Rory is an Associate Director at Grant Thornton, responsible for leading their Business Transformation practice in Sydney.
His specialties include business strategy, performance improvement, and transformational change. Before joining Grant Thornton, Rory worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, KPMG, and Mallesons. With over 15 years of commercial and consulting experience, Rory has successfully completed major business transformation projects across a broad range of major corporate and government clients.

Stuart’s extensive technical background, combined with a strong business focus and broad experience in a variety of industries has allowed him to develop a deep understanding of the role of IT and the benefit technology can deliver to a business.

Linda Kennedy is an award-winning IT editor and the founder of the Australian CIO Executive Council. She has spoken on issues affecting CIOs at numerous international conferences in such countries as the US, France, Canada, Viet Nam. Portugal, New Zealand and, of course, Australia.

Linda, has more than 25 years experience in IT publishing. The keynote of her career occurred in 1996 when she founded CIO Magazine in Australia. Under her guidance, the publication rose to be the most highly awarded business publication in the country, winning Business Publication of the Year several times from the Australian Business Publishers Association. Linda herself was named Editor of the Year in the inaugural year of that award.

In 2005 Linda oversaw the creation of the Australian CIO Executive Council, the first outside the US. In 2008 Linda passed on the editorship of CIO Magazine in order to devote her efforts to the management and growth of the Executive Council and oversaw its merger with IDC’s InTep Forum, making it the largest and most significant peer-to-peer organisation for Australian CIOs.

Recognizing her passion and success for promoting and growing the CIO brand, Linda was tapped to run the global CIO Product Support Center for IDG, the world’s leading IT publisher. In this capacity, Linda worked with the publishers, editors and CIO Council executives of each country within the IDG family publishing a CIO title. In this role, Linda organised an annual international conference aimed at increasing the success of the CIO brand throughout the world.

Paul Wilson is Managing Director of Gen-i Australia, responsible for the execution of Gen-i’s strategy for growth in Australia, with a focus on managed ICT services and systems integration, particularly for Trans Tasman clients.

With a track record for innovation in a dynamic market, and successfully implementing strategies for driving efficiencies and profitable growth, Paul ensures that Gen-i’s services and solutions contribute to the success and long-term development of the company’s strategy, brand and relationship within the Australian marketplace.

Paul has worked in senior executive roles in New Zealand and overseas and brings vast experience in both leading large corporate businesses, to successfully launching and growing startup organisations. In his previous role as General Manager of Enterprise and Public Sector in Gen-i’s Wellington branch, Paul was responsible for leading and growing this market with revenues of more than $500 million across New Zealand and Australia.

Paul has a Bachelor of Business Studies Degree from Massey University majoring in Management and Finance.

Tim joined IDC Australia in March 2007. He is responsible for managing and coordinating the company’s Australian research teams and operations. As part of his role, Tim focuses on working with Senior IT executives from Australia’s leading IT&T organisations across consulting projects, research and analysis areas including Telecoms, Software and Services. In addition, he plays a pivotal role in product enhancement for both Australian and AP research programs.

Tim has 15 years of professional experience, with 14 years dedicated to research. Having lived and worked both in Europe and Asia Pacific, Tim’s global perspective provides a broader view of technology trends as it impacts Australia.

Chris Morris is Head of IDC’s Asia/Pacific Services Research, based in Sydney. In this role, Chris leads in further growing the IT Services research business by penetrating into new accounts and areas, bringing thought leadership content and advisory expertise to IDC as well as for IDC’s clients in the region. He works closely with IDC’s Consulting group to project manage and provide advice in strategic engagements.

Chris comes to IDC with more than 15 years of extensive research and industry experience. For the last 6 years, Chris has been working as an independent IT industry researcher and consultant. Prior to 2002, he was Gartner’s Group Vice President and Director of Research for the Asia/Pacific region with full responsibilities ranging from business development to research delivery to client engagement activities. At the time of his recruitment in 1992, Chris was the first research analyst in the Asia/Pacific region for the organization. Previously, he worked for a number of technology vendors including Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems and Memorex Telex in a variety of technical, product marketing and management roles. Chris holds a Bachelor of Engineering from UNSW

James is Head of IT Operations at REA Group. REA owns and operates the leading real estate and commercial property advertising sites in Australia, realestate.com.au and realcommercial.com.au, as well as international real estate advertising sites such as the market-leading Italian property site, casa.it.

Glenn is a seasoned IT leader who has worked across multiple industries and sectors over the past 21 years. Currently responsible for the delivery of IT services across the AGL organization, Glenn leads the delivery and operation of production application and infrastructure services that ISG provides to its business customers and end users. Glenn is passionate about ensuring IT delivers real value to the business that it serves, and ensuring that “IT doesn’t get in the way of itself” – through a combination of innovative technologies and business acumen, he is continually delivering creative recommendations and solutions which deliver improved performance and profitability to the business. And working in an environment that is mostly outsourced, he is acutely aware of the need to govern and manage delivery against contractual commitments, but to also ensure this is balanced with a level of flexibility to adjust as the underlying business needs change.

Andrew Millingen joined Australian vitamin giant Swisse six years ago as IT Manager & Business Analyst. Back then, Swisse was a highly respected boutique wholesaler of a handful of premium quality nutritional supplements. Today, Swisse is an iconic and ubiquitous brand, with a huge range of innovative product lines backed by scientific research.

Andrew presides over the smooth flow of data throughout the Swisse organisation, focusing much of his energy on bringing this information together in a digestible format. As well as directing his growing internal team, Andrew manages relationships with all ICT/analytics suppliers and oversees all software projects and ICTstrategy. In his time at Swisse, Andrew has been involved in rollouts of new BI, ERP, CRM, data warehouse and sales force automation solutions.

Andrew’s highest professional priorities include building strong, long-term, mutually-beneficial partnerships with dynamic software and data suppliers; creating infrastructure to ensure colleagues are always ready for fast-changing requirements/environments; and enabling self-service analytics that cater to all user types, from the mobile sales reps to the CEO.

Andrew graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide and worked for Village Cinemas as an analyst and IT Manager in Australia and Europe.