Marissa is a highly qualified and experienced Prince2 practitioner at SMS, Australia’s largest publicly listed management services company. Marissa’s experience includes the project management of Sensis’ implementation of Fatwire CMS for City Search in 2005, coordinating a team of over 60 people. Marissa provides a real-world perspective on large scale project implementation and management.
Martin Bauer Design IT
Martin is the Managing Director of designIT, an Australian based content management specialist practice. Martin has ten years experience in web development and 6 years in agile project management. He is the world’s first certified Feature Driven Development Project Manager, a popular agile methodology. Prior to his role as Managing Director, Martin held a variety of roles across a range of industries. This experience includes careers in law, advertising and IT. Martin’s breadth of expertise has culminated in a focus upon the delivery of effective content management solutions. Topic list to come.
James Beard Department of Infrastructure
James is currently senior technical lead for a development project at the Department of Infrastructure. He is also an experienced Agile practitioner, having ‘cut his teeth with it’ at Agentis, a vendor of agent based software. For a substantial period of the project, James was the technical lead at Sensis for the redevelopment of CitySearch.
Xavier Brouwer Autonomy
Xavier has been working as an IT architect and consultant in the knowledge management, enterprise search and CRM space for the last ten years. After working on a variety of multi-country, multi-lingual customer Internet systems for Hewlett-Packard in Europe and Asia, he worked for DWS in Australia specializing in search and business process automation projects. Xavier is currently a Business Development Manager for Autonomy in Australia.
Marius Coomans Active Web Communications
Marius Coomans was the co-founder of Firmware Design, a company which introduced many interactive publishing tools and systems to the Australian market over a period of almost 20 years. Its customers ranged from web developers to enterprise customers. Over the past few years, Marius has been helping software developers commercialize their products and through his company, Active Web Communications, he has been consulting to businesses on their online strategies.
Matthew Harris Morpheum | Lantern CMS
Matthew founded Morpheum in 1998, now one of Australia's most respected web services businesses. Matthew has Chaired the AIMIA web accessibility task force, contributed to global standards and is a member of the CMPAC steering committee. Morpheum has developed one of Australia's foremost content management systems for large, information rich websites for organisations operating within a regulatory environment. Clients range from Department of Health and Ageing, Oxfam to Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
Luke Hoban Emorphus
Expanded biography required. Suggested topic: Why business doesn't fund CMS.
Martin Hughes Komodo CMS
Martin is Senior Projects Manager for Komodo CMS and has managed major IT deployments since well before the emergence of the Internet and Content Management Systems. Martin has overseen development practice review under the Capability Maturity Management Integration (CMMI) model and led the establishment of project and product process models for Komodo CMS and other development teams.
Melanie Kendell Emorphus
Melanie is the founding member of the Emorphus consultancy, in this role Melanie helps organizations achieve a sustainable information management solution. Melanie is a regular speaker on content management issues in Australia, including sessions over several years at the Open Publish conference and she has a keen interest in project management approaches.
Matthew Moore Oracle
Matt is currently Director of Knowledge Management for Oracle's Asia-Pacific Technology Solutions group. Prior to that he has worked at IBM, PwC and the London School of Economics. He spends more time than he would like managing content.
Darren Peacock Sweet Technology
Darren is a consultant and researcher in information systems, based in Adelaide. He works primarily with cultural heritage organizations on information and technology strategies, including content management, particularly for the web. Suggested topic: building the business case for CMS.
Chandi Perera Typefi Systems
Chandi is CEO of Typefi Systems. Expanded biography to be sourced. Topic ideas include single sourcing and case studies on Digital Asset Management Systems.
Anton Polgar Sensis
Completed major CM rollouts at Coles Myer and Sensis, and presented on enterprise portal implementations from the perspective of an implementing organization. Expanded biography and topic synopsis to be sourced. Contact via Simon Rawson.
Simon Rawson Microz
Following substantial experience in the commercialization of innovation from CSIRO and the University of Melbourne, Simon was appointed Strategic Services Director, Asia Pacific for Stellent in 2000. Simon's legacy after leaving Stellent included redesigning its workflow, and identifying a number of strategic alliances, some of which resulted in acquisition. Today Simon is an independent consulting specializing in advising content management and workflow vendors on future product directions and helping client organizations define requirements for content management solutions. Topic areas include: improving customer satisfaction and innovation using CM and workflow; process automation and CM - the fusion of content and process; characteristics of successful content management initiatives; user driven content; folksonomies and other innovations.
Mark Reed Sensis
Mark started out as a GIS specialist and has worked with Sensis and its precedent operations for around ten years. Mark has been involved in almost all aspects of web system deployment and content management systems within the Sensis online operations and has a broad knowledge on topics effecting the content management industry.
Howard Sachs iFocus
Howard specializes in the integration of search engines, content management systems and portals to achieve targeted information discovery. He has implemented search in public websites such as Telstra Online and Intranets such as Coles Myer Intranet Portal. Howard is a Senior eBusiness Consultant for iFocus, a Web Knowledge Management and eLearning consultancy in Melbourne.
Jed Simms Capability Management
Jed has been a leading exponent of IT Governance for about 30 years. Jed is the Managing Director and founder of Capability Management, a group which for more than 10 years has developed IT focused programs, including IT project governance, which have been implemented with great success by a number of Australia's corporates. Prior to this, Jed was co-founder of the regional operation of the Boston Consulting Group and head of their IT strategy group.
Richard Vines
Currently managing the research into action program for the Australian Child and Family Welfare Centre for Excellence, Richard has also written a number of industry white papers on content management as it relates to digital media convergence and knowledge management. Richard is also experienced in the areas of ontology and interoperability.
David Warwick Komodo CMS
David is Director of Komodo CMS and the co-creator and product strategist behind its successful Australian web content management system. David is also Co-Chair of the Content Management Professionals Australia Community (CMPAC) which includes more than 150 members and a councilor of the Design Business Council. David has been a case writer on innovation for the Melbourne Business School, a Judge for the Melbourne University Entrepreneurs’ Challenge and a regularly invited speaker on content management, web design, search optimization and IT business management.
Sydney — Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Melbourne — Thursday, November 15, 2007.
