SPEAKERS INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE AND DIGITAL DISRUPTION MARITIME MUSEUM, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 10-11 APRIL 2017 dst.defence.gov.au/edtas #EDTAS DSC 1605 - EDTAS Speaker Bios PRO1.indd 1 31/03/2017 2:54 PM BRIGADIER JOHN MACKENZIE of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Australian Academy of DIRECTOR GENERAL JOINT FORCE ANALYSIS Technology and Engineering, the Institute of Engineers Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Brigadier Mackenzie enlisted in 1984 and is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy (1986) and the Royal Military College PROFESSOR HUGH BRADLOW CHIEF SCIENTIST, TELSTRA (1987). He served in the 1st Armoured and PRESIDENT, AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiments in command AND ENGINEERING at troop/squadron level and in Regimental staff appointments. He was Commanding Officer 1st Professor Hugh S Bradlow is President of Armoured Regiment in 2005/06. He was Head the Australian Academy of Technology and of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps in 2012/14. Engineering, and Chief Scientist at Telstra Corporation. In the latter role he acts as a He has held a variety of Army, joint and strategic staff appointments forward scout, looking at the longer term in Army Headquarters, Strategic Operations Division, Strategic Policy technology directions and technology disruption Branch and Investment Analysis Branch of Capability Development that will impact Telstra and its customers. Group. On promotion to Colonel he was Chief of Operations at Forces Command in 2009. He was Chief of Staff to the Vice Chief of the Prior to becoming Chief Scientist he was Chief Technology Officer Defence Force in 2011. On promotion to Brigadier he was Director and Head of Innovation at Telstra, responsible for the introduction General South and Southeast Asia, International Policy Division in of new technologies into Telstra’s business. 2013/15 and is currently Director General Joint Force Analysis, Before joining Telstra in September 1995, Professor Bradlow was Force Design Division. Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Wollongong Brigadier Mackenzie’s operational deployments were in East Timor in Australia and Professor of Electrical Engineering (Digital Systems) as a United Nations Military Observer in 2001/02, in Afghanistan at at the University of Cape Town. HQ International Security Assistance Force, as Deputy Director Plans Professor Bradlow is a graduate in electrical engineering from the in 2009/10 and in Kuwait/Iraq as Director of Plans for Operation University of Cape Town in 1973 and received the D.Phil. degree Inherent Resolve in 2016/17. (PhD) for research in experimental nuclear physics from the Brigadier Mackenzie’s military qualifications include PSC (Australian University of Oxford. He is an Emeritus Professor of the University Army Staff College, 2000) and he is a Fellow of the Centre for Defence of Wollongong, a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, and Strategic Studies (Australian Defence College, 2012). He holds a and a recipient of a Centenary Medal from the Commonwealth of Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (UNSW, 1988), a Master of Defence Studies Australia. (UC, 2000) and a Master of Management (UNSW, 2002) and a He is globally recognised as a thought leader in telecommunications Master of Arts - Defence and Strategic Studies (Deakin, 2012). and was elected as the joint 2009 Australian Telecommunications Ambassador of the Year. He was named by Global Telecom Business DR ALEX ZELINSKY as one of the most 100 most influential telecommunications CHIEF DEFENCE SCIENTIST, DST GROUP executives in the world and Smart Company designated him as Dr Alex Zelinsky was appointed Chief Defence one of the 12 most influential people ICT people in Australia. Scientist and Head of the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group (formerly DSTO) in PROFESSOR JILL SLAY March 2012. AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR CYBER SECURITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Dr Zelinsky’s scientific career includes working as a computer scientist, systems engineer and a Professor Jill Slay is Director of the Australian roboticist. His career spans innovation, science Centre for Cyber Security (ACCS) at UNSW and technology, research and development, commercial start- Canberra at ADFA. This Centre has developed ups and education. He leads the Defence Science and Technology critical mass in cross-disciplinary cyber security program within the Department of Defence. to serve the Australian Government and Defence Force, and help strengthen the Digital Prior to joining Defence, Dr Zelinsky was Group Executive for Economy. Professor Slay has established an Information Sciences at the CSIRO. Dr Zelinsky was Chief Executive international research reputation in cyber security and has worked Officer and co-founder of Seeing Machines, a high-technology in collaboration with many industry partners. company developing computer vision systems. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a start-up from the Professor Slay is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where to the information technology industry through contributions in Dr Zelinsky was Professor of Systems Engineering. the areas of forensic computer science, security, protection of infrastructure, and cyber-terrorism. Dr Zelinsky has received numerous awards and recognition of his work. He has been included in Engineers Australia’s list of the 100 She was made a Fellow of the International Information Systems most influential engineers since 2009. The World Economic Forum Security Certification Consortium for her service to the information selected Dr Zelinsky as a Technology Pioneer three years running security industry, holding CISSP and CCFP certifications, and is from 2003 to 2005. Dr Zelinsky is a Fellow of the Institute also a Fellow the Australian Computer Society. Professor Slay is well published in the areas of information assurance, critical www.dst.defence.gov.au/edtas DSC 1605 - EDTAS Speaker Bios PRO1.indd 2 31/03/2017 2:54 PM infrastructure protection, security and forensic computing in MR PAUL HEUER the last 10 years. She has been awarded over AUD 2 million in DST GROUP Australian Government Category 1 research income, including Mr Paul Heuer is Research Leader, Combat and Mission Systems a Future Fellowship. in the Defence Science and Technology Group’s Weapons and ACCS combines expertise from a range of communities; political, Combat Systems Division. He leads a major science and technology cyber industry, defence, academic, individual and organisational capability comprising three teams, totalling 50 scientists and users, and the media. ACCS builds on close working relationships engineers, supporting several ADF and government with both domestic and international industry and government, elements. The major science and technology capability includes including UNSW’s unique half-century relationship with the development and assessment of combat and Department of Defence. mission systems on aircraft, ships, and land vehicles, and across relevant networks PROFESSOR MASSIMO PICCARDI in the tactical environment, for the ADF and UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY potential adversaries Professor Massimo Piccardi is a Professor Prior to this role, Mr Heuer has over 20 years of Computer Systems with the Faculty of of experience in aircraft mission systems and Engineering and Information Technology software, on systems such as AP-3C Orion, E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C, at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). F/A-18 Hornet and F-35 Lightning. Professor Piccardi joined UTS in January 2002 He spent three years with the resident project team on the as an Associate Professor. He was previously upgrade of Australia’s F/A-18 Hornet, giving him additional a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Professor experience in Defence acquisition, working with the Defence in the Faculty of Engineering at University of Ferrara, Italy. Materiel Organisation, and with US and Canadian Government, At UTS, he directs the Computer Vision program of the Global Big and Defence, contractors. Data Technologies Centre, an international centre of excellence for the development of enabling technologies for big data science PROFESSOR REN PING LIU and analytics. His main research interests are; pattern recognition, SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY computer vision, image and video analysis and, more recently, natural language processing. Over his career, Professor Piccardi Professor Ren Ping Liu is at the School of Computing and has been the author and co-author of numerous scientific papers. Communications in University of Technology Sydney, where he leads Since relocating to Australia from Italy in 2002, he has been the Network Security Lab in the Global Big Data Technologies Centre. He Principal Investigator of a number of advanced research projects was previously Principal Scientist at CSIRO, where he led wireless including two Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects networking research activities. He specialises in network design and an ARC Linkage Project. Professor Piccardi serves as an and modelling, and has delivered networking Associate Editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding solutions to a number of government agencies and Machine Vision and Applications and is a senior member and industry customers. Professor Liu was the of the Institute of Electronical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), winner of Australian Engineering Innovation