Dr Thomas Barlow
Thomas Barlow is the author of the controversial book
about Australian innovation, The Australian Miracle
0830 : Registration / Coffee & Tea
0845 : Opening comments : Dr J Chris Scott, Chair ICT Outlook Committee
0850 : Official Opening : Minister John Brumby, the senior economic Minister in the Bracks Government holding the offices of Treasurer, Minister for State and Regional Development and Minister for Innovation.
0900 : Chief Scientist's Vision for Innovation in ICT in Australia : Dr Jim Peacock, Chief Scientist
0935 : Network Management and Bandwidth Broker : Dr Marek Kwiatkowski, Head, Network Management Group, DSTO (Introduced by Professor Rudi Vernik, Research Leader Command Decision Environments, DSTO)
1000 : From Imagination to Impact : Dr David Skellern, CEO, National ICT Australia (NICTA)
1025 : Morning Tea with Exhibition
1055 : On the Road to Tomorrow's Wireless World : Dr Y Jay Guo, Research Director, Wireless Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre
1120 : Agreement Technology - Realizing a Business Potential of the Internet : Dr Jason Scholz, Research Leader Information Enterprises, DSTO
1145 : Panel Session - Does Australia need a Nokia? : CSIRO, NICTA, DSTO, Smart Internet Technology CRC Dr Thomas Barlow
1235 : Sponsors message : Spruson & Ferguson
1240 : Lunch with Exhibition : Lunch sponsored by Spruson & Ferguson
1355 : Trustworthy Embedded Systems - How Australian Research Can Have an Impact : Professor Gernot Heiser, Program Leader, Embedded Real-Time, and operating systems
1420 : Towards the Digital Farm: Dr Peter Corke, Research Director, Autonomous Systems Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre
1445 : TeamNets : Dr Ken Skinner, Senior Research Scientist, Command Decision Environments, DSTO
1510 : Methods and Software Tools for the Adaptive Software Development Organisations : Professor Ross Jeffery, Program Leader, Empirical Software Engineering, NICTA
1535 : Afternoon Tea with Exhibition
1600 : Australian Innovations in E-Health : Dr Anthony Maeder, Research Director, e-health Research Centre (a joint venture of CSIRO and the Queensland Government)
1625 : HxI: A National Research Initiative in ICT-augmented Human Interactivity : Professor Rudi Vernik, Research Leader Command Decision Environments (DSTO)
1700 : Closing comments : Dr J Chris Scott, Chair ICT Outlook Committee
1715 : Close