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Keynote Presentations
The following speakers have been invited to present Keynote Addresses.
Opening Speaker
Hon Kevin Foley MP
Deputy Premier
Treasurer
Minister for Industry and Trade
Minister for Federal/State Relations
Kevin Foley was appointed to the Rann Labor Ministry on 6 March 2002 and was re-appointed following the election in March 2006.
Kevin holds the seat of Port Adelaide in the House of Assembly. He was first elected to the South Australian Parliament in 1993, and served in a number of Shadow Ministerial portfolios before being appointed Shadow Treasurer in 1996. With his policy focus on economic and financial issues, Kevin also served on Parliament’s Economic and Finance and Industries Development Committees.
Kevin’s prior employment included experience with the Australian Trade Commission, Cadbury Schweppes, Boral Limited and a ten-year career in sales and marketing with Australian National Industries, a major steel distribution company in Australia.
Global View of Simulation in Defence
Lieutenant General David Hurley AO, DSC Vice Chief of the Defence Force
Department of Defence
Download LTGEN Hurley's speech.
Lieutenant General David Hurley has had a distinguished career in the ADF since 1975. As a Lieutenant Colonel in 1991, he assumed command of 1 RAR which he led during Operation SOLACE (Somalia) in 1993. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for this service.In 1996/97 Lieutenant General Hurley attended the United States Army War College, returning to a posting as Military Secretary to the Chief of Army. In December 1997 he was posted to the Australian Defence Headquarters as the Director of Preparedness and Mobilisation.
In January 1999 he was promoted to Brigadier and assumed command of the 1st Brigade in Darwin. During this period he oversaw the Brigade’s transition to a higher degree of operational readiness and its support to Australian led operations in East Timor.
In January 2001 he was appointed the Director General Land Development within Capability Systems in the Office of the Vice Chief of the Defence Force. In July 2001 he was promoted to Major General and appointed Head Capability Systems Division, and later, Land Commander Australia.
In December 2003 he was promoted to Lieutenant General to assume the new appointment of Chief of Capability Development Group. On 27 September 2007 he was appointed the Chief of Joint Operations. On 4 July 2008 he took up the appointment of Vice Chief of the Defence Force.
Civil Aviation
Mr Keith Morgan
Chief Executive Officer
Flight Training Adelaide
Keith is the Chief Executive Officer for Flight Training Adelaide (FTA). FTA was awarded the 2007 National Export Award for Education and Training.
Keith served as a Pilot and Qualified Flying Instructor in the RAAF for over 20 years, before becoming Chief Pilot for a Corporate Jet operation. In 1994, Keith joined FTA as Line Qualified Flying Instructor, before moving into business development and then taking the role of CEO for the organisation. He has over 3,000 hours in helicopters and 5,000 hours in fixed wing aircraft.
Human Factors and Serious Games
Professor Robert J. Stone
BSc (Hons) MSc CPsychol AFBPsS FErgS EurErg
FIoN FVRS
Chair in Interactive Multimedia Systems
Director, Human Interface Technologies Team
School of Engineering, the University of Birmingham
A Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the Ergonomics Society, Bob joined academia in 2003, after a long and successful career in defence, robotics and Virtual Reality (VR). The first nine years of his career involved ergonomics research at British Aerospace in Bristol during the 1980s, where he specialised in military human factors and remotely operated systems (conducting applied subsea research for the Department of Energy and advanced teleoperation projects for the nuclear industry and the European Space Agency). Bob's second post involved him in the launch of the UK's National Advanced Robotics Research Centre (NARRC), funded by the Department of Trade & Industry.
Having been one of the first Europeans to experience the NASA VIEW VR system in 1987, he established the UK's first industrial VR team at the NARRC and, over a number of years undertook numerous consultancy and research projects for commercial and government clients, enabling the group to be launched as VR Solutions Ltd in the mid-1990s.
Today, as well as his academic positions, Bob is the Research Director of the UK Human Factors Integration Defence Technology Centre, where many of his team's projects originate, covering human-centred design and evaluation methodologies for projects as varied as close-range weapons training and support for surgical and mental health therapies to submarine safety awareness, IED search and disposal training and unmanned vehicle control. His work has received numerous awards, most recently the 2006/2007 Ergonomics Society's Sir Frederic Bartlett Award, the highest award given by that Society to an individual. A member of the UK Government's Simulation & Synthetic Environments National Technical Committee (SSENTC), Bob lectures across the world on the subject of VR, serious games and human factors.
The Use of Modelling and Simulation in Emergency Management
Chief Fire Officer Grant Lupton
Chief Executive Officer
South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
Chief Officer Grant Lupton was initially appointed as the Chief Officer of the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service in March 2002 and was reappointed for a second five-year term in March 2007.
Prior to his appointment in South Australia, Chief Officer Lupton was the Deputy Fire Commissioner for the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
Chief Officer Lupton has served as a Director of the International Fire Chiefs' Association of Asia and contributed to the initial development of the Asian Fire Service Standards. He is a member of the International Fire Chiefs' Association, Metropolitan Fire Chiefs' Association and the International Fire Marshals' Association. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the Fire Prevention Officers' Association of British Columbia and has been awarded the British Columbia Fire Chiefs' Association Certificate of Merit for his contribution to the British Columbia Fire Service and the Canadian Fire Services' Exemplary Service Medal.
Since moving to Australia, Chief Officer Lupton has helped lead the establishment of the Pacific Islands Fire Services' Association and worked to provide fire service support to the South Pacific region. This has included initiating a long-term, sustainable development program with the Kingdom of Tonga Fire Service. In recognition of his assistance work in the South Pacific, Mr Lupton was awarded the South Australian Emergency Services Medal in October 2007.
Chief Officer Lupton has helped initiate a collaborative approach to sector-wide emergency service reform and contemporary industrial relations in South Australia. Chief Lupton was a Board Member of the 2007 World Police and Fire Games and is currently appointed to the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service Superannuation Board and the South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission. He has been a member of the fire service for 30 years and was awarded the Australian Fire Service Medal (AFSM) in January 2007.
Opportunities and Issues for Simulation in Heavy Industry
Mr Phil Diver
Chief Executive Officer
Construction Training Centre
Phil is CEO of CISC Pty Ltd, a company that runs the Construction Training Centre a large facility that is the construction industry’s centre of excellence in Salisbury South Brisbane. He is committed to the advancement of simulation and virtual reality in training and is currently re-focussing his business and is looking to develop a large simulation centre in conjunction with the mining sector to address issues of recruitment, retention and skill shortage.
Previously Phil was Foundation CEO of the Skills Development Centre for Queensland Health - currently one of the world’s largest clinical virtual reality and simulation centres. Phil has a background in both healthcare management, consulting and building projects and has project managed a number of large hospital commissioning projects in the UK and Middle East as well as providing commissioning advice to government and industry clients in the Middle East, UK, Europe and Africa. He has a Masters Degree in Health Management, an MBA and completed his executive education at Kellogg Business School in the US. Phil has a number of professional qualifications including Fellowships of the Australian and UK Institutes of Management, and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Manufacturing Keynote Address - "Why are we Genetically Wired to respond to 3D simulation?"
Mr Michael Myers
Managing Director
CONCENTRIC Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE), a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and is currently completing for a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) at University of South Australia.
In addition to being the Managing Director, CONCENTRIC Asia Pacific P/L and Founder, Chairman & CEO, Re-Engineering Australia Foundation Ltd, Michael is on a number of Government advisory panels, is a Governor of the Warren Centre and a recipient of the Warren Centre Medal for his contribution to Engineering.
Michael began his career as a Mechanical Engineer specialising in the design and manufacture of specialist Aluminium structures for the aerospace, automotive and shipbuilding industries.
In 1982 Michael established CONCENTRIC Asia Pacific which has now grown to be the leading provider of engineering technology solutions and knowledge based services to the Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific region.
CONCENTRIC primary focus is involved with the implementation and integrating 3D design, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and product simulation solutions into automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, defence, manufacturing, consumer goods, industrial design, marine and architecture and has more than 600 customers from OEM's to small-medium enterprises in Australia alone.
CONCENTRIC employs over 65 engineering specialists located at offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. CONCENTRIC's has an Advanced Manufacturing Facility, located in Brisbane, which is the largest and most comprehensive Product Realisation Centre in the Asia Pacific region, offering rapid prototyping, realistic modeling, reverse engineering, investment casting, injection molding, laser scanning and NC machining all in the one facility.
With the goal of bringing inspiration back to young Australians, Michael founded the Re-Engineering Australia Foundation (REA), a not for profit public company, in 1998. The Forum's objectives are focused on putting in place a series of stepping stone activities that form a pathway of encouragement for school students with the goal to inspire younger generations to consider engineering as a fulfilling career path. This year these activities will touch 300,000 school students from K-12 across Australia.
