Melbourne - Comms Connect

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5
Melbourne
1–3 December 2015
Melbourne Convention &
Exhibition Centre
Utilities | Government | Enterprise | Transportation | Resources | Public Safety
Events for critical communications users and industry
Conference Highlights:
Rod Gilmour — Chairman, NSW Telco Authority
Strategic developments in operational communications
Dale McFee — Deputy Minister of Corrections and
Policing, Ministry of Justice, Government of Saskatchewan
The importance of information mangement in building a
national community safety model
Michael Lawrey — Executive Director, Defence
Engagement, Telstra
Critical communications in the defence landscape
Declan Ganley — CEO, Rivada Networks
Dynamic spectrum arbitrage: a new model for building, sharing
and paying for public safety mobile broadband
PLUS 1500+ users and industry experts – 80+ exhibitors – 75+
speakers
...and so many more reasons that you need to attend and connect
with your peers and the 100’s of industry experts waiting to offer
you the solutions you need
Digital Partner
Platinum Sponsors
Delegate Bag Sponsor
Gold Sponsors
Conference Guide
Sponsor
Supporting associations & media organisations
Media Partner
Association Partner
FREE exhibition entry
to qualified industry professionals
Training Workshops:
• Public safety mobile broadband: governance, operating models and funding
• Advanced radio over IP
• Today’s communication market is all about
usability, increased productivity and Apps.
How does DMR fit in this market?
•Dispelling the myths of microwave radio
• Evolutionary paths from 2G PMR to critical LTE
In conjunction with the ARCIA Industry Gala Dinner
2 December —— MCEC, Melbourne
Visit www.arcia.org.au to book your tickets
For the full program visit www.comms-connect.com.au
Pre-Conference Training Workshops
Tuesday, 1 December
(Additional fee applies – limited availability)
9.30am-12.45pm
1.30pm-5.00pm
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Workshop 4
Workshop 5
Advanced radio over IP
Dispelling the myths of microwave
radio
Conference Agenda
8.00am
8.40am-9.00am
9.00am-9.45am
9.45am-10.30am
10.30am-11.15am
11.15am-11.45am
11.45am-12.15pm
12.15pm-12.45pm
12.45pm-2.00pm
2.00pm-2.30pm
Public safety mobile broadband:
governance, operating models and
funding
Wednesday, 2 December
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Paul Davis — Events Director, WFevents followed by the Chair: Kit Wignall — UXC Consulting
Introduction to Comms Connect’s ongoing, ‘Building a National Communications Interoperability Mind Map’ project Jennifer Goddard — Director, Buzan Centre: Australia/NZ and co-founder of Mindwerx International
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Strategic developments in operational communications
Rod Gilmour — Chairman, NSW Telco Authority
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The importance of information management in building a national community safety model
Dale McFee — Deputy Minister of Corrections and Policing, Ministry of Justice, Government of Saskatchewan
MORNING BREAK
Public safety & emergency management
Public safety mobile broadband: what
does the future hold for responders and
emergency managers?
Panel: Alexander MacQuarrie — Charles
Sturt University, Station Officer Graham
Tait — Fire & Rescue NSW, Garry Kerr —
Executive Manager, Public Safety
Business Agency - QLD
Further speakers tbc
Moderator: Kit Wignall — UXC
Consulting
LUNCH BREAK
Body worn video: the camera is the easy
part!
Senior Sergeant Wayne Hutchings —
Road Policing Command, Queensland
Police Service
Measuring up: using biometrics to keep
emergency responders safe
Alexander MacQuarrie — Lecturer,
Paramedic Program, School of
Biomedical Sciences, Charles Stuart
University and Ben Hinton —
Coordinator, Reconditioning Program,
Health & Fitness Unit, NSW Police Force
3.00pm-3.30pm
AFTERNOON BREAK
4.00pm-4.30pm
Evolutionary paths from 2G PMR to
critical LTE
Workshop 3
REGISTRATION / TEA & COFFEE
2.30pm-3.00pm
3.30pm-4.00pm
Today’s communication market is all
about usability, increased productivity
and Apps. How does DMR fit in this
market?
Delivery options for a public safety
grade mobile broadband capability: the
Productivity Commission draft report
findings
Jonathan Coppel — Commissioner,
Productivity Commission
Multi-agency situational awareness —
capturing and making sense of data for
safety and transport applications
Jan Thompson — Head of Public Safety
Industry and Society, Ericsson
Industry
Case study: Nissan Motorsport: the
communication evolution
Grant Fernando — Quality Assurance
Manager, Icom Australia and Scott Sinclair
— General Manager – Racing Operations,
Nissan Motorsport
Strategic guidelines from narrowband to
critical LTE in Finland
Tero Pesonen — Chairman, Critical
Communications Broadband Group, TCCA
Case study: PMR and telemetry in utilities
Andy Grimmett — Head of Product
Strategy, Simoco
Technology
Security in fixed wireless broadband
access and backhaul solutions
Roy Wittert — Regional Sales Director
(Aust, NZ & Pacific Islands), Cambium
Networks
Queensland Government Wireless
Network (GWN) — operational
governance in a non-partitioned trunked
radio environment
Gerard Cusick — Managing Director,
Andrew Wellwood — General Manager,
Alastair Hope — Principal Adviser,
Mingara Australasia
An introduction to wireless politics –
citizens against radiation entirely
Tim Smoak — TeamCAI
The emerging role of LTE in public safety
Roger Kane — Managing Director, Vicom
An integrated free Wi-Fi and CCTV and
WAN platform for councils — a futuristic,
state-of-the art and agile network
catapulting councils into the technological
age
Dale Stacey — Director, SAT Pty Ltd
400 MHz Implementation: New Horizons
Mark Loney — Executive Manager,
Spectrum Operations & Services Branch,
Australian Communications and Media
Authority
Cyber attacks — target profile and
protection
David Jarvis — National Practice Lead,
UXC Saltbush
M2M wireless out-of-band critical
communications with satellite
Daryl Chambers — Director, M2M
Connectivity Pty Ltd
The convergence of IT and operational
technology — comms systems on
corporate networks
Stuart Zerbe — Director, Marketing &
Strategy, Harris
Innovating smart public safety
applications and analytics to organise
‘big data’ into intelligence, to move
from reaction to prediction and
prevention, so our cities are safer places
to live and work
Greg Bouwmeester — General Manager
Business Development, Motorola Solutions
Mapping the future of public safety: GIS
integrated dispatch applications
Peng Zhang — Lead Sales Engineer,
Zetron Australasia
4.30pm-5.30pm
Panel session: Push to Talk (PTT): Two-way communications over cellular networks — considerations, viability and deployment
Panel Members: Peter Fritz — Motorola Solutions, Ben Cosier — Impulse Wireless, Bevan Clarke — Logic Wireless and
Station Officer Graham Tait — NSW Fire and Rescue
5.30pm-6.30pm
NETWORKING DRINKS – EXHIBTION HALL
ARCIA ANNUAL INDUSTRY GALA DINNER – MCEC
6.30pm-11.30pm
Conference Agenda
8.30am
8.55am-9.00am
9.00am-9.45am
9.45am-10.30am
Thursday, 3 December
REGISTRATION / TEA & COFFEE
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair: Kit Wignall — UXC Consulting
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Critical communications in the defence landscape
Michael Lawrey — Executive Director, Defence Engagement, Telstra Corporation
PLENARY: Dynamic spectrum arbitrage: a new model for building, sharing and paying for public safety mobile broadband
Declan Ganley — CEO, Rivada Networks
10.30am-11.00am
MORNING BREAK
11.00am-11.30am
Public safety & emergency management
NG000 — What’s next?
Speaker tbc
Industry
The impact of disruptive technologies on
the radio industry
Lawrence McKenna —
Telecommunications Section Manager,
Wood & Grieve Engineers
Technology
Implementing robust and reliable wide
area SCADA systems: case studies and
key learnings
Bradley Yager — Solutions Manager,
Schneider Electric
Beyond body worn video: impacting
public safety through integrated digital
evidence management
Mary Yu — Pre-Sales Engineer and
Nathan Sawtell — Country Manager,
TASER International
Case study: Life Saving Queensland’s
state-wide radio migration from analog
to digital
Jason Argent — State Operations Support
Coordinator, Surf Life Saving Queensland
Delivering and supporting critical
communications systems within the
mining environment
Mark Thompson — Principal Consultant,
Walker Newman & Associates
SCADA on digital (PMR) narrowband
radios versus public broadband
technology
Michael D Piciorgros — CEO, FunkElectronic Piciorgros GmbH
Challenges in rationalising government
radio networks
Peter Humphreys — Executive Manager,
Intelligent Infrastructure Networks,
Visionstream
Case study: Eurobodalla Shire Council
UHF SCADA telemetry upgrade project
John Yaldwyn — CTO and Director, 4RF
Australia
Case study: TETRA for the operations of
gas pipeline in Peru
The technology or the business case —
what’s more important?
Roberto Castro — International Sales
Manager, Teltronic SAU
Robert Tait — Lead Consultant, Nova
System
Smart city solutions to enhance
community services and public safety
Krisztian Som — Radio Solutions Business
Manager, NEC Australia
The DMR ecosystem: critical
communications solutions to empower
your business operations
Phil Dowd — Senior Consultant,
Gravelroad
The rise and rise of virtualisation —
threat or opportunity for land mobile
radio?
Andrew Findlay — Executive Director,
Vertel
Cost-optimised digital radio networks in
rural and remote regions
Ashley Marshall — National Business
Development Manager, BAI
Communications
11.30am-Noon
Noon-12.30pm
12.30pm-1.30pm
1.30pm-2.00pm
2.00pm-2.30pm
2.30pm-3.00pm
LUNCH BREAK
Queensland Government Wireless
Network (GWN) — a secure, fully
integrated radiocommunications
network for police and emergency
services
Margaret Kimber — Program Director,
Department of Science, Information
Technology and Innovation, Acting
Superintendent Paul Smeath —
Queensland Fire and Emergency Service,
Inspector Thomas Hassall — Queensland
Ambulance Service and Acting Inspector
Sean Maskell — Queensland Police
Service
Expert panel — research and
development in the
radiocommunications industry
Panel: Ian Miller — Executive Officer,
ARCIA, Geoff Spring — Senior Advisor –
Centre for Disaster Management and
Public Safety, University of Melbourne
Further speakers tbc
Moderator: Ged Griffin — University of
Melbourne
3.00pm-3.30pm
AFTERNOON BREAK
3.30pm-4.00pm
Building a national communications interoperability mind map
Jennifer Goddard — Director, Buzan Centre: Australia/NZ and co-founder of Mindwerx International
Communications interoperability in Australia is a vast and complex network of networks. Governments, industry, associations,
working groups and individuals are constantly interacting as their various goals and objectives align and, sometimes, clash.
Having received numerous requests to help explain this complex communications ecosystem, Comms Connect decided to develop a
National Communications Interoperability Mind Map. This tool will be available to all delegates shortly after the event, however, to
ensure the best information possible is included, we need your help. Jennifer Goddard will present the draft Mind Map on the
morning of day one of the conference and then will then be located on the exhibition floor for two days. Please visit her, view the
draft Mind Map and offer your input to help make the final product even better.
4.00pm
CONFERENCE CLOSES
Change of program content – WFevents will endeavour to ensure that this conference program is correct at the time of the event. We may need to
alter the program prior to the event and reserve the right to do so without notice.
WHO CAN YOU SEE?
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Exhibitors include ...
Products & Solutions on display:
Analog radio – expansion or trunked systems
Alerting/Notifiation systems
Antennas/DAS/In-building systems
Batteries/headsets/microphones/accessories
Business intelligence app
Cable Assemblies and connectors
Computer-controlled receiver systems
Consulting and engineering services
DECT
Depot repair services
Despatch communications equipment/
console systems
Digital radio (Project 25/TETRA/DMR/dPMR)
Display systems
Distribution services
Earthing, Grounding, Lighting Protection
Hardware support
Location technologies: GPS/GIS/mapping
Microwave equipment
Mobile data/SCADA/telemetry
Mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) solutions
Network performance and monitoring software
On-site repair
Outdoor enclosures & infrastructure
Paging/messaging
Pre-installation configuration services
Radio frequency
RoIP/VoIP
Satellite
Service management solutions
Software and radio applications
Spares management and warranty claims processing
Surveillance equipment
System conformance/acceptance testing solutions
Tactical deployment repeater
Telephone conferencing
Test & measurement / monitoring equipment
Towers/site equipment
Trunking equipment
Two-way radio
Unified critical communications
Wireless backhaul
Wireless broadband/WiMAX, LTE and 4G
Wireless microphone
Register online www.comms-connect.com.au