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Keynote Speaker - Opening Address

Senator Kate Lundy

Senator for the Australian Capital Territory

Senator Kate Lundy has represented the Australian Capital Territory in the Australian Federal Parliament since 1996. In that time she had many portfolios in opposition including IT, Manufacturing, Consumer Affairs, Sport and Health Promotion. Senator Lundy is currently Chair of the Joint Standing Committee for the National Capital and External Territories. She is a long-standing member of the Senate Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee.

Senator Lundy has participated in every Senate Inquiry relating to telecommunications and Information Technology in the last thirteen years and continues to be a strong advocate for the use of digital technology and ICT innovation to strengthen and transform the economy for future growth and enhance social inclusion within society.

Plenary Speakers

• His Excellency Mr ZHANG Junsai, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Commonwealth of Australia
• Dr Neil Williams PSM, CEO, Geoscience Australia
• Sam Bacharach, Executive Director Outreach, The Board of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
• Clive Lines, Director, Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation, Department of Defence
• Colin MacDonald, CEO, Land Information New Zealand
• Professor Mary O’Kane, NSW Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer
• Bruce Thompson, Director Spatial Information Infrastructure, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria)
• Warwick Watkins, Chair, ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council Director-General, Department of Lands (NSW)

Concurrent Session Speakers

Climate Change and Water

• Simon Allen, Technical Director, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
• Prof Gary Meyers, Director, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), University of Tasmania
• Dr Roger Proctor, Director, eMarine Information Infrastructure (eMII) Project, University of Tasmania
• Tony Boston, Assistant Secretary (Water Data Management), Bureau of Meteorology
• David J. Brunckhorst, Director, UNESCO Centre for Bioregional Resource Management, University of New England
• Dr David Lemon, Research Stream Leader - Spatial Analysis, CSIRO Land and Water
• Elizabeth McDonald, Project Manager, GeoFabric, Bureau of Meteorology
• Matt Dell, Myriax Software Australia

Social Inclusion

• Bruce Thompson, Director Spatial Information Infrastructure, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria)
• Tony Hunter, Director, Geospatial Data & Development, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
• Patrick Meehan, Director, Survey21 Pty Ltd, Land and Engineering Surveyors
• Greg Barras, Victoria Police
• Ian Batley, MAPS

Social Inclusion - Health

• Dr Marnie Leybourne, President, Spatial Sciences Institute Director, WALIS
• Narelle Mullan, Project Coordinator, Spatial Health Demonstrator, Department of Health (WA)
• Peter Robertson, Assistant Secretary Business Intelligence, Department of Human Services

Indigenous Communities and Culture

• Dr Dean Carson & Nicholas Holyoak, Desert Knowledge CRC
• Greg Evans, Business Manager, Geospatial Information Section, Centrelink
• Gary Maguire, Manager, Online and Geographic Services, Department for Families and Communities (South Australia)
• Prof Murray McGregor, General Manager, Research, Desert Knowledge CRC
• Mick Starkey, Coordinator, Cultural Heritage Program, Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park
• Ashley Williams, Spatial Technician, National Native Title Tribunal

Federal, State, Territory and Local Government activities

• Kylie Armstrong, Western Australia Land Information Authority
• Assoc Prof Chris Bellman, Victorian Spatial Council
• Simon Costello, Project Leader, Geographic Research & Data Acquisition, Geoscience Australia
• John Dean, Manager, Economic Development, Baulkham Hills Shire Council (NSW)
• Dr Mishka Foster, Principal Analyst, Economic Development Branch, Brisbane City Council
• Steve Jacoby, Department of Natural Resources and Water (Queensland)
• Wayne Patterson, Department of Lands (NSW)
• Phil Rudd, Department of Planning and Infrastructure (Northern Territory)

Cities: Response to Change

• Dr John Barton, Research Fellow: UrbanIT, City Futures Research Centre
• Dr Matthew Beaty, Urban Environmental Geographer, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
• Michael Chappell, Urban Economist & managing Director, Pracsys

The Significance of Spatial Capabilities

• Glenn Cockerton, Vice Chairman, Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA)
• Alan Smart, Senior Consultant and Marketing Director, ACIL Tasman Pty Ltd
• Prof Ian Williamson AM, University of Melbourne

Public Sector Information

• Bruce Douglas, CEO, Corporate GIS Consultants Australia
• Greg Oaten, President, Geospatial Information and Technology Association - Australia & New Zealand
• Brian Smith, General Manager Traffic & Content, Intelematics Australia

Data Delivery and Access

• Francisco Ortiz de Urbina, ESRI Australia
• Brad Spencer, NuMaps
• Tony Pack, Geoscience Australia

New Approaches to Mapping

• Dr Rob Woodcock, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
• Bruce Simons, Geoscience Victoria
• Ryan Fraser, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
• Graeme Martin, Manager Consulting, Spatial Vision
• Peter Ulm, Business Development Manager, Virtual Earth, Microsoft
• Ben Somerville, ESRI Australia
• Bob Williams, Cartographer and geoscientist - An Odyssey: from the origins of GIS to future trends and challenges

Standards

• Richard Jelliffe, Allette Systems
• Jacqueline LeLievre,Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria)
• Sue Marner & Sarah Cavanagh, Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation
• Andy Meehan, Chief Technology Officer, Integeo
• Alister Nairn, Director Geography, Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Cameron Shorter, Geospatial Systems Architect, LISAsoft

Clive Lines

Director Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation

Clive Lines was appointed as Head of the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation in May 2007. His responsibilities include the provision of intelligence in support of government and Australian Defence Force activities, the provision of geospatial support to the ADF, including mapping and targeting, and support to agencies involved in security activities. In addition, as Director DIGO, he is also responsible for the Coordination of Geospatial Capability and the management of geospatial information and hand held imagery (HHI) across the Department of Defence.

Prior to his appointment as Director DIGO he served for eight months as Director DSD and previously served as both the Deputy Director Capability and Deputy Director Intelligence in DSD. Clive has also worked in DIO as Assistant Secretary, Analytical Services, where he had responsibility for intelligence production and coordination, customer relations, collection liaison, information services, security and information technology.

Clive Lines joined DSD, the National Signals Intelligence Organisation in 1982 after graduating from Melbourne University with an honours degree in French language and literature. He has held a variety of positions at both the operational and managerial level related to the collection, processing and reporting of signals intelligence. He led a major review of DSD intelligence collection and production capabilities in 1989, and was part of the project team involved with the development of the Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station, Geraldton. In 1994, he was seconded to participate in an external review of DSD capabilities against a principal intelligence target following which he was responsible for SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) policy development. Clive was promoted to the SES in 1998 and was responsible for the planning and development of signals intelligence collection and processing systems.

Colin MacDonald

Colin MacDonald joined Land Information New Zealand as Chief Executive in July 2008.

From November 2001 to June 2008 Colin was Deputy Commissioner Business Development and Systems at Inland Revenue.

Colin has more than 20 years experience in Information Technology (IT) and general management in both New Zealand and UK and was previously Chief Operating Officer for the ANZ Banking Group (NZ).

Prior to joining the ANZ in 1995, Colin was employed by KPMG as Associate Director in the IT consulting team. From 1980 to 1994, Colin, who is Scottish-born, was based in the UK, where he held IT management roles in the oil industry and in the legal and retail sectors.

Greg Oaten

Greg Oaten has been a director of GITA since 2005. He was elected as President of GITA in November 2008. He is also Executive Manager Revenue Operations at EnergyAustralia and leads a team of 200 people involved in network billing and meter data management operations.

Greg was executive Manager Data Operations Group in EnergyAustralia's Shared Services division from 2006-2008 and Manager GIS Maintenance from 2002-2005, being responsible for managing the timely capture of spatial data relating to EnergyAustralia's electrical distribution network.

Mr Bruce Thompson

Director, Spatial Information Infrastructure
Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria

Bruce is Director, Spatial Information Infrastructure, State Government of Victoria, Australia. He is responsible for Victoria's whole-of-Government spatial information strategy and policies, and for the management of the Victoria's spatial information infrastructure.

He holds a Bachelor of Design Studies from the University of Queensland, a Master of Business (Information Technology) from RMIT University, and is an Executive Fellow of the Australia New Zealand School of Government.

He is a member of the Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC), a director of PSMA Australia, Australia's national spatial data provider, and the Deputy Chair of the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.

Peter Ulm

Business Development Manager, Microsoft mapping Australia/NZ region

Peter Ulm is the Business Development Manager for Microsoft’s online mapping platform, Microsoft Virtual Earth within the Australia and New Zealand region. Peter manages partner and channel relationships whilst also working directly with government and commercial customers to promote the benefits of location based services and particularly the integration of Virtual Earth within customers’ existing technology investments.

Peter has been with Microsoft for 11 years, previously as a Strategic Account Manager, managing some of Australia’s largest enterprise accounts including the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

In April 2009, Peter was elected to be an Appointed Director of the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) for 2009.

Warwick Watkins

Warwick Watkins is the Director General of the NSW Department of Lands, Surveyor General of NSW, Registrar General of NSW and Commissioner, Soil Conservation Service of NSW.

The Department of Lands consists of Land and Property Information (LPI) NSW (titling, valuation, surveying, and other spatial information); Crown Lands administration and management (land leases and licences, reserves and State Parks and land uses from cemeteries to iconic development/business sites to tourist and recreation areas); Native Title and Aboriginal Land Claims; Soil Conservation Service (including soil conservation earthworks and consultancy services), Land Boards and the Emergency Information Coordination Unit (spatial data needs for counter terrorism and emergency services planning, research and consequence management), the Office of Rural Affairs and the Office of Biofuels.

Warwick graduated from Hawkesbury Agricultural College at Richmond, now part of the University of Western Sydney with Honours and gained further postgraduate degrees and diplomas from the University of New England in Armidale, including a Masters Degree in Natural Resources. He also studied at the Harvard Business School in Boston in the United States of America.

Warwick is a member of a number of national and state committees involved with government and community activities.

He is a former Vice President of the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation and a former Deputy Commissioner of the Murray Darling Basin Commission; former Director of the CRC for Smart Internet Technology and Director and Deputy Chair of the CRC for Spatial Information. He is also a past foundation Director of Landcare Australia Limited.

Program

Delegates can look forward to a program that will explore various aspects of government spatial activities in the areas of national priority. Presenters will address issues relating to ways that spatial technologies can underpin the delivery of services across every aspect of government operations, as well as assisting in policy development and program efficiency. Some of the themes to be covered include:

Social Inclusion
Social Inclusion is a major focus of the Federal Government. Delegates will have the opportunity to hear how spatial technologies are providing essential support in delivering the social inclusion agenda across Australia. The power of location is assisting in developing better informed policy and also supports the measurement of the effectiveness of its implementation.

Climate Change
Spatial capabilities are assuming a growing importance in the area of measuring the impacts of Climate Change. From future planning to managing natural disasters, such as the recent Victorian Bushfires, spatial is being looked to, to provide efficient and effective support in planning and managing climate change issues.

Water
Water sustainability is a particular problem for our drought stricken continent. Presenters will discuss how the innovative use of spatial data and applications are being harnessed to manage our precious resources.

Local Government
Local Government authorities across Australia have wonderful examples and experiences to share with delegates on how their own grassroots projects have been improved through the use of spatial technologies and social networking. Presenters will explore the way spatial technologies are aiding service delivery and impacting on policy and project development.

Future Directions of Spatial Technologies
Expert representatives from government and industry will explore where the future will take spatial technologies. Presenters will forecast the changes that can be expected in the field and will anticipate how the role of spatial in government will develop and grow in the future.

Indigenous Communities and Culture
Indigenous communities and cultures have a unique perspective and affinity with 'place' in the Australian environment. Presenters will offer delegates the opportunity to see how spatial is applied in Indigenous communities. It will also display lessons and examples of how spatial capabilities help in service delivery and Indigenous policy development.