Program: Wednesday 6th April 2005

Time

Presentation

Speaker

08:30 Registration and refreshments

Session 1: Designing the Future - implications of massive Internet bandwidth

Chair - Philip McCrea, CEO Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications
09:00 Welcome Philip McCrea, CEO Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications
09:05 Official Opening Tony Hill, President, Internet Society of Australia
09:20 Broadband Internet and Beyond
The future in Asian telecommunications planning
Lee In-Ho, Assistant Vice President, Management Research Lab, KT (Korea Telecom)
09:50 Giving Users Control
Power to the users of Canada's amazing next generation Internet!
René Hatem, Chief Engineer, CANARIE (via Access Grid)
10:20 Morning Tea

Session 2: Wireless vs Fibre to the Premises - from fast networks to you

Chair - Paul Davis, Director, GrangeNet
10:45 I'd Rather be Tethered
Which broadband access options suit different situations?
Narelle Clark, Manager Advanced Network Architecture, Optus
11:05 Silicon Lasers and Radios: Building Blocks for Bigger Pipes
New manufacturing technologies for greater bandwidth
Sean Casey, Communications Manager, Intel Australia/New Zealand
11:35 The Last Mile Arms Race: Wireless vs Copper vs Cable
It's not just a war between wireless and fibre!
Simon Hackett, CEO Internode
12:00 Panel Session With the previous speakers
12:30 Lunch

Session 3: Broadband-Enhanced Applications

Chair - Kate Lance, Executive Director, ISOC-AU
01:30 Application and Market Drivers for Broadband
What do people really want from broadband?
Michael Boland, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems
02:00 Using GrangeNet to Study Super-Massive Black Hole Binaries
Studying pulsars with 3D virtual reality over high bandwidth links
Matthew Bailes, Director of the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
02:30 The Hospital in the Era of Ultrabroadband Internet
Critical clinical services to distant locations
Patrick Cregan, Chair of NSW Surgical Taskforce, Co-Chair Sydney West Area Health Service Surgery Network
03:00 Afternoon Tea

Session 4: Communities, Users and Networks

Chair - Darrell Williamson, CEO Smart Internet
03:20 Beyond the Obvious in Broadband
What challenges are we facing in broadband infrastructure demand?
Robin Eckermann, Communications Consultant
03:50 When High Bandwidth is Not Enough: Infrastructure Needs of Participatory Entertainment
Good design and avoiding new networking bottlenecks
Farzad Safaei, Program Manager, Smart Internet Technology CRC
04:20 hyperpeople: what happens after we're all connected?
Mobile technologies transforming human communication
Mark Pesce, Lecturer, Interactive Media, Digital Media Program at the Australian Film Television and Radio School
04:50 Closing Remarks Tony Hill, President, Internet Society of Australia
05:00 Refreshments and networking Music over GrangeNet, in collaboration with School of Music, ANU