, and he is also a Shuttleworth Telecomunications Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science & Engineering at Flinders University.

Thesis Title

Wellness Sensors Networks: A Proposal and Implementation

Dr. Rowan Gilmore is CEO of EM Solutions Pty Ltd, an Australian designer and manufacturer of advanced microwave components, systems and terminals used for satellite and wireless broadband communications networks.

Marianne Gloet is a Research Fellow in the Department of Management and Marketing and also conducts research through the Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society at the University of Melbourne. Marianne also consults widely to a range of private and public organisations both in Australia and abroad.

Gerard Goggin is ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Media and Communications, the University of Sydney. He has longstanding interests in disability and digital technology, social and cultural aspects of Internet and mobile media, and telecommunications and media policy. 

Emma completed an honours degree in speech pathology in the area of Augmentative and Alternative Communication. She is a Senior Speech Pathologist at Novita Children's Services working with children with physical disabilities, complex communication needs and dysphagia. She has been actively involved in a range of research projects and activities conducted at Novita as Research Officer and Clinical Research Senior.

Viktor Grechyn is PhD candidate at RMIT University’s Center for Urban Research and makes research on evaluating of free public Wi-Fi infrastructure. His research interest also covers economics of Internet, shared use of community infrastructure, pricing, economic history, innovative economics, game theory, economic psychology.

Dr. Louise Greenstock is a health workforce researcher exploring the sustainability of the health workforce and health system.

Mark A Gregory is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.  He was born in Melbourne, Australia and received a PhD and a Master of Engineering from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in 2008 and 1992 respectively, and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 1984. 

Dr. Sonia Gul is a Lecturer at Cornell Institute of Technology, Auckland. She is also a member of Network and Security Research Group (NSRG), Auckland University of Technology. Her research focuses on Wireless Networks, Telecommunications, Emergency/Disaster Communications and ICT.  Sonia is also involved in Program Development for Tertiary Education (Computing). She has published a number of refereed articles in reputable journals and conferences.

Jairo A. Gutiérrez is Deputy Head of the School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.  He was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking (2004–2008) and received a Systems and Computing Engineering degree from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Auckland.

André Gygax is on the faculty in Finance at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on corporate finance, financial markets, and network analysis. He has been a visiting research scholar with the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria), the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany), the University of Colorado (USA), and the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).

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Professor John Handmer leads RMIT University’s Risk and Community Safety research group, and is Deputy Head of the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences.  He is a member of the Australian National Flood Risk Advisory Group, and the national committee revising the Australian Emergency Risk Assessment Guide.  He has undertaken research on warning systems and risk communication in Australia and Europe.  He co-authored the first two editions of the Australian Flood Warning Guide, and retained by the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission to provide advice on warning

Richard has more than 25 years' professional experience in product design, project management and system engineering in the telecommunications and intelligent transport sector. Starting his professional career in 1985 in the Aviation, Defence and Maritime sectors with the Commnwealth Government, he moved on to a period of major ITS project delivery with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority and APP during the 1990’s.

Wayne Hawkins joined ACCAN in 2010 as Disability Policy Advisor, and has led ACCAN’s work on telecommunications access for consumers with disability, telecommunications affordability and emergency services. Prior to joining ACCAN Wayne was National Policy officer with Blind Citizens Australia. Wayne is a doctoral candidate at Sydney University researching Australian telecommunications and disability policies.

Beverley Head began writing about the business of technology in London in 1983 for a range of magazines before moving to Australia in 1986 to work on Computerworld Australia. In 1987 Beverley moved to the Australian Financial Review where she was the IT editor for a decade, taking the once weekly section daily before becoming the newspaper’s features editor. 

Dr Marion Hersh is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Scotland. She has over 160 research publications. Particular projects include user-centred design of assistive technology, subtitles for deaf people, assistive travel technology and modelling the spatial representations of blind people, communication devices for deafblind people, inclusive learning technologies, including educational games.

Professor Doan B. Hoang is a Professor in the School of Computing and Communications, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Before joining UTS, he was an academic staff at University of Sydney’s Basser Department of Computer Science. He held various visiting positions: Visiting Professorships at the University of California, Berkeley; Nortel Networks Technology Centre in Santa Clara, USA; the University of Waterloo, Canada, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Peter Hormann has been a professional engineer for more than 25 years. He is currently an Environment Engineer within NBN's Environment and Sustainability team and focused on network energy efficiency, carbon emissions, renewable energy and climate change resiliency. He is also an Honorary Enterprise Fellow at the Melbourne Networked Society Institute (MNSI) at the University of Melbourne, and a Director and Victorian Chapter Chair at the TelSoc. 

Associate Professor Heather Horst is a Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. An anthropologist by training, Heather’s research focuses upon understanding how digital media, technology and other forms of material culture mediate relationships, communication, learning, mobility and our sense of being human. See more at: http://heatherhorst.com/about/#sthash.duf84ELe.dpuf

Zbigniew Hulicki  received the M.S. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Technical University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 1983. In 1978, he joined the Telecommunications Department at the AGH University, where he is currently an Assoc. Professor. He spent his sabbatical leaves at the universities in Australia, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy the Netherlands and in Switzerland.

Justine Humphry is a Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis at the University of Western Sydney.  She was previously a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Digital Cultures Program in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Sydney. She has taught media and communications, cultural studies and sociology of media and researches and writes about mobile media and digital inclusion, digital service reform, new media discourse and mediated professional cultures.

CHIH LIN I is China Mobile’s chief scientist of wireless technologies in charge of advanced wireless communication R&D efforts of the China Mobile Research Institute. She established the Green Communications Research Center of China Mobile, spearheading major initiatives including 5G key technologies R&D; high energy efficiency system architecture, technologies, and devices; green energy; and C-RAN and soft base stations. She was an elected Board Member of IEEE ComSoc, Chair of the ComSoc Meetings and Conferences Board, and Founding Chair of the IEEE WCNC Steering Committee.

Dr. James Irvine is a Reader at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he leads the Mobile Communications Group. Currently working on security for IoT applications, his recent projects have included secure peer to peer storage on mobile networks, and detecting social networks through mobile phones. A past President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, he was a Vice Chair of WG1 of the Wireless World Research Forum for 5 years, and is currently on the Steering Committee of the IEEE 5G Initiative. He is a co-author of two text books, 7 patents, and over 150 research papers.

Bob James is a graduate of Adelaide University – BE and BSc. He is an independent consultant who has worked at senior levels in the communications industry in Australia, Asia and Europe. He was Director of Product Technology and Group General Manager Strategic Development in Telstra and more recently worked for Nokia Siemens Networks as a Principal Consultant.

Visiting Scholar at Massey University.

Noelle Jones, Principal Consultant at Network Strategies Limited, is a telecommunications expert with wide experience of regulatory and policy analysis and research. With over 25 years of experience in the industry, Noelle has an extensive track record in applying analytical and problem solving skills to a wide range of different markets in the Asia-Pacific region and in Europe. Prior to becoming a consultant she held a number of senior positions with Telstra and its predecessor, Telecom Australia.

Kautsarina is a member of the Indonesian Researcher Association and a government researcher at the Agency of Human Resources and Research Development, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Republics of Indonesia. Her background study is informatics engineering and information technology management. She is involved in developing policy research and ICT master plan. Her current research is about information technology, telecommunication and information security management. She also works as an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor for public institution since 2011.

Jenny Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT. She is a member of the Technology, Communication and Policy Lab (http://digital-ethnography.com/portfolio-posts/technology-communications-policy-lab/). Jenny’s current research interests span social media, technology and the everyday, ebook lending, and the domain names industry.

Dr Jamil Y. Khan received his Ph.D in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in 1991. Since his Ph.D he has worked as an academic in UK, NZ and Australia. He is currently an Associate Professor and research leader of the Telecommunications Network group in the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at The University of Newcastle, Australia. His main research interests are in the areas of Wireless Networks, Sensor Networks, Smart Grid Communications, M2M Communications,  Internet of Things and Low Power Communication Networks.

Gwangjae Kim (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor in the Department of Advertising & Media at Hanyang Cyber University, South Korea. He earned Ph.D. at Sogang University, South Korea. Before Ph.D., He had worked as a reporter at Kwangju Daily Newspaper and as a researcher at Sophia University in Japan.

Dr Naohiko Kohtake is an associate professor and current director of Smart System Design Laboratory at Keio University, Japan where he is responsible for space system engineering and intelligent systems. He has worked in research and development on avionics systems for the H-IIA rocket at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, ubiquitous computing systems at Keio University, and on-board software at European Space Agency.

Tegan Kop has been a part of the Digital Inclusion team at Infoxchange for the past 4 years. She has a passion for social justice, which evidenced in her work for Infoxchange and her further studies. Tegan is currently completing her Honours year with a specialization in digital inclusion and equality at Swinburne University. She is interested in digital literacy and how it is constructed and addressed in government policy and legislation. 

Simon Lake is Chief Executive of Screenrights, a non-profit company that distributes royalties to filmmakers for educational copying, retransmission, and government copying.   Simon is on the board of the Australian Copyright Council and Enhance TV Pty Ltd.  Simon is on the board of the international collecting society AGICOA based in Geneva.

Alex Lambert is a research fellow at the Public Cultures Research Unit, based at the University of Melbourne. Alex specialises in digital ethnography and the study of social and mobile media. He is also interested in critiquing media discourses which involve social capital, intimacy, and psychological well-being. Recently his research into the relationship between Facebook and cultural constructions of intimacy was published by Pelgrave MacMillan as a monograph entitled Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook.

Bob Larribeau specialises in market analysis and consulting in wireless and wireline broadband markets and technologies with a strong emphasis on telco entertainment including TelcoTV, Mobile TV, and Internet TV. 

He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Christopher Leckie received the BSc degree in 1985, the BE degree in electrical and computer systems engineering (with first class honors) in 1987, and the PhD degree in computer Science in 1992, all from Monash University, Australia. He joined Telstra Research Laboratories in 1988, where he conducted research and development into artificial intelligence techniques for various telecommunication applications. In 2000, he joined the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computing and Information Systems.

Kursten is General Manager of Strategy & Government Affairs at Ericsson Australia & New Zealand.  He has over 14 years experience in the telecoms industry, including marketing and strategy, providing an extremely strong basis for advising operators on relevant strategic, technology and commercial aspects of their business.

Dr Linda Leung is an Associate Professor in the School of Software, Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology Sydney. Her research is centred on how technology is appropriated and used by minority groups. Her first book, 'Virtual Ethnicity: Race, Resistance & the World Wide Web' (2005) was published by Ashgate. She oversees postgraduate courses in Interactive Multimedia, and teaches in the areas of digital experience design and user experience.

Kelvin is the CEO of OAK Telecom, which he founded in 2000.

Rohan MacMahon joined CFH as Strategy Director in 2010, and was previously General Manager of Planning for Telstra's Enterprise and Government division in Australia.

Helen Marshall is  a senior associate at the Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT specialising in the  use of NVivosoftware for analysing qualitative data.

Alana Maurushat is Acting Academic Director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, sessional lecturer, and PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law at UNSW. She was Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the LLM in Information Technology and Intellectual Property at HK Faculty of Law. She teaches Advanced Legal Research. Her current research is focused on technical, ethical and legal dimensions of computer Malware, building on past research projects on the impact of surveillance technologies on free expression and privacy.

Associate Professor Michael Mccullough is an Oral Medicine Specialist and has a broad and diverse clinical experience in Dentistry, both as a clinician and an educator. Since commencing at the University of Melbourne, Michael has been increasing involved in teaching and learning. He is currently the Director of Teaching and Learning within the School, the Chair of the Faculties Working Group on e-Learning as well as a member of the Inter-professional Education and Practice Committee.

Jane McGillivray is an Associate Professor at Deakin University and a registered clinical psychologist who has extensive research, clinical, consultancy and teaching experience in the areas of clinical and health psychology, intellectual and developmental disability. She is the Course Chair of the Doctor of Psychology (Clinical), lectures and supervises higher degree students and is an active researcher.

Gary McLaren has over 25 years experience in the telecommunications industry. After senior roles at both Telstra and Siemens in the 1990s, Gary joined RequestDSL, Australia’s first DSL unbundled local loop carrier in 2000. In 2004, RequestDSL was merged with PowerTel by their common venture capital owner Telecom Venture Group. From 2005 to 2007, Gary provided management consulting services to AAPT and developed a startup business within AAPT called IProvide which focused on building AAPT’s SME business.

Scott McQuire  has a strong interest in interdisciplinary research and has lectured in disciplines including politics, sociology, cinema studies, art and architecture, and media and communication.  His research explores the social effects of media technologies, with particular attention to their impact on the social relations of space and time, and the formation of identity. His most recent book, The Media City (2008) traces the way in which cities have become increasingly media-dense environments, transforming previous conceptions of public and private space.

Antonette Mendoza is an associate lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems. Her main research interests are in the area of process modelling, development and implementation of emerging ICT that support adoption, adaptation and longer-term use, termed as technology appropriation.

Professor Mike Miller 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 (ITR).

He is Professor Emeritus at UniSA, and serves on several government advisory bodies and is a Director of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Megan is a lecturer in the area of Disability in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University. She teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Megan has actively been involved in a variety of research areas including acquired brain injury, substance abuse and offending behaviour among people with disabilities, intergeneration program evaluation, and the link between human health and the ecology.

Roberto Morales is an economist by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). He worked as an intern for the research center (Centro de Estudios) of the Mexican telecommunications regulator (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones). His bachelor thesis addresses the constitutional reform in telecommunications in Mexico and quantifies its benefits for society. His research interest include finance, monetary policy and strategical planning.

Robert Morsillo is a Research Fellow at Swinburne University focussing on the CCI-funded Broadband Services 2015 project. He has a background in electrical engineering, computer science, theology, community development, public policy, communications and consumer affairs. He is particularly interested in the role of technology in encouraging a sense of connectedness, and in encouraging user innovation within the communications industry.

Dr. Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay (M'97, SM'02, F'11) graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India with a Gold medal and received the Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He has PhD (Eng.) degree from Jadavpur University, India and Doctor of Engineering degree from Kanazawa University, Japan.

Dr. Lucio Naccarella is a health workforce researcher exploring the sustainability of the health workforce and health system.

Kayne Naughton is a technologist and security researcher with 15 years' experience across the education, government and finance industries. Since 2013 he has been running Asymmetric Security, focused on making security easier for the good guys and more difficult for computer criminals. He also recently co-founded Cosive, a threat management company. Kayne is a volunteer with the Shadowserver Foundation, a US based non-profit dedicated to keeping the internet safe.

Lareen is a Senior Researcher in the Southgate Institute for Health Society & Equity at Flinders University – a national centre for research on the social determinants of health. She is a social geographer whose work is increasingly focusing on the digital divide impacts on public access to services, particularly for disadvantaged and marginalised groups. Since 2008 she has led a range of research for the SA Government's Health In All Policies program. Lareen previously worked for the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Uniting Care Wesley.

Sarah Newton is currently the Deputy Dean – External Relations for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. In this role she has the responsibility for the strategic management of Industry, Government, Philanthropic relationships on behalf of the Faculty. Prior to this Sarah worked as:

Professor Ampalavanapillai (Thas) Nirmalathas is currently the Head of Department of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also the Director of Melbourne Engineering Research Institute (MERIT) which brings the entire research activity of the Melbourne School of Engineering under one research institute. He also leads and directs the Melbourne Accelerator Program at the University of Melbourne aimed at promoting entrepreneurship on campus.

Dr Jessica Noske-Turner is a Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT University, with research interests in media, communication, development and social change. She recently completed her PhD at Queensland University of Technology. She is now involved in research projects focusing on communication for development projects in the Pacific region, and evaluation of communication for development within UNICEF.

Ms. Nulty has recently retired as Controller and Chief Administrative Officer (but remains a member of the Board) of ValleyNet, Inc., in association with the ECFiber project (see above).  With Timothy Nulty, Ms. Nulty played a major role in the development and implementation of that project since its inception.  Prior to joining ValleyNet., Inc.

Seán O'Halloran is the President and Managing Director of Alcatel-Lucent in Australia. Seán has been with Alcatel Lucent since mid-2007 and was appointed as President and Managing-Director for Australia in late 2011. He is responsible for Alcatel-Lucent's strategy and company operations across the Australian market.

Prior to taking on his current role, Seán was Executive Director and Vice-President of the NBN Division. He also held the role of Vice-President, Enterprise for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

Farzaneh Pakzad is a PhD student at the School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Farzaneh has an MSc degree in Computer Engineering from the Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.

Her main research interests include wireless networks, Software Defined Networks and Network Security.

Debra Panizzon is an Associate Professor at Monash University with specialisations in biology and general science education. In prior positions she coordinated a number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) projects (research and consultancies) involving collaborations with government departments and various types of industry in South Australia. With a substantive background in secondary science education she brings valuable classroom and research expertise to her role of project director for NVSES.

Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki writes: I joined Unitec's Department of Communication Studies in 2006 when I first came to New Zealand after several years working in developing countries as a communication and development specialist.

Dr. Eun-A Park is currently Affiliated Faculty at the Institute for Information Policy at Pennsylvania State University.  Since 2008, Dr. Park was working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Film and Media Studies at the University of New Haven. In July 2016, she was promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure.

Katerina Pavlidis joined the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) as a Grants and Research Assistant in October 2012 after completing her honours thesis in sociology at the University of Technology, Sydney. Katerina has previously interned at the Parliament of NSW, the NSW Native Title Services Corporation and the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Advokat Lars Perhard is a partner in the Swedish law firm Wersén & Partners. He specialises increasingly in commercial arbitration and litigation as well as in IT/ITC/IP related matters. Since the early eighties he has devoted considerable time to legal issues related to IT/ITC/IP and he is considered to be a specialist in the field. He assists players on both sides, i.e. both customers and suppliers.

Marta Poblet is an Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor's Senior Researcher at RMIT University. She is one of the co-founders of the Institute of Law and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and past researcher at ICREA (Catalonia). She holds a Juris Doctorate from the Stanford University (2002) and a Master degree in International Legal Studies (Stanford Law School, 2000).

Jason Potts is Professor of Economics at RMIT University. He writes on issues of economic evolution, technological and institutional change, and innovation policy

He is an evolutionary economist, specialising in the economics of innovation and growth through technological and institutional change. He has developed the analytic basis for the use of complex systems theory and population dynamics in modelling evolutionary economic processes. His current work focuses on the economics of creativity.

Dr Clemens Pratt, educated at Brisbane State High School, the University of Queensland and the University of London, had a 38 year career with the PMG Department/Telecom Australia/Telstra, initially specialising in telephone traffic engineering, and later working in information systems planning and development, network operations, total quality management, and network planning.

Onny Rafizan is a junior Researcher from the Agency of Human Resources and Research Development, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Republics of Indonesia. His background study is Information System.  He earned his bachelor degree since 2010 from Swiss German University, faculty of Information Technology, majoring in Information System.

Holly Raiche is adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Law, UNSW and teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in the areas of telecommunications and broadcasting law. She is a Research Fellow at the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the University of NSW, and a Research Associate at the Communications Law Centre.

Alex Reid provides input into AARNet’s eResearch program as Advisor, eResearch and Middleware, which he undertakes on a part-time basis. He has had over 50 years’ experience in the IT industry, 45 in Higher Education, where most recently he was IT Director, at the University of WA and previously at Oxford University, UK.

David Rogerson is a founding Director of Incyte Consulting, based in Scotland. 

Warwick Rothnie practises as a barrister in all aspects of intellectual property, having previously been a partner in the intellectual property and telecommunications group of Mallesons Stephen Jaques. He is a contributing author to Lahore, Lindgren and Rothnie, Copyright & Designs and, the author of, amongst other things, Parallel Imports (Sweet & Maxwell, 1993). He is a UDRP panellist for WIPO and a member of the Law Council of Australia's Intellectual Property Committee.

Mandy Salomon is a senior researcher at Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre. She is currently doing her PhD on the optimisation of immersive digital environments for people with dementia

Dr Eunice Sari is a Lecturer and Researcher in E-learning and M-learning

Dr. Ashwin Sasongko Sastrosubroto is a senior researcher with ‘Pusat Penelitian Informatika – Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia’, Information Technology Research Center - The Indonesian Institute of Sciences. The center is a Government Research Center located in Bandung. He also serves as a member of ‘Dewan TIK Nasional’, The Indonesian National ICT Council (ICT – Information and Communication Technology).

A/Professor Sheila Scutter is an adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences at the University of South Australia, and also holds an adjunct position in School of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University. Her qualifications include a PhD (Science), Master of Educational Studies, Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy (Hons 1) and Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy).

Ahmad Budi Setiawan is ICT Resercher from The Center of R&D of Informatics Application, R&D Agency, Ministry of ICT Indonesia, with a background in Information System. He is now vice chairman of Indonesian Researcher Union Chapter Ministry of ICT, Indonesia. He pursued his postgraduate study in Master of Information Technology from University of Indonesia. His research interests are information security standard and compliance, critical information infrastructure protection and IT Governance

Graham is a telecommunications and internet specialist with a focus on strategy and innovation. He has started a number of successful businesses and identified and developed business opportunities and continuous innovation processes mostly for large corporations.  

He has held senior management positions in several international companies and has worked in the USA, UK and Asia. 

He is a director of TelSoc and developed and maintains its website.

He holds a BE (Elec) with First Class Honours from the University of Adelaide.

Vijay Sivaraman received his B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India, in 1994, his M.S. from North Carolina State University in 1996, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2000. He has worked at Bell-Labs as a student Fellow, in a silicon valley start-up manufacturing optical switch-routers, and as a Senior Research Engineer at the CSIRO in Australia. He is now an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Golnoush Soroush is a PhD candidate in Management, Production and Design at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her general field of research is regulation of infrastructure industries with a focus on telecommunications as well as electricity sector. Her current research activities mostly cover energy economics and grid tariff design.

Paul Stathis is the CEO of BICSI South Pacific, an industry association promoting best practice amongst ICT infrastructure professionals.

Paul has been involved in the communications, ICT infrastructure and building services industries for over 30 years, in a variety of roles that include design and project management at consulting engineering firms; sales, marketing and product development in cabling manufacturing firms and fire service providers; and as an editor for a publishing company.

Rene Sugo is the CEO and co-founder of MNF Group (ASX:MNF), an integrated telecommunications software and network provider, specialising in IP voice communications. Rene also sits on the Group’s Board of Directors. Rene’s wealth of industry experience is evident in the MNF Group’s successful navigation of the telecommunications landscape.

PhD Candidate, Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne

Professor Jo Tacchi is Director of Research and Innovation and Deputy to the President of RMIT Europe in Barcelona. She is trained as a social anthropologist and researches media, communication, development and social change, the senses and emotions, and everyday digital life. She has led a number of multi country projects with partners such as UNESCO, UNICEF, Intel and KPMG. She has worked mostly in South Asia. Her most recent book is Evaluating Communication for Development: A Framework for Social Change (2013), Routledge.

Matt Tett has been the consummate entrepreneur from an early age.

He has a deep technical background in ICT networking and security, and combines this with decades in high-level management and global business development.

Matt is a founding member of Enex TestLab, and its Managing Director. He is responsible for establishing and overseeing all eight operational divisions across a number of international locations.

Rachel is the Policy officer for Australian Communications Consumer Action Network focusing on communications and broadband policy analysis and consumer advocacy.

Dr Gil Tidhar has over 20 years of experience in research, development, and commercialisation, of advanced software technology. Gil is a Founder and Director at SeeCare. SeeCare's charter is the development of new software and services solutions that provide social benefit. This includes the development of Consumer-led Care and Support Coordination web sites (http://www.seecare.net.au).

Rod Tucker is Laureate Emeritus Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has previously held positions at the University of Queensland, the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, Plessey Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and Agilent Technologies.

Associate Professor Frank Vetere is Deputy Head (Research) in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne and leads the Interaction Design research lab. His research contributes to the design and understanding of information and communication technologies for wellbeing.

Peter Walton became Chief Executive Officer of Infoxchange in February 2012. He has over twenty years international experience working in multi-sector community development in both not-for-profit organisations and the private sector. During his career he has undertaken assignments in over 30 countries, including being based for seven years in Hanoi, Vietnam where he managed social and economic development operations across the Mekong region for ChildFund Australia.

Dr Craig Watkins has a Telecommunications Engineering R&D background forged at AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, Motorola Corporate Research, Schaumburg, and Voxware Inc., Princeton. He has lectured in engineering communication systems at the ANU and has exposure to the Australian start-up environment through an electric vehicle enterprise, in addition to involvement in the US start-up industry through Voxware (an early VoIP and internet audio-streaming company). He holds several patents and has contributed to a number of international standards.

Kimberlee Weatherall is an Associate Professor at the Sydney Law School. Prior to joining the School in 2012, Kimberlee held positions at the University of Queensland, the University of Melbourne and the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia. Kimberlee teaches and researches in 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.

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Brendon Wickham is an eHealth program analyst.

Dr Erin Wilson is a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University where she co-ordinates the major pathway in disability within the Bachelor of Health Sciences. She holds a doctoral degree in Social Work in the field of community development. Her current research in disability focuses on outcomes measurement, inclusive practice and human rights in both Australian and developing country contexts. She has previously undertaken research in the area of effective policy in regard to Assistive Technology provision.

Professor John Wilson is a respected clinical leader in the Australian health sector and champion for the application of technology to enable effective delivery of health services. He qualified BSc(Hons) with a focus on IT before completing his medical training. John is currently Head of the Cystic Fibrosis service at Alfred Health Melbourne, Chair of the College Education Committee, Royal Australian College of Physicians (RACP) and an RACP Board member.

Elaine Wong received her Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Melbourne, Australia, in December 2002. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on the topic of collision avoidance in all-optical WDM packet networks. Since the completion of her Ph.D. degree, she has continued to work at the University of Melbourne, where she is currently an Associate Professor and an Australia Research Council funded Future Fellow. In 2006, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Robyn Woodward Kron is a linguist and researcher in the areas of cross-cultural communication in health care.

Research Interests

• Wireless and Mobile Communications & Networking
• OFDM, MIMO & Spread Spectrum Systems
• Smart Grid Communications
• Green Communications

Peter Yates has been involved in Antarctic operations for over 30 years. He wintered at Mawson Station, Antarctica, in 1983 and 1986, as a young electronics engineer operating and updating the Cosmic Ray Observatory. From 1987 until 1998 he managed the AAD Science Support Electronics Section, participating in projects including development of Automatic Weather Stations, and development and construction of the LIDAR instrument now in operation at Davis Station.

Shui Yu received his B.Eng (Electronic Engineering) and M.Eng (Computer Science) degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China , P. R. China in 1993 and 1999, respectively. He also obtained an Associate Degree in Mathematics from the same university in 1993. He received his PhD (Computer Science) from Deakin University in 2004.

Jian A. Zhang received the B.S. degree from Xi'an JiaoTong University, China, in 1996, the M.Sc. degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University, in 2004. Currently, Dr. Zhang is a senior research scientist in the ICT Centre, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a system and hardware engineer in ZTE Corp, Nanjing, China. From 2004 to 2010, he was a researcher in the Networked Systems, NICTA, Canberra, Australia.