Speakers and Session Chairs
- A/Prof Grenville Armitage
- Mr Fred Baker
- Mr Michael Biber
- Dr Paul Boustead
- Ms Narelle Clark
- Mr Martin Dawson
- Mr Tony Hain
- Mr Geoff Huston
- Dr Roger Kermode
- Dr Kate Lance
- Dr Tim Mansfield
- Mr Ramin Marzbani
- Dr Philip McCrea
- Prof Darrell Williamson
Associate Professor Grenville Armitage
Dr Grenville Armitage is Director of the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures at Swinburne University of Technology and Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering. He received his PhD in 1994 from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Between 1994 and 1997 he worked in New Jersey, USA, at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) as a Senior Scientist in the Applied Research Division's Internetworking Research Group. From 1997 to 2001 he worked as a Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (in New Jersey and California), and in 1998 was also Product Marketing Director in Lucent's then Data Networking business unit. In 2002 he returned to Australia to build the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures.He wrote the book "Quality of Service in IP Networks - Foundations for a multi-service Internet" (Macmillan Technical Press, April 2000) and has a number of published papers and IETF RFCs. During the 1990s he was active in the IETF's IP over ATM, MPLS and DiffServ working groups. He remains active on the IRTF's mailing lists for the End2end and Internet Measurement research groups. Most recently he chaired the ACM SIGCOMM2003 workshop on Revisiting IP QoS (RIPQOS) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Mr Fred Baker
Fred Baker has worked in the telecommunications industry since 1978, building statistical multiplexors, terminal servers, bridges, and routers.At Cisco Systems, his primary interest areas include the improvement of Quality of Service for best effort and real time traffic, the development of routing and addressing, and issues in law enforcement and emergency use of the Internet. In addition to product development, as a Cisco Fellow, he advises senior management of industry directions and appropriate corporate strategies.
In addition, he is the chair of the Internet Society's Board of Trustees. His principal standards contributions have been to the IETF, for which he served as IETF Chair in from 1996 to 2001 and a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1996 to 2003. In that forum, he has contributed to Network Management, OSPF and Ad Hoc Routing, PPP and Frame Relay, the Integrated and Differentiated Services QoS architectures, and RSVP.
Mr Michael H. Biber
Michael Biber has over 30 years experience in the telecommunications industry. He worked for Telstra in Australia, Esso/Exxon in the US, Fujitsu in Australia/Japan and Digital Equipment Corporation in the US before commencing his consultancy, BiberTel Consulting Services in 1992, which was absorbed into Asia Pacific Networx in 1996.Michael is the CEO of Asia Pacific Networx (APN). APN provides consultancy, project management, support and training in the areas of advanced technology network design, Broadband Networking, Voice and video over IP, ASP Strategy, VPNs, LAN Interconnect, IP Networking, Voice/Video/Data Convergence, Thin Client/Server Based Computing, Windows NT/Exchange implementation and Information Technology and Telecommunications project management. APN supports the NetFormX, netViz and other Network Documentation, Modeling and Simulation toolkits in Australia. APN is an accredited IPv6 Transition Authority and is actively involved in IPv6 strategic network planning.
Michael is also the Convener of the IPv6 Forum in Australia/New Zealand, Chair of the AARNet IPv6 Working Committee and External Relations Director of the Advanced Networking Forum Australia (ANFA). He was a founding member and is past Secretary of the Pacific Frame Relay Forum as well as past Executive Director of the Australia ATM Interest Group (the ATM Forum's representative in Australia before the creation of ANFA). He is active in the standards community, was the first Public Officer/Secretary of the Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF), regularly presents on advanced networking strategies and implementation at many Australian and international conferences and is an accredited International N+I Tutorial lecturer.
Dr Paul Boustead
Paul Boustead is currently a Senior Research fellow at the Telecommunications and IT Research (TITR) Institute at the University of Wollongong. Paul has been involved in the CRC for Smart Internet technology from start and has helped shape the Smart Networks research program. Paul's current research interests include the delivery of distributed and delay constrained applications within the Internet, network support for massively multiplayer games, MPLS as well as wireless ad hoc networks. He holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering and an undergraduate degree in computer engineering, both from the University of Wollongong.
Ms Narelle Clark
Narelle Clark BAppSc MEng MIEEE MComsoc is a data communications and Internet specialist who has been working in advanced technology areas consistently throughout her career since the early days of the Australian Internet, starting with university campus networks, research labs and medical and Internet software projects. Narelle's last major project was as architect of Optus' new Wireless Connect Product.Now in the role of Manager, Advanced Network Architecture in the new technology analysis group of Optus, Narelle has been a user, builder, manager and researcher of Internet networks and services since 1986. She has been an Optus employee since 1998 during which time she has played a key technical and management role in a number of major Internet projects. A firm believer in relevant technology, Narelle also runs an on-line parenting support group and is a member of the steering committee for the group Females in Information Technology & Telecommunications. She is also Vice-President of the Internet Society of Australia.
Mr Martin Dawson
Martin Dawson's career in engineering has spanned the last 25 years. The past 15 years have been in networking and telecommunications. This includes a period of time with British Telecom Research Laboratories in the UK developing Service Creation Environments for Intelligent Networks (IN) and with Telstra, also developing IN services.He has been employed at the Nortel Networks Technology Center since 1994 and has been actively involved in further IN development, wireless services, and the Wireless Internet. Since 1999, he has been engaged in the creation and development of Nortel Networks global Mobile Location Center product that offers carrier grade GMLC, SMLC and MPC functionality. He is the chief product architect for this platform, which was recently awarded the AIIA award for innovation in telecommunications. Martin Dawson has a M. Eng Sc. from the University of Sydney. He lives with his family in Wollongong.
Mr Tony Hain
Mr. Hain is currently a Technical Leader with Cisco Systems focusing on IPv6. In addition to providing guidance to the various internal product teams, he has also been co-chair of the IETF working group developing IPv6 Transition tools. His IETF participation since 1987 includes a term on the Internet Architecture Board from 1997 - 2001. He is currently serving as the Technology Director for the steering committee of the North American task force of the IPv6 forum.Prior to joining Cisco in 2001, he spent 5 years at Microsoft where his roles included Program Manager for IPv6, as well as Network Analyst for the CIO's office. Prior to Microsoft, he was the Associate Network Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy's Internet effort, ESnet. With this range of roles, spanning the space between the implementation technologists and senior management, he brings a real world viewpoint to the deployment decision process.
Mr Geoff Huston
Geoff Huston is the Chief Internet Scientist at Telstra, and has been involved with the Internet in Australia since the late eighties. He is a past chair of the global Internet Society, as well as having served as a director for ISOC-AU. He is currently the Executive Director of the Internet Architecture Board as well as a member of the Executive Council of APNIC. He has had a wealth of experience in constructing and operating IP networks.
Dr Roger Kermode
Roger Kermode is currently a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff with Motorola Labs. In 1999, he established and continues to manage what is now the Sydney Networks Research Laboratory at the Motorola Australia Research Centre. Since its creation SNRL has developed technologies for Home Networking, IP-based public Radio networks, IPv6, peer-to-peer, WLAN, MANET, and zero-configuration networking. Roger has worked previously for Telstra's Research Labs and Silicon Grpahics Inc. He holds Ph.D. and Masters degrees from the MIT Media Lab where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar as well as undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Melbourne.In 2000, he served on the Prime Minister's Science Engineering Innovation Council Working Group on ICT Research and Development that provided input to Federal Government's "Backing Australia's Ability" policy. He currently co-chairs the IETF Reliabe Multicast Transport Working Group and sits on the Research Advisory Committee for the Smart Internet Technology Co-operative Research Centre.
Dr Kate Lance
Kate Lance studied science at London University and astronomy at Mount Stromlo in Canberra. In 1988 she moved into the fledgling Internet world as a Unix system administrator at the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics and at the University of Newcastle. She worked from 1996 to 2000 as System Manager and Director of Internet Services at the ISP Connect.In 1996 she helped set up ISOC-AU and was on the board for five years, two of them as President, and since the start of 2002 has been Executive Director of the Society. She also works as a Unix system consultant for Cybersource, maintains the ISOC-AU website, and writes about the boats and history of the pearling industry.
Dr Tim Mansfield
Dr Tim Mansfield is a Senior Research Scientist at the CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC) at UTS in Sydney. His research focuses on supporting social action and knowledge sharing by taking a user-centred approach to the deployment of next generation web technologies. Dr Mansfield has worked at DSTC since 1996 and been responsible for the Orbit prototype collaboration system (1999) and the creation of the Information Ecology project. He moved to DSTC Sydney in 2000 to lead the Information Ecology group.
Mr Ramin Marzbani
Ramin Marzbani pioneered online research in Australia in 1995 and his company, www.consult, was acquired by ACNielsen in 2000. He is currently the CEO of ACNielsen.consult. He had previously worked for IBM and Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Ramin holds two degrees from the University of NSW.
Dr Philip McCrea
Philip McCrea has over 32 years experience in the Australian IT industry, spanning both academia and commerce. After being awarded a PhD in Computer Science from the University of NSW in 1975, he held various lecturing posts in the UK, Canada and Australia. He left academic life in 1986 to join AAP Reuters Communications as Software Development Manager, and in 1988 became Managing Director of Softway Pty Ltd, a Sydney based software company. In 1994 he joined CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences as a business development manager, and regularly consulted to industry and government in the area of internet commerce. Philip left CSIRO in 2000 to become CEO of ac3, a startup company providing high performance computing and data centre services to industry, commerce, government and academia.
Professor Darrell Williamson
Professor Williamson is the Chief Executive Officer for the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre. He has degrees in Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, and a Doctoral degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. He has held various academic appointments at the University of New South Wales, the Australian National University and the University of Wollongong. He was foundation Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, ANU and then Dean of the Faculty.Later he became Chief Executive Officer for the Cooperative Research Centre in Advanced Computational Systems, and subsequently, Director of the Telecommunications & Information Technology Research Institute at the University of Wollongong. Professor Williamson has held visiting appointments at various universities in Europe and the USA, and has published widely in the fields of telecommunications, signal processing and control. He has served on various CRC Boards and advisory committees including the Information Industries Development Board of the ACT Government and the National Advisory Committee of Item3 Pty Ltd.