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.

Carsten has worked as a senior ICT Executive for more than 20 years with both local and international companies in Australia and the United States. Carsten holds a BA from the University of Queensland and an MBA from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

Whilst working with market driven companies including S.C.Johnson Wax and Pharmacia & Upjohn, Carsten was actively involved in implementing MRP Class A manufacturing and sales force automation systems. Carsten represented the Asia Pacific region for a number of years on global strategic planning councils for various companies before relocating to the United States to manage the Global Desktop and Network Operating Systems for S.C. Johnson Wax.

As Chief Information Officer at the State Rail Authority of New South Wales, Carsten actively contributed to the executive management team, in particular, successfully introducing far-reaching change through strategic planning and management for their use of IT. Carsten joined the ACTEW Corporation (now ActewAGL) as General Manager, Business Systems in October 1999. Since then he has made significant strategic and structural changes to the division resulting in a significant decrease in outstanding ICT support calls, an increased number of services offered and reduced ICT costs to the corporation. Carsten added the responsibility for ActewAGL’s Commercial Development to his role in January 2004 with specific focus on sustainable energy development as well as mergers and acquisitions. At the same time ActewAGL signed a management services agreement with TransACT (Triple Play Telecommunications Carrier). Since that time Carsten has had dual responsibility for ActewAGL’s and TransACT’s ICT and Commercial Development.

Carsten left ActewAGL in 2008 and has since joined the Australia Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) as its CIO responsible for driving through a significant transformational programme to facilitate the Agency reaching its vision of being the world’s best converged regulator.

Rob Livingstone is a respected and experienced CIO, with over 33 years of professional experience in the corporate world, the last 16 of which were as Oceania regional CIO in a number of Australian subsidiaries of multinationals – most recently Ricoh. He is the owner and principal of Rob Livingstone Advisory Pty Ltd, and consults widely to Industry. Given his experience and independence in Cloud, he is also in demand as a speaker and facilitator at Cloud conferences and events. Rob is also a fellow of the UTS Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, where he lectures postgraduates in IT Management. Prior to entering the IT industry, Rob has previously held a number of senior operational, strategic advisory and executive positions in a range of industries both locally and overseas. In conjunction with the CIO Executive Council, Rob also has developed and is delivering the Pathways Advanced and Pathways Business programs in Australia

Based in Singapore, Dr. Holmes is a well-respected analyst with over 20 years of experience in helping manufacturers improve their processes, ranging from running shop floor improvement programs to managing product development. He has a wide range of practical experience across industries and is responsible for driving the overall direction of the IDC Manufacturing Insights practice in Asia/Pacific and Europe. Prior to this, Dr. Holmes was leading the IDC Manufacturing Insights practice in Asia/Pacific.

Dr. Holmes is a frequent keynote speaker at industry events, sharing his insight and research with the manufacturing industry. He lectures regularly at a local University on Technoloqanning and R&D Management, specializing in the theory and application of Technology Roadmapping, which was developed in his previous role, while working for the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A-Star) in Singapore.

Before relocating to Singapore, he worked in the aerospace sector in the UK.

Dr. Holmes holds a Doctor of Engineering (EngD) degree from Warwick University, UK. This was completed while he was working in the industry and as part of the Warwick Manufacturing Group. He also holds a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree from the University of Glamorgan, UK and a Bachelor of Science degree from The City of Birmingham Polytechnic, UK.

Peter is the Former Executive General Manager Business Processes of the minerals processing company, Sedgman. In this global role he is responsible for guiding, implementing and maintaining common business processes, data and systems across the organisation. He has responsibility for corporate strategic planning, business planning, marketing and the IT group.

Peter is General Manager with more than 25 years experience in the successful implementation of businesses processes and IT systems into organisations. As a senior executive, he has been responsible for business planning and the change management of work practices in several organisations. Peter also has a background in consulting, having developed and implemented IT strategic plans for several organisations and having undertaken general management consulting assignments. He Chairs the Board of advisors of the CIO Executive Council and is a member of the Australian Computer Society’s Professional Standards Advisory Group. With a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing) gained from Sydney University of Technology in 1984, Peter’s specialist fields of competence include strategic solutions development to meet varying business needs specialising in cross cultural business process change management.

Peter’s previous work experience includes a global CIO role in an engineering consulting firm where he led a team of 250 to implement and support a global network of 65 sites in 14 countries with 6500 seats around the world. The Information Systems solutions he delivered supported business goals during periods of aggressive growth and market contractions. Prior to this, Peter held the position of General Manager, IT for a national rail carrier where he managed a fully outsourced IT environment. He has also managed an IT consulting company following a career of technical management in the NSW Public Sector