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2019 AUTUMN MEMBERS MEETING - SPEAKERS
NOTE: If you would like to present at a CAUDIT Members Meeting or have a suggestion for terrific session or a speaker you think would be great, please contact anne.kealleyATcaudit.edu.au
DAY 1 (in alphabetical order)
Christel Brost - Christel is a lecturer at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden, where she teaches design and photography. Christel’s recent work at Malmö’s Center of Teaching and Learning focuses on Challenge Based Learning research, including development of pedagogical models for student involvement and active participation; Students as Agents of Change and Students as Partners. Her expertise in this approach to teaching is highly regarded globally. Christel is a Fellow at Hong Kong Design Institute, guest teacher at Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, India, and academic collaborator with the University of Wollongong, addressing Learning Teaching and Curriculum and Academic Quality and Standards.
Liz Gosling - Liz has worked in the IT industry for over three decades, in New Zealand, the US, UK and Europe, in a variety of roles in commercial and not for profit organisations, and in both vendors and client companies. Liz was a Director of the CAUDIT Leadership Institute in Australia for 3 years, and has had two stints as a faculty member. She was chair of the Universities NZ Information and Communications Technology Committee for four years and was also the New Zealand invited board member on the CAUDIT Executive in Australia for four years. She was elected to the TUANZ board in 2015, and was elected Chair of the TUANZ Board in 2017.
Liz studied Computer Science at the University of Westminster in London, and holds an MBA (Human Resources Management), Distinction from AUT. She was awarded the EDUCAUSE Jane Ryland Fellowship in 2009 (https://www.educause.edu/careers/scholarships/eligibility/past-recipients), and in 2014, Liz attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and undertook the Institute of Educational Management intensive course. She holds an Executive & Organisational Coaching Certificate and is an Agile Certified Professional. Liz has featured in the top 20 of CIO Magazine’s Top 100 CIOs in New Zealand in 2017 and 2018.
Key skills include leadership, strategy, governance, organisational change, communication, service management, relationship building and people management. Liz has more than 10 years’ experience in using the Belbin Team roles to facilitate high performance teams, and is accredited by Belbin Associates to use the instruments. Liz Gosling is currently the Chief Information Officer at Auckland University of Technology. She leads a team of 170 people, and is responsible for information technology provision for AUT’s nearly 30,000 staff and students, including 6,500 + desktop and laptop computers, IT and Digital plans, networking, audio visual services, innovation, contracts and software licensing, customer relationships and support services, as well as the development teams and infrastructure. Her role is focussed on contributing to the University’s strategic direction, creating and executing ICT strategy, building collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across the University and ensuring that ICT delivers excellent services and value. Her professional interests include customer relationship management, human resources and change management, strategy and people development. She is passionate helping everyone develop, both professionally and personally.
Bala Kathiresan - Bala is the President and CEO of BCNET and the Chair of the National Research and Education Network Governance Committee. He is also a member of the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training’s Administrative Services Delivery Transformation Steering Committee. He has over 25 years of information systems and executive leadership experience and a track record in setting bold vision, managing execution and achieving organizational excellence in the public and private sector. Bala has successfully led strategic alliances and partnerships in multi-stakeholder environments to create and achieve the shared vision.
Bala has served on numerous not-for-profit and public-sector boards and chaired various board committees, including finance, audit and compensation committees. He is the past Chair of the Ontario University Council of Chief Information Officers and Treasurer of the Canadian Council of Chief Information Officers. He currently serves on the Board of CANARIE and Health Claim for Auto Insurance.
Bala holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, an MBA and a certification from the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Anne Kealley - As Chief Executive Officer for the Council of Australasian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT), Anne guides and facilitates initiatives which support CAUDIT’s 62 members as they lead the application of digital capabilities to transform education and research in higher education and research. Anne brings extensive experience in higher education, state government and secondary education to the role.
While at the Australian National University (ANU) Anne variously led Central IT, IT service delivery and engagement, and designed, implemented and led shared services for more than 1,500 academic and professional staff while General Manager of the joint Colleges of Science. At the University of Western Australia (UWA) Anne held a number of roles culminating in the facilitation of UWA’s participation in the Western Australian Energy Research Alliance (WAERA) – an exciting research collaboration between UWA, Curtin University and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) along with private enterprise in oil and gas engineering.
She is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), Vice-President (Membership) of the Coalition of Higher Education Information Technology Associations (CHEITA) and recent Co-Chair of the Australasian eResearch Organisations (AeRO). Anne holds a Diploma of Teaching, Bachelor of Business and Graduate Certificate in Oil & Gas Engineering.
DAY 2 (in alphabetical order)
Jonathan Arthur - Jonathan is the National Services Manager of Intersect Australia: a not-for-profit, member based organisation that supports researchers to increase the productivity, diversity, and longevity of their research through engagement with technology. Prior to joining Intersect, Jonathan was an Associate Professor in Bioinformatics in the Sydney Medical School of the University of Sydney and held coincident appointments as the Chief Technology Officer of Children's Medical Research Institute and the Chief Executive Officer of Sydney Bioinformatics. Jonathan holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Sydney. Jonathan's interests lie in health and medical applications of bioinformatics and data science.
Marc Bailey - Marc is Intersect’s Chief Executive Officer, having joined as COO in 2014 from his role as CIO at Macquarie University, the first to go Google in the southern hemisphere. He has served as Director and Treasurer of the Australian Access Federation, Director of AARNET, NSW and ACT Chair of the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology. He was a founding member of the NSW Health and University CIO Forum, the Sydney Basin Fibre Network project board and the Australian Hearing Hub Consortium.
In previous CTO/CEO roles, Marc informed governmental policy and information management at state and federal levels in Australia and New Zealand and consulted to multinationalsincluding Cisco, American Express, Microsoft, James Hardie and Optus.
Michelle Barker - Michelle has a leadership role in the development of Australian e-Infrastructure programs to facilitate researchand development investments. Her career has focused on social and organisational change, providing particular expertise in buildingcollaborative partnerships to increase innovation. She is chair of the OECD GSF Expert Group on digital skills for research and on the Research Software Alliance Steering Committee.
Ed Butler - Ed is an accomplished Technology Executive with over 30 years’ experience across a number of core IT disciplines including: Application & Infrastructure Development, IT Performance & Service Management, Continuous Delivery / DevOps Practices, IT Transformation, Software Development Life Cycle, Cyber Security, and Change Management.
Before joining AARNet, Ed assisted with the standing up of core IT System and Support Services for the National Broadband Network (NBN Co). As General Manager IT Competency, he was responsible for NBN’s IT Operational Stability, Release Management, Testing, DevOps, Tooling and Application Development for a number of core applications. Prior to NBN, Ed held Senior Technology positions in a number of companies, including NineMSN, Avanade, Silicon Reef, and Accenture.
After working at NBN, Ed joined AARNet, the Australian Academic and Research Network, as General Manager of Managed Services in 2018. AARNet is a not-for-profit organisation owned by 38 Australian Universities and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). AARNet provides high speed telecommunications and Internet services to Research and Education organisations in Australia. Since joining AARNet, Ed has predominately worked on developing its SOC related services.
Ed is a results-oriented senior IT professional with a creative and positive mindset. He is a self-starter who likes to challenge the status quo and is resourceful in developing strong teams and cultures. Ed has a solid track record in developing collaborative relationships with business partners and stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
He holds a Computer Science degree from California Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) in the USA.
Bruce Callow - Bruce is the Chief Digital Officer for Griffith, a role he has occupied since it was newly established in August 2017. Prior to that, Bruce was the Chief Technology officer for Griffith for 9 years. Bruce has substantial experience in leading IT organisations and the development and delivery of digital and technology strategies and services.
Bruce has some 20 years’ experience in Higher Education with 35 years in the IT industry: government, private and education. He has served on the Board of Directors for the global Higher Education Users Group and Chair of the ANZ Higher Education Users Group. He has served as a member of the Global Oracle Education & Research Strategy Council, as President of the Board of the Australian Access Federation and President of the Council of Australian University Directors of IT (CAUDIT), and as Chair of the Australian ORCID Consortium Governance Committee.
Kerrie Campbell - Kerrie has worked in the IT industry in various sectors including banking, Utilities, Federal Government and Higher Education for the last 30 years. Kerrie previously acted in the CIO role at the University of Adelaide and has been responsible for the implementation and development of the continuous improvement culture and improved delivery at the University of Adelaide. Kerrie is currently CIO at Flinders University, she has a passion for implementing progressive methods to improve IT delivery and is a strong supporter and builder of positive cultures.
Kerrie has previously worked as Director in the Application Services area for the Department of Human Services and Business Manager for British Gas in the United Kingdom. Kerrie currently sits on the 100% Project board and is on the board of the Adelaide University Council.
Sarah Chaloner - Sarah is the Head of ICT at UTS: Insearch in Sydney. Insearch is an organisation that designs and delivers pathway programs for International Students. Sarah has been in leadership positions for over 20 years both in the UK and in Australia with the last 18 years in HE. She is proud to have established an award winning Service Desk team in the UK and has been in pursuit of excellence in every role she has undertaken. Sarah ran her own business for 5 years where she developed a strong sense of personal accountability which she feels is the key to successful leadership in any role. Sarah was a co-author of the Blended Learning Strategy at University of Wolverhampton, where she was not only Associate Director of IT but also a Lecturer in the School of Computing and IT and also a student.
During her time in HE, Sarah has developed a passion for learning space design and has been involved in learning space projects for over a decade. CAUDIT invited her to lead 2 learning space tours across Australia and she was responsible for initiating and leading the drive for learning space transformation at the WesternU including leading the development of the Technology Masterplan for WesternU’s new vertical campus in Parramatta. Sarah led a significant cultural shift within IT Services including swapping roles with the Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services in 2014 achieving a significant service uptick in less than a year. Sarah led the development of Western’s first digital strategy which used student talent in its development and presentation. Sarah joined UTS:Insearch just 1 week before the start of the CLI in 2017. She is delighted to be part of the CLI Faculty having been a participant in the course in 2010 and is very much looking forward to spending time with the faculty and participants later this year.
Ian Duncan - Ian has substantial experience and expertise in eResearch leadership, including acting as the Executive Director of ARDC. Previous roles include Director of the Research Data Services (RDS) capability of the federal government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), which built on the maturity of the infrastructure capability delivered through the federally funded NCRIS Research Data Storage Infrastructure project.
Nigel Foxwell - Nigel Foxwell is the Head of Enterprise Architecture, Strategy and Risk at James Cook University, based in Townsville. Nigel is currently responsible for developing and overseeing the university’s Digital Plan to enable the University Strategic Plan. This includes developing and delivering an Enterprise Architecture that enables University business operations and strategic objectives in learning and teaching, research, and services, as well as managing the ICT Risk and Cybersecurity functions.
Nigel’s career in the Information Technology sector extends over 23 years across a broad range of private and government sector organisations. Highlights include global, national and regional organisations such as Deloitte, Oakton, BHP, Honeywell, and Ergon Energy. Nigel’s passion and focus is the use of enterprise architecture, strategic technologies, and innovation frameworks to create real and sustainable outcomes for organisations and their customers and stakeholders.
Nigel holds a Bachelor of Business (Information Systems) from James Cook University and a Master of Business and Technology from the Australian School of Business (AGSM).
Richard Frawley - Richard manages Platform9 relationships in Australia and New Zealand, working closely with Intersect to develop, support and promote hybrid clouds that just work. Richard also serves as Executive Consultant to BlackInk Networks actively engaged in higher-ed and government strategic technology consulting.
Prior to a long recovery from a traumatic aviation accident, he served as CEO of the only start-up to have secured a strategic IT platform development with the National Broadband Network. He currently serving on an Executive IT Steering Committee at Beyond Blue, and he has recently served on the Board of the Gliding Federation of Australia.
In previous roles, Richard consulted and worked for multinationals including Alcatel, Amdocs, Cisco and Salesforce.com where he has held senior roles in sales and solution consulting. Richard has a proven track record in demonstrating thought leadership, driving strategic vision, and offers a deep understanding of customer relationships and problem solving.
Dr Carina Kemp - Dr Kemp is the Director of eResearch for AARNet (the Australian Academic Research Network). At AARNet Dr Kemp and her team are responsible for making the Network work the best it can for Research in Australia. This includes working with the Australian and International research community to find and implement tools that sit above the network to make technology and data research ready. Previous to joining AARNet, Dr Kemp was the Chief Information Officer at Geoscience Australia, with responsibility for providing strategic leadership for setting enterprise ICT directions, architecture and priorities to enable science across the organisation.
Dr Kemp had spent the last 5 years at Geoscience Australia leading the development of virtual laboratories and high performance computing to enable geophysical applications for pre-competitive dataset delivery.
Dr Kemp’s 20-year career has focused on the application of innovative technologies for mineral and petroleum exploration. Dr Kemp has worked in research, as a consultant and as a company geophysicist. Her enduring interests include Open Data, data analytics, machine learning, high performance computing, communication of science, improving collaboration across science and information technology disciplines and science organisations, and encouraging leadership and women in science.
Dr Kemp holds a number of qualifications including a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Science (Geology and Geophysics) from the University of New South Wales. Dr Kemp has a technical background in geology, physics, mathematics and computer engineering.
In her limited spare time, Dr Kemp keeps busy raising three beautiful children.
jeff kennedy - jeff @elbanoitca, currently serves as enterprise architecture manager at the University of Auckland. jeff has worked extensively in identity management, integration architecture, information management, and solutions architecture, and has contributed to national digital identity initiatives in education, research, science, and innovation.
Stephen Johnston - Stephen joined CAUDIT in 2011, having departed Edith Cowan University after 13 years of service. At ECU he held a number of senior IT roles including the Manager, IT Infrastructure and Manager, IT Project Governance. He has had over 15 years’ experience in Higher Education, previously working for both Curtin University and the University of Western Australia. His Engineering background and understanding of various elements of IT Infrastructure (ranging from laboratory, desktop, server and network support to the provision of voice and video services) provides a technical basis for providing systems, services, applications and equipment able to solve real business issues. Through the establishment of standards (in technology, services, equipment, staffing and procurement) he has been able to work with staff across ECU and the Higher Education sector to improve outcomes for staff, students and the community.
Richard Palmer - Richard is a principal analyst in Ovum's Public Sector team, providing research to support clients across the higher education, government, healthcare, and utilities industries. Joining Ovum in 2017 after 15 years in the HE sector, Richard has held senior roles at both the University of Melbourne and Monash University, completing his engagement at the latter as interim CIO. Richard has significant experience in IT strategy, governance, service and project management, cybersecurity, and risk management within higher education. He has led university-wide IT reforms in IT security, service management, governance, organizations, and infrastructure. His research encompasses emerging issues for technology and business leaders, IT strategy, technology enablement, and digital transformation.
Jay Segeth - Jay has been involved in My eQuals since mid-2015, first as a Consultant advising to what was then called the Digital Student Data (DSD) taskforce and now as the My eQuals Program Director with Higher Ed Services the appointed managing organisation for My eQuals. In these roles, Jay has led and supported initial cost/benefit modelling, the vendor/solution selection & evaluation process, the development of the business case, the implementation of My eQuals, operations management and the “My eQuals Future State” work. Prior to his involvement in My eQuals, Jay led a Higher Education practice of a large professional services firm, guiding complex transformation programs with many universities in Australia.
Scott Sorley - Scott is the Executive Director of ICT Services at the University of Southern Queensland. Scott is responsible for enterprise-wide planning, coordination and delivery of USQ information and communications systems. Scott has lead major system and change projects to deliver benefits that transform and maximise business value. He has a particular interest in enabling Higher Education and its mission to improve people's lives and create value for society.
David Stockdale - David is currently the Deputy Director with responsibility for IT Infrastructure, Data Services and operational security at The University of Queensland (UQ). He is also the Director of AusCERT, one of the oldest CERTs in the world and a not-for-profit organisation based at The University of Queensland.
His career spanning 36 years has seen him in roles straddling electronic engineering, IT and astrophysics. His 6 years as a university researcher was the catalyst for visiting and falling in love with Australia, which he now calls home.
AusCERT is a member based Computer Emergency Response Team that provides incident response and threat intelligence to many Australian agencies and companies. In an age where cybersecurity is on the agenda from the boardroom to the shopfloor, David has seen a healthy growth in membership during his tenure. A firm believer that security is everyone’s busy, he advocates for “security is job zero” and is everyone’s responsibility. Exploring new markets, delivering new products and delivering services that the membership truly value are strong drivers for David.
David is passionate about the opportunities that public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services brings to organisations, both in freeing up staff to the higher value activities and the agility to deliver better services to the UQ Community. He is currently leading the planning phase to move UQ from on premise infrastructure delivery to an AWS delivery model.
In the Data Services space, David is currently transforming The University of Queensland to a ‘data centric’ organisation. Through initiatives such as data lakes, digital twins, holist data governance and AI/ML, he hopes to move the organisation from data-rich to information-rich and in the process, support the increased demand for community data access.
Steven Wojnarowski - Prior to joining CAUDIT, Steven Wojnarowski was at Victoria University for over eight years. Commencing as a Senior Planning Officer specialising in advanced statistical analysis, database design and reporting for strategic planning, Steven was appointed as Manager Business Intelligence, and in his last role was Project Executive BI and headed institutional research and analytics-based projects to expand VU’s understanding of its marketplace performance, student profile and cohort demand. He also served on key Vice-Chancellor IT and KM and the BI Steering Committees and on the selection panels for the new Student Management System, replacement HR system and the upgrading of the BI system.
On completing an honours degree in Economics/Statistics at the University of Tasmania Steven moved to Canberra as a statistical cadet with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. He ended his federal public service five years later as a Statistical Legislative Research Specialist in Parliament House Canberra. On returning to Melbourne after two years overseas Steven joined the Roy Morgan Research Centre as Manager of the Australian Sales Research Bureau, then appointed Group Marketing Research Manager at The AGE before forming and joining OZINFO Pty Ltd as a marketing research consultant specialist in census and geodemographic analysis
A member of the Institute of Analytics Professional of Australia since its inception, Steven is also a member of the International Institute for Analytics [USA], Association of Institutional Research [USA], Australian Association of Institutional Research, the American Statistical Association and the USA Higher Education Data Warehousing Forum [HEDW]. Also co-founded the Melbourne Tableau User Group. Steven is based in Melbourne.
