Andy Jassy
Senior Vice President
Amazon Web Services
Andy Jassy leads the Amazon Web Services business (AWS) and the Technology Infrastructure organization for Amazon.com. AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides software developers and businesses with cloud-based infrastructure services that are inexpensive, reliable, scalable, comprehensive and flexible. As a member of Amazon.com’s senior executive team since 2002, Andy is also responsible for helping guide the company’s overall direction. He has held several key leadership positions since he joined Amazon in 1997. He authored the business plan for Amazon’s entry into the Music business and served as both its Director of Product Management and General Manager; started and built the Customer Relationship Management team; served as Director of Marketing; worked as Technical Assistant to Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos; and most recently, Andy started and continues to lead the Amazon Web Services business.
Andy earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his masters of business administration from Harvard Business School. He lives in Seattle and enjoys spending his free time with his wife and two children.
Michael Harte
Group Executive Enterprise Service & CIO
Commonwealth Bank
Michael Harte, Group Executive Enterprise Services (ES), and Chief Information Officer, leads the Technology and Banking Operations teams for the Group. In his role, he is responsible for driving world leading Information Analysis, Technology Services and Operational Excellence. ES teams are recognized across the industry for delivering world leading technologies. ES capabilities include Services and Productivity vital to Customer Experience and Engagement and through these achievements they have created significant competitive advantage.
Michael holds a Bachelor of Business degree and a Diploma in Business. Post-graduate studies include a Master of Science in Management and Systems with distinction from New York University. Michael has an ongoing relationship with MIT to create advantage through open systems, information and technology and enterprise architectures for business value.
Richard Durnall
Head of IT Delivery
REA Group
In his currently role Richard is responsible for the development and operations of REA's portfolio of sites and mobile products. Richard is a frequent author and presenter on the subject of software agility and is the founder of the Agile Melbourne community group.
Anthony Woodward
Executive Director, CEO
Bulletproof
Anthony Woodward, BSc., is a Computer Science graduate with a background in software engineering and
Internet Service Provider technology and networks with business experience gained first-hand from the Internet
Service Provider industry.
In 2000, Anthony started Bulletproof Networks, providing Managed Services for corporate Australia, and was
pivotal to the development of some of Bulletproof's key customers including Telstra and BlueScope Steel. In 2006,
Bulletproof became a cloud services provider by launching award-winning, industry-leading managed hosting
services delivered from a virtualisation platform.
Anthony has led Bulletproof through several years of rapid growth, and it is now the fastest growing Tier 1
Managed Hosting and Cloud Services provider in the Australian market. Anthony runs the technology strategy,
corporate vision and direction of Bulletproof, and oversees the continuous infrastructure design and deployment
cycle required of leaders in this sector.
Tony Simonsen
Managing Director, Australia
Equinix
As the Managing Director for Equinix Australia, Tony Simonsen is responsible for the overall performance of the company’s IBX centres in Australia. This includes increasing local and regional market share, profitability, and operational efficiency. Mr Simonsen has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the IT industry, having previously held a number of senior executive roles with companies such as Cisco and EMC.
Mr Simonsen joined Equinix in 2012 from global technology firm Pitney Bowes, where he was the Managing Director of Australia and also played a key role in building the Enterprise strategy across the Asia Pacific region. Over his time at Pitney Bowes, he was successful in driving transformational change in their mature markets and creating new revenue streams to enter new markets and ensure company sustainability.
Lane Patterson
CTO
Equinix
Lane Patterson is Chief Technology Officer for Equinix. He runs network architecture and development projects for the company, including 10GigE switching platforms supporting BGP4 peering, ROADM-based metro optical services, emerging VoIP and SIP peering, and experimental IPv6 and Multicast exchanges.
Prior to joining Equinix, Mr. Patterson was Director of IP Network Management Systems for GlobalCrossing, Inc., where he contributed to tools development, event reporting, traffic measurement, and trending for a large-scale IP backbone and content distribution centers. During 1995-96, he served as a Data Communications Consultant at MFS WorldCom, where he managed installations and operation of the MAE-East exchange point and related Frame Relay and ATM services during an explosive growth stage.
Mr. Patterson received a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University and an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Josh Fraser
Senior Vice President Business Development
RightScale
Josh Fraser is the senior vice president of Sales and Business Development at RightScale, where he is responsible for all sales and business development initiatives. Prior to RightScale, he held executive management positions at public and private companies, including vice president of Business Development at CallWave, a publicly traded provider of SaaS-based unified communications solutions, and general manager at Student Advantage, a leading marketing and transaction services provider to higher education. He also held business development and analyst roles at Starwave/ESPN.com. Fraser holds a bachelor's degree in finance from Villanova University.
Stephen Bartlett
Senior Consultant
DiUS Computing
Stephen is a senior consultant and Ruby on Rails lead at DiUS Computing. With over 12 years experience in IT consulting, he has helped deliver projects for some Australia's leading companies such as ANZ, Hooroo, NAB, REA and Sensis. Stephen has a strong knowledge of software design, development methodologies, startups and cloud computing across a broad range of industries. Stephen is passionate about helping companies get to market as quickly as possible by applying Lean principles to infrastructure projects, also known as DevOps.
Colin Fairweather
Chief Information Officer, Business Information Services Branch
City of Melbourne
Colin Fairweather has worked in local government for almost 30 years and for the last 2 years, as CIO for the City of Melbourne where he leads a team of 100 people managing ICT services for a diverse and progressive capital city council. Colin is currently developing a digital city strategy involving digital creatives, community members, business, and academics among others to frame council services into the digital age.
Bruce Fair
Head of Commercial
Hooroo
Bruce Fair is Head of Commercial at Hooroo and joined the executive team in June 2011. Bruce has overseen the contracting of more than 4000 Australian hotels within the first year, and is responsible for all commercial operations, contract negotiations, and both supplier and customer service within Hooroo. Prior to this, Bruce held the role of Regional Managing Director and VP International at Kelkoo.com, a leading European shopping search engine where he was responsible for the day to day operations of UK, Spain, and Italy as well as emerging global markets. Bruce joined Kelkoo.com in 2008 as part of a private equity buyout, and prior to this held the role of Commercial Director, Yahoo! UK & IE for 4 years.
David Salajan
Founder
HubWorks!
David completed a Bachelor of Information Systems (BComp(InfoSys)) straight after high school. He then went on to work in the IT Security and cost recovery sector where he gained a valuable 2.5 years of experience. Wanting to go and do something for himself he joined with Ruby creating websites for the niche childcare market. This then progressed into creating the HubHello! (alpha) Community Portal and HubWorks! Child Care Management System where today he holds the position of Director and heads up product development and compliance.
Ruby O'Rourke
Founder
HubWorks!
Ruby is the joint founder of HubWorks! with David Salajan and brings a depth of business and community experience to the business. Ruby completed a Business Degree at Ridell College and then joined the mining industry, working her way up through a range of administrative and management roles in several publicly listed mining companies. Ruby has also served on the board of QPIX Ltd (Queensland’s screen industry development centre), and has been instrumental in industry change programs.
David Smith
CTO
Movember Foundation
Strategic, analytical and results-oriented technology professional with 25 years experience in commercial software development environments including start ups, fast growing businesses, venture capital backed operations and not for profits. Extensive experience in managing, building and commercialising online systems and products.
David has been the CTO at Movember since April 2010, during which time Movember has grown significantly in size, including expanding now to 21 countries and forecast for more than 1 million participants in this year’s campaign.
With over 10 years IT experience in infrastructure, systems architecture and cloud computing, Derek is responsible for having built the PhotoMerchant application in its entirety. Prior to co-founding PhotoMerchant Derek worked for an Australian federal government agency as an IT security advisor; responsible for managing the IT security of national critical infrastructure. Previously in his role at a leading digital agency Derek was responsible for designing, deploying and maintaining a mission critical platform for an international SaaS based software application. Derek has a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Wollongong.
Simon Elisha
Principal Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
As a Principal Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services, Simon Elisha helps organisations leverage technologies like Cloud Computing that are changing the way businesses compete in the new world of IT. With extensive experience in large-scale systems architecture and development as well as having held senior roles at major technology vendors and business consulting organizations, Simon brings a pragmatic and refreshing approach to the nexus of technology and business.
Simon has over 22 years of industry experience and has held senior roles at organisations including Cisco, Hitachi Data Systems, VERITAS Software, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and EDS. Simon holds an Honors Degree in Information Technology from Monash University.
Daniel Hand
Principal Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Daniel Hand is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is responsible for educating companies in their use of the AWS platform and providing architectural advice and best practices to build highly scalable and resilient applications.
Daniel has over fourteen years experience providing application and infrastructure architectural advice and professional services to Enterprise customers across Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Amazon Web Services, Daniel held positions of consulting practice lead and Solutions and Strategy manager within Red Hat.
Daniel has an MEng, Information Engineering and Computing Science at University of Oxford. He is currently based in Sydney Australia.
Joseph Ziegler
Technology Evangelist
Amazon Web Services
Joe started his life in Texas but began his career in Silicon Valley. Previously, Joe worked at Netscape developing some of the first e-commerce applications during the early days of the Internet. His next venture took him to NetGravity and his second classic Internet IPO. After that, he enjoyed building several startups from the ground up in the role of the technical executive responsible for building the company IP and managing the engineering groups. His most recent thriving venture is Iris Data Services, which landed on the "Forbes 500 Fastest Growing Companies in the US" list.
Joe started using cloud services in 2006 to create the infrastructure for Iris Data Services as the Director of Technical Services. Additionally, he worked with several enterprises developed on the cloud, including building his own company, IndexMedia, on Amazon Web Services. Now he has enthusiastically become an evangelist for Amazon, speaking about the services and features available to customers.
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Senior ExecutiveAmazon Web Services
Michael HarteGroup Executive Enterprise Service & CIO
Richard DurnallHead of IT Delivery
Anthony WoodwardExecutive Director, CEO
Lane PattersonCIO
Tony SimonsenManaging Director, Australia
Josh FraserSenior Vice President Business Development
Stephen BartlettSenior Consultant
Colin FairweatherChief Information Officer, Business Information Services Branch
Dale FreyaExecutive Producer, Cloud Team
Bruce FairHead of Commercial
David SalajanFounder
Ruby O’RourkeFounder
David SmithCTO
Derek ClaphamEngineering Czar & Co-founder
Simon ElishaPrincipal Solutions Architect
Daniel HandPrincipal Solutions Architect
Joe ZieglerTechnology Evangelist
