AGENDA

Fred Moore

During 1998 Fred founded Horison Information Strategies, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado, to provide services in the area of advanced information strategies.

Fred spent 21 years at Storage Technology Corporation. As StorageTek's chief strategist and spokesman worldwide for over ten years, Fred has extensive experience in creating strategic vision and long-range plans. He was Corporate Vice President Strategic Markets Development from 1996 to 1998. His responsibilities included corporate alliances, new applications development, business development incubator, market research, corporate architecture, growth markets and long-range strategic planning.

Moore came to StorageTek in 1976 as the first systems engineer and has since held positions including Corporate Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Corporate Vice President of Strategic Planning, Vice President of Systems Marketing, Director of Worldwide Product Marketing and Director of Worldwide Systems Engineering.

Moore has published numerous papers and has spoken on six continents at industry conferences including the Gartner Group Storage Conference, DataStorage, Computer Measurement Group (CMG), Xephon, SHARE, the Research Board, CSC Index, Dataquest, the NASA Mass Storage Conference and served on the CCIA Vision 20/20 project.

Moore received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri. In 1989, Moore's alma mater honored him with its Arts and Science Distinguished Alumnus award. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the College of Business at the University of Colorado at Denver and completed the Berkeley Executive Program in 1997.

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Louise Camens

An Australian, Louise studied in Australia and Europe in the fields of Economics, Computer Programming and the Performing Arts. She spent almost ten years in Europe and has since expanded her knowledge as a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, now focusing her energy to combine these skills for Human Resource Development in Australia.

Her passion for performance extends to the ultimate opera of them all - the business world, where she spread her wings to cover the two seemingly diverse spheres with a creative approach. She has found a place for innovative programs based on her ideas from the arts, where her understanding of business culture and needs is linked directly into the creative process.

A key to her work is the mystery of voice, which she brings to within easy reach of anyone who wishes to try... and those benefits are enormous. She has unblocked the minds and voices of hundreds of Australians and then gone on to develop them as leaders and teams with passion and humour.

Elements of performance are woven into action sessions for customer service, team building and presentation skills as well as the facilitation of change. Louise believes that vocal dynamics echo psycho-dynamics and with this, its extended claws to wherever communication lies at the core.

Mick Smith

Mick Smith currently manages the IT Security Services Section, which provides and maintains the IT security infrastructure to Centrelink. As you know, this is one of Australia's largest and most complex networks incorporating more than 25,000 personal computers, multiple mainframe sites, an extensive Novell LAN / WAN network, in excess of 100 Unix and NT Application Servers and supporting online, concurrent connectivity to the DEETYA network.

He is responsible for the development and support of all components of this infrastructure including:

• the Security Access Management System (SAMS), which is Centrelink's first Client Server Application. SAMS provides automated access management in response to HR System updates and allows Managers in Centrelink Offices to perform some access management tasks
• home built logon and screen lock products.
• the Centrelink Firewall.
• the Customer Identification and Authentication system, which will perform the identification and authentication process for any of our seven million customers who request access to our emerging "Centrelink On-line" suite of facilities.

Mick is also the project manager for the multi-million dollar Accesslink Project, which, from June, will see each Centrelink employee, issued with a super smartcard or token. This token will generate a personal one time password, permit building access to sites with a corresponding proximity based building access system and contain the employee's identification

As manager of this project he has investigated and monitored all aspects of smart card based technologies and their application to business problems around the world. He was responsible for the evaluation of the vast array of solutions bid in response to the Accesslink tender and have worked with vendors to include smart cards in their security architectures.

Government has identified the Department of Social Security and subsequently Centrelink as the "lead Agency" for all smart card initiatives.

Our current initiatives include :

• the issue of a one time password generating token to all 25000 staff to address exposures associated with fixed passwords.
• a pilot of the use of standard smart cards for electronic benefits transfer to clients, and
• the issue of a tender for the implementation of a smart card based system to facilitate the administration of Childcare Assistance and Childcare rebate.

Bob Hayward

Mr. Hayward is the Group Vice-President Gartner Research, Asia/Pacific, responsible for Gartner Group research and advisory services in Asia/Pacific. He manages Gartner analysts in Asia/Pacific, with staff located in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. Analysts under Mr. Hayward service regional Gartner, Dataquest and Datapro clients. Mr. Hayward advises on IT strategy on a daily basis to senior management of some of the largest organisations and IT vendors in Asia/Pacific. He has been involved in extensive projects relating to industry development and government policy relating to IT as well. His career in the IT industry spans 20 years. Becoming a programmer in the City of London when leaving University, Mr. Hayward soon formed his own contract-programming company and traveled through the Middle East before settling in the USA. He joined Candle Corporation in Los Angeles in 1984 and led the development team, which designed and developed "OMEGAMON for CICS". Mr. Hayward went on with Candle to manage Candle's worldwide distributors based from Candle's European headquarters in Amsterdam. In 1988, as Director of Asia/Pacific he came to Australia to set up Candle's Asia/Pacific headquarters, and subsequently presided over the opening of Candle Japan in Tokyo, as well as new Candle offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. In 1992/3 he was Director of Distributed Systems with Candle in California. Prior to joining Gartner Group in early 1995, he ran his own distributor and consultancy in Australia - Qualix Pty Ltd. Qualix specialised in providing advice and consulting to large IT organisations in relation to Network and Systems Management issues, and was the Asia/Pacific distributor for Tivoli Systems. Mr. Hayward graduated from Brighton College in the UK in Economics and Geography.

Geoff Hegarty

Geoff Hegarty from SOCOG will be our Locknote speaker. Mr. Hegarty is manager of the Technology Briefing Centre (Olympics Project Office). Now in his 30^th year with IBM, Geoff Hegarty has spent most of his career specialising in the design, implementation, project management and support of mission-critical On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems. The vast majority of this OLTP experience was with IBM's CICS family of products, and in addition, Geoff specialised in IBM's MQSeries middleware from its introduction in the early 1990s.

Geoff has worked in many country-level and international technical support organisations within IBM, including a 2-year assignment at IBM's International Technical Support Organisation, Boeblingen, Germany, and on numerous occasions at the CICS Development Laboratory, Hursley Park, United Kingdom.

Geoff's Olympic interest stems partly from the critical nature of the role played by CICS software in the Barcelona, Lillehammer and Atlanta Olympic Games' IT solutions. The role played by MQSeries in Atlanta's IT solution furthered that interest. As a result:

In 1996, Geoff spent considerable time in Atlanta, where he co-authored the IBM technical publication "Olympic Calibre Client Server", an ITSO 'Redbook' documenting IBM's contribution to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Summer Games.

In January 1997, Geoff was appointed by IBM's Worldwide Olympic Marketing organisation to its TOP (Technical Olympic Presenter) worldwide program.

In February 1997, Geoff was in Nagano, Japan, for the 1997 World Championships in Speed Skating, and for World Cup rounds in both Luge and Snowboarding. These concurrent events were part of the process of verification of venues and of technology prior to the 1998 Olympic Winter Games.

In June 1997, Geoff joined IBM Australia's Olympic Project Office, where he manages IBM's Olympic Technology Briefing Centre.

Geoff spent all of February 1998 again in Nagano, Japan, where he co-managed the IBM Briefing Centre throughout the 1998 Nagano Olympic Winter Games. The IBM Briefing Centre hosted upwards of 80 international media organisations (TV, broadcast, and print), for briefings on IBM's partnership with the Olympic Movement, as well as tens of thousands of visitors to Nagano.