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.

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.

Nathan Bailey is Director of Simplify Solutions. As a manager and Associate Director he has led teams on large-scale Internet projects in collaboration, administration and education. He now runs an educational consultancy working with schools and universities in reinventing education for the 21st Century. He is passionate about delivering services that save people time, are easy to use and make work more fun. Nathan also has a research affiliation with Monash University's eEducation Centre.

Professor Jim Barber is the University of New England's Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer.

Before taking up this position in February 2010, Professor Barber was Deputy-Vice Chancellor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University.

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".

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.

Carolyn Bilsborow was recently awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia. She has produced several short documentaries for both research and learning and teaching projects within UniSA, most notably two documentaries for the 'Northern Community Summit' event held at Elizabeth in 2008, supported by UniSA. The project went on to win the 2009 Chancellor's Award for Community Engagement.

Michael Bink is the Head of Research at Scope Victoria and an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University. He has 22 years experience in the disability field in both operational and strategic management roles, working to achieve a better life for people with a disability. He is currently the Head of Research and Community Development at Scope.

Rachelle Bosua is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems. Her main research areas are Knowledge Management, Knowledge Strategy, Knowledge sharing and transfer, Telework, Social Networks, Virtual teamwork and Enterprise Content Management Systems.

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.

Sarah is Brand Manager of iBoss at MNF Group where she has been integral in developing and bringing to market Australia’s pioneering services aggregation platform iBoss. Sarah works closely with software developers to ensure ongoing feature innovation and implementation make iBoss the most user-friendly and powerful aggregation platform of its kind in the telecommunications market. iBoss enables competition in the telecoms sector by empowering companies to become telecom providers.

David Brennan has undertaken research on intellectual property (in particular patents, breach of confidence, copyright and trade marks) with a focus upon its economic analysis and its relationships with other legal regimes - such as contracts, property and restitution.

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).

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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.

Dr Sharon Dane is a social psychologist, working as a research scientist at CSIRO.  Sharon’s research focus is on Household Internet use within Australian communities, and in particular the impact of the internet on people’s quality of life and social inclusion. Sharon is an Adjunct Fellow at the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS) and the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Clinton Fernandes teaches at UNSW Canberra and is a researcher with the Australian Centre for Cyber Security. His research area is the field of national security, focusing on intelligence operations, protection of whistleblowers and confidentiality of journalists’ sources.

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.

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.

Neil Gane is the Managing Director of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), an organization established in January 2004 by the Motion Picture Association International (MPA) to promote and protect its members' films and television programs in Australia as well as the commercial and creative interests of the local screen communities.

Dr Longxiang Gao is a Lecturer in Computer Networks at Deakin University

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 Rebecca Giblin has recently returned to Monash University after spending part of 2011 at Columbia Law School as the Kernochan Visiting International IP Scholar.

Jock Given is professor of media and communications at Swinburne University’s Institute for Social Research. He was previously director of the Communications Law Centre and Policy Advisor at the Australian Film Commission. His documentary Empire State: Ernest Fisk and the World Wide Wireless was broadcast on ABC Radio National’s Hindsight program in February 2012.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

JAIRO A. GUTIÉRREZ 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.

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.

  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.

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.

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Paulette Kelly is a researcher and eHealth program analyst.

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.

Daniel Kilper was born in Chicago, IL, in 1968. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the B. S. degree in physics from the State University, Blacksburg, in 1990, and the M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1992 and 1996, respectively.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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. Grace Li completed her LLB, LLM and PHD in law. She has also completed a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration (GCBA) and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Teaching and Learning (GCHTL). Dr. Li’s research has been focused on the telecommunications law and policy. She has many publications and she presents regularly at national and international conferences. In addition, Dr. Li also does research in the area of company law and international legal education.

Dr Clare Lloyd joined the Department of Internet studies after teaching communication and media studies at the University of Newcastle. Her publications include a co-authored book chapter on identity practices and the mobile phone (in Handbook of Research on Discourse Behaviour and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction).

Alexia Maddox (PhD) is a Research Librarian at Deakin University and a Research Assistant in the Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT University in  Melbourne, Australia. As a practicing sociologist, her research interests are in digital frontiers, community studies and research methods. Her recent book, ‘Research Methods and Global Online Communities: a case study’ with Routledge combines these areas and forms the basis of her study of emerging communities forming through the internet and cryptography.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Professor Catherine Middleton holds the Canada Research Chair in Communication Technologies in the Information Society at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She has been studying residential broadband networks since the late 1990s, with interests in the development and use of wired and wireless infrastructures. Current projects include an ongoing investigation of the development of Australia's National Broadband Network, and a study of the development of next generation broadband networks in Canada.

Murray Milner is Managing Director at Milner Consulting Limited. He is also a Director of Crown Fibre Holdings Limited and was previously Chief Technology Officer at Telecom New Zealand Limited

Simon is Commercial Manager at Ericsson Australia & New Zealand. He has over 35 years experience in the telecommunications industry in a number of technology and commercial roles. Simon is interested in telecommunications history and is currently assisting the Editors of this Journal with researching historical papers from the Telecommunications Journal of Australia.

Charles Morris is a programmer and web developer with expertise in accessible web design. He has undertaken several contract projects with the University of South Australia and was co-developer in the redesign of the D4D website.

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.

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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.

Dr Surya Nepal is a Principal Research Scientist at Information Engineering Laboratory of CSIRO Computational Informatics. 

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.

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), Zürich, 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.

Dr. Raghavendra is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Disability & Community Inclusion. She is a speech pathologist with over 30 years of research, clinical and/or teaching experience in working with children and adults with disabilities, especially those who have complex communication needs using augmentative and alternative communication.

Sayan Kumar Ray received the Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering from Gulbarga University, India, Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Calcutta, India, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was a Design Engineer with Tait Communications, New Zealand, where he was involved in researching on the LTE and 3GPP Evolved Packet Core network.

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

Dr Lauren Rosewarne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her areas of research and teaching speciality include gender, media and sexuality. Lauren is the author of eight books, most recently "Intimacy on the Internet: Media Representations of Online Connections" (Routledge, 2016). Lauren writes regularly for The Conversation and The Drum and is a frequent commentator on radio, in press and on television.

Dr. Arturo Robles Rovalo works as a researcher for the Research Center (Centro de Estudios) of the Mexican telecommunications regulator (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones). He is a member of the International Telecommunications Society. His research interests include spectrum management, broadband universalization, digital inclusion and the competitiveness of converging and digital industries. His doctoral research addressed regulation and public policy for telecommunications universal service in Latin America.

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.

Nurul I Sarkar holds a PhD from the University of Auckland and is currently associate professor and leader of the Network and Security Research Group at the Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. He is a member of many professional organizations and societies. Dr Sarkar is a regularly invited keynote speaker, chair, and committee member for various national and international fora. He has published over 150 refereed articles and served on the editorial review boards of several prestigious journals.

Dr Kaye Scholfield is the Senior Manager of RMIT University’s outreach centre in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia.  The research group at Hamilton – the Rural and Regional Research Group – has a strong focus on applied research in a range of issues that relate to rural community sustainability.  

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

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).

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. Her latest books are Globalization and Money: A Global South Perspective (2013, Rowman & Littlefield) and The Girls Ate Last (2013, Angsana Publications). Supriya has also written Marriage Money: The Social Shaping of Money in Marriage and Banking (1997, Allen & Unwin).

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.

Paul Szyndler is auDA's General Manager of International and Government Affairs.

He represents auDA and ".au" on ICANN's Country Code Name Supporting Organisation (ccNSO), where he contributes to a wide range of policy processes, including serving as Chair of the ccNSO's Country and Territory Names Study Group. He was also part of Australia's delegation to WCIT in 2012.

Domestically, he has coordinated auDA's efforts in convening both the Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards (ANZIAs) and the Australian Internet Governance Forum (auIGF).

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.

Julian Thomas is the Director of the Technology, Communication and Policy Lab at DERC and the Director for the Enabling Capability Platform for Social Change at RMIT. He is a researcher in digital media and the internet, including media, communications and information policy and the history of communications technologies. Julian’s recent work includes the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (2016), Internet on the Outstation (Institute of Network Cultures, 2016), and The Informal Media Economy (Polity, 2015).

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.

Dr Barrie Todhunter is a Senior Lecturer in Project Management and Property Studies, and the Discipline Coordinator for Management studies at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), and the Associate Director for the Faculty of Business and Law at the USQ Springfield Campus. He has a Bachelor of Architecture, an MBA and a Master of Project Management. He was a senior project manager for an international property development company before joining USQ and completing PhD studies in the area of postgraduate distance education.

David Vaile is Executive Director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney.

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. 

Bob Warfield lectures part time as an Honorary Fellow in the Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne.  He teaches telecommunication network technology, design, and management as well as business management for engineers.  Following a BE (‘70) and PhD (‘80) from the University of NSW, he spent several years as an engineer and researcher at Telstra Research Laboratories, then a decade  as a Research Manager there, with one year at Bellcore in New Jersey as a Visiting Researcher.  He has experience working for a startup company, beginning with a small group of enthusiast

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.

With a diverse background in bid strategy garnered in the areas of both Finance and IT, Lee Weatherill manages EMC’s major solution offerings with a remit to drive the innovation and strategy of our major accounts in the areas of Cloud and Big Data.

Dr. Jason Whalley is Professor in Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. His research focuses on the structure of telecommunication markets, especially mobile and broadband markets. Over the course of the last decade he has worked extensively with Professor Peter Curwen on issues such as mobile licensing, technological change and the internationalisation and strategies of mobile operators.

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.

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.

Dr Sarah Wise is a developmental researcher with many years of research, policy and service innovation experience covering a wide range of issues relating to children, parents and families. Her special interest areas are early childhood development, out-of-home care, local area responses and the development of social policy and practice with evidence.

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.

Harry Stewart Wragge AM BEE(Hons) MEngSc HonDEng was educated at Scotch College and Melbourne University. He spent most of his professional career in the PMG/Telecom/Telstra Research Laboratories, rising to Director. He finished his career in Telstra as Chief Technical Adviser to the CEO.

ZHIKUN XU received B.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Beihang University (BUAA) in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He was a visiting researcher in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, from 2009 to 2010. After graduation, he joined the Green Communication Research Center of the China Mobile Research Institute as a project manager. He has published more than 20 papers in top journals and international conferences.

Jongsay Yong is Principal Research Fellow in the Health Economics Section of the Melbourne Institute. His main research interests are in applied areas of industrial economics and health economics. His recent research focuses on measuring hospital performance and quality using patient-level data, and firm productivity analyses using firm-level data.

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.