Internet of Things (IoT) Committee Members

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Mr Tom Zorde

Chair – IoT Committee

Tom Zorde leads purpose driven communities to future-proof Australia for a changing digital world. He convened and lead volunteers to deliver a free-to-use wireless Internet of Things Communications Network for Western Australia which now enables entrepreneurs, academia, industry, rural and city councils. His efforts were recognised by the Australian Computer Society awarding the project the 2018 Digital Disruptor award for transforming skills of work teams 21 to 200 staff. In addition to launching the world’s first certified internet of things practitioner accreditation in compliance with ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024 standards, Tom is a respected leader nurturing collaboration across industry, government and academia, and is a sought-after advisor for organisations embarking on digital transformation. Twitter: @TomZorde LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/zorde

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Mr Peter Runcie

Vice Chair – IoT Committee 

Peter is an independent consultant assisting organisations with the development and implementation of digital and data technology solutions. Current focus areas include natural hazards, resilience, sustainability, and smart cities. He is the Natural Hazards and Smart Cities Lead for the NSW Smart Sensing Network. Peter has had previous technical management roles at CSIRO’s Data61, National ICT Australia, Avaya USA, Bell Laboratories, Woolworths, GIO Australia and several SMEs including as the CIO of a technology-based retail startup. Peter is an inventor on 29 granted international patents in voice and video communications, data networking and biometrics, civil engineering, and data analytics. 

Peter holds an MBA (Exec) from the Australian Graduate School of Management and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Peter is a member of numerous committees including the NSW Government Smart Places Advisory Council, City of Parramatta Smart Cities Advisory Committee, Australian Network for Structural Health Monitoring and Standards Australia Sustainable Cities Technical Committee IT-268.

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Mr Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

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Dimitrios is currently a Professor of Computer Science in Swinburne University of Technology’s Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology (FSET), and the Director the IoT Lab in the university’s Digital Innovation Capability Platform. He also lead the Industry 4.0 program in Swinburne’s Manufacturing Futures Research Institute. Before that he served as Research Director (2008-2014) of CSIRO’s ICT Centre and a Professor at RMIT University (2014-2016). At CSIRO he led the Information Engineering Laboratory, which was the largest Computer Science research program in Australia. Prior to joining CSIRO, Dimitrios held research and management positions in industrial laboratories in the USA, including Telcordia Technologies (where he helped found two of Telcordia’s Research Centres in Austin, Texas, and Poznan, Poland); Microelectronics and Computer Corporation (MCC) in Austin; GTE (currently Verizon) Laboratories in Boston; and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) in New Jersey. He is also a CSIRO Adjunct Fellow since 2014. Dimitrios has (co)authored 190 journal and conference publications in computer science, which include 3 seminal papers in the areas Service Computing, Workflow Management, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Per Google Scholar, my publications have received 16,500+ citations. He served as the General or Program Chair of 20+ major international conferences. He has received 2 outstanding paper awards from the IEEE Computer Society for the best paper in the IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering, and a best paper in the 2017 Hawaii Int. Conf, on System Sciences in Hawaii, USA. He also was the recipient of several IEEE CS service awards and GTE’s Excellence Award. In Australia, He's won 4 ACT iAwards and a CSIRO Plant Industry Divisional Innovation Award. More recently in Swinburne, he also received the 2018 Vice Chancellor’s Innovation Award and FSET’s 2019 Research Award. Dimitrios has attracted $42M+ of research funding from industry and various funding agencies in the USA, EU, and Australia.

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Mr Matthew Schultz

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Matthew Schultz is a Partner and Company Director at Gravelroad Group and an Executive leader with expertise in all facets of next-generation connectivity including 5G, digital infrastructure, Smart City & Internet of Things, and data and AI driven digital strategy and delivery within high-profile operations. Matthew is skilled in collaborating within organizations and industry to achieve business, financial and service delivery objectives. Matthew is also CoChair of the World Economic Forum’s G20 Global Smart Cities Digital Infrastructure Taskforce, Co-founder and a past National President of the Australian Smart Communities Association and a member of the ACS National IoT Committee. He is also an inaugural Board Director of Open Data Australia, a member of Standards Australia IT042 Internet of Things Standards Development Committee and Standards Australia Smart Cities Advisory Group. 

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Prof. Michael Sheng

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Dr. Michael Sheng is a Distinguished Professor and Head of School of Computing. Before moving to Macquarie, Michael spent 10 years at School of Computer Science, the University of Adelaide (UoA). Michael holds a PhD degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and did his post-doc as a research scientist at CSIRO ICT Centre. From 1999 to 2001, Sheng also worked at UNSW as a visiting research fellow. Prior to that, he spent 6 years as a senior software engineer in industries. Prof. Sheng’s research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, Web technologies, and service computing. He has more than 370 publications and his research has been highly cited by his international peers. Prof. Sheng has been invited to give keynotes at a number of international conferences and served as Conference General Chair or Program Chair for several top international conferences in his areas. Dr. Michael Sheng is the recipient of the AMiner Most Influential Scholar in IoT award (2019), ARC Future Fellowship (2014), Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution (2012), and Microsoft Research Fellowship (2003).

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Dr Neil Temperley

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Neil believes new technologies and emerging challenges such as sustainability demand a rethink of how we approach innovation. Vision- and goal-driven, customer-centric approaches should define our ideal outcomes and customer experiences and thereby determine the requirements for the new emerging tools such as AI and Blockchain but also determine our priorities for collecting, managing and leveraging data. He also believes in collaboration via Living Labs and clusters as a means to de-risk innovation and transform industry and government innovation cultures to be more effective and future-focused. Neil helped establish a cluster in embedded systems and then led NICTA's (later Data61's) Living Lab in Transport and Logistics. He now works as a consultant in a variety of innovation areas with a focus on smart cities, communities, and places. His website is www.smartercitiesnewwave.com.au.