November 2002 - Melbourne
GUEST SPEAKERS - 2002
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Guest Speaker - Marianne Broadbent, PhD "Shifting CIO Landscapes - Paradoxes for 2003" Group Vice President and Head of EXP Research Worldwide, Gartner CIO's are doing it tough. Business expectations and demands are as high as ever, but resources are more constrained than they have been for years. Budgets are stalled, investment dollars are scarce, and business cases are challenged - and challenging. As information technology becomes more pervasive and critical to enterprise success, IT-related decision making becomes more complex. There are more stakeholders - and stakeholder expectations - to deal with. There is greater business engagement with IT, but reduced 'degrees of freedom' for the IT leadership team. At the same time, more CIO's are part of the executive suite, but high profile and visibility brings high vulnerability. Meanwhile the IT industry is consolidating, leaving enterprises with fewer options. Dr Marianne Broadbent leads the global research and knowledge assets group for Gartner's Executive Programs, which has a membership base of over 1,600 Chief Information Officers worldwide. Previously, Marianne was Program Head for Gartner's Executive Programs for Asia Pacific. Gartner, a US$950m business is the world's largest advisor on the business uses of information technology, providing thought leadership, advisory and consulting services for more than 11,000 organizations globally. Dr Broadbent works extensively as an advisor and advice broker with business and IT executive teams worldwide. Her particular areas of interest and expertise are the fusion of business and technology strategies and investments, the governance and management of business-driven IT, particularly in international environments, and the dynamics of IT's business value of IT. Marianne was previously a professor in the Management of Information Systems at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Visiting Researcher at Boston University, and Head of the Department of Information Services at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is co-author of the book Leveraging the New Infrastructure: How Market Leaders Capitalize on Information Technology published by Harvard Business School Press in 1998 and has won two international 'Best Paper' awards. Dr Broadbent has a doctorate from the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. |
| Go-Girl Post Event An event to celebrate the fantastic effort demonstrated by everyone involved in the organisation of the GO GIRL GO FOR IT Career Showcase* . Attended by the WA Premier, Dr. Geoff Gallop, as patron of the GO GIRL event, along with the speakers, the volunteers and the Go Girl sponsors. *Go Girl go for IT is an initiative of Women are IT, sponsored by W.A. Premier, Dr. Geoff Gallop and designed to give a clear overview of career potential in the IT industries for young women for an expected audience of over 1500 girls from Years 8 to 11. It is running on 22 October in Bunbury and on 11 and 12 November at ECU Churchland Campus, Perth. |
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Speaker - Ms Claire Baker "The Changing Face of Telecommunications in the Bush" Outback Australia has always suffered from the tyranny of distance but this is finally being broken down, driven by both political forces and huge leaps in technology. A little bit of history will lead into some of the exciting new advances in satellite and wireless technology that make modern high-speed services available in remote areas; but will everyone need a satellite earth station on their roof? And, as always, who is going to pay for it? Should city-slickers subsidise non cost-effective services in the country, and who would dare ask how it could work if Telstra was sold? Claire Baker is currently the General Manager of Apertura, a small telecommunications company that delivers high-speed two-way data and Internet access by satellite and wireless. This is new technology in Australia and is unique to Apertura. Apertura have nine full time staff and deliver services across Australia and New Zealand from their head office on The Parade at Norwood. Claire's background as a National Manager of Communications Consultants for Telstra and Telstra's Project Director and Manager of Telecommunications for the Sydney Media Centre for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games gives her a powerful technical background for this role. |
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Speaker - Louise Pratt MLC, Member for East Metropolitan Region, Western Australia "Making IT Happen" Louise is a Member of the State Parliament's Legislative Council, representing the East Metropolitan Region. Louise's interest in information technology has grown through its use in advancing environmental, community and political issues and campaigns. She played a key role in the web-based election strategy for the Labor Party during the State Election in 2001 and has strong links with a wide range on environment, human rights and community groups who all use the Internet and e-mail to advance social and environmental causes. Currently 30 years of age Louise is the youngest woman ever elected to the Legislative Council, before entering Parliament she worked as an Electorate Officer for a Federal Member of Parliament and has played a key role in election campaigns. She is also the Secretary to the State Parliamentary Labor Party and a Member of the Legislative Council's Environment and Public Affairs Committee. |
Guest
Speaker - Michelle Beveridge
I.T. has been promising a paper-free world for
business since the dawn of the computer era, and Australia Post might be
the last organisation you would imagine is progressing the technology,
but that is precisely what Post is doing. Like many other organisations,
Post realised that electronic commerce was just another way to do
business and have combined information technology with business
capability to provide a paperless supply chain service for its
customers. |
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Speaker - Mr Kim Allen An interesting and humerous look at the Telecommunications industry over the past 30 years... Kim’s career in Telecommunications and Information
Technology goes back over 30 years giving him the dubious ability to
claim veteran status in the Telco business. |
'IF YOU CAN'T MEASURE IT, YOU CAN'T MANAGE IT' Information Systems Mgt at AXA has undergone a fundamental change and significant improvement over the past 3 years. With 4 key objectives in mind, focused on reducing costs, increasing transparency, improving project delivery and improving capability they came to the view that "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it". This has been central to everything done. Wendy will speak about AXA's approach to capturing and using sensible metrics and the benefits AXA has derived from this approach. |
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Speaker - Ms Deborah Hann Yes, I know, I've heard the spiel too, something along the lines of
"the IT Industry is the most exciting place to be in this day and
age! " But how many of us find it less than exciting at times, find
that you can think of a number of things you would rather be doing than
being at work! In my darkest moments, even house work seems like a
better option! |
Ian will examine where the business community is heading and what new opportunities are there to be exploited from Disaster Recovery Planning in the wake of 911 to new trends in application development. Qualifications
Associate
Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Fiance)
Member |
 Mary
Gray"Taking Control - How to Make an Impact and Manage Difficult Situations, Influence Outcomes and be Recognised as a Leader" Mary Gray is a specialist in leadership development, strategic planning, management development, team development and change management. She conducts sessions such as using voice and presence to make an impact and to manage situations, how to contribute effectively at meetings and how to develop influencing skills.
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 Associate Professor Bill HutchinsonSchool of Management Information Systems "Information Warfare - from CEO to Cyber-terrorist" Bill Hutchinson is Associate Professor of Computer and
Information Security in the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan
University, Perth, Western Australia. He has 20 years experience in Information Systems in
Government, Energy and Finance industries, as well as Academia in Australia and the United
Kingdom. He is a member of the Australian Computer Society and the Australian Institute
for Professional Intelligence Officers, and specialises in Information Warfare. In this seminar, Bill will examine the concept of Information Superiority, and challenge the audience on whether any of us are truly "information" managers as opposed to 'data' managers. The change in perspective needed to accommodate information superiority in this networked world will be covered. Bill will discuss some of the threats and opportunities for using information as a weapon and also realising it as a target. He will challenge the audience's concepts of how to 'use' information showing how for example the way in which terrorist groups use the concept in a more effective way than we do. |
Guest
Speaker - Wendy Thorpe
Guest
Speaker - Ian Olson
Mary
has a wealth of experience as a senior executive in large corporations and
was the Vice Chair of the Leadership Consortium, a group of blue chip
companies joined together to develop leadership capability within their
high potential managers. She is also an Advisor to the Barton Institute of
Tafe on management development. Her experience has been across public and
private sectors and has included positions as internal consultant as well
as manager of large teams in the water, tourism, roads, and local
government industries. Mary has successfully led two organisation
development teams in quality accreditation,, implemented change programs
which included mergers, amalgamations, performance management programs and
negotiated enterprise agreements.