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.

Kate is the Executive Director of the Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) - an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Melbourne focusing on broadband applications and uses with societal benefits. The Institute actively engages industry with academia in its research that focuses on health, education, social inclusion and community infrastructure. In July 2011 she was awarded the prestigious Australian Communications Industry Young Achiever Award in recognition of her work at IBES.

Doug is AARNet?s Project Development Manager, responsible for project management across the organisation. He recently managed the implementation of the AARNet Optical Network linking Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide. Prior to joining AARNet, Doug spent 12 years with Optus, involved in strategic consulting and project management across a range of industries.

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. Julie Green is currently Executive Director of the Raising Children Network and a member of the Raising Children Network Board. Julie is an experienced lead investigator on studies with children, young people and families that focus on understanding social and cultural factors important to health, development, learning and wellbeing. Julie has extensive experience in research with Government, Catholic and independent primary schools in Victoria.

Dr. Julie Green is currently Executive Director of the Raising Children Network and a member of the Raising Children Network Board. Julie is an experienced lead investigator on studies with children, young people and families that focus on understanding social and cultural factors important to health, development, learning and wellbeing. Julie has extensive experience in research with Government, Catholic and independent primary schools in Victoria.

Andr? 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).

Bob Hayward is the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer for CSC Asia/Pacific. In this role, he is responsible for the overall direction and business management of CSC?s technology offerings, product strategies and innovation programmes in the Asia/Pacific region.

Kerry Hinton received an Honours Bachelor of Engineering in 1978, an Honours Bachelor of Science in 1980 and Master of Science Degree in Mathematical Sciences in 1982, all from the University of Adelaide. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K., and the Diploma in Industrial Relations from the Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic, U.K., in 1984.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Amy Nisselle was a Research Fellow at the Royal Children's Hospital Education Institute when this research was conducted and is now Multimedia & Evaluation Manager, DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York. Amy's current research centres on the use of educational technologies to teach and learn science, and she has a background in public health, education and medical research using mixed methodologies.

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.

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 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).

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 Tsharni Zazryn is a Research Fellow at the RCH Education Institute. She is currently working on a number of projects including: the development of an evidence-based hospital-wide best practice guide for children's learning at The Royal Children's Hospital; a project to increase connections and presence for children and young people with health conditions and their schools and families; and a project to link arts, health and education within the hospital setting.

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.

Peter Gerrand was awarded the Charles Todd Medal by ATUG in 1998 'for outstanding contributions to the telecommunications industry', an Australian Government Centenary Medal in 2003 'for outstanding service to science and technology particularly to public science policy', and Life Membership by the TSA in 2003.

Peter Gerrand was awarded the Charles Todd Medal by ATUG in 1998 'for outstanding contributions to the telecommunications industry', an Australian Government Centenary Medal in 2003 'for outstanding service to science and technology particularly to public science policy', and Life Membership by the TSA in 2003.

Dr David Lindsay is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, where he teaches copyright, cyberlaw and trusts. David is an expert on law and technology, including intellectual property, privacy law and communications law. He is the author of International Domain Name Law: ICANN and the UDRP (Hart Publishing, 2007). David is the general editor of the Australian Intellectual Property Journal (AIPJ), a board member of the Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) and a member of the Media and Communications committee of the Law Council of Australia.

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.

Scott Rickard was a Senior Researcher at the Smart Services CRC at Swinburne University of Technology investigating end user adoption and usage of wireless technologies. She now holds a position as an Assistant Professor in Communication at the University of Canberra and her current research includes end user investigations into video-calling practice. In the past Scott worked in communications, public relations and multimedia in the private and not-for-profit sectors in Melbourne

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.

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.

Amie Bingham is a socio-epidemiologist.

Dr Marcus Bowles is a consultant, researcher, entrepreneur and author; he holds a fractional academic appointment with the University of Tasmania and sits on a number of public and private boards. His main focus is on building strategic capabilities required to achieve desired futures.

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.

Dr. Kristine Elliott is an educational technologist and researcher of eHealth in health profession education.

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.

Mick Grimley is an Associate Professor of Education at Swinburne University of Technology. He commenced his appointment in April 2012. Prior to joining Swinburne, Dr Grimley taught at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand for 10 years. He was a Senior Lecturer and then Associate Professor in Education. He is a former primary school teacher and has been employed within the education sector for more than 20 years. His research interests include digital technologies and how they can be leveraged to enhance human learning and cognition.

Sherah Kurnia is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems. Her main research areas are electronic commerce, supply chain management and the adoption of technologies including inter-organisational systems, mobile commerce, sustainable supply chain management and social technologies.

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.

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

Sora Park (PhD, Northwestern University) is Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies at University of Canberra, Australia. Her research focuses on the digital media, media markets and media policy and has written widely on the economics of television, newspaper markets and other information industries.

Giles Tanner is the General Manager, Digital Transition Division, at the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). A lawyer by training, he is currently leading all ACMA work related to the digitisation of television and radio broadcasting, including the 'restack' of digital television services to clear spectrum in the 700MHz band for reallocation. He is also responsible for the conduct of an auction of spectrum licences, scheduled for April 2013, relating to the re-allocation of spectrum in the 700MHz and 2.5GHz bands.

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

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 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.

Margie Charlesworth has worked for many years in the fields of disability advocacy, receiving many awards for her work with various disability services groups. Through the organisation 'Women with Disabilities', Ms Charlesworth is the project co-ordinator for the 'Don't Cross the Line' project, preventing violence against women with disabilities.

Caitlin Fry graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Psychology and Bachelor of Arts (Honours), where she is also a current PhD candidate. She currently tutors at the University of South Australia in their School of Communications, International Studies and Languages, and she currently provides ongoing administrative and research support to the 'Private Lives and Public Policy' project.

Dr Nick Hagiliassis is Research Coordinator and a Consulting Psychologist with Scope (a disability services provider in Victoria, Australia) and an Honorary Research Fellow with Deakin University. He holds a doctoral degree in psychology. Nick has an interest in research that aims to improve the lives of people with disabilities through influencing practice and policy. His special interests include mental health and disability, measuring outcomes associated with disability services, and tracking and improving social inclusion.

Mr Kirk has formally worked in rural news media, while pursuing an interest in word prediction programs, including developing his own. He has sat on many disability-related boards and consumer groups, and is a Life Member of Technical Aid to the Disabled

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.

Janelle has worked as a speech pathologist in the area of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for over 20 years with both adults and children. Much of this work has been around assessing and prescribing AAC systems, and consultation to state run equipment programs for the provision of AAC devices.

William is currently a Lecturer in the School of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Wollongong. He has recently completed his PhD which investigated community technology centers (CTCs) in regional NSW Australia. Previous to his current role, Will worked in broadcast technical training roles in the Pacific during the 1990s ? 4 years with the Samoa Broadcasting Service and periodic assignments for Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association (PIBA). Prior to this Will worked for the ABC in both radio and television in Sydney for 12 years.

Associate Professor Denise Wood is the Associate Head of School: Teaching and Learning, and a researcher in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia (UniSA), and an Extraordinary Professor (Adjunct) in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research focuses on the use of accessible information and communication technologies (ICTs) to increase social participation, as well as the pedagogical benefits of social media in teaching and learning.

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.

Daniel Gottliebsen is the director and senior consultant at Momentech Software Services.

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.

Professor Joe Graffam is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Development and Training) of Deakin University. Prior to this, Joe was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic). Joe is also Professor and Chair in Psychology. He has worked in higher education for more than 30 years. Joe held early career positions as a researcher in the Neuropsychiatric Institute, School of Medicine, UCLA. Since commencing with Deakin University, Joe has filled several senior academic positions within the Faculty of Health. More recently, he served as Chair of the Academic Board of the University.

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.

Since October 2000, Chris has been the Chief Executive Officer of .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA), a non-profit company that is the independent, not-for-profit manager of the Australian Internet domain name space (.au).

Until he stood down in March 2011, Chris was the Chair, since its foundation in June 2004, of the Country Code Name Supporting Organisation (ccNSO), the body that represents the interests of and sets global policy and best practice for country code top level domains (ccTLD) within ICANN.

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.

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. 

Jordi has a degree in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Masters of Business Administration from ESADE, and a pre-doctoral Master's degree in Knowledge and the Information Society from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC/IN3). He is a former director of the puntCAT Foundation and a former executive director of the .cat TLD Registry (2006-2013). He is the current Chair of the Catalan chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-CAT) and is a director at Iparraguirre.net Internet services and consulting.

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:

Muhammad Suryanegara is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitas Indonesia. He earned a Bachelor in Engineering from Universitas Indonesia in 2003, M.Sc in Telecommunications from University College London in 2004 and Dr.Eng in Management of Technology and Innovation from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2011. He actively engages in research about ICT, in particular the Mobile and Wireless communications sector.

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.

Craig Mudge is an ANU graduate, with a PhD in computer science from UNC at Chapel Hill. He was a computer designer at DEC (now Hewlett Packard) in Boston, and a founder and CEO of computer chip company Austek Microsystems Ltd, spun out of CSIRO?s microelectronics research group, the VLSI Program in Adelaide.    Austek produced chips for Personal Computer manufacturers in the US, for Cochlear, and the Australia Telescope. Its signal processing chips formed the basis of CSIRO?s Wireless LAN patent.

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).

Robin Eckermann is an independent telecommunications consultant and an Adjunct Professor in network/communications technologies, business models and project management at the University of Canberra. From 1996 to 2000, he led the development of TransACT through its incubation phase, and from 2000-2003 during the rollout of TransACT's FTTK/VDSL network, served as the Company's Chief Architect.

Andrew Dodd is the convenor of Journalism at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. He was a reporter with The Australian newspaper, ABC TV?s 7.30 Report and ABC Radio National, where he presented many programs and founded the Media Report. He writes on media issues for the online news site Crikey.com.au. 

His research covers new and emerging media and future directions in journalism, with an emphasis on sustaining quality journalism. He is the author of J J Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance.

Caroline Greenway is Director of ITU and Treaties in the Department of Communications. She is the ITU Councillor for Australia and served as Chair of the ITU Council's Standing Committee on Administration and Management in 2013. 

She was previously responsible for Australia's engagement with the APEC Telecommunications Working Group and the Asia Pacific Telecommunity. She has undertaken a variety of roles within the Commonwealth public service, including film policy and the protection of movable cultural heritage.

Dr Julian Jang-Jaccard has been working as a research scientist at CSIRO ICT Centre since 2002.  Originally trained as a database transaction guru, these days she spends much of her attention looking at issues of security, privacy, and trust  in e-commerce, cloud, and mobile network.  More concretely, she devises security architecture and algorithms to make interconnected system impenetrable as well as works on defining privacy policy to protect sensitive and personal data.  Her work often incorporate ideas from other disciplinary areas of computer science for example, machine learning tech

Prof Y. Jay Guo is a Distinguished Professor  at the School of Computing and Communications, Universi8ty of Technology Sydney.

John de Ridder has been an independent telecommunications consultant since 2002. Many of his projects and papers can be found on his website http://www.deridder.com.au. 

Trevor Barr is Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University and Principal Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries. He was a Program Manager for the Smart Internet CRC where his research work included the futures review "Smart Internet 2010".

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. 

Brendan Fitzgerald has extensive experience in developing and delivering community based ICT programs. He currently oversees the implementation and development of Infoxchange?s Digital Inclusion Strategy, which includes initiatives that connect public housing residents with affordable technology and TestIT, Infoxchange?s software testing social firm which employs staff with Asperger?s Syndrome. Brendan has a deep appreciation of the issues confronting disadvantaged people in relation to digital technologies.

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.

Anthony McCosker lectures in Media and Communications in the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. His research explores media affect, media technology, digital and visual cultures and social media practices and publics. He is author of the book Intensive Media: Aversive Affect and Visual Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and he has published a number of book chapters and articles in journals such as Information, Communication and Society, Sexualities, Continuum and Transformations. 

Blair Feenaghty is a graduate of the Universities of Queensland (BE) and Melbourne (MEngSc), a former Walter and Eliza Hall Engineering Research Fellow of the University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. He was CEO of the Telecommunication Society of Australia Ltd from 1994 to 2001, after resigning from Telstra where he had been General Manager for Telstra's corporate relations with State Governments.

Shara Evans is a well-known technologist, futurist and opinion leader in the Australian telecommunications market, as well as the Founder and CEO of Market Clarity, an award-winning telecommunications analyst firm that provides insight, intelligence and advice on all aspects of the Australian telecom market.

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

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).

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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.

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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.

Dr Claire Mason currently leads CSIRO?s multidisciplinary research project investigating social and economic outcomes associated with Next Generation Broadband. Her research spans a range of topics including the social value of welfare service delivery in Australia, the social viability of seafloor mining in Australia and national objectives for mining. She has served as the Organizational Behavior editor for the Australian Journal of Management and is on the editorial review board for Group and Organization Management.

Dr Leith Campbell is an Honorary Fellow, Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne.  He has spent more than 30 years in the telecommunications industry, both in research and development and as an international consultant on telecommunications regulation.  He serves on the Editorial Board of this Journal and on the Council of the World Telecommunications Congress.

Dr Beth O?Brien-McInally is a graduate of the University of Queensland with a PhD in Social Psychology. In her previous role at CSIRO her research was largely focused in the area of Next Generation Broadband and understanding its implications for Australian business as well as for the community in terms of social inclusion and well-being. She currently works for the Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment in Brisbane. 

John has over 40 years experience in the Radio, IT and Telecommunications, and HFC CATV industries;  with fifteen years in direct engineering/support roles in Radio, Voice, Data and HFC networks including both Hardware and Software solutions; and more than twenty five years in Senior Management/ Executive and Executive Director roles.

Dr Andrew Kerans received a PhD degree in radio physics from James Cook Univerity, Townsville Queensland Australia (JCU) in 2011.  He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at James Cook University, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. Andrew is also a member of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) Radiation Health Committee. Andrew is Principal of Spectrum Management Associates and currently works in East Timor.  In addition to his PhD he holds a Masters?

Stephen Wilson BSc BE Elec (Hons) is a researcher, consultant, analyst and inventor, who specialises in digital identity and privacy. Since 1998 he has been involved in privacy and cyber security policy development around the Asia Pacific.  He was a member of the APEC eSecurity Task Force (1998-2001), the National Electronic Authentication Council (1998-2001) and the Australian Law Reform Commission Technology Committee (2007-08). Since 2012, he has been a member of the US National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Privacy Committee.

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. 

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. 

Jan Lambrechts is an accomplished legal technologist with over 14 years? experience in a number of top tier Australian law firms. In roles as eDiscovery and Privacy Specialist, Legal Technology Consultant and Manager he assisted customers with developing strategies for management of electronic information, collection of content, analysing large volumes of data and advising on the impact of privacy requirements on organisations? information management policies, procedures and systems.

Matthew Zwolenski is Chief Technology Officer, Australia & NZ at EMC and Senior Manager, Presales, Australia & NZ at EMC.  He works with customers to help drive both their IT and Organisational Strategy, looking at how new and evolving technology and trends impacts their competitiveness and operations. A key part of his role is to lead the Australia & NZ team of Technologists and Specialists that work with Customers to define their strategy.

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.

Nikos Papastergiadis is the Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures, based at The University of Melbourne. He is a Professor in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and founder - with Scott McQuire - of the Spatial Aesthetics research cluster. He is Professor Nikos Papastergiardis is Project Leader of the Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 'Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere', and Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project 'Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space'.

  Dr. Shuangfeng Han is currently a senior project manager in green communication research center of china mobile research institute. His research interests are mainly focused on green technologies R&D in 5G wireless communication systems, including large scale antenna system (LSAS), active antenna system (AAS), co-frequency co-time full duplex, non-orthogonal multiple access scheme, energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency co-design, and beyond cellular green generation solutions. Prior to joining CMRI, Dr.

  Dr. Pan Zhengang (IEEE Senior Member), principal staff of Green Communication Research Center (GCRC) of China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI), is now leading a team working on the key technologies of next generation (5G) wireless communication systems, including new network architecture/protocol framework, large scale antenna system, new air interface design in high frequency, etc. Dr. Pan received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Hong Kong University.

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.

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.

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).?

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. 

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

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.

Dorothy McLaren is in the final stages of a PhD in applied social science research at RMIT Hamilton.   Her project has collected data about the social and economic costs experienced by rural patients travelling for surgery.  Working with a project steering team from the Western District Health Service, this data will be analysed as a case study in rural issue identification and response.

Khandakar Ahmed received his PhD from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in October, 2014. He achieved his M.Sc. in Erasmus Mundus Networking and e-Business Centered Computing (EMNeBCC) in 2011 under the joint consortia of University of Reading, UK; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain and B.Sc. (Engg.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh in 2006.

James Williams supports research data collection and analysis at RMIT University's Regional and Rural Futures Research Group. James specialises in social enterprise action research.

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.

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

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

Dr Ian McShane is a Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University?s Centre for Urban Research. His research focuses on informal and formal education systems (especially museums, libraries and schools), local infrastructure and community services, and digital technologies. Current research projects are on shared use community infrastructure and service co-ordination, the development of publicly accessible wireless networks in Australia and internationally, and the representational politics of cultural diversity in Australian museums.

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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. 

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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.

Xiaojing Huang  received his Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Engineering, and Ph.D. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1989, respectively, all in electronic engineering. With over 26 years of combined industrial, academic, and scientific research experience, he has published over 230 book chapters, refereed journal and conference papers, and major commercial research reports, and filed 29 patents.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ian Watson is a journalist, communications professional and journalism teacher and tutor, and a member of the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research. Ian focuses strongly on communicating through Indigenous and community media networks and developing major communications projects focusing on issues such as telecommunications, sustainability, energy savings, health, mental health and legal issues.

Warren is a regional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with Alcatel-Lucent. Warren has over 35 years industry experience and for the past 11 years has consulted extensively across Asia-Pacific. He specialises in transformational digital services solutions for Communication Service Providers, Media and ICT businesses. In early 2015 Warren became CTO for the Oceania Region as part of Alcatel-Lucent?s global SHIFT toward strategic markets. Warren is a member of the Oceania Senior Leadership Team.

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

Thesis Title

Wellness Sensors Networks: A Proposal and Implementation

Currently I am working to develop a sensor node to upload the data to cloud server.

Developing an efficient sensor for human fall detection which is to be incorporated in a smart home.

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.

For over 20 years Andreas has been working in IT and during that timeframe he has worked as a Consultant for all kinds of organisations, across various industries, including the public sector. Starting of with research in the area of Open Communication Systems, then focussing on IT Infrastructure and lately concentrating on IT audit, security and risk management.

As president of the ISACA Melbourne Chapter he is responsible for managing and leading the chapter as a whole. You can contact him using the Melbourne Chapter Board contact form.

Subject matter expert advising in the following fields:

• Wireless technologies and spectrum management
• Telco regulation and policy
• The Australian broadband industry
• IP strategies, innovation amd commercialisation
• Expert witness
• Board advisor

Professor Reg Coutts combines a deep commercial knowledge with academic achievement. 

Reg leverages his experience with large public companies such as Telstra, and works with small innovation companies fighting to gain traction in the market place.

Phil has been President of the Wireless Institute of Australia since 2012, Vice President immediately before then and WIA director since 2004.

He has held a passion for electronics from early primary school. Along with expanding his interests in radio and electronics while at Sydney Grammar School, he took out an Amateur Radio licence in 1968, a hobby which set the course of his career. Along the way he discovered the delights of sailing. 

Dr. Nulty has recently retired from the position of CEO (but remains as Chairman of the Board) of ValleyNet, Inc. a non-profit corporation building and operating a fiber-to-the-premises fiber-optic telecom network for and on behalf of East Central Community Fiber-Optic Network (www.ecfiber.net), ?ECFiber.?  Mr.

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.

Supriya Singh is Professor, Sociology of Communications at RMIT University. Her research interests cover financial inclusion, the sociology of money and banking; communication, globalization, migration and the transnational family.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Luke is Co-Chief investigator on the 3D Printing grant that funded this paper and recently completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne. Luke researches how technology and the political collide to shape our lives. Before a career in academic research, he consulted in both the public and private sectors in Canada and beyond.

Michael is Associate Professor and Head of Discipline in the History and Philosophy of Science Programme. His on-going research activities involve studies of contemporary technologies and daily life. Michael is also interested in theoretical approaches to technologies, in particular, Actor Network Theory and Object Oriented Ontology. Michael has published research books and over 100 peer reviewed papers.

Bjorn is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at The University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include media adoption, children?s media use, and interface studies. He currently holds an Australian Research Council funded Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), to study young children?s use of mobile and interactive media.

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)

Stanley Shanapinda is a Ph.D. Research Candidate with the Australian Centre for Cyber Security (ACCS), Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is affiliated with the Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Centre (D2D CRC) research institute, South Australia. He holds a Master?s of Management degree in ICT Policy and Regulation (MM ICT PR) from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa).

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

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. 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. Guti?rrez 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.

Pedro Seixas is an Incyte Principal Associate Consultant based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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

Dr. Oscar Saenz de Miera Berglind works as a researcher for the Research Center (Centro de Estudios) of the Mexican telecommunications regulator (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones). His research interests include competition and investment in the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors, radio spectrum, net neutrality and the digital economy. His research activities have been multi-disciplinary. His doctoral research addressed tourism as a source of road transport externalities.

Roberto Morales is an economist by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico). 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.

JAIRO A. GUTI?RREZ is Deputy Head of the School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.  He 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. His current research is on network management systems, networking security, viable business models for IT-enabled enterprises, next-generation networks and cloud computing systems.

Siamak Layeghy is a PhD student at the School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He received his Bachelor in Telecommunication Engineering and his Master in Electronics Engineering from K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.  He has several years? experience in Network Engineering in Iran?s National Infrastructure Company. His main research interests include Software Defined Networks, Routing and Traffic Engineering and Network Optimisation.

Marius Portmann is an Associated Professor at the School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Z?rich, Switzerland. His research interests include Software Defined Networks, Pervasive Computing and Information Security.

Pj Radcliffe received his B.Eng. from Melbourne University and his PhD from RMIT University, both in Australia.
He is a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering at RMIT University.
His current interests include data driven education research, the Internet of Things, real time embedded systems, and data networks.

Lincy Elizebeth Jim is a final year PhD candidate in School of Engineering RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, where she is a recipient of the Student Travel Award-ITNAC 2016. She has also received the JUNIPER NETWORKS CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE (JNCIA-Junos) certification. She has more than 5 years of working experience as an Oracle Technical Analyst.

Frank den Hartog is a Senior Scientist at DoVes Research in Canberra, specializing in home networking and Internet of Things (IoT). Until 2016 he was a Senior Scientist at TNO in the Netherlands, and studied Future Internet architectures and heterogeneous consumer networking. Before joining TNO in 2003, he worked for the Dutch service provider KPN, where he pioneered the home networking and IoT research area. From 2012-2016 he was Chair of the Technical Working Group of the worldwide Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) industry standardization body.

Dr Gayathri Kongara is a lecturer at Monash University in the Faculty of Engineering with technical experience in the areas of Telecommunications and Signal processing. At Monash, she established a new capability in the Electrical and computer systems engineering (ECSE) department to teach advanced radio system design concepts using hands-on experimentation on the software defined radio (SDR) platform. She is currently working on the design and prototyping of 5G  and Optical wireless systems  at Monash.

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. Carol McDonough is Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her areas of specialization are microeconomics and U.S. economic history. She has researched, written papers and published in the field of telecommunications for about twenty years. Recently she completed a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to research the determinants of broadband adoption in the United States. She is currently researching the digital divide affecting older adults, surveying older adults about the depth and breadth of their internet use, or reasons for unuse or nonuse.

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.

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

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.

Laurence is an IBM Master Inventor, solution designer and IBM advisor on technical strategy to clients in the Telecom, Media and Entertainment industries. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Science from RMIT University and a Bachelor of Arts from Swinburne 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.

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.

John Burke (BSc, Melbourne; BEd, Monash; MA(Ed), Stanford) has taken a number of strategic and development roles in corporate, community and government organisations, including: 

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..

National University of Mongolia

National University of Mongolia

Sascha S??speck completed a Ph.D. in Engineering and Economics at the University of Melbourne in 2017.  He had previously worked in Australia for Ovum as an international consultant on telecommunications and for the ACCC.  He holds a first degree in Economics from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

Troy S Barry is a researcher and Teaching Fellow in Microeconomics at the University of Western Australia.  He is particularly interested in management strategies in regulated and monopolistic markets.  He has an MBA, and an honours degree and past career in Engineering.

Dac Quynh Mi Nguyen received a BS degree from University of Natural Sciences of Ho Chi Minh City (VNU), Vietnam in 2007. She received a MS in Business Information System from Heilbronn University (Germany) and Vietnamese-German University (Vietnam) in 2013. Since 2009, she has been lecturer at Faculty of Information Technology, Van Lang University, Vietnam. From 2007 to current, she has collaborated with industrial companies in around twenty IT projects as developer, business analyst, project manager and business consultant.

Phillip Smith graduated from Swinburne University of Technology in 2016 with a Bachelor of Robotic & Mechatronic Engineering and a Bachelor of Computer Science. In this graduating year, he was awarded The Australian Computer Society Student Prize, for highest achieving student in computer science; The ABB Prize, for highest achieving student in Robotics and Mechatronics; and the FW Green Memorial Prize for highest achieving final year student in Engineering faculty.

Defence Science and Technology Group, Edinburgh, South Australia

Yudi is a PhD student at Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. His main interest is on development study especially on ICT-based economy. He is also interested in making infrastructure development and regional development policies, as well as financing in the public sector.

Intel Technology Asia Pte Ltd

Technical University of Munich

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt. Ltd, India

Dr Malcolm Shore was born in England and studied Computer Science at the University of London.  After emigrating to New Zealand he accepted a commission in the RNZAF retiring as the Assistant Director Information Systems in Defence Headquarters. He then joined the Government Communications Security Bureau taking responsibility for New Zealand's national information systems security.  

Liverpool Hope University

Liverpool Hope University

School of ITEE, The University of Queensland

Nigel Pugh is the Managing Director at, Venture Insights. Nigel has 25+ years’ telco experience working extensively with telecoms operators, regulators, investors and vendors across Europe and Asia Pacific. He specializes in commercial strategy, policy & regulation, market analysis and due diligence.

Habia Akter received the MEng (Master of Engineering with Honor) degree in Electronic Engineering and Computing in 2016 from Queen Mary University of London, U.K. Right after her graduation she started her PhD in Electronic Engineering in the same university. Her research focuses on the benefits of implementing internet tunnels in the network topology.

Otago Polytechnic, Auckland, New Zealand

Nyoman Gunantara  joined with Universitas Udayana (Unud), Bali as lecturer since 2001. He holds Bachelor degree in electrical engineering from Universitas Brawijaya (UB), Master and Doctor degrees in electrical engineering from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS). He has 17 years of teaching and research experience. His research interests include wireless communications, ad hoc network, quality network. and optimization. He is a member of the IEEE.

Ni Made Ary Esta Dewi Wirastuti was born in Bali, Indonesia, in 1976. She received the Bachelor (S.T) degree in Electrical Engineering form Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia, in 2000, Master of Science (M.Sc) in Mobile Communication Systems from University of Surrey, United Kingdom, in 2002 and Philosophy of Doctor (Ph.D) in Electronics and Telecommunication System from University of Bradford, United Kingdom, in 2007. In 2000, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University, Indonesia, as a Lecturer.

Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne

Swinburne University

University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Engineering & IT