Agenda

Day 1 – 13 November 2017 – From 5G to Real IoT

By 2020, approximately 50 billion connected devices and 212 billion connected sensors are expected to be supported by the 5G network. It will take us from a world of connecting people-to-people and people-to-internet, to a world that includes connecting machines-to-machines on a mass scale. The increase in performance of 5G will bring not only continue to benefit mobile broadband and smartphone experience, but will also be essential to supporting the expected increase in the Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices.

In the following sessions, you will gain an overview & new perspectives into future technological advancements, which offer enormous potential for both consumers and industries. Discussions around 4G will continue to grow and evolve, enabling the move towards the hyper-connected society alongside developments in 5G. Furthermore, you will discover emerging cyber threats in the 5G and IoT ecosystems and responses to these threats. An interactive range of top-of-the-mind topics geared towards addressing barriers to implementation, such as the standardization of 5G and current issues & challenges of 5G in relation to IoT.

• Australia’s innovation ecosystem – interconnectivity and convergence
• Industry 4.0 and Austrade’s role:
• Identifying centres of excellence globally in priority sectors;
• Linking Australian capability with ecosystems internationally;
• Promoting Australian disruptive technologies and innovative solutions in international markets.
• Benefits and challenges in key sectors: infrastructure and future cities; tourism; health; technology and services; international education
• Supporting R&D precinct development, through co-operation between universities, industry, and government

Dr. Stephanie Fahey is the Chief Executive Officer of Austrade, the Australian Government agency responsible for promoting trade, investment and international education, and tourism policy, programs, and research. Stephanie has over 30 years’ experience both as an academic and executive working in Australia and overseas.

Previously she was EY’s lead partner for education in the Oceania region, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) at Monash University and Director of the University of Sydney’s Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific. Dr. Fahey brings an international perspective to her work and a wealth of experience across business and academia.

Austrade’s first female chief executive, Dr. Fahey has also served on the Australia China Business Council, the Australia China Council, the NSW International Education Advisory Board, the European Australian Business Council, the Board of Canberra Institute of Technology, the Foreign Affairs Council and the Australia Korean Foundation. 

Stephanie holds a Ph.D. from the Australian National University and BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney. She speaks Melanesian Pidgin. She was inducted as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2012.

• What is IOT?
• The IOT Market Opportunity
• The IOT Business case

With over 18 years’ experience in telecommunications, Lynda is perfectly placed to identify the new opportunities for all Australians under 5G – using trials and real world outcomes to future-gaze into where technology can take us next. Being an agent for change means Lynda not only knows how to identify opportunities, but she can then also help you isolate where change will be most effective in your business and support implementation. We are all coming to grips with the pace of change in technology, and Lynda is a leader in the telecommunications space who can support your business into its future. Focused on business outcomes that are driven by technological change, Lynda knows how to build and accelerate growth, through sales excellence, diversity and optimising ‘go to’ channels. Where high paced growth is needed, she builds specialist teams who work cohesively under pressure to ensure that gaps in the market are leveraged. As a General Manager with Kordia for the Telstra account, Lynda is responsible for generating new business and building effective working relationships with major stakeholders by successfully negotiating contracts, managing project teams and ensuring that customer bid processes are managed to ensure they deliver high-quality results.

On the way to 5G some trends are getting clear, the need for larger bandwidth, a new base station architecture divided into centralised and distributed unit and the implementation of massive MIMO methods. These trends are going together with using additional frequencies, especially in the higher frequency ranges, like the mm-waves.

In this presentation we would like to outline some impacts on the future base station and UE architectures with regard to new antenna systems inside, power consumption aspects and power amplifier design. Focus will be on some challenges of future test and measurement aspects like e.g. over the air testing aspects in R&D and production environment, power consumption analysis and component verification like power amplifiers linearization.

• Security challenges in particular resulting from vertical industries
• Key aspects for analyzing the security of an IP connection
• How to characterize security of an IP connection over an emulated cellular network

With the proliferation of IoT devices and ecosystems, large Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are struggling to develop cost effective, scalable solutions that can allow efficient on-boarding of these devices. This session will explore IoT test and certification frameworks that provide the automation and flexibility required by CSPs to rapidly deploy such devices and monetize them using 4G and future 5G networks.

With the massive upcoming increase of IoT devices connected to cellular networks, it is imperative for service providers and network equipment manufacturers to test their networks and devices to ensure they scale. Ixia Solutions Group (part of Keysight) introduced Cellular IoT emulation and test capabilities to its market-leading, high scale cellular test solution – IxLoad Wireless. These tools are designed to:

• Validate the functionality, capacity, and performance of newly introduced EPC elements such as C-SGN, using technologies including S1-Lite and Data over NAS
• Validate the functionality, capacity, and performance of cellular IoT-enabled RAN by emulating both regular UEs and cellular IoT UEs at scale, using technologies such as CAT-M1 and NB-IoT

• How will millennial and mobile technologies influence exponential growth?
• How do legacy business models need to transform to for peak exponential profit inflection points?
• What programmatic technologies enable an enterprise to transform for exponential performance

A distinguished researcher, author and international speaker, Rocky has contributed to the World Economic Forum’s Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services Program, delivered key note addresses at events such as Mobile World Congress and published 12 thought leadership research reports on digital disruption that have become internationally recognised.

Educated in Australia and trained in the USA at Sydney and Stanford Universities respectively, he has a Graduate Diploma in Corporate Management and an MBA. He is also a graduate and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Panel Discussion with Telcos, Regulators, Other Carriers, MVNOs, System Integrators, Solution Providers: Understanding 5G: Perspective on Future Technological Advancements in Mobile Applications

• Insightful 5G offers enormous potential for both consumers and industries
• 5G spectrum planning & allocation and coverage implications for mobile operators
• Designing for 5G Security Development
• Testing, certification for 5G security – compliant devices: an update
• Emerging trends, opportunities, areas for improvement, technology possibilities

Moderator:

Chris has a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Certificate in Public Administration from the University of Canberra, and a Masters of Engineering Science from the University of New South Wales.  He has been with the ACMA and its predecessor the Australian Communications Authority since 2000 and previously spent a short period working for a power system consultancy company in Queensland.

Robert’s recent work has been on Optimisation and Performance Management of Mobile Communication Networks LTE, 4G and 4.5G Mobile Networks with Major International Communications Companies Nokia USA, T-Mobile USA, AT&T USA and Huawei Germany
And Currently working at Macquarie University as senior Lecture he is teaching:

• 5G Networks
• Software Defined Networking
• Telecommunication Networks, Performance Analysis

His research interests are in the areas of 5G, NFV, and SDN for 5G Networks.

The advancements in electronics, embedded controllers, smart communicating devices as well as the progress towards a better informed, knowledge-based society increase the demand for small size, affordable sensors that allow accurate and reliable data recording, processing, storing and communication. This led to the paradigm known as the Internet of Things (IoT) in which Wireless Sensor Nodes are most important elements.

Currently, he is working as a Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering with the Department of Engineering, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. He is the Programme Leader of the Mechatronics Engineering Degree Programme. He has over 26 years of teaching and research experiences.
His fields of interest include Smart Sensors and Sensing Technology, Wireless Sensor Networks, Instrumentation and Measurements, Internet of Things, Environmental Measurements, Electromagnetics, Control Engineering, Mechatronics, Magnetic Bearing, Fault Current Limiter, Electrical Machines and numerical field calculation etc.

He has authored/co-authored over 400 papers in different international journals, conferences and book chapter. He has edited fifteen conference proceedings. He has also edited seventeen special issues of international journals as lead guest editor and thirty books with Springer-Verlag.
He was awarded numerous awards throughout his career and attracted over US$3.0 M on different research projects.

He has delivered 296 seminars including keynote, tutorial, invited and special seminars.

He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of IET (UK) and a Fellow of IETE (India). He is a Topical Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal and an Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements. He is on the editorial board of e-Journal on Non-Destructive Testing, Sensors, and Transducers, Transactions on Systems, Signals, and Devices (TSSD). He is the co-Editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems (www.s2is.org). He was the Technical Programme Chair of ICARA 2004, ICARA 2006 and ICARA 2009. He was the General chair/co-chair of ICST 2005, ICST 2007, IEEE ROSE 2007, IEEE EPSA 2008, ICST 2008, IEEE Sensors 2008, ICST 2010, IEEE Sensors 2010, ICST 2011, ICST 2012, ICST 2013, ICST 2014, ICST 2015 and ICST 2016. He has organized the IEEE Sensors conference 2009 at Christchurch, New Zealand during October 25 to 28, 2009 as General Chair. He is currently organizing the 11th ICST in Sydney, Australia during December 4-6, 2017.

• IoT has broadened the definition of and need for critical infrastructure – keeping power on to all devices. While critical infrastructure encompasses the protection and enabling of mission-critical applications in the major data centres, with the anticipated explosion in IoT, the playing field has become vast because of the endpoints that interact directly – the end users and consumers are becoming demanding due to requirement of the functions and applications
• IoT introduce a new IT topology, where the distributed network will re-emerge as crucial to store data collected from IoT devices at the edge of network and require the localisation of real-time processing, while the central or core data centre (whether on-premise, co-location or hybrid cloud) will need to be remotely monitored and maintain the central management of the entire network

Roberts’s diverse experience in multiple countries and business sectors enables him to bring to life a leadership style that is naturally empowering, collaborative & encouraging. His fascination for all things digital enables him to easily translate technical complexity into relevant analogies using simple storytelling techniques.

Recently authored articles and blogs by Robert explore the growth & speed to connect users with applications and how the demand for things like big data, IoT, mobile, social & AI is driving data center requirements from organizations core data center right up to the edge of the network.

Based out of Sydney, Robert has worked at Vertiv (formerly Emerson Network Power) for the past 6 years. Prior to his appointment, Robert held senior positions working in USA, Europe, and Asia.  Robert has over two decades of experience across technology-driven industries, including telecoms, electronic materials, and powder coating. In addition, Robert has previously held board positions with CEPE, Intellect UK, and EIPC.

More recently Robert is leading Vertiv business transformation into energy efficiency in the data center space.  Robert and his team are focused on aligning customers ICT and business strategies to reduce energy costs in sustainable and innovative ways.

The connected society requires you to properly and reliably manage and protect user and device identities at all times.

5G will address the evolution beyond the mobile internet to massive IoT, providing both opportunity and challenge.

To support such trends as multi-device and multi-access used by consumers and businesses, G+D is developing highly scalable, seamless and secure systems for managing credentials whilst protecting 5G endpoints and use cases.

Jakie’s experiences stems from the technology sector where for the last 18 years she has held regional management roles across Western & Eastern Europe and Asia and executive management roles in Australia. She has a rich background in international business with a particular focus in delivering solutions that encompass outsourced services and mobility.
Prior to joining G&D in January 2017 as Managing Director, she was Chief Operating Officer to Melbourne’s renown business entrepreneur Larry Kestelman and his diverse group of companies. As COO Jakie had responsibility for supporting the group’s growth strategy , overseeing the shared services of marketing, legal and finance and delivery of significant projects in property, basketball, and technology.

Prior to that, Jakie was Country Director of Oberthur Technologies Australia, one of the world’s largest providers of smart card & payment solutions to the financial, telecom and government sectors. Her 10 years at the helm had her working closely with our local and global retail banks, telecoms and government whilst developing strong operational expertise through the hands-on management of Oberthur’s Australian personalisation bureau.

Jakie has a wealth of business and technology experience locally and overseas. She has an inherent knowledge of how to interpret the needs of our customers and deliver above and beyond. Jakie provides dynamic leadership to the G+D Australasia team with a commitment to supporting G+D’s evolution into the digital marketplace.
Jakie was born and educated in Perth Western Australia and is a mother of 2 boys.

Afternoon Refreshment & Networking Session (For VIP / Invited Delegates Only)

• Mobile evolution in Australia
• Global Connectivity Index
• Fourth Industrial Revolution
• 5G Applications and Services
• Spectrum policy and network deployment

AMTA is the peak industry organization representing Australia’s mobile telecommunications sector and operates programs covering all aspects of the mobile ecosystem such as – telecommunications policy, mobile network infrastructure, radiofrequency spectrum, health & safety, product stewardship/e-waste and recycling, national security, content regulation and consumer awareness & education.

Prior to joining AMTA Mr. Althaus held Chief Executive roles leading national industry associations representing the Australian road transport and logistics industry and the Australian forests and forest products sector.

Mr. Althaus has a Bachelor of Science from the Australian National University; Graduate Diploma in Economics from the University of Canberra; and
Business Administration Diploma from Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

• Understanding behavioural influences to help protect infrastructure, software systems, network systems and data
• Understanding how humans fit into security systems.
• Designing and implementing educational tools, technology and methodologies to increase cyber security awareness

Enjoy a glass of champagne whilst networking with other like-minded individuals on topics that are of most interest to you and fellow delegates.

Day 2 Morning – 14 November 2017 – 5G for IoT Applications and Vertical Markets’ Use Cases 

In these sessions, you will discover the fundamental requirements of building 5G networks needed to support an increasingly diverse set of services, applications and users, all with extremely diverging requirements for life and work.

• How 5G improves the user experience for everyone
• Why 5G is important for ubiquitous connectivity
• What are the new applications enabled by 5G

• Beyond Content to Immersive Experiences – select emerging technologies/innovations, key trends & visions shaping the future of a smarter/connected world.
• Multimedia convergence covering new paradigms in the TIME – Telecom, Internet, Media & Edutainment domains
• Innovations in and emergence of new-age smart devices from mass-market/simple, lifestyle to wearable and future potential categories.

Anuraj Gambhir is an internationally recognized Strategic Business Advisor, Technology Visionary and Innovation Evangelist 

As an Innovation catalyst Anuraj assists organizations (from mentoring startups to consulting with mature entities) to spearhead their innovation agenda. He has over 25 years experience working across the mobile ecosystem spanning 5 continents.  A few prominent companies he has worked for include: NASA/JPL, Optus, Logica/Aethos, T-Mobile, Orange, GSM Association, Sharp, Siemens, Spice, Ericsson, MTS, Globacom.

Anuraj has worked from hands-on technical roles to senior executive management positions and is regarded by many as an industry visionary. He is a valued advisory board member of several organizations globally and also involved with teaching as adjunct faculty. He has spearheaded several innovations in the advanced as well as grassroot level mobile domain in mature and emerging markets. He focuses his efforts on value creation via strategic business development and nurturing breakthrough concepts leading to game-changing and disruptive/radical innovation.

A term he coined over a decade ago – ‘Simplexity’ is the essence of his work in curating relevant ecosystems, embracing digital disruption, designing compelling/novel solutions and delightful end-user experiences.

Some major areas of his focus have been in mobile content/media/entertainment (multimedia convergence), mEducation, mHealth, emerging smart devices, Internet of Everything, HNI (Human-Nature Interface) and seamless access as a part of the connected world.

Morning Refreshments & Networking Session (For VIP / Invited Delegates Only)

• The emergence of collaborative cloud-based work platforms
• Growth in Working from Remote Locations
• Teleconferencing combined with Cloud Platforms to reduce travel time and expense

• IoT market drivers and requirements
• Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) IoT technology landscape
• LTE Evolution for IoT connectivity – 5G enhancements
• The Tactile Internet
  

Rob was President of Gridsense in the US where he drove the company’s M2M monitoring & control solutions into the Utility sector. He was the Asia Smart Grid leader for General Electric, including its range of Enterprise Software, Hardware and Services solutions and more recently EVP of Grid Net, a Silicon Valley M2M enterprise networking software startup. He has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Large scale ultra-broadband fiber-based initiatives and new entrants are being challenged in their mandate and objectives by the lack of access to the customer. A high capacity last mile wireless solution can turn the issue into an opportunity to timely deliver the same promised services, accelerate the revenue generation and ROI and ultimately show the path to 5G FWA.

Juan Romeo has devoted his professional activity to the launch and management of broadband products & services during the last 18 years. At Telefonica, the leading European and Latin American telecom operator, he was responsible, among other, for the fixed broadband portfolio of the Spanish operation; from the early times of xDSL in 1999 to the first commercialization of FTTP services in 2008 (with massive deployment in the following years), both at retail and wholesale levels. In 2013 he joined the, then just born, Qatar National Broadband Network Co. (Qnbn), the Qatari national initiative for the generalization of the ultra-broadband services. At Qnbn Juan boosted up the products, the customer agreements and a sustainable revenue generation. Currently, he is bringing his experience in managing commercial broadband initiatives to the development of Inster wireless solutions.

Rodrigo has been involved in the design and deployment of telecommunications systems in the railway sector of Australia, the UK, and Europe for over fourteen years. His comprehensive experience extends to both wireless (radio) and fixed communications systems, as well as the integration of advanced railway signaling systems and mission-critical applications with those communications systems.

In addition to his engineering expertise, Rodrigo is a well-rounded professional with excellent communication skills, capable of engaging stakeholders and helping them achieve their objectives. He is also a keen team player, and he excels in proactively encouraging and leading others to achieve their goals and fulfill their potential.

Bob Sharon is a passionate “Disruptor” with over 30 years of commercial experience in the I.T., data centre, smart buildings and the IoT space. He is a recognized industry advisor and expert in energy and infrastructure. He is committed to innovation in the delivery of smart buildings and facilities leveraging new financial models, technologies, the cloud and the IoT. He is the Chief Innovation Officer for Blue IoT and iHome Energy.

Bob is now a member of the Executive Committee of the IoTAA where he hopes to make a worthwhile contribution to the industry.

Bob has been privileged to have conducted the world’s first NABERS (National Built Environment Rating System) energy for Data Centre Infrastructure rating back in 2013 which was for Fujitsu. Then in early 2016, he was privileged to have rated the first NABERS 4.5 star data centre, Australia’s most energy efficient data centre at the time, and since added two more. NABERS ratings are not a design rating, but rather an operational efficiency rating based on real results over a 12 month period.

Apart from the University of Life, Bob has completed his Master of Management – International Business at Monash University. Bob is also looking for people to join in the establishment of a new organization called Entrepreneur’s Angels that will help entrepreneurs who get into trouble.

Josh has avidly followed the developments within the drone industry since the first military drones were introduced. This passion led him in 2015, to present at both the Asia Pacific Cities Summit, in Brisbane and the Audacious Ideas Festival in Toowoomba on “How to survive the upcoming drone invasion.”

It was after the second presentation that both Josh and David Masefield (co-founder) found they shared a mutual passion for drones and identified gaps in the industry. From this conversation, they have since founded the World Drone Challenge. The underlying theme of the event is for teams to deliver some form of humanitarian relief to what would be isolated remote or regional communities in a post-natural disaster scenario, taken directly from Josh’s experiences during the 2011 Floods impacting Toowoomba, Brisbane, and the greater Lockyer Valley.

Since creating the World Drone Challenge, Josh has been invited to present webinars to wide range of audiences (and mediums) including the beef and cattle industry, maths and science students at Flinders University and has recently been invited to present to the Australian Intelligent Transport Systems Summit. He has also written and contributed to a number of articles and has been interviewed on a number of occasions regarding his insights into the impact of drones on multiple industries.

Recently Ben has been working on APAC focussing on Digital and IoT service solutions that have seen extensive engagements with Softbank, Airtel, Telstra, Maxis, 2 degrees, JB HiFi and IoT startup ConnectedLife.

The need for robust and clever (smart is overused) digital journeys is imperative but the physical movement of devices and the always now generation create huge opportunities for companies to leverage the services of specialists.

Michael is a Chartered Professional Engineer and Fellow of Engineers Australia with over 20 years’ experience across industrial design, materials handling, manufacturing, food & beverage, mining, oil & gas, and has lead several international engineering teams and projects. He received a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) with First Class Honours in 1994 and a PhD in Mechatronics Engineering in 2002, both from the University of Queensland, and holds further qualifications in IT, Computer Graphics and Animation.

As a young engineer, Michael was Australian Young Professional Engineer of the Year in 1999, three times finalist in the Young Australian of the Year Awards and chaired the Young Engineers Australia National Committee in 2001 & 2002. In 2001 he was the Chair of the inaugural International Young Professionals Summit, with the summit proceedings going to both the United Nations and the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting. He is the immediate past Chairman of the Board of the College of Mechanical Engineering and the Deputy Chair of the National Committee on Mechatronics Engineering.

Michael lives in Sydney and currently works for Woolworths Limited as Distribution Centre Design Manager within the Supply Chain Solutions business transformation team. He has previously been Group Engineering Manager with responsibility for Asia Pacific, North America and Europe for a fast growing listed Clean Energy technology company; Food, Beverage & Manufacturing Senior Consultant with a leading integrated systems company; and Asia Pacific Engineering Manager and manager of the Innovation Centre for the world’s largest equipment pooling company. Between these roles, Michael has also been the founder of several startups in areas as diverse as robotics, furniture manufacturing, and industrial visualization.

In this workshop, cellular operator engineers, managers as well as providers/entrepreneurs  would benefit from:

• Short Overview of LiFi general technology,
• Referring to LiFi standards and LPWAN/ITU/5G PPP technical specifications
• Presenting LiFi based sensors and the NB-IoT merged ecosystem
• Integrating potential Cellular LPWAN LiFi fempto/atto topology on C-RAN and Het-Net networks
• Explaining how to plan for LiFi NB-IoT indoor coverage and outline the Accessibility optimization

Post-Forum Workshop B: The Next Decade in LTE Technology

This interactive workshop is designed to stimulate the exploration of the journey from 4G & LTE to 5G with key milestones and challenges in implementing IoT used cases. We will target to instigate the curiosity around collaboration between different stakeholders and industry representatives to achieve “End User” performance. The workshop will also examine how to integrate various technologies across several platforms and industries to serve the purpose of keeping “everything & everyone connected”.

Key takeaway:

• Overview of some technology details regarding LTE evolution, IoT and the road to 5G
• Overview of the major technologies involved in developing the IoT environment, over and against a cellular infrastructure with non-cellular background
• Understand the major requirements, standardization updates and major technological breakthroughs in 5G
• Integrate the convergence of IT and mobile with a “Network of One” concept for an end user service seamless across technologies and infrastructure domains.