2020 SPEAKERS
World of Drones and Robotics Congress thanks the following speakers and session chairs for their time and effort to present and chair at the Congress.
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Gemma Alcock
Founder, Owner and CEO
SkyBound Rescuer
(United Kingdom)
Bonus digital content
Ali Anderson
Education Partnerships Manager
Queensland AI Hub
(Australia)
Dr Catherine Ball
Convenor
World of Drones and Robotics Congress
(Australia/UK)
Kellie Baumgart
Head of Department - Science and Aerospace
Balmoral State High School
(Australia)
Alexander Bellamy
Senior Advisor
Department Of Transport And Main Roads
(Australia)
Emily Blythe
CEO And Director
Pyper Vision
(Australia)
Stephen Bornstein
CEO
Cyborg Dynamics Engineering
(Australia)
Monica Bradley
Director
Purposeful Capital
(Australia)
Thursday Reception MC
Owen Brasier
Computing Education Specialist
ACA
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox
Phd Candidate [Curtin University], Hon Research Fellow [UQ]
Curtin University / University of Queensland
(Australia)
Bonus digital content
Elena Buenrostro
CEO
Women Who Drone
(United States of America)
Bonus digital content
Marcus Bulstrode
Senior Development Officer
Queensland Department Of Agriculture And Fisheries
(Australia)
Bonus digital content
Meredith Castles
Lecturer And PhD Candidate
University Of Tasmania
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
Shay Chalmers
Director
Strategic Engineering
(Australia)
Chairperson
Bruce Clark
Principal Project Officer - Technologies
Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
Prof Peter Corke
Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision, director of the QUT Centre for Robotics, and the Chief Scientist of Dorabot
Queensland University of Technology
(Australia)
Frank Courtney
Principal - Technology Enablement
Melbourne Water
(Australia)
Prerecorded Presentation
Andrew Crowe
Director, Defence And National Security
Mirragin Unmanned Systems
(Australia)
Kristian Cruickshank
Low Level Airspace - Program Manager
Airservices Australia
(Australia)
R'td Rear Admiral Simon Cullen AM CSC
Strategic Defence Advisor (sea)
Queensland Government - DSDTI
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter - Chairperson
Jen Dainer
Chief Content Strategist
Industrial Photo & Video
(Australia)
Dr Kate Devitt
Chief Scientist
Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence CRC
(Australia)
Chairperson
Scott Duffy
Manager RPAS Operations
CASA
(Australia)
Jackie Dujmovic
CEO Hover UAV
Hover UAV
(Australia)
Thomas Dyson
Head of DJI Consumer
D1 Store
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
Shaun Edlin
CEO
Dotterel Technologies
(New Zealand)
Virtual Presenter
Chris Elkins
Imvelo
Virtual Presenter
John Fardoulis
Project Partner
Mobility Robotics
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
A/Prof Adam Fish
Scientia Research Fellow
UNSW
(Australia)
Bonus digital content
Nicola Flanagan
Head Of Innovation
Oakleigh State School
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
WGCDR Samantha Freebairn
Deputy Director Aviation Operations
Royal Australian Air Force
(Australia)
Bonus digital content
Julian Galvez Serna
PhD Student
QUT
(Australia)
Bonus digital content
Dr James Gilbert
Lead Engineer
Australian National University
(Australia)
Prerecorded Presentation
Megan Gilmour
CEO and Cofounder
Missingschool and Robots4good
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
Gavin Gillet
AROSE
(Australia)
Dr Sharna Glover
Chief Executive Officer
Imvelo
(Australia)
Chairperson
Dr Susan Graham
CEO
Dendra Systems
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
David Hansell
Global Head Of Aviation Regulation And Policy
Loon
(United States of America)
Virtual Presenter
Dr David Howard
Senior Research Scientist
CSIRO Data61
(Australia)
Emily Hughes
Director
Phantom Works International
(Australia)
Prof Elanor Huntington
Dean, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science
Australian National University
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
The Hon Ed Husic MP
Federal Member for Chifley
Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
Murray James
Director Of ICT
Sheldon College
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
Andra Keay
Managing Director
Silicon Valley Robotics
(USA)
Workshop Presenter
CEO
Queensland AI Hub
(Australia)
Duncan Kerslake
Program Manager - Deadly Innovation
Department of State Development, Tourism and Innovation
(Australia)
Bashir Khan
CEO
Airmatrix
(Canada)
Prerecorded Presentation
Sam Kingsley
Technology Manager
The Brainary
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
Anna Kinnane
Project Manager Digital Strategies
Queensland College of Teachers
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
Chris Komatas
Head Of Product
Dotterel Technologies
(New Zealand)
Virtual Presenter
Doosoon Lee
CEO
Doosan Mobility Innovation
(Korea)
Virtual Presenter
Dr Juxi Leitner
CEO/Founder
LYRO Robotics
(Australia)
Wayne Lording
Technical Director
Cloverdale
(Australia)
Prerecorded Presentation - Bonus digital content
Sam Macdonald
President
Deep Trekker
(Canada)
Prerecorded Presentation
Ryan McKay
Aeroacoustic Engineer
Dotterel
(New Zealand)
Virtual Presenter
David McKittrick
Outreach and Training Manager
Blue Marble Geographics
(United States of America)
Bonus digital content
Alejandro Melendez-Calderon
University of Queensland
(Australia)
Cathryn Menzler
Principal Project Officer, Australian Curriculum: Science
Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
Cran Middlecoat
Educator & Aerospace Geek
It’s Rocket Science Adventures
(Australia)
Mike Monnik
CTO
Dronesec
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
Wayne Morgan
Standards Officer UAS
Australian Air Force Cadets
(Australia)
John Morrison
CEO - Operations Manager
Morrison Aerial Robotics
(Australia)
Reinaldo Negron
Head Of UTM
Wing
(USA)
Prerecorded Presentation
Professor Paul Newman
Founder and CTO
Oxbotica
(United Kingdom)
Prerecorded Presentation
Vanessa Noonan
Dean Linq Academy
Sheldon LINQ Academy
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
Dr Ian Oppermann
Chief Data Scientist
NSW Government
(Australia)
Prerecorded Presentation
Dr Antonio Padilha Lanari Bo
Research Fellow In Biomedical Engineering
University of Queensland
(Australia)
Candace Parkyn
Technologies Teacher
Sheldon College
(Australia)
Digital Education Workshop
JiÅ™í Pavlík
CEO
STRATOSYST s.r.o.
(Czech Republic)
Prerecorded Presentation
Sam Peacocke
CEO
Ariel Camera
(New Zealand)
Virtual Presenter
Dr Sarah Pearson
Innovation Lead and
Deputy Director-General
Queensland Government Department of State Development, Tourism and Innovation
(Australia)
Chairperson
Professor Hugh Possingham
Chief Scientist
Queensland Government
(Australia)
Dr Pauline Pounds
Associate Professor In Mechatronics
University of Queensland
(Australia)
Dr Dawid Preller
Chief Technology Officer
Australian Droid + Robot (ADR)
(Australia)
Sabrina Ravail
Head of Commercial
Swoop Aero Pty Ltd
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
Philip Reece
CEO
InDro Robotics
(Canada)
Virtual Presenter
Dr Michael Richardson
Senior Research Fellow
UNSW
(Australia)
Prerecorded Presentation
Priscilla Riscica
Creative Media Management
Gerard Coutts & Associates
(Australia)
Prerecorded Presentation
Professor Jonathan Roberts
Professor In Robotics
QUT and ARM Hub
(Australia)
Nicci Rossouw
CEO
Exaptec
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
Rakesh Routhu
Co-founder & COO
Aerologix
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
Rui Andres
CEO
Fieldwork Robotics Ltd
(United Kingdom)
Bonus digital content
Edward Santow
Human Rights Commissioner
Australian Human Rights Commission
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
A/Prof Karsten Schulz
Deputy Academic Director
Australian Computing Academy
(Australia)
Andrew Scott
Queensland Robotics
(Australia)
Dr Lesley Seebeck
Honorary Professor
ANU
(Australia)
Shah Selbe
Founder
Conservify
(United States of America)
Virtual Presenter
Dr Camila Shirota
Research Fellow
Griffith University
(Australia)
LTCOL Robin Smith
Program Manager Robotics
Australian Army
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
Cori Stewart
CEO
Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub
(Australia)
Dr Robyn Stokes
CEO
Bionics Queensland
(Australia)
Jesse Suskin
Head of Government Relations and Public Policy, Australia
Wing
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
Robert Sutton
Managing Director
Mirragin Unmanned Systems
(Australia)
Prof Shinji Suzuki
President
JUIDA (Japan UAS Industrial Development Association)
(Japan)
Bonus digital content
Kenro Tanaka
General Manager, Corporate Strategy Office
Blue Innovation Company Ltd.
(Japan)
Bonus digital content
Shawn Tansley
Managing Director
BIA5
(Australia)
Coleby Thew
Head Of Enterprise
D1 Store
(Australia)
Lorraine Tighe
Smart Cities And Innovation Consultant
Independent Consultant - Smart Cities and Innovation
(Australia)
Prerecorded Presentation
CAPT - RAN Nicholas Trongale
Director Robotics, Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Australian Navy
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter
Chief Charles Werner
Director
DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Alliance
(USA)
Virtual Presenter
Scott Wilkie
Founder at Claymore Ventures
Special Advisor & Global Leader Cyber Development at Deloitte
(Australia)
Dr Marta Yebra
Senior Lecturer
ANU
(Australia)
Virtual Presenter