KEYNOTE AND INVITED SPEAKERS

Apple Computer

Apple was the first major computer company to make open source development a fundamental part of its software strategy.  Apple's Open Source projects include Darwin, Darwin Streaming Server, OpenPlay, OpenDarwin, WebCore and other open source initiatives.  Apple's presentation will provide an update on Apple's open source projects and infrastructure.

Steve Alford
NOIE

Steve Alford is the General Manager, Information Management Strategy and Governance at the National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE).  He joined NOIE in 2002 following 11 years working with various Federal agencies on employment, education and small business programs.  His career in government and the Online world was preceded by 16 years working in secondary education in Australia and overseas.

Over the last seven years he has taken a leadership role in the development and implementation of Online business systems including document management systems, financial and HR systems and Web publishing.  He has extensive experience in the development of portals for specific target audiences including the Australian business community through the Business Entry Point, the education sector through Education Network Australia and departmental staff through the corporate Intranet.

Steve is an advocate of a customer centric approach to information and service delivery.  His recent work on portals has emphasised rapid acceleration of take-up driven by user demand through the creation of enriched environments built on effective partnerships.  He sees the future as offering tremendous opportunities to break the agency centric approach to Online service delivery in Government sector.

Matt Asay
Novell

Matthew N. Asay has been involved with Linux for several years, both professionally and academically.  Asay is a member of Novell's Open Source Review Board, responsible for laying the strategic and business foundation for Novell's use of open source software.  Asay also has responsibility for growing Novell's developer base, which involves making Novell a more attractive platform (through OSS and other means) and recruiting top-tier development partners to Novell's platform.

Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway business.  Prior to joining Lineo, Asay worked in the investment arm of Mitsui & Co., where he co-managed Mitsui's investment in Cobalt (a successful Linux-based microserver startup that was acquired by Sun Microsystems).  In addition to his present work with Novell, Asay founded and co-directs OpenSoft International, a consulting firm focused on the legal and strategic issues surrounding open source technologies, which also mentors and helps to fund promising startups based on open source software.  Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Stanford Law School, where he studied software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig.

Dr Elizabeth Gordon-Werner
NSW Office of Information Technology

Elizabeth is currently Manager, Electronic Strategic Projects at the NSW Office of Information Technology and has managed the NSW Open Source project since its inception.  Although a scientist by training, Elizabeth has always had an active interest in using technology to streamline business.  Her IT achievements include developing and implementing project reporting software for Sydney Water and, as CIO for NSW Fisheries, redesigning the NSW Fisheries web site resulting in a 200% increase in usage.

Phil Karn
Qualcomm

Phil Karn has a BSEE from Cornell University and a MSEE from Carnegie Mellon University.  He is currently a Principal Engineer at Qualcomm in San Diego.  Before Qualcomm, Phil was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Naperville, IL and Murray Hill, NJ, and at Bell Communications Research in Morristown, NJ.

Before becoming involved professionally in digital radio communications, Phil was active in the early development of amateur (ham) packet radio.  He wrote the KA9Q NOS TCP/IP package (KA9Q is his amateur radio call sign) and invented the MACA multiple access scheme now part of IEEE 802.11.  At Qualcomm, Phil conceived the IP-based CDMA packet data architecture and designed the standard CDMA radio link protocol (RLP).  He is also active in the IETF, where he has most recently edited the upcoming “Advice for Subnetwork Designers” RFC.

Angus MacDonald
Sun Microsystems Australia

Angus MacDonald is the Chief Technology Office at Sun Microsystems.  As Sun Microsystems' leading technology evangelist in Australia and New Zealand, Angus MacDonald is a thought provoking speaker.  The Chief Technology Officer is not afraid to make bold predictions, and proffers the good and the not-so-good in his engaging discussions about the future of the IT industry.

With more than 25 years of IT experience, MacDonald has ridden the many waves of the industry and is confident that some of the most exciting and turbulent times are yet to come.  Sun, he believes, will be at the forefront of these changes and is geared to offer guidance to customers, partners and government bodies to ensure they capitalise on the changes to their advantage.

While MacDonald believes that the hottest IT prediction of the coming year is “that most hot IT predictions this year will be wrong”, he has tracked industry trends and argues that key business drivers for IT include:

In addition to his 'evangelical' role, MacDonald consults to Sun customers and partners about the application and implementation of enterprise-wide architectures.  He also acts in an advisory capacity to key government departments, providing guidance on the future of the IT industry and what technologies should be encouraged in particular markets.

MacDonald's exceptional understanding of technological trends and industry direction has steered him through an impressive and diverse IT career including roles at CSR, Prime Computers, Perkin Elmer, ICL, Neology and Fujitsu.  For the last ten years however, MacDonald has been with Sun, having previously held the position of National System Engineer Manager, Sun Microsystems Australia and New Zealand.

Throughout his career, he has worked with numerous systems and applications, and he is one of few people in Australia with experience in UNIX® on mainframes.

MacDonald has also undertaken work with intellectually disabled people to assist them develop computer literacy skills.

Greg Rose
Qualcomm

Greg Rose is a VP of Technology for QUALCOMM International, based in Australia, where he works on cryptographic security and authentication for thirdgeneration mobile phones and other technologies.  He holds a number of patents for cryptographic methods and has successfully cryptanalyzed widely deployed ciphers.  Some of his papers and free software are available at http://www.qualcomm.com.au.

Andrew Tridgell
IBM

Andrew Tridgell is a researcher in the IBM Almaden research lab, working remotely from Canberra.  His main project at the moment is working on clustered NAS solutions using the IBM StorageTank filesystem.  Perhaps his most dubious claim to fame is that he is responsible for the very first bug ever put into Samba.

Con Zymaris
Cybersource

Con Zymaris is the Editor of the AUUG Journal and also the CEO of Cybersource Pty Ltd a long-standing Open Systems and Open Source Professional Services company.  Con has been using and programming computers since 1979, and using the Internet since 1989 and is an enthusiastic advocate for open-source software libre.  While computers were always a passion which morphed into a career, at the University of Melbourne, he actually studied Physics.