Speaker(s): Liming Zhu, CSIRO Data61, Australia

Dr. Liming Zhu is the Research Director of Software and Computational Systems Research Program at Data61, CSIRO. Data61 is part of The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Australia's data/ICT innovation hub. The research program has 300+ people innovating in the area of big data infrastructure, computational and simulation sciences platforms (including verticals such as imaging, VR/AR, health), trustworthy systems, distributed systems, legal informatics, blockchains, software ecosystems, software engineering/architecture, DevOps, privacy and cybersecurity. He is also a conjoint full professor position at University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He formerly worked in several technology lead positions in software industry before obtaining a PHD degree in software engineering from UNSW. He has been a research lead in several collaborative projects with Australia government agencies, defence, standardisation bodies and commercial companies. For example, he led the B2B reference software architecture effort for Australia's lending industry. He was a committee member of the Standards Australia IT -015 (system and software engineering) group and IT-038 (Cloud Computing) group and contributes to the ISO/SC7/WG42 on architecture related standards. He is currently the chairperson of Standards Australia's blockchain and distributed ledger committee. He has supervised more than a dozen PhD students as their primary supervisor and taught software architecture courses at UNSW and University of Sydney. His personal research interests include software architecture, dependable and secure systems and data analytics infrastructure. He has published more than 150 academic papers on software architecture, dependable and secure systems and data analytics infrastructure. His recent book is DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective (2015, part of the CMU/SEI Series and published by Addison-Wesley).

Speaker(s): Keke Quei, lab-k., Taiwan

[Moderator] Keke Quei Co-Chaired the Business Innovation Symposium. She is currently has multiple hats and is the the Lead Community Designer, lab-k, Founder, Kinnogene Inc. an External Advisor, McKinsey & Company. She will be moderating the panel discussion on Grow with 3D Ecosystems. Her inventive path – dolphin training, tech-firm executive, consultant, coach, facilitator, curator, futurist, and start-ups investor and advisor - has been sustained by a tenuous but still holding right brain left brain equilibrium. I'm always looking to mix it up in new ways with the talented, wild and crazy, fun-loving folks in communities, NGOs, and corporations that I serve to make a difference. I grew up in Taiwan, have lived and worked globally and now partner with organizations to realize their purpose through their leaders. I curate intimate and large scale co-creation events to leverage the brains and hearts in a place that shape their future together.

Speaker(s): Luke Liu, LIPS Corporation, Taiwan

Luke Liu is the CEO of LIPS Corporation, a global leading provider of AI-enabled 3D Sensing Solutions based in Silicon Valley of Taipei (R.O.C.). Luke holds a M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from Fu Jen Research Institute. In 2013, Luke founded LIPS with a team consisting of CSAIL MIT research scholars with a mission to“Sense the World”by developing advanced Machine Vison and AI technology. LIPS design, build, and customize 3D depth cameras as well as develop middleware and turnkey solutions to fulfill customers’ applications. LIPS is the Tier-1 partner with many of the world’s leading technology companies including Intel, Panasonic, Toshiba, Texas Instrument, Sony, Melexis, CEVA and more.

Speaker(s): Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Professor Yang Xiang received his PhD in Computer Science from Deakin University, Australia. He is currently a full professor and the Dean of Digital Research & Innovation Capability Platform, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His research interests include cyber security, which covers network and system security, data analytics, distributed systems, and networking. In the past 20 years, he has been working in the broad area of cyber security, which covers network and system security, AI, data analytics, and networking. His translational research has made significant impact to the real-world applications, such as blockchain applications, AI-driven cyber security applications, cloud and IoT security applications. He is the Chief Investigator of several projects in network and system security, funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). He has published more than 300 research papers in many international journals and conferences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the SpringerBriefs on Cyber Security Systems and Networks. He serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and the Editor of Journal of Network and Computer Applications. He served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He is the Coordinator, Asia for IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Speaker(s): Neil Trevett, The Khronos Group, Australia

Neil Trevett is the President of The Khronos Group where he has helped initiate and evolve royalty-free open standards such as OpenCL, OpenVX, NNEF, OpenXR, Vulkan, OpenGL ES, WebGL and glTF – many of which are widely deployed in the graphics and embedded vision industries.. At NVIDIA, Neil works to drive and develop the developer ecosystem that enables applications to take advantage of advanced GPU and silicon acceleration.