Keynote Speakers

  John Langoulant

John Langoulant has been the Chief Executive of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia since July 2004.  Prior to taking on this position he worked for a period of 30 years in the Commonwealth and Western Australian Treasury departments. The last nine years of this period, between 1995 and 2004, John ran the Western Australian Department of Treasury and Finance as the Government’s Under Treasurer.  Mr Langoulant has been the Chairman of the Western Australian Treasury Corporation, a Director of the Gold Corporation, a member of the Australian Government’s Financial Reporting Council and a Director of the Asian Research Council.  He is currently a member of the Senate of the University of Western Australia, a Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, a Director of Industry Capability Network and a Member of the Board of WA Ballet.

  Assoc. Prof Dr. Milan Konecny

Dr Milan Konecny is the President of International Cartographic Association.  He is also the Associate Professor of Cartography and Geoinformatics at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He has authored over 70 papers in the field of cartography and geoinformatics. They include papers on the application of GIS, remote sensing, digital cartography, information superhighways, and spatial data infrastructures to sustainable development. He is also involved in technology transfer to the developing countries and countries with transforming economies (especially Central and Eastern European ones). His other activities include involvement in the European Information Society Forum, founding the Global Society Dialogue initiative and the Czech Information Society Forum. He also has many publications to his credit.

  Duncan Guthrie

Duncan Guthrie is Laser-Scan’s Managing Director. He joined Laser-Scan as Sales and Marketing Director in September 2002 from Earth Resource Mapping (ERM) where he initially built a 60-strong reseller channel across Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA) before taking up the position of Sales Director. His last three years at ERM were as the Managing Director for EMEA. He has a vast experience of handling the introduction of new technology into the market place and developing reseller and partner networks worldwide.

  Peter Woodgate

Peter Woodgate is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, a $78 million investment by over 50 partners from the industry, government and university sectors across Australia. Prior to taking up this role, he was the Chief Executive Officer of the Geospatial Science Initiative at RMIT University, where he helped create RMIT’s first spin-off company, Spatial Vision Pty Ltd. Peter was also involved in the creation of RMIT’s Risk & Community Safety Research Centre and the Global Sustainability Institute. Peter is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Business Administration at RMIT University on the identification of factors that operate to both promote and impede the development of early phase innovation in the business cycle of the information communication technologies industry.

  Andrea Gaynor

Andrea Gaynor lectures in Australian history at the University of Western Australia. She was attracted to history as a discipline that looks to the past for interesting and explanatory stories about people, and now has teaching and research interests in Australian environmental history and the history of technology, heritage and history, Australian cultural history, gender in history, and Australian studies.  She has published on topics as diverse as landscape art and feral cats, and in 2002 co-edited (with Mathew Trinca and Anna Haebich) Country: Visions of Land and People in Western Australia (W.A. Museum, 2002). Her latest book is Harvest of the Suburbs: An environmental history of growing food in Australian cities (UWA Press, 2006).

  Paul Harris

Paul Harris is the Founder and CEO of NGIS Australia. He has over 16 years experience in the industry, working on projects in Australia, the USA and the Asia-Pacific Region. He was an inaugural member of the Western Australian Land Information Systems Advisory Committee and a past Chairman of the WA branch of AURISA. Between November 2005 and May 2006, Paul worked in Banda Aceh with the United Nations Information Management Service and the Indonesian Badan Rekonstruksi dan Rehabilitasi (BRR).