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ENHANCING INTEROPERABILITY WITH CONNECTED FIELD SERVICE |
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Seamless interoperability has been the key factor in achieving an effective field service management. Time is the essence especially in the field service sector. Therefore, ensuring connectivity, punctuality, readiness and quality of field service workforce upon customers’ request are of paramount importance.
Day two starts off by equipping delegates with ways to optimize smarter scheduling of field service technicians as well as how to better manage spare parts and inventory management. With change comes resistance, we will also look at how to get field service professionals to be more prepared with the integration of the existing system with new field service management .Through these sessions, delegates will be able to better hone their skills and transition from a manual system to an automated one by incorporating IoT to practical use. |
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09:00 |
Congress Introduction and Day 2 Highlights by Chairperson |
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09:05 |
Opening Keynote:
Process Analytics in Field Service Management |
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- Understand how to continually monitor and improve your business processes
- Techniques that leverage data analytics to predict process KPIs, recommend the right set of resources to deploy for each process step, or the right sequence activities to deal with process exceptions
- An appreciation of available tools
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Prof Aditya Ghose
Director, Decision Systems Lab, School of Computing and Information Technology
University of Wollongong
Professor Ghose holds PhD and MSc degrees in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, Canada (he also spent parts of his PhD candidature at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the University of Tokyo) and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. While at the University of Alberta, he received the Jeffrey Sampson Memorial Award. His research has been funded by the Australian Research Council (Chief Investigator on 8 ARC Discovery and Linkage Projects), the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Japanese Institute for Advanced Information Technology (AITEC) and various Australian government agencies as well as companies such as Bluescope Steel, CSC and Pillar Administration. His research has been published in the top venues in service-oriented computing (SCC and ICSOC), software engineering (ICSE and ER) and AI (Artificial Intelligence Journal, AAAI, AAMAS and ECAI). He has been an invited speaker at the Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar Series in Germany and the Banff International Research Station in Canada. He has also been a keynote speaker at several conferences, and program/general chair of several others. He is a senior technical advisor to several companies in the areas of constraint programming and business process management, both in Australia and Canada. He serves as assessor (Ozreader) for the Australian Research Council and as an external reviewer for the research funding agencies of Canada, Israel, Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland and South Africa. Professor Ghose is a Research Leader in the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Services, Co-Director of the Centre for Oncology Informatics at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute and Co-Convenor of the Australian Computer Society NSW SIG on Green ICT. He is a past Vice-President (2010-2014) of CORE, Australia’s apex body for computing academics. He is also President of the Service Science Society of Australia and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (Australia).
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09:50 |
Using IoT (Big Data) to Transform Field Service Mobility |
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- The role of analytics for improved intelligence
- Cloud deployment in achieving excellent field service management
- Ensure continuous improvement in field service settings with AI
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Andy Lavender
Associate Director Information Governance and Reporting
University of Western Australia
Andy is a strategic Information, Technology and Data Management Leader.
He has extensive experience in facilitating high quality engagement with business partners across large enterprises in the oil and gas, mining and legal services sectors.
His strengths lie in driving performance to deliver on business strategy, leading enterprise-wide digital transformation projects, and optimizing value generated from Information Management assets.
Specializations include governance, strategy and planning, business analytics and business process improvement.
He is currently focused on strategies for building a cloud-based Microsoft 365 digital workplace platform for 4000+ metropolitan and remote based personnel.
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10:30 |
Morning Refreshments & Networking Session (For VIP / Invited Delegates Only) |
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11:00 |
Leveraging Real-Time Data in the Field to Improve Field Service Performance |
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- Increase visibility with on-site connectivity in real time field service operation with wearables providing real time view & communications
- How to enhance bidirectional communication between the field and the main office / fleet hub
- Case Study: Explore the viability of generating on-site invoicing and cashless payment system
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Bradley Mellor
State Manager NSW/ACT
Tyco
I am an experienced State Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the mechanical or industrial engineering industry. Formerly I was skilled in Process Control, Engineering, Control Systems Design, SCADA, and Electrical Engineering. Strong sales professional with an Executive Master of Business Administration (E.M.B.A.) focused in Business Administration and Management, General from Sydney Business School. I completed my final Business Consultancy Report (Thesis) on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) within the Emergency Services Sector in the Sydney Metro Region. This was developed through an in depth review of the specific sector of Land Transport Technologies within (ITS). This project has led to an active long term interest and career pursuit within the greater topic of Smart Cities. I have an ongoing interest in the inter-related literature research areas that affect this fascinating sector.
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11:30 |
Achieving Agility and Maintaining Control over your Field Service Operations |
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- Understand how to incorporate lean management into your field service operation (from a top-down approach)
- Delivering significant improvements in support and service delivery by accurately identifying and driving internal process improvements
- Case Study: How to deliver excellent services by providing both software & hardware support to your technical service team
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Tony Michael Neil
Service Delivery Manager (NSW/ACT)
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Tony has spent the past 23 years working in a service capacity for some of the world’s leading office equipment companies, witnessing great change in technology and processes in service delivery. Tony started in management at Canon Australia when Canon introduced digital production devices into their range and was responsible for putting together the service delivery of a high demand segment of customers using resources unfamiliar to production pressures and constraints.
He then tried something different and took on the role of managing a second level support team that supported Konica Minolta’s distributors in South Africa, New Zealand and the Middle East as well as in Australia, where he gained experience in managing resources who support field resources.
Having spent 20 years working in the office automation industry, he then decided to move into the unfamiliar territory of the personal computer industry at HP and arrived at the same time as the company was separating and soon found that he would have to manage a team of PC and Printer technicians in a time of great change, including a change in the Service CRM globally.
From this journey, Tony has developed a skill of managing technical resources in times of technological change and delivering success through his understanding of technical people and how to leverage their perspective when developing their tools to do their role.
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12:00 |
Brand Sponsor Presentation (Fountx)
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Fountx – Knowledge at Hand: A serious ground breaking capability multiplier that utilises assisted reality wearable technology
Fountx is a user friendly tool to significantly boost the productivity and capability of your technical teams. Using Fountx reduces maintenance downtime while improving accuracy, quality and safety performance. By projecting knowledge from expert to technician in an assisted reality environment that mirrors natural interaction, fountx helps individuals perform maintenance tasks quickly and safely. Fountx can provide an individual FSR or team of FSR’s with access to an entire company’s knowledge to have on hand anywhere in the world in real time.
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Laurence Beraldo
General Manager
Fountx
Laurence joined TAE Aerospace in June 2016 to head up the development and delivery of TAE Aerospace’s advanced technical product lines as well as enhance TAE Aerospace’s senior leadership team. In July 2017 TAE Aerospace decided to setup Fountx Pty Ltd a subsidiary company and Laurence is leading that company to commercialise a world changing product using assisted reality to enhance human capability.
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12:15 |
Roundtable Discussion
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Table A: Leveraging Real-Time Data in the Field to Improve Field Service Performance
Bradley Mellor, State Manager- NSW & ACT, Tyco |
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Table B: Achieving Agility and Maintaining Control over your Operations
Tony M Neil, Service Delivery Manager (NSW/ACT), HP |
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Table C: Moving from a Reactive to Predictive Field Service Model
Matthew Metcalfe, Director of Customer Experience, Wright Medical Technologies |
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Table D: TBC
Rick Vosila, Managing Director, Sognos Solutions Pty Ltd |
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Table E: Fountx – Knowledge at Hand
Brand Sponsor – Fountx |
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Table F: Bronze Sponsor – Infor |
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12:35 |
Lunch & Networking (For VIP / Invited Delegates Only) |
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CHARTING THE CUSTOMER JOURNEY IN THE DIGITAL WORLD |
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Best-in-class field service organizations understand that customer dynamics have changed and will continue to evolve. As the number of tech-native consumers are growing, organizations will be expected to keep pace by offering products and services that fit customers’ lifestyle. The following sessions focuses on how to improve customer experience by leveraging real-time data, and CRM for better customer and operational excellence. By learning to adapt to new service models, field service professionals are able to offer customers with instant gratification as well as a more comprehensive approach to customer care. |
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13:30 |
Panel Discussion #2:
Integrating the legacy & the new in Field Service Management
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- Discuss the barriers in integrating existing technologies with new IoT
- Discover what are the cost & governance that should be put in place to achieve better integration of technology into existing framework
- How Field Service Drives Customer Success
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Rick Vosila
Managing Director
Sognos Solutions Pty Ltd
Rick is a veteran of the Australian IT scene, with his career in the industry spanning over 35 years. Rick worked for most of those years in the corporate sector, holding senior C-level roles with industry titans such as IBM, Unilever, Goodman Fielder and United Technologies. Rick gained extensive field service management experience in his last role, presiding over a significant transformation project to deliver field scheduling and mobility solutions to some 1,200 field technicians across Australia and New Zealand, for the fire and security division of United Technologies. It was on the back of this experience that Rick established Sognos Solutions in early 2016, with the express aim of helping organisations embrace digital transformation, especially in optimising their field operations and efficiency. The business motto is ‘First in Field Service’, and this remains the core competency of the Sognos Solutions organisation.
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Dean Yates
Chief Customer Officer
Best Technology Services
Consumed with creating solutions to problems, I have been driven by an enduring passion for customer success throughout my executive career. Whether it’s working collaboratively to solve a client problem or developing innovative responses to a pressing business issue, my mission is to deliver customer-focused outcomes that deliver continued business growth.
With more than 15 years’ experience in senior strategic and operational leadership roles with a focus on delivering incredible customer experiences, I have built and led high performing client-focused teams that consistently produce positive outcomes for our partners and people.
In the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO), my remit is to advocate on behalf of our customers to innovate the way we deliver our project management and technology field services solutions.
With over 20 years experience in customer focused roles for multi-nationals and agile start-ups, I deliver customer success to drive better outcomes for our people and our customers.
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Tim Catley
Group CIO
Transport for NSW
Tim Catley is the Group CIO for Transport NSW (TfNSW) the principal department responsible for public transport and roads in NSW. TfNSW was established in 2011 to coordinate the policy, planning, funding and delivery of transport services and programs across NSW. TfNSW has over 27,000 staff, an annual budget of $12Bn and manages over $110Bn of assets. Tim joined Transport NSW in 2012 to drive a substantial change program across the organisation. This included delivery of a strategic change plan for technology across the organisation, the successful delivery of a number of technology enabled business transformations and the rebuild of IT capability and governance. Tim is an experienced C-level IT executive with 20 years experience in IT leadership roles and a demonstrated track record delivering successful transformation across a wide range of industries. He also has extensive experience in the transformation of IT teams to improve their capability and performance having a strong focus on ensuring that organisations extract the maximum value from their technology investments. Tim’s prior experience includes his roles as Group CIO and Head of Shared Services at APN, CIO for Sydney Water and IT Director at News Limited and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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14:15 |
Leveraging Real-Time Data in the Field to Execute Better Customer Experience |
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- Using Data & Analytics to drive Game-Changing Customer Experience
- How to meet instant customer gratifications by surpassing their expectations with technology
- Monetizing customer experience through social and real time
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Anton Royce
CEO
Latitude Global Partners
Anton is an entrepreneurial executive with global experience in business development, product management, technology, enterprise solution architecture, business and technology strategy. Anton is an innovator, thought leader and visionary who has a proven track record of turning ideas into successful new solutions.
Anton was the Head of Customer Solutions & Technology Strategy, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & Chief Architect for Telstra Health & Telstra (Australia) across different verticals such as education, health, media, finance, public safety & mining and built over $ 1.2 billion worth of new complex solutions. Some of the solutions he has designed and delivered are FOXTEL’s Content Delivery Network (CDN), ARTC’s National Train Communication System, Department of Health’s National Cancer Screening Registry, National Telehealth Connection Services and Vendor Neutral Archive. Anton has worked for Telecom NZ, University of Auckland (NZ) and for Satellite Information Services (UK) as Head of Broadcasting and Transmission (SL). Anton is an honorary advisory member for The Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University (India). Anton holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Auckland.
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14:45 |
Transforming the Customer Experience with Automation & Mobility |
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- Industry research and empirical evidence suggest that bulk of the field work in asset intensive industries is originated due to unexpected asset failure and weather events
- As the volumes of asset, operational and environmental data exponentially grow, it is now possible to mine the data using first principle based models and machine learning techniques to forecast quantum of field work
- Case Study: ABB’s Connected Asset Lifecycle Management (CALM)
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Ravi Kiran
Utilities Industry Solutions Executive
ABB Enterprise Software Pty Ltd
Ravi has over 15 years of experience in working with energy and utilities customers across India, South East Asia and ANZ regions with specific focus in emerging technologies. His breadth of technology experience spans utility commercial operations to asset and field operations. More recently, Ravi has been heavily involved in predictive analytics for asset lifecycle management.
Ravi holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and an MBA from Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and is based in Sydney.
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15:15 |
Afternoon Refreshment & Networking Session (For VIP / Invited Delegates Only) |
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15:30 |
Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Field Service Operations |
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Geoff Gatehouse
National Operations Manager
Orbitz Elevators
Geoff Gatehouse has 15 years of experience in the lift industry covering the Modernisation, Service and Installation functions. Geoff has worked with some of Australia’s largest property owners and builders to deliver projects and services, with the aim to exceed customer and end user’s expectations.
Geoff strives to improve service operations by focusing on the human aspects, both on the customer and employee side of the equation.
As the National Operations Manager, Geoff works with each Branch to ensure resources and systems are in place to deliver services with professionalism, no matter how large or small the operation. Geoff has Management and Operations degrees from the University of Technology, Sydney
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16:00 |
Panel Discusion #3:
Future-Proofing the Field Service Recruitment
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- How to improve Field Service Workforce Support / Management
- Managing and maintaining institutional talent & knowledge transfer when replacing the ageing workforce
- Remove business silos & engage with your customers
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Andrey Ivanov
Field Service Engineer
KARL STORZ Endoscopy Australasia
Andrey Ivanov is a Field Service Engineer working in this industry since 2004. Andrey’s qualification is Electronics Engineer. Graduated from Almaty Institute of Energetics and Telecommunications in 2003. Most of these 13 years Andrey was performing as team leader rather than only a team member.
Along professional way Andrey gained the following experience:
- Field Service experience, working with various equipment types, like X-ray Computer Tomography, Explosives and Drugs Trace detection systems, Automatic Border control systems, Fingerprint capture and processing systems, Integrated Operating theatres equipment etc. Deep understanding of systems functionality and structure along with the ongoing practice allowed to master troubleshooting and repair of complex electronic and mechanical systems.
- Management experience, managing teams of up to 11 people.
- Administrative experience, managing all service related tasks, like coordinating spare parts stock levels and leasing with logistics and sales teams as well as customer representatives on a high to low level in both Government and Private Sectors.
- Training experience, providing technical, user and administrator training for own team members and end-user employees.
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Geoff Gatehouse
National Operations Manager
Orbitz Elevators
Geoff Gatehouse has 15 years of experience in the lift industry covering the Modernisation, Service and Installation functions. Geoff has worked with some of Australia’s largest property owners and builders to deliver projects and services, with the aim to exceed customer and end user’s expectations.
Geoff strives to improve service operations by focusing on the human aspects, both on the customer and employee side of the equation.
As the National Operations Manager, Geoff works with each Branch to ensure resources and systems are in place to deliver services with professionalism, no matter how large or small the operation. Geoff has Management and Operations degrees from the University of Technology, Sydney
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Matthew Matcalfe
Director of Customer Experience – Asia Pacific
Wright Medical Technology
Matthew has worked for twenty-three years in the medical sector, where rising customer expectations and complex regulatory requirements call for a strategic approach to supply.
Having worked across all facets of supply chain, Matthew believes the starting point is the voice of the customer, enabling a collaborative effort within the organization, together with third-party suppliers, AND customers, to meet specific industry needs.
Matthew is a huge proponent of the Data-Driven-Supply-Chain model, and empowerment of people through training, and coaching in the use of technology.
Based in Sydney Australia, Matthew is currently engaged in a project of ERP standardization, and the sharing across borders, of best practises, driving efficiencies and growth.
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16:30 |
Closing Remarks by Congress Chairperson |
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