2010 National Pearcey Event |
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Event Overview
On Wednesday 22nd September 2010, the National Pearcey Event will be held as part of the World Computer Congress 2010.
- Time: 1.00pm - 9.30pm
- Location: the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Merivale Street, Southbank Qld 4101, Australia.
- Room - The Roundtable will be held in Great Room 1 and the Pearcey Medal Dinner/Congress Dinner will be held in the Plaza Ballroom
The afternoon Roundtable (1.45pm) will debate "Publically funded ICT R&D in Australia – where is it headed?"
- The Master of Ceremonies will be Dr Peter Cebon from the Melbourne Business School.
The evening Gala Dinner (7pm) will feature eminent speakers and the 2010 Pearcey Awards
- 2010 Pearcey Oration to be delivered by Dr Megan Clark, CEO of CSIRO
- 2010 Pearcey Medal to be presented by Rt Hon Senator Stephen Conroy
- 2010 Pearcey Queensland State Award
REGISTRATION: There are two choices to register but all entrants to any WCC function must register
- If you are registering as a delegate to the WCC itself then attendance at the Medal Dinner and the Roundtable is included in the registration price.
- If you are registering just for the Pearcey Medal Dinner then please click the Registration button on the WCC home page www.wcc2010.org and after completing your personal details click through to the Pearcey Medal dinner form. The fee will be $170.00 which covers the Pearcey Medal Dinner as well as the Roundtable event.
Afternoon - Pearcey 2010 Roundtable Debate
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The 2010 Pearcey Roundtable on Publicly funded R&D The roundtable is designed to stimulate debate on the directions and emphasis that publicly funded R&D in Australia should take. It is moderated by Dr PeterCebon Senior Lecturer - Organisations & Innovation, Melbourne Business School. Schedule
Panelists (biographies below)
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Presentations The fist session involves the six prominent research leaders who will give their vision of the future direction of Australia’s publicly funded ICT R&D institutions. All of the speakers have had extensive experience in industry, government or academic ICT research organisations (see biographies below). Each research leader will give brief statements on their views and perspective in regard to publically funded ICT R&D in Australia. Debate The second session involves the six research leaders participating in four short debates on contemporary issues facing these institutions. The debates will involve active audience participation. It will be based loosely on parliamentary debate derived from the British House of Commons parliamentary procedure. The objective of this fast-paced panel debate session is to provide the audience with a light-hearted humorous conclusion to the Pearcey Round-table sessions. The panellists will have the opportunity to express an opinion for or against on a topic that they may not otherwise normally speak about. For entertainment purposes the topics are somewhat controversial and it is assumed the panellists argument for or against may not represent their personal point of view. Each of the four debates will run for approximately 15 minutes. The moderator will introduce the topic (1-2 mins) followed by each of the 6 panellists on the two teams having their right to reply (2mins). At the conclusion of each debate the moderator will allow for the audience to participate by casting their vote for the winning team (1-2mins). At the end of the four debates the moderator will present the results of the audience voting and the winning team will be announced. |
The Topics
Topic 1: Intellectual Property developed during publicly funded research should be owned by the public.
Topic 2: To achieve a Sustainable Australia, the Government must follow the lead of the European Union, who invested €500 million in ICT research to pioneer solutions for global challenges such as climate change.
Topic 3: Direct investment in universities is the best way for government and industry to achieve commercialisation of ICT R&D in Australia.
Topic 4: A bias towards agricultural and mining, not ICT, research and development is completely appropriate given Australia's abundant and diverse natural resources.
Evening - Gala Dinner and Medal Presentation
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The 2010 National Pearcey Medal Dinner The dinner will celebrate the awarding of the 13th Pearcey Medal, Australia's most prestigious ICT Annual Award, to an individual who has made a truly outstanding contribution to Australia's ICT industry. Coincident with the Pearcey Medal will be the annual Queensland Pearcey State Award, awarded to the most prominent emerging industry leader. Nominations for both awards will close 29th August. For further details and for previous award winners see Awards. The Pearcey Medal will be presented by Senator Stephen Conroy, Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Dr Megan Clark, CEO of CSIRO will deliver the 2010 Pearcey Oration in which she will speak about CSIRO’s R&D vision for the future which is particularly relevant for Australia’s leading national R&D organisation in the context of an international conference such as the 2010 WCC Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be Dr Nick Tate, Chairman of the WCC2010 Organising Committee. Draft format of evening:
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Speaker BiographiesSenator Stephen Conroy - Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy was appointed Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in December 2007. He is also Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate. He was appointed as a Senator for Victoria for the Australian Labor Party in 1996. Previously he was an industrial officer and superannuation officer for the Transport Workers Union Victorian Branch from 1992 to 1996, a ministerial adviser to Victoria’s Minister for Industry from 1990 to 1992 and an assistant adviser to the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1988 to 1990. From 1986 to 1987, Stephen was an electorate officer for the federal Member for Canberra, consultant to the Minister for Science and Minister assisting the Minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce and electorate officer for the Minister for Home Affairs. He worked for the Metal Trades Industry Association from 1984 to 1986. Megan Clarke - Dr Megan Clark is a member of the: Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council Automotive Industry Innovation Council National Research Innovation Council St Vincent’s Hospital Foundation Board. She began her career as a mine geologist and subsequently worked in mineral exploration, mine geology, research and development management, venture capital and technical strategy areas with Western Mining Corporation for fifteen years. More recently she was Vice President Technology and prior to that Vice President, Health, Safety, Environment, Community and Sustainability with BHP Billiton. Dr Clark served on the Expert Panel for the Review of the National Innovation System. Peter Cebon PhD, SM (MIT) BE (Civil) (Melb) Senior Lecturer - Organisations & Innovation, Melbourne Business School. Dr Peter Cebon is a highly experienced researcher, consultant and advisor in the fields of organisational design and innovation management. Prior to returning to Melbourne, Peter completed extensive research at MIT, Harvard, and the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology. Recent innovation-related research projects include studies of organisational innovation to create safer and cleaner operations, studies of innovation in response to global warming, and a study evaluating and explaining the effectiveness of innovation efforts at twelve Australian companies. He is currently trying to understand the impact of boards of directors on corporate innovation performance. He intends, in the near future, to study the impact of the NBN on Australian businesses. |
Afternoon Panel Biographies
Moderator - Peter Cebon (bio above)
Dr David Skellern, CEO of National ICT Australia (NICTA), is an ICT entrepreneur with a background in scientific research, industrial R&D and engineering education. He was formerly chair of Electronics at Macquarie University and co-founder of Radiata, the Australian company responsible for the world's first IEEE 802.11a chip-set. Following Radiata's acquisition by Cisco Systems, Dr Skellern became technical director of Cisco's wireless networking business unit. He has been CEO of NICTA since 2005.
Dr Alex Zelinsky is group executive of Information Sciences at CSIRO. He is also: a member of the Australian government's IT Industry Council; an Adjunct Professor at the ANU; and a member of the NSW Government's NBN Taskforce. He is vice president of the Industrial Activities board of the IEEE's Robotics and Automation Society and is an advisor to the ARC Centre of EXcellence for Visions Science and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems.
Dr Mary O'Kane is NSW's chief scientist and scientific engineer. She is a former vice chancellor of the University of Adelaide and has served on the Australian Research Council, the CRC Council and the board of CSIRO. Dr O'Kane runs her own consulting business, advising governments, universities and the private sector on innovation, research and education. Mary was a member of the panel conducting Australia's National Innovation Systems review in 2008 and as part of which she was also responsible for a major review of the CRC program.
Dr Craig Mudge is managing partner of Pacific Challenge, a consulting firm with affiliates in the US, Australia and NZ. He founded CSIRO's VLSI program and was CEO of spin-off company Austek Microsystems Ltd, where innovative logic chips and the world's first single-chip cache for the PC were developed. He was formerly Professor of Computer Science at Flinders University, director of the CSIRO-Flinders Joint Research Centre, Professor of Innovation at Macquarie University and director of the Computer Science Lab at Xerox PARC in the US. Chairman of the national working group on cloud computing in the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering he recently founded the University of Adelaide's eScience Centre, enabled by cloud computing.
Professor Simon Kaplan is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Prior to his outstanding academic career in Australia, Simon was the principal designer and implementer of a range of Enterprise Resource Planning tools for the SME marketplace out of Cape Town, South Africa. Simon has extensive experience as an expert witness in ICT patent and contractual disputes as well as serving on several ACM and IEEE committees.
Professor Dave Thomas is the founder and chairman of Bedarra Research Labs which specialises in emerging software technologies. He is an adjunct professor at QUT and Carleton University in Canada. He formerly founded and was CEO of Object Technology International, now IBM OTI Labs and played a major role in setting IBM's open source agenda with Eclipse.org. He has worked extensively with the Distributed Systems Technology Centre CRC in Brisbane. He continues to be a strong advocate for Australian innovation and is founder of the YOW! Australia International Developer Conference, the Australian portion of the popular and successful international JAOO Conference series