KEYNOTE PRESENTERS

Broadband Outlook Day - Monday 8 December

Simon Hackett, Managing Director Internode 

Simon Hackett is one of Australia's best-known technology entrepreneurs. As managing director of national broadband trailblazer Internode, Simon leads Australia's largest privately owned broadband company. Established in 1991, Internode has more than 140,000 broadband customers and 330 employees, a carrier-grade international telecommunications network and a range of value-added broadband services. Simon leads Internode with a unique combination of technical insight and entrepreneurial energy. While renowned for its customer-friendly service, Internode constantly pushes back the boundaries of broadband innovation. In 2005, Internode was the first Australian company to launch commercial ADSL2+ broadband. In 2007, the company pioneered ADSL2+ Annex M services. In July 2008, Internode became the first national ISP to offer its customers direct access to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) as part of its standard service. In August 2008, Simon's achievements were acknowledged with the Telecommunications Ambassador award from the Communications Alliance. This annual award recognises an outstanding individual who has shown strong leadership and made a significant and visible contribution to the Australian communications industry. Simon won the Bulletin-Microsoft Smart 100 IT & Communications Award in 2004 and was an SA winner in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards in 2005. Simon is also a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society.

Geof Heydon, Director of Innovation and Market Development, Australasia and North Asia Alcatel-Lucent

Geof has regional responsibility for business development and a key responsibility for services and IP transformation market development, engaging with strategic customers across the region. He joined Alcatel in 1994, bringing with him more than two decades of telecommunications experience. Since then he has held a number of senior positions, including responsibility for broadband applications such as IPTV and content for Alcatel in the Asia-Pacific. Mr. Heydon is an industry expert on future fixed and mobile services and a central member of Alcatel's strategic team. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology in Sydney.

Robin Simpson, Gartner Australasia 

Robin Simpson is a research director based in Sydney, Australia. He conducts research and provides advice and support for Gartner clients on the business applications of mobile, wireless and emerging technologies. He is a frequent speaker and press commentator on mobile and wireless and the business impact of technology convergence. Robin has more than 25 years of experience as a creator and manager of innovative high-technology teams involved in the manufacture, sales and distribution of personal and handheld computers, as well as related software development. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Simpson was a pioneer of handheld computing and wireless data applications in Australia, co-founding a successful handheld computer retail and software development business. He has held software engineering, customer support, training, business development and channel management roles at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Telstra, Deakin University and Apple Computer Australia.

Li-Jun Yao, Emerging Network Technology & Architecture Director, Telstra

ATNAC 2008 -Keynote speakers

Dr Shaun Amy, Computing Infrastructure Group, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility 

Dr Shaun Amy leads the Computing Infrastructure Group at CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility where he specialises in the design and implementation of networks and systems to obtain optimal throughput on high-bandwidth, long-distance networks. Shaun has been involved in research and education networking for most of his professional career. He represented CSIRO and played an active role in the design of AARNet2 in the late 1990s. He is often asked to provide advice to various CSIRO network projects and continues to work closely with AARNet. Holding a Ph.D. in Radio Astronomy, Shaun is in the position to understand the needs of researchers when developing solutions to their connectivity problems. As time permits, he attempts to maintain active participation in the professional astronomy community.

Michael Boland

Michael Boland is a distinguished systems engineer within Cisco, based in Sydney Australia. He has 29 years of experience in the Australian and New Zealand IT industry, having worked in various engineering roles in the liquor, IT systems integration and telecommunications industries. Within Cisco Michael has led Australian and New Zealand systems network architecture development for large Enterprise, Service Provider and more recently into industry vertical market segments (namely public sector Health and Education). While Michael has broad technical and industry knowledge, he specialises in large public sector enterprise networks, Wide Area Network technologies, service provider access network infrastructure and lawful interception. When not dominating whiteboards at Cisco, Michael enjoys vegetable gardening and studying alternate energy systems as hobbies.

Leith Campbell,  Principal Consultant with Ovum Consulting in Melbourne 

Leith Campbell is a Principal Consultant with Ovum Consulting in Melbourne. The majority of his projects have involved developing or reviewing regulatory cost models. He has consulted widely in the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East. In Australia, he has worked on a number of costing projects, including cost estimates for FTTN and FTTH rollouts in the Australian suburbs. Dr Campbell joined Ovum after five years as CEO of the Australian Telecommunications Cooperative Research Centre, a consortium of industrial and university partners, where he oversaw research and commercialisation of telecommunications technologies for fixed and mobile networks. Prior to that assignment, he spent nearly 14 years with Telstra Research Laboratories in a variety of management roles, including leadership of future-oriented R&D, the formation of a new network management research section and the early work in Australia on intelligent networks. In the 1980s, Dr Campbell worked for five years in the US at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), where he was responsible for the systems engineering of an advanced loop planning system. Prior to his time in the US, he spent six years in the UK as a university academic at the Universities of Cambridge and Durham. Dr Campbell holds a B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide. He serves on the Council for the World Telecommunications Congress and chaired the international technical committee for WTC 2006 (Budapest). He is a member of IEEE and INFORMS.

Dr. Zygmunt J. Haas Professor School of Electrical Engineering Wireless Networks Laboratory, Director Cornell University

Zygmunt J. Haas received his B.Sc. in EE in 1979 and M.Sc. in EE in 1985. In 1988, he earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University and subsequently joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in the Network Research Department. There he pursued research on wireless communications, mobility management, fast protocols, optical networks, and optical switching. From September 1994 till July 1995, Dr. Haas worked for the AT&T Wireless Center of Excellence, where he investigated various aspects of wireless and mobile networking, concentrating on TCP/IP networks. As of August 1995, he joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, where he is now a Professor. Dr. Haas is an author of numerous technical papers and holds eighteen patents in the fields of high-speed networking, wireless networks, and optical switching. He has organized several workshops, delivered numerous tutorials at major IEEE and ACM conferences, and has served as editor of several journals and magazines, including the IEEE Transactions on Networking, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Communications Magazine, the Springer “Wireless Networks” journal, the Elsevier “Ad Hoc Networks” journal, the “Journal of High Speed Networks,” and the Wiley “Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing” journal. He has been a guest editor of IEEE JSAC issues on "Gigabit Networks," "Mobile Computing Networks," and "Ad-Hoc Networks." Dr. Haas is an IEEE? Fellow and a voting member of ACM. He has served in the past as a Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications (TCPC). His interests include: mobile and wireless communication and networks, biologically-inspired networks, and modeling of complex systems. 

Geoff Huston 

Geoff Huston has been working in the Internet for ages. He started up the Australian Academic and Research Network a couple of eons ago and was given a 10 year sentence to toil in the underground bunkers at Telstra as a result. Upon his release he has been working as APNIC's Chief Scientist. He's been around Internet organizations a fair bit, having been on the Internet Architecture Board, on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, and currently he co-chairs a couple of IETF working groups on BGP security and IPv6 multi-homing. He writes a bit, plays with routing a bit and sometimes talks a bit about all the other bits.

Andrew Odlyzko, Director Digital Technology Center, Professor in the School of Mathematics, the University of Minnesota

Andrew Odlyzko is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. He is engaged in a variety of projects, from mathematics to security and Internet traffic monitoring. His main project currently is to write a book that compares the Internet bubble to the British Railway Mania of the 1840s, and explores the implications for technology diffusion. In his earlier career, he worked in research and research management at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs, and after moving to Minnesota was the founding director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center, Interim Director of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, and Assistant Vice President for Research. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University College London for the fall term of 2008.