{"id":1078,"date":"2019-09-22T00:45:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T00:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thethingsnetwork.org.au\/?page_id=1078"},"modified":"2019-11-22T03:10:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T03:10:14","slug":"speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thethingsnetwork.org.au\/speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Chris is an urban planner and is currently employed as the Innovation Officer with the City of Greater Bendigo where he is driving the innovation and smart cities agenda with a view to how Bendigo can become a City of the Future. One of Chris\u2019s award-winning initiatives is called Clever Weather, where the City of Greater Bendigo has teamed up with La Trobe University to install 100 weather sensors throughout the city, including in outer suburbs. He is passionate about improving the collaboration between academia, industry and government in order to address some of the challenges facing our cities and regions today.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Simon has led a team to establish Australia\u2019s first Master of Internet of Things and is leading the way to establish the Bendigo campus as a centre of excellence in the space of the Internet of Things and disruptive technologies. He has a background in hardware, software and Artificial Intelligence and has applied these interests to the area of intelligent autonomous robots, human robot interaction and more recently to the Internet of Things. Simon has a passion for disruptive technology and the application of open source technologies, including open source embedded systems and open source manufacturing platforms, to help drive social entrepreneurship and address real world problems for people in the community. He is a co-founder and director of the Creative Science Foundation (CSF), a non-profit foundation dedicated to exploring the use of science fiction as a means to motivate and direct research into new technologies. The recent Creative Robotix initiative from CSF is currently being adopted into schools across the region and further afield. He is a visiting member of the Intelligent Inhabited Environments Group at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan. Applied areas of research interest include Health, Agricultural Technology, Smart Cities and remote environmental monitoring.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Tom Bianchi is Regional Manager for Microchip Technology Australia, based in Sydney. He has worked with Microchip for 19 years facilitating the growth of Microchip business in Australia and New Zealand. Tom previously worked for an electronics distribution company in the roles of product manager and field applications engineer, and before that as a design engineer. Tom earned degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sydney.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Brian has produced software for over 30 years on lots of different embedded projects. For the last 15 months he has been working on a LoRaWAN device – understanding the protocol, debugging the embedded stack, wrangling with network providers, finessing re-try strategies and basically learning heaps. Along the way he found that lots of people had questions about the specific details of LoRaWAN that he had just found out himself.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t