Proposed Program:

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• Keynotes
• Monday 11th July
• Tuesday 12th July:   Industry Day
• Wednesday 13th July

Monday 11th July

Time	Blackwattle Room 1	Blackwattle Room 2	Blackwattle Room 3	Sussex Room	Druitt Room	Bathurst Room
8:00-9:00	REGISTRATION
9:00-9:30	Welcome by Co-Chairs: Dr Elaine Lawrence, Dr Robert Steele Opening Address: Professor Sue Rowley Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Res), University of Technology Sydney
9:30-10:20	Keynote: Professor Roger Clarke Australian National University
10:30-11:00	Morning Break
11:00-12:30	Session 1a mTransformation	Session 1b Privacy And Security I	Session 1c Case Studies	Session 1d Content Innovation in the Mobile Arena I	Session 1e Mobile Business Processes I
12:30-1:30	Lunch
1:30- 2:20	Keynote: Dr Victor Bahl Microsoft Research Lab, USA
2:30-3:30	Session 2a Mobile Entertainment I	Session 2b Privacy And Security II	Session 2c Personalised Mobile Applications	Session 2d Content Innovation in the Mobile Arena II	Session 2e Mobile Business Processes II	Session 2f Panel 1: Content Innovation in the Mobile Arena
3:30-4:00	Afternoon Break
4:00-5:30	Session 3a Mobile Entertainment II	Session 3b Privacy And Security III	Session 3c Architectual And Modelling Issues	Session 3d Mobile e-Learning	Session 3e Wireless Sensor Networks

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Tuesday 12th July   Industry Day

Time	Blackwattle Room 1	Blackwattle Room 2	Blackwattle Room 3	Sussex Room	Druitt Room	Bathurst Room
8:00-9:00	INDUSTRY DAY REGISTRATION
9:00-9:45	Industry Keynote: Mr Jonathan Withers CTO, iBurst
10:00-11:00	Session 4a Interaction Design And Mobile Business I	Session 4b Mobile Services in the Financial Services Industry	Session 4c Government/Regulatory Issues	Session 4d Mobile Marketing I	Industry Session 1a	Industry Session 1b
11:00-11:30	Morning Break
11:30-12:30	Session 5a Interaction Design And Mobile Business II	Session 5b Mobile Payments I	Session 5c Adaption of Mobile Technology I	Session 5d Panel 2: M-Commerce: Turning Hype into Reality	Industry Session 2a	Industry Session 2b
12:30-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:15	Industry Keynote: Ian Ross Cisco Systems Services Consultant Australia and New Zealand
2:30-3:30	Session 6a Beyond Mobile: What Comes Next?	Session 6b Mobile Payments II	Session 6c Adaption of Mobile Technology II	Session 6d Mobile Marketing II	Industry Session 3a	Industry Session 3b
3:30-4:00	Afternoon Break
4:00-5:30	Session 7a Interaction Design And Mobile Business III	Session 7b Mobile Payments III	Session 7c Adaption of Mobile Technology III	Session 7d Mobile Marketing III	Session 7e Mobile Applications
7:30-10:30	CONFERENCE GALA DINNER

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Wednesday 13th July

Time	Blackwattle Room 1	Blackwattle Room 2	Blackwattle Room 3	Sussex Room	Druitt Room
8:30-9:10	Keynote: Mr Bob Hayward VP Research Fellow, Gartner				C o l l E C T e R 2 0 0 5
9:10-9:50	Keynote: Mr Rob Zalums Managing Director, Sybase Australia & New Zealand
10:00-11:00	Session 8a Mobile Health I	Session 8b Mobile Technologies	Session 8c Mobile Content Distribution	Session 8d Mobile Information Retrieval
11:00-11:30	Morning Break
11:30-12:30	Session 9a Mobile Health II	Session 9b Mobile Agents I	Session 9c Mobile Network Management	Industry Session 5a
12:30-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:15	Keynote: Professor Peter Thomas Carey-Thomas/ University of Melbournce
2:30-3:30	Session 10a Mobile Middleware And Mobile Environments	Session 10b Mobile Agents II	Session 10c Mobile Networking I	Session 10d RFID
3:30-4:00	Afternoon Break
4:00-5:00	Session 11a Mobile Middleware And Networking	Session 11b Fixed Versus Wireless Networks	Session 11c Mobile Networking II
5:00-5:30	Goodbye

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Keynotes

• Presenter: Dr Victor Bahl - Microsoft Research Lab, US

  Bio: Victor Bahl is a Senior Researcher and Manager of the Networking Research Group in Microsoft Research. His research interests span he areas of wireless networking & mobile computing. Some of his seminal research includes: WiLIB (1997-1998), a general purpose programming interface for wireless network cards; RADAR (1998-1999), a signal strength based indoor user-location determination system; CHOICE (1999-2001), a edge-server based public area wireless hot-spot network, and UCOM (2001-2003), a multi-radio wireless system. Dr. Bahl's research has been incorporated into Microsoft's Windows Operating Systems product and numerous non-Microsoft commercial products. In addition to building systems, he has authored over 70 scientific papers and 50 patent applications. He is the founder and Chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group in Mobility (SIGMOBILE); the founder and past Editor-in-Chief of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (1996-2001), and the founder and Steering Committee Chair of ACM/USENIX Mobile Systems Conference (MobiSys); In addition to ACM MobiSys, Dr. Bahl serves on the Steering Committee of IEEE DySpan, ACM SenSys, ACM MobiCom, IEEE ISWC and on the Technical Program Committee of over 50 international conferences and workshops. He is on the board of several IEEE and ACM journals. He has received Digital's Doctoral Engineering Award and ACM SIGMOBILE's Distinguished Service Award. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a past president of the electrical engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu-Zeta Pi.

  Bridging the Information Divide: Challenges & Opportunities - Keynote Talk Abstract: A large part of our world still does not have meaningful Internet access. The gap between those who have quick and easy access to information versus those who do not has created the information divide. Those who have easy access to information generally make better decisions about their livelihood and well-being. Although a symptom of deeper socio-economic issues, appropriate technologies and government policies that take end-user constraints into account can help alleviate this problem. In this talk, I will discuss research challenges and describe technologies that enable ubiquitous connectivity and services. These technologies range from connecting rural villages in remote areas to monitoring the health of individuals and improving social interactions between people. I will describe a programmable mobile platform that enables researchers to build and distribute such applications quickly. The problem space is large and complex; to succeed, we have to work together to build affordable technologies that empower the individual.

• Presenter: Professor Roger Clarke, Australian National University
  Bio: Roger Clarke has spent 35 years in the information systems discipline and the information technology industry, and has been active in eCommerce since the late 1980s.
  
  His work combines:
  - consultancy assignments in strategic and policy aspects of eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy
  -research into 'sharp end' technologies and issues (recently identity management, biometrics, nymity, and ePublishing; and currently P2P, open content licensing, the economics of innovation, and ePublishing business models)
  -Visiting Professorships at leading universities in Australia and overseas
  -involvement with major international eCommerce conferences and journals
  
  He holds Honours and Masters degrees in Information Systems from UNSW, and a doctorate from the ANU. His resource site, which generates 3 million hits p.a., is at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/

  Trust Among Mobile Business Partners - Keynote Talk Abstract
  The transformation of enterprise organisation has been in train for many years. Change has been faster and deeper since the eCommerce era, and is being accelerated by m>Business innovation.
  New technologies create new opportunities, but their exploitation depends on enthusiastic and effective adoption by all relevant parties. There have been many disappointments during the 20 years of eCommerce. m>Business is likely to make the same mistakes, so progress may well be far slower than people currently hope.
  This presentation considers the nature and importance of trust among the individuals and organisations that make up m>transformed enterprises.

• Presenter: Mr Jonathan Withers, CTO, iBurst
  

  Presentation Slides [PDF 4.1mb]

  Bio: He is an experienced CTO having worked for many years in the telecommunications industry. He helped form his current company, Personal Broadband Australia (PBA), and has been responsible for the deployment of a new and innovative wireless technology. PBA is deploying a wide area, broadband wireless technology (iBurst) that provides ubiquitous and fully mobile broadband access. Before joining Personal Broadband, Jonathan was a director with Vodafone Pacific covering Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, in charge of technical strategy. During his ten years at Vodafone, Jonathan initially led the radio network deployment for the Vodafone's GSM system in Australia. In 1996, he was appointed Technical Director for the Vodafone network. Prior to Vodafone, Mr. Withers was based in the United Kingdom as an engineering manager with Motorola and was directly involved in defining the radio access specification for the GSM mobile telephone system in the late '80's.

  Keynote Talk Abstract: Today, voice communication to any location or individual is taken for granted as is the enormous flexibility and convenience offered by the mobility and roaming attributes of voice telephony. Data communications, however, are still many years behind in terms of this universal connectivity concept. The industry is now turning its attention to the challenge of adding bandwidth to the last mile, and where mobility is involved this means using wireless.
  Successful, cost effective, delivery of data with the same flexibility as currently available with voice is what the market is demanding and therefore carries a rich prize. Many enterprises are focused on gaining the prize using a variety of technologies; and, predictably, extravagant claims, misinformation and hyperbole abound! This presentation will look at the driving forces behind mobile data communications today, and how these are expected to develop into the future. To develop compelling mobile solutions, Industry must address many market, product and technical challenges but the achievement of this goal is hotly pursued because it leads to the 'Holy Grail' of information exchange. And ironically, it is this very achievement that will potentially undermine traditional voice communications and the providers thereof we have today.

• Presenter: Ian Ross, Cisco
  

  Presentation Slides [PDF 3.9mb]

  Bio: Ian Ross is a Services Consultant for Cisco Systems Australia and is primarily involved with services innovation and creation for service providers. In this role Ian is responsible for the evolution of services strategies and end-user experiences, and works closely with Cisco's customers to leverage the power of the network for marketplace differentiation and business growth.
  Ian's experience includes engineering and marketing roles in Asia Pacific service provider and enterprise markets, and spans voice, data, optical and wireless technologies. Ian joined Cisco from Nortel, where he led Wireline Strategic Market Development in Asia Pacific and was largely responsible for introducing a strong focus on business and market application in customer engagements. Prior to Nortel, he worked as a hardware and software consultant in the information technology sector.
  Ian holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Communications), Honours, from RMIT University, is passionate about technology and its practical applications, and is currently based in Melbourne, Australia.

  Mobile Business Service Migration - Keynote Talk Abstract Mobile Business Services and the untethered workplace are important aspects of the Intelligent Information Network vision; delivering worker mobility, enabling anywhere-anytime access to business applications and improving productivity. Mobility however, means more than wireless.
  
  This presentation will discuss the usage and application trends within enterprises, the impact on service requirements, and the continued evolution of voice and data services towards the vision of fixed-mobile convergence. A global perspective will be provided through case studies of mobile business services in other markets, as well as a summary of learning from Cisco Systems' own adoption of these services.

• Presenter: Mr Bob Hayward, VP Research Fellow, Gartner
  

  Bio: Bob Hayward is Senior Vice President and Research Fellow Asia/Pacific and Japan for Gartner. Bob is responsible for growth strategy for Gartner in Asia/Pacific and Japan, for business development and for representing Gartner Research in the region. He was the first employee of Gartner in Asia/Pacific and Japan in 1995, a region that now has over 350 staff and annual revenues in excess of US$100m per annum.
  
  He has over 25 years experience in the IT industry, working in Europe, USA and Asia/Pacific at various senior levels within the Software and IT Services industry. Bob established and then managed Asia/Pacific operations for Candle Corporation in the late 1980s, and introduced Tivoli Systems into Asia/Pacific through his own distribution company in the early 1990s.
  
  He is a frequent keynote speaker at dozens of conferences and symposiums across Asia/Pacific, and is a regular guest on regional TV and radio technology shows.
  
  Bob is a past Director of the Australian Information Industries Association (AIIA), and past Co-Chairman of the AIIA Public Policy Task Force, the main committee of the AIIA that works with the Federal Government of Australia on policy matters related to the ICT industry. He has also been a member of the Shanghai Government IT Expert Advisory Board, and the Advisory Board for Inqbator, an Australian-based technology incubator. Bob has frequent meetings with the IT Ministers for Australia (including all states), Singapore, India, Thailand, South Korea, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Taiwan and Japan.

  The Mobile Scenario: Going Beyond Mobile Workforce Enablement - Keynote Talk Abstract As a bewildering array of networks and mobile devices spreads across the globe, carriers and business leaders scramble to gain insight into the opportunities and threats this explosion of technology unleashes. This presentation brings all the pieces together to offer some predictions and suggestions on where the world is headed with mobile technology.
  
  Key Issues the presentation explores include:
  How will mobile technology and subscribers evolve from 2005 to 2010?
  How will network services and service providers evolve in response to convergence and market changes?
  How will corporations use mobility to deliver B2B and B2C systems and applications?

• Presenter: Robert Zalums, Managing Director, Sybase Australia & New Zealand
  

  Bio: Robert Zalums has over 30 years experience in the IT industry, in several international markets and on three continents. Mr. Zalums is currently Managing Director of Sybase Australia and New Zealand, a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software.
  Prior to joining Sybase, Mr. Zalums enjoyed a successful career at Cognos Incorporated where he held many different roles including Managing Director of Australia, Vice President of Asia Pacific, and Managing Director of United Kingdom operations. Recently, Mr. Zalums worked in Australia at Crystal Decisions Incorporated as Managing Director, ComOps as General Manager focusing on mobile field-force automation, and also ran his own practice in Enterprise Performance Management. Early in his career Mr. Zalums worked at the Department of Defence as a Computer Systems Officer and Fujitsu as a Senior Systems Engineer.
  Mr. Zalums holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics from Flinders University, South Australia and a Graduate Diploma in Computing Studies from Canberra University, ACT.

  The Evolution, Business Challenges and Future of M-Business - Keynote Talk Abstract Businesses today must maintain a competitive edge to thrive as well as survive. An information edge means competitive advantage. Conducting M-business and being able to access information anytime and anywhere is a key differentiator to gaining a competitive edge. A government organisation with mobile field workers can improve their internal systems while also improving their public image. While a Fortune 500 company with a mobile sales force can increase sales while decreasing operating costs.
  As people become more mobile in their personal and business lives, so does the need for the mobile access of data. From SMSing friends from a mobile phone to getting email via PDA while on the road, mobility and M-business is everywhere. This keynote address explores the technological evolution, from centralised data centres to mobile PDAs, and its progression over the years into the mobile workplaces of today.
  With two thirds of the U.S. total workforce going 'mobile' by the year 2006, and the Asian mobile services market exploding at 20% a year, businesses today must be thinking ahead as to how they will prepare for this new paradigm shift. How mobile companies adopt mobility strategies today in three phases is discussed. This includes mobilisation of email, to mobilisation of corporate applications, to total business transformation and what each step entails. The unique business challenges, perceived complexities, and fear of mobilisation is discussed. Case studies of international businesses who have mobilised their workforce with success are explored. Finally, a wrap-up of market insights and predictions, anticipated vendor changes, and benefits derived from mobilisation will be presented.

• Presenter: Professor Peter Thomas, Principal, Carey Thomas Australia. Visiting Fellow, The University of Melbourne
  

  Bio: Peter Thomas has worked with public and private sector clients in the areas of advanced technology strategy and development for 10 years, consulting with organisations in the areas of consumer technology, financial services, banking, mobile technologies, education, innovation, user-centered design and e-commerce. Peter was previously visiting professor at University College London and CTO of the e- commerce arm of a UK FTSE 250 facilities management company. He has developed research centres and institutes in the UK and Australia, designing and managing research programs in mobile technology. He is currently Principal of CareyThomas Australia, a user centered innovation company operating in Melbourne and Sydney, a visiting Fellow at The University of Melbourne and Associate professor at Brunel University in London. He is editor of the Springer journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing and director of the Appliance design Network, chairing its international Appliance Design conference series for three years. Peter is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer.

  Not really like the internet on your 'phone: experience design for mobile broadband - Keynote Talk Abstract Recent 3G consumer services launches have promoted mobile broadband to consumers in terms of extending the internet paradigm to the mobile space. The assumption currently driving 3G is that consumers either want more of the same (email, web browsing and file downloads) or that there is a killer app out there waiting to be discovered that will grow mobile broadband on the same curve as mobile voice services. But do consumers really want the internet on their 'phone? So far no attractive broadband-dependent commercial applications have emerged as contenders for the killer app, and if we look at technologies such as WLAN/WiFi, there is no compelling proposition emerging for consumers beyond doing the same things that they were doing at their desks - only doing it at Berlin-Tegel airport, on the Deutsche Bahn or in the Qantas lounge. We think that the reason for a lack of breakthrough thinking in the mobile broadband space is that there is no real understanding of what consumers really want, and no real understanding of how the availability of broadband internet and voice mobility has changed how consumers think about what they need. What is obvious is that consumers have absolutely no interest in technology they are only interested in how value can be added to what they do but how do we understand what would be a really great proposition that would deliver an experience that consumers would love? In this talk, Peter Thomas will look at ways of understanding and designing the 'end-to-end' mobile broadband experience that takes into account what really drives consumers. He will draw on work on mobile broadband futures at CareyThomas and on research projects that explore the future mobile broadband experiences.