"When people leave home, they take three things: their keys, their wallet, and their mobile phone."

Speakers + mentors to open minds and share their experience

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ESTHER BAILEY
NSW President, Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA)

Esther Bailey is an experienced new media management professional with expertise across online, mobile, marketing, business and project development. Currently working as a consultant, Esther manages projects for clients across the arts and commercial sectors and is co-founder of Mobile Journeys, a Arts Council funded consortium exploring the creative potential of mobile devices.

An experienced project manager and strategist, she has previously worked at the ABC where she headed up the ABC's mobile content delivery activities, including developing inbound and outbound SMS services, WAP and i-mode sites. She also managed the highly successful ABC Shop Online and worked closely with the Content Licensing team developing and implementing new products and services for syndication to other narrowband, broadband, wireless and out-of-home business customers.

Esther joined the ABC from the BBC in London, where she worked for the commercial portal beeb.com. At beeb.com she was responsible for b2b and b2c marketing, customer relationship management and for devising commercial and content strategies for a range of BBC online brands including, Top Gear and Gardeners World and eve magazine online.

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PAUL DALY
Director of Innovation, m.Net Corporation

Paul's current role in m.Net is to stimulate innovative development of mobile applications and services by fostering Australian inventors and creators. This role includes education and training, strategic advice and support for the commercialisation of these innovative endeavours.

A communications professional with a strong and diverse background in international trade, entrepreneurship, R&D, enterprise improvement and investment attraction, Paul Daly brings broad public and private sector experience to m.Net Corporation.

Paul has managed and facilitated proposals that resulted in the establishment of the Ngapartji Cooperative Multimedia Centre; the rights to host the World Congress on Information Technology in Adelaide in 2002; and $9.23 million dollars in funding under the Commonwealth Government's Advanced Networks Program for the m.Net Australia Wireless Internet project.

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PETER GILES
Head of Digital Media, Australian Film, Television and Radio School

Peter has worked as the Head of the Digital Media Department since 1998 and has established Australia's leading postgraduate and professional programs in Visual Effects, Interactive Media, Broadcast Design and Computer Animation. The Department has produced short films that have won both Australian and international awards for artistic and technical excellence.

Prior to joining the AFTRS Peter worked as Digital Media Manager for Metro Screen where he initiated programs to develop the skills of new and emerging filmmakers. He managed a wide range of innovative production workshops in partnership with organisations including the Loud Youth Festival, IBM, the Australian Film Commission, the NSW Film and Television Office, ABC Online, SBS TV, the Performance Space, the Australian Centre for Photography and the Australian Network for Art and Technology.

Peter has developed digital media curriculum and taught workshops at the University of Sydney, the University of Technology, Sydney, Griffith University and the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.

Over the past 15 years Peter has produced projects for radio, television, film and interactive media. His video artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.

Peter is a well known commentator on digital media and is currently the Chair of the Sydney Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, the leading computer graphics industry body.

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TIM PARSONS
Director of Metro:mobility, Managing Partner, Sugar

One of Australia's most experienced interactive producers, Tim Parsons was originally destined for a career in Aerospace until a stint presenting a BBC documentary led him to swap his life as a rocket scientist for one in digital interactive media. A passion for film & television has also led to numerous collaborations supporting screen media productions, including with McElroyAllMedia on TwentyfourSeven (SBS), Cox/Knight on WorstBestFriends (TEN), and with Firelight for Little Dove Long Voyage (SEVEN). While working with professional services firms around the globe, Tim serviced over 50 local and international firms ranging from Fortune 500s such as Toyota Corporation in Tokyo, major Australian companies such as Southern Star Endemol, to indie & niche media players such as MusicArtsDance Films.

Now an independent consultant and producer, Tim Parsons has most recently been focusing on devloping industry courses to highlight opportunities in mobile content and video-on-demand, while managing client-service engagements in branding, marketing communications, motion graphics and online media.

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SILVIA PFIEFFER
Head of Networked Media Systems, CSIRO ICT Centre, Marsfield

Dr Silvia Pfeiffer has published world leading research on multimedia content analysis and new multimedia applications for nearly 10 years and has been involved in the development of international multimedia standards at ISO/MPEG and IETF. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science on audio content analysis of digital video in March 1999 from the University of Mannheim, Germany. In her PhD, she performed research into novel automatic extraction methods for audio-visual content and novel applications. In May 1999 she joined the CSIRO in Sydney as a research scientist in digital media, working on several projects involving automated content analysis in the compressed domain.

In January 2001 she had the idea of the Continuous Media Web, which extends the World Wide Web's search and surf capabilities to time-continuous data such as audio and video. With her research team, she developed the details of the specifications as open standards and the base technology as open source reference software. The team developed the Aida mobile video browsing technology as a proprietary solution using Annodex for video surfing on the mobile phone.

Since July 2004, Dr Pfeiffer heads the Networked Media Systems research stream at the CSIRO ICT Centre in Marsfield, Sydney.

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CLAUDIA SAGRIPANTI
VentureOne Pty Ltd., and Chairperson, AIMIA Mobile Content Industry Group

Claudia Sagripanti is a mobile content and marketing strategist. She has been involved in the mobile sector for the past three years as co-founder and project director of the Mobile Marketing and Advertising Awards. She sits on the Internet Industry Association (IIA) Mobile Content Regulation taskforce, and is the Convenor of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association’s (AIMIA) mobile content industry development group.

She is currently working with a mobile messaging company on its communications strategies, is assisting a start up mobile applications company on its business development and investment strategies and is working on a research project for the Federal Government on broadband strategy with particular reference to mobile services.

She has worked in early stage venture capital for technology companies in a marketing and communications role at Macquarie Bank. She also founded the Online Advertising Taskforce setting professional standards and conducting research, which is now part of the Internet Industry Association.


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IAN ANDREWS

Ian Andrews is a Sydney based independent film, video and sound artist who has been practicing since 1981.  Beginning with experimental audio collage, Andrews gradually moved into the production of film and video, and before becoming interested in electronic music, digital animation and interactive net art.
Much of Andrews’ work consists of video/sound collage, “cut-up,” and agit-prop culture jamming utilising a diverse range of visual styles – from animation to “found” footage. The work is often characterised by themes such as technology and subjectivity, and has been exhibited at various international film and video festivals in Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Naples, Catania, Amsterdam, Berlin and Wellington, as well as numerous events throughout Australia.  Andrews has also produced electronic dance music much of which can be heard on CDs and records released in Australia and overseas.  
Most recently Andrews has been working in collaboration with Berlin artist Timo Kahlen on an interactive web based work called Sound Drift. He was also selected as a participant in the recent Mobile Journeys Masterclass, and has been working on producing short experimental movies for mobile phones.

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DAVID CRANSWICK
Director dLux Media Arts

David was appointed Director of dLux media arts in 2003 with the brief to implement and manage the restructure and program development of the organisation. Prior to this David was senior curator at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre [Liverpool NSW] for five years and has over 15 years experience in the arts sector.

In that time he was responsible for the management and development of the Casula Powerhouse exhibition programs and collection. He has significant experience in the curation and development of exhibitions and public programs which furthered the development of one of Australia's leading and most innovative cultural centres in Western Sydney.

Significant achievement in this time was the participation in the development of the Cyber Cultures exhibition, which broke new ground in touring and audience engagement with digital and interactive art forms. David introduced and developed a video exhibition program for emerging Australian artist and was responsible for curation of the Vagrant Winds Korea at War 50-53, a landmark exhibition and social history project.

David has significant expertise in developing partnerships with diverse communities including Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and Pacific Australians and an established history working with indigenous artists and communities in NSW. In 1990 David attended the first ANAT New Media Sumer Schools and he has an established profile within the Australian interactive and digital arts community. David has served on the Board of Artspace and the National Executive of NAVA.

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ADRIAAN STELLINGWERFF
Program Manager dLux Media Arts

Adriaan was appointed program manager at dLux media arts in March 2004. Prior to this he was working in the field of new media and screen-based arts in the Netherlands since 1998.

In this period he organised and curated 3 major international exhibitions of interactive installation art (www.artinoutput.nl) and a retrospective exhibition of Dutch/American artist Mark Madel. For one of the exhibitions Adriaan also acted as the co-producer of two new installation works. Since 2002 he was also one of the programmers of video art gallery "de Beeldbank" at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

In 2003, Adriaan founded taste-E.org, an online portal to websites in the field of the electronic arts. At present he is the researcher and editor for this increasingly successful and recognised website.
Adriaan complements his knowledge and skills in the arts with a broad technical knowledge and aptitude based on a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering.
www.a3aan.org
www.taste-e.org

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BILL ROBERTS
Director, IconMobile Australia

Bill started his career in marketing in Sydney and then London, working in both large multinational advertising agencies as well as small boutique consultancies. In 1995 Bill jointly founded Intelifest, one of the UK’s first strategy based digital consultancies. Having successfully sold the company to Poppe Tyson, Bill became its first Business Development Director in the UK and then expanded his remit to Business Development Director Europe upon the purchase of Poppe Tyson by Modem Media in 1998.
 
Bill helped develop Modem Media into one of the most progressive in its space. Through his business development activities, Bill played a key role in Modem Media becoming the UK's No1 Digital Agency in both 2000 and 2001. Accounts led included IBM, Intel, General Motors, Kodak, The Prudential, Friends Provident, Unilever, Citibank and Philips.
 
Bill left Modem Media in late 2002 to fulfill a long held ambition to return to Australia. Since his return Bill has consulted to several early stage companies with technology and  new media offerings either those international companies wishing to enter the  Australian market or  Australian Companies wishing to enter international markets.  In July 2004 Bill founded the Australian offices of  Icon Mobile  one of  Europe’s leading  mobile agencies. Icon Mobile Australia’s first  project was the launch of Trading Post on Telstra’s i-mode platform, this was followed by the development and launch of Random Place Australia’s first mobile soap opera.

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DAVID KAINER

David Kainer is CTO and Co-Founder of the innovative mobile games development company Viva La Mobile and has been a long time advocate of mobile games and their place in the digital games industry.
David comes from a background in Computer Engineering and in 2000 worked in wireless Research and Development at Intergraph Australia. During his time with Intergraph's wireless division he developed a protoype vehicle tracking system for wireless devices using Java and GPRS. In 2002 David left Intergraph and created one of the the first polygon 3D engines for J2ME phones. This, combined with a passion for computer gaming, led to the co-founding of Viva La Mobile in early 2003.

In just under 2 years Viva La Mobile has become one of the premier mobile games development studios in Australia and is a world leader in 3G Multiplayer games. In 2004 Viva La Mobile developed and launched the RedStar platform for real-time fast paced multiplayer on 3G mobiles.
The first title, "Badlands", launched with the 3 Australia network and has already gained a strong following. David and the entire Viva La Mobile team have a vision to create a global 3G gaming community, and with RedStar due to be launched with multiple 3G carriers over the coming months a true cross-carrier games experience should become a
reality.
As CTO of Viva La Mobile, David has strived to keep abreast of the rapidly changing technology and business aspects of the mobile market. David was a panel member at the 'XMediaLabs 2004' and an exhibitor at the 2003 Australian Game Developers Conference in Melbourne.


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ANGUS BEATTIE
Business Development Manager, HWW Mobile

Angus Beattie, HWW Mobile’s Business Development Manager, has over 6 year’s experience in interactive multi-media, cross-platform interactive technologies, IVR and mobile technologies.
 
Angus began his career as an assistant Actuary and Underwriter but soon realised a life of mortality ratings and multi-page spreadsheets was not enough to fire his considerable passion. Moving over to the exciting world of online advertising, working with the likes of ASX.com.au, E*trade Australia and Telstra Big Pond, Angus was exposed to a range of interesting, exciting, but short-lived dotcom business models where he was able to cut his teeth in a market fueled by bar-coaster business plans, fantastic budget projections and sky high multipliers.
 
Once the dust had settled, and after a short stint in international telecommunications, Angus moved on to the exciting world of SMS, IVR and integrated communications, working with the likes of the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology; the Department of Infrastructure Planning and Natural Resources; Vodafone and the ABC, developing consumer-facing communications platforms, optimising the huge potential of Internet, SMS and IVR technologies.
 
In his current role with HWW Mobile, Angus works with carriers and content providers to develop rich and engaging content for the 2.5 and 3G mobile platforms.
 
Angus is passionate about music (his 60GB ipod is slowly filling - all legal downloads of course), technology & food.

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SHANE WILLIAMSON
Partner Manager, Hutchison 3G Australia

Favorite Things: Speaking at industry events and conventions on mobile telecommunications technologies & trends.
Hobbies and Interests: Speaking at industry events and conventions on mobile telecommunications technologies & trends.
Favorite Quote: "Either lead, follow, or get the hell out of my way" - General G. Patton
A Little About Me: 18 years in IT and currently working in an Australian Telco. Married with a daughter.
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/shanewilliamson