The Eighth Workshop on the Social
Implications of National Security:
Remotely Piloted Airborne Vehicles and
Related Technologies
29-30 September 2014
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Program and Information Booklet
(Issue 3.0 – Final)
Endorsed by:
The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT)
Sponsored by:
IEEE SSIT Australia
ACOLA
SAF05 Project
IEEE-USA CTAP
Defence Science
Institute
The Carlton Connect
Initiative 2014
Conference
The University of
Wollongong
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Table of Contents
1.
Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 4
Welcome............................................................................................................................................. 4
The Social Implications of National Security workshop series.................................................... 5
2.
Workshop Overview ...................................................................................................................... 6
3.
Workshop Program ....................................................................................................................... 7
4.
5.
3.1.
Foreword by Peter Smith ...................................................................................................... 7
3.2.
Day 1: The Private/Personal Ownership and Use of RPAVs ............................................ 8
3.3.
Day 2: The Public Sector, Commercial and Military Ownership and Use of RPAVs .... 11
Information for Participants ....................................................................................................... 13
4.1.
Venue .................................................................................................................................... 13
4.2.
Registration ......................................................................................................................... 13
4.3.
Dress Code .......................................................................................................................... 13
4.4.
Guidelines for Session Moderators .................................................................................. 13
4.5.
Lunch, coffee breaks and Workshop Dinner .................................................................... 14
4.6.
Travel and Accommodation ............................................................................................... 14
Invited Participants – Confirmed ............................................................................................... 15
5.1.
Academic / Industry / Technology Sector ........................................................................ 15
1.
Dr Reece Clothier (RMIT University) ................................................................................ 15
2.
Mr Andrew Duggan (Insitu Pacific) ................................................................................... 15
3.
Mr Jai Galliott (Macquarie University) .............................................................................. 16
4.
Mr Peter Smith (Aerosonde) ............................................................................................. 16
5.
Dr Tom Tierney (IEEE-USA and Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) ....................... 17
6.
Mr Greg Tyrrell (Australian Association for Unmanned Systems) .................................... 17
7.
Mr Mark Xavier (V-TOL) ................................................................................................... 18
5.2.
Civil Service Sector ............................................................................................................. 19
8.
Assistant Commissioner Alistair Dawson (Queensland Police) ....................................... 19
5.3.
Civil Society ......................................................................................................................... 20
9.
Dr Roger Clarke (XAMAX) ................................................................................................ 20
10.
Mr Tim Cousins (Tim Cousins & Associates) ................................................................... 20
5.4.
Defence Sector .................................................................................................................... 20
11.
Dr R.E. Burnett (US Department of Defense) .................................................................. 20
12.
GPCAPT Alan Lawrence (Australian Defence Force) ...................................................... 21
13.
Dr Simon Ng (Defence Science Institute) ......................................................................... 22
14.
Dr Jason Scholz (Defence Science & Technology Organisation) .................................... 22
5.5.
15.
Hobby and Model Aircraft Sector ...................................................................................... 23
Mr Kevin Dodd (Model Aeronautical Association of Australia) ......................................... 23
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5.6.
16.
5.7.
Mr Doug Williamson (Corporate Marsh) ........................................................................... 23
Legal Sector ......................................................................................................................... 24
17.
Professor Tim McCormack (University of Melbourne) ...................................................... 24
18.
Professor Andrew Goldsmith (Flinders University) ........................................................... 24
19.
Dr Adam Molnar (Deakin University) ................................................................................ 25
5.8.
20.
6.
Insurance Sector ................................................................................................................. 23
Regulatory Sector ............................................................................................................... 25
Mr John Thynne (Civil Aviation Safety Authority) ............................................................. 25
Invited Guests and Observers ................................................................................................... 27
7.
1.
Dr Greg Adamson (2015 President-elect, IEEE SSIT) – Invited Guest ........................... 27
2.
Ash Ravikumar (The University of Melbourne) – Invited Observer .................................. 27
Invited, but unable to attend ...................................................................................................... 28
7.1.
Civil Service Sector ............................................................................................................. 28
1.
Dr John Appleby (US Department of Homeland Security) ............................................... 28
2.
Mr Jonathan Cantor (US Department of Homeland Security) .......................................... 28
3.
Mr Tony Pearce (Department of Justice, Victoria) ........................................................... 28
4.
Mr Adam Sims (Federal Opposition, Shadow Ministry for Defence) ................................ 29
7.2.
Regulatory Sector ............................................................................................................... 29
5.
Mr Jim Williams (US Federal Aviation Authority) .............................................................. 29
8.
Committee .................................................................................................................................... 30
9.
1.
Mr Philip Hall (IEEE SSIT, IEEE-USA CTAP and University of Western Australia) ......... 30
2.
Professor Robin Evans (The University of Melbourne) .................................................... 30
3.
Dr Nicholas Thomson (Carlton Connect Initiative) ........................................................... 31
4.
Dr Lyria Bennett Moses (The University of New South Wales) ........................................ 32
5.
Dr Katina Michael (The University of Wollongong) ........................................................... 32
Sponsors ...................................................................................................................................... 33
9.1.
IEEE SSIT Australia Chapter .............................................................................................. 33
9.2.
ACOLA Securing Australia’s Future (SAF05) ................................................................... 33
9.3.
Carlton Connect Initiative, 2014 Conference .................................................................... 34
9.4.
IEEE-USA CTAP .................................................................................................................. 34
9.5.
Defence Science Institute (DSI) ......................................................................................... 34
9.6.
The University of Wollongong (UOW) ............................................................................... 34
Acknowledgement – The University of Melbourne ...................................................................... 35
Annex A – The Carlton Connect Initiative Conference (#14CCC) .................................................. 36
1.
Conference Overview ......................................................................................................... 36
2.
Program................................................................................................................................ 37
3.
Related Events..................................................................................................................... 41
Specialised Workshops ................................................................................................................. 41
Public Event: Managing the Space Beneath................................................................................. 42
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1. Introduction
Welcome
Welcome to the Eighth Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security: Remotely
Piloted Airborne Vehicles and Related Technologies, to be held at The University of Melbourne
from 29-30 September, 2014.
This Workshop is a joint activity of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), the
Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA)’s Securing Australia’s Future Project 5 (SAF05)
on New technologies and their role in our security, cultural, democratic, social and economic systems,
the Carlton Connect Initiative (CCI), the IEEE-USA Committee on Transportation and Aerospace
Policy (CTAP), the Defence Science Institute (DSI), and the University of Wollongong (UOW).
The Workshop is a side event of the Carlton Connect 2014 Conference: Challenges, Partnerships,
Solutions (#14CCC), which will be held at The University of Melbourne, Victoria from 30 September to
02 October, 2014. #14CCC will bring together industry, government and research to discuss the
globe’s most complex resilience and sustainability challenges and the innovation and solution-driven
partnerships required to solve these issues at the local, national and global levels (see Annex A for
more details). The #14CCC Organising Committee cordially invites all Workshop participants to
also attend #14CCC and extends to them complimentary registration to the Conference.
The eighth in the series of Social Implications of National Security forums now predominantly
sponsored by UOW, this Workshop seeks to further develop the dialogue promoted by the
“Unmanned Airborne Systems and Public Safety: Capabilities, Uses and Regulation” conference held
at Flinders University on 17 February 2014. That conference, which was an initiative of Professor
Andrew Goldsmith and Flinders University, was convened to examine the current state of Unmanned
Aerial Systems (UAS) capabilities and applications in civilian contexts, and explore the implications of
their use for the future. Its objective was to provide a platform for individuals from industry, policing,
fire and emergency management agencies, academic and research institutions, and regulatory bodies
to discuss the regulatory and operational implications surrounding the use of UAS in terms of safety,
privacy and regulation.
The objective of this workshop is to produce a communique, endorsed by the participants, which will
inform the preparation of SAF05 reports and IEEE-USA CTAP position papers on the social and
national security implications of RPAVs and related technologies for submission to the Australian and
United States governments.
Participation is limited to 20 invited experts and members of the Workshop Organising Committee,
whose collective expertise covers the spectrum of legal, insurance, regulatory, operators (military,
commercial and private), and technology (industry and academia) relevant to the technological
development, manufacture, acquisition and operation of RPAVs and related technologies.
The Workshop has been organized by:
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IEEE SSIT Australia and IEEE-USA CTAP, led by Philip Hall (Chair SSIT Australia, SSIT
Member on IEEE-USA CTAP, and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing
and Mathematics at The University of Western Australia);
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The SAF05 Secretariat, led by Laureate Professor Rob Evans (Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne); and
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The Carlton Connect Initiative, led by Dr Nicholas Thomson (Research and Partnerships,
Carlton Connect Initiative at The University of Melbourne).

The Social Implications of National Security Workshop Series Secretariat, led by Dr Katina
Michael (Associate Professor and Associate Dean – International, School of Information
Systems and Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at The University of
Wollongong).
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Enquiries regarding the Workshop and requests for additional information should be directed to the
Workshop Chair, Philip Hall (philip.hall@ieee.org, +61 3 9015 9691), the SAF05 Secretariat, Dana
Sanchez (Dana.Sanchez@nicta.com.au, +61 2 6267 6207), or the Carlton Connect Conference 2014
Coordinator, Dr Nicholas Thomson (nicholast@unimelb.edu.au, +61 409 690 256).
I extend a warm welcome and my sincere thanks to all those how have agreed to participate in this
very important workshop, provide input to it, and have helped in organising it. I trust you will be
equally pleased and proud of the outcomes as I anticipate.
Philip Hall
General Chair
The Social Implications of National Security workshop series
The Social Implications of National Security workshop series was conceived and proposed in 2005
by Dr Katina Michael at The University of Wollongong (UOW) under the Human Factors series of
national security workshops for the Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Network for a
Secure Australia (RNSA).
UOW has organised every Social Implications of National Security instance and edited 4 full
proceedings and 3 abstract only proceedings. RNSA predominantly sponsored the first 5 national
forums until 2011. Since then UOW has sponsored the series.
The workshops in the series are:
2006 – Workshop #1: “The social implications of information security measures on citizens and
business”; RNSA/UOW at UOW, Australia, 29 May 2006 (editors: K and MG Michael)
2007 – Workshop #2: “From Dataveillance to Uberveillance and the Realpolitik of the Transparent
Society”; RNSA/UOW at UOW, Australia, 29 October 2007 (editors: K and MG Michael)
2008 – Workshop #3: “Australia and the New Technologies: Evidence Based Policy in Public
Administration”; RNSA/UOW at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 23-24 July
2008 (editors: K and MG Michael)
2009 – Workshop #4: “The social implications of covert policing”; RNSA/UOW at the Australian
National University, Canberra, Australia, 7 April 2009 (editors: S. Bronitt, C. Harfield, and K Michael)
2010 – Workshop #5: “The Social Implications of Location Based Services and Other Emerging
technologies”; RNSA/UOW at IC-UOW, Australia, 10 June 2010 (convenors K. Michael, A. Goldsmith)
2012 – Workshop #6: “Sousveillance and the Social Implications of Point of View Technologies in the
Law Enforcement Sector”; UOW at The University of Sydney, Australia, 22 February 2012
(convenors: K and MG Michael)
2013 – Workshop #7: “UAVs: Pros and Cons in Policing, Security & Everyday Life”; UOW at The
University of Toronto, Canada, 30 June 2013 (convenors: K. Michael, A. Hayes, J. Galliot, S. Sabine,
and M. Schroyer)
2014 – Workshop #8: “Remotely Piloted Airborne Vehicles and Related Technologies”;
IEEE/ACOLA/CCI/DSI/UOW at The University of Melbourne, Australia, 29-30 September 2014
(convenors: P. Hall, R. Evans, N. Thomson, K. Michael, and L. Bennett Moses)
Enquiries regarding the Social Implications of National Security Workshop series and requests for
additional information should be directed to the Workshop Series Secretariat Chair, Dr Katina Michael
(katina@uow.edu.au, +61 2 4221 3937).
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2. Workshop Overview
Remotely Piloted Airborne Vehicles (RPAVs) – also known as Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs),
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs), or simply ‘drones’ – are gaining increasing world-wide notoriety in
1
both military and civilian contexts . While they can be an effective and efficient means of conducting
particular operations for national security and social good (e.g. locating military targets, conducting
surveillance for national border protection or civil law and order purposes, emergency services and
disaster management, and environmental monitoring), and are considered to have significant
potential for a wide range of commercial applications (e.g. delivering goods, recording news events,
etc.), there are also many risks and dis-benefits that need to be acknowledged and addressed.
Current air safety regulations at international and national levels are a poor fit for the safety issues
associated with remotely piloted aircraft of the sophistication and capability now widely available or
being contemplated. For example, Fedex and Amazon are well-advanced in their plans to deliver their
services by drones, forcing regulators to urgently address the safety and regulatory implications and
requirements associated with commercial drone operations. UASs, such as ‘quadcopters’ and giant
remote-controlled aircraft, have also become much more readily available and affordable for hobby
and sports enthusiasts, which in turn have raised societal concerns on their use and the intent and
2
competency of their owner/operators . Surveillance, from drones and more broadly, raises important
questions about privacy and the right to be unobserved, to liability for damage or harm to physical and
personal property in the evident of equipment malfunction or human (pilot) error.
This two day workshop will provide a forum for discussion around the properties of RPAVs, the
different types of unmanned aircraft and aerial systems currently being deployed or in development,
the challenges and risks posed by the use of drones, safety regulation as applied to the manufacture
and civilian use of drones, and the nature of drone surveillance and other missions and how these
impact on important societal values in Australia and the United States. The workshop will consider:
 The vehicle as a platform, the mission capabilities of platforms and their ‘payloads’ (current
and potential), and the integrity of related technologies that enable them to operate remotely.
 The potential for future developments in those technologies and capabilities, such as the
ability for hostile agents to take control of and autonomously direct airborne systems against
the better interests of mankind.
 The issue of operator integrity, including the potential for incompetent, mischievous, malicious
and criminal use of drones.
 The need for a robust legal and regulatory framework across the range of operators,
platform/vehicle types, payloads, and communications between operator and
platform/payload.
This workshop brings together a select group of experts and thought-leaders intimately familiar with
the societal challenges and implications of the rapidly expanding use and sophistication of RPAVs
and their related technologies. Participation is by invitation only and is limited to members of the
Workshop Organising Committee and 20 invitees representing academia, emergency services and
disaster management, industry/technology, insurance, legal and several highly regarded international
consultants.
The workshop will produce a communique that will inform the preparation of SAF5 reports and IEEEUSA position papers on RPAVs for submission to the Australian and United States governments.
1
The 2012 feature “Drone On: the Future of UAV Over the US” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwkxx84wXNo) is
recommended viewing.
2
See the amateur video of the ‘giant’ remote–controlled 1:15 scale-model Airbus A380-800 constructed and flown by a
hobbyist at a model aircraft event in Germany (http://showyou.com/v/y--Rt9zX1rZFU/remote-control-a380.
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3. Workshop Program
3.1.
Foreword by Peter Smith
The first sessions of this Workshop is about Air Vehicles; the second about
Payloads; the third about Command, Control and Communication systems;
and the final about how these aspects come together. As I said in my
discussion with the Workshop Chair, Philip Hall, from the perspective of
someone who daily deals in the strategies of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)
design, manufacture and operations, this split is a logical one.
However, I believe I may be the only participant in this Workshop who is an
insider in the strategic tends in Unmanned Air Vehicle development and the
implications, good and bad, of what the next decade will bring to their
operation in (or against) the national interest. Therefore, I offer a short initial
overview of what is happening in air vehicle technology and operations and of
the issues, positive and negative, which these developments bring with them.
We now have unmanned air vehicles in operation ranging in size from one ounce to probably 50
tonnes, and a Boeing 747 cargo ‘drone’ is not just a possibility, it is close to inevitable.
I would put the issues into the normal strategic context I use of the National Interest, splitting that
general concept into its three constituent elements – National Security, Economic Prosperity and
Social Values. As examples:
National Security: the use of UAS for military surveillance purposes is well established, but
the next decade will see the ‘weaponising’ of even small, easily available UAS as well as the
development of high precision, beyond line of sight control and navigation technologies. In the
right hands, this can both enhance the defence of a nation’s people and assets dramatically
reducing collateral civilian death and damage; in the wrong hands, however, another
dimension is added to terrorist attacks – lightweight, loitering, self-navigated air vehicles –
deadly, hard to detect, cheap, and potentially overcoming defensive efforts by swarming.
Economic Prosperity: There is currently an explosion of interest in the use of UAS for
agriculture, mining, oil and gas applications and the positive economic effect on us in the next
decade will be limited only by our imagination (and that of the regulators). I am in daily
dialogue on these topics with some of the world’s largest resource companies. But for every
positive scenario, I can postulate a mirror image – UAS being used to threaten, or even
destroy, key national economic assets – blackmail on an industrial scale.
Social Values: Already an area of opportunity and controversy. For instance, the privacy
debate – future quieter, longer endurance, multiple sensor small UAS will contribute to the
effectiveness of our first responders – police, fire and ambulance, but equally have the
potential for negative covert surveillance – any organised break-and-enter enterprise could
have its own UAS fleet and control room at most modest cost. Equally, drugs for good may
well be despatched to crisis points by UAS, and illegal drugs in the same way.
I have a comprehensive image gallery to draw to assist those attendees who may not be steeped in
the technology to get a visual understanding of the proliferation of UAS types and roles.
As a person dedicated to working to ensure Australia takes its proper place in the development of
Unmanned Air Vehicle systems, skills and operations, I’m enthusiastic to contribute to the process of
communication to Government on these issues through this Workshop.
I congratulate the Workshop Organising Committee for their vision and wisdom in recognising the
urgent need for this very important forum, and having the enthusiasm and commitment to arrange it.
Mr Peter Smith
Chair and Director, Aerosonde Pty Limited, Australia
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3.2.
Day 1: The Private/Personal Ownership and Use of RPAVs
Monday, 29 September 2014
Venue:
The Executive Boardroom
Faculty of Business & Economics, The University of Melbourne
Level 12, 198 Berkeley Street Carlton, Victoria 3010 Australia
The sessions on Day 1 will focus on readily available off-the-shelf RPAVs typically sought after and
acquired by hobby and sports enthusiasts for their personal use and enjoyment, and by independent
private users such as farmers as an aid to farm management. The current capabilities and emerging
trends in airborne vehicle and payload technologies and their mission capabilities, along with
operator/pilot skill and integrity, will be considered against relevant existing regulatory, legal and
insurance frameworks and provisions. The robustness and resilience of communications between the
remote operator/pilot with the vehicle and its payload will also be considered.
08:30-09:00
Registration, Introductions, tea and coffee
All participants
0900-09:15
Welcome
Workshop Committee:
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09:15-10:45
IEEE-USA
ACOLA/SAF05
CCI / #14CCC
APF/UOW
IEEE SSIT Australia
Philip Hall
Robin Evans
Nick Thomson
Katina Michael
Lyria Bennett Moses
Session 1.1: Vehicle/Platforms (without payload)
Moderators:
This session will focus on the current and foreseeable
range of airborne vehicle types, sizes and capabilities:
Reece Clothier
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

Greg Tyrrell
Do we have a terminology problem? Are not remotecontrolled (RC) model aircraft actually RPAVs?
If not, then how do we differentiate RPAVs from RC
aircraft (e.g. a 1:15 scale Airbus A380 ‘giant’ RC
model aircraft from a 2 kg quadcopter ‘drone’)?
Do vehicle size and flight envelope really matter, or is
it really a question of operator/pilot skill?
Is the governance and insurance provisions of
personal RC/RPAV ownership and operation a
Federal, State or Local issue (i.e. who determines
today what RC/RPAV I can/cannot buy, where I
can/cannot fly it and if/how I can insure it)?
Are existing Federal/State/Local regulations, laws and
insurance provisions governing the sale and personal
operation of model aircraft adequate for the current
and foreseeable range of RC/RPAVs?
10:45-11:15
Tea and coffee break
11:15-12:45
Session 1.2: Payload and Mission Capabilities
Moderators:
This session will focus on the current and foreseeable
range of payloads and mission capabilities of personally
owned and operated RC/RPAVs:
Roger Clarke
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
Adam Molnar
How are personal RC/RPAVs currently being used,
and how could they be used in the future?
Are these ‘uses’ a Federal, State or Local issue in
terms of regulation, law, and insurance?
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What analogous situations can be drawn upon to
address and improve the governance of personal
RC/RPAV operations (with and without payloads):
o restrictions on the use of model aircraft?
o restrictions on the use of private motor vehicles
(inc. classic and vintage vehicles)?
o restrictions on the use of sport and recreation
vehicles (inc. air, water, road and off-road)?
o restrictions on the use of motorcycles?
To address operations that raise privacy (and
stalking) issues, we could:
o extend current privacy laws to recognise the use
of RC/RPAVs as a means of invasion?
o recognise ‘no fly zones’ above schools, sports
fields, playgrounds and designated public places?
o recognise airspace above (say, 500ft) and
adjacent (say, 150ft) to residential property as a
‘privacy zone’?
o restrict operation of RC/RPAVs to designated
areas and during designated times?
extend noise pollution and public nuisance laws to
include RC/RPAVs?
12:45-1:45
Lunch
1:45-3:15
Session 2.1: Operator/Pilot Integrity
Moderators:
This session will focus on operator/pilot skill levels and
integrity, drawing on discussions in previous sessions:
Kevin Dodd
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
Mark Xavier
Should operators/pilots of RC/RPAVs be required to
be trained and licensed to reflect the skill level
required to operate their vehicle and its payload?
Is licensing and control a Federal/State/Local issue?
What parallels that can be adopted or learned from?
o firearm licensing and controls?
o fishing licensing and controls?
o extreme sport and recreational activities?
o motorcycle licensing and controls?
o license endorsements for trucks, etc.?
3:15-3:45
Tea and coffee break
3:45:5:15
Session 2.2: Command and Control Integrity
Moderators:
This session will focus on the robustness and resilience of
command and control that the remote operator/pilot has
over the vehicle and its payload. The consequential risk of
communication loss and potential mitigating risk
management strategies will be discussed:
Tim Cousins
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
5:15-6:30
Andrew Goldsmith
How robust are existing communication, command
and control technologies between the operator/pilot
and the vehicle/payload?
How do we reduce the risk and consequential impact
of losing control of the vehicle and/or its payload from:
o technical failure (onboard or external)?
o denial (e.g. mischievous hacking)?
o hijacking (e.g. mischievous, malicious hacking)?
o operator error, incompetence or other means?
Free Time
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6:30-9:30
Workshop Dinner:
MC: Philip Hall
Venue: University House, Professor’s Walk
Perspective Address: Dr Greg Adamson
Title: Understanding Technology and its Context.
Abstract: For the past 40 years the Society on Social
Implications of Technology (SSIT) within IEEE, the world’s
largest association of technology professionals, has
encouraged examination of the societal aspects of
technology. All technology exists in a social context. In the
case of UAVs the context involves technical, legal, ethical,
regulatory, financial, military and other dimensions, and is
complex due to its stage of development. Other key
th
technologies such as radio in the first third of the 20
century have gone through similar complex periods, when
policy and technical decisions could have far-reaching
consequences, including the potential that the negative
may overwhelm the positive. Given the military role of
UAVs it is worth recalling the words of cybernetics pioneer
Norbert Wiener: “in the long run, there is no distinction
between arming ourselves and arming our enemies.”
What can we learn from the lessons of the past, combined
with an understanding of the unique characteristics of this
specific technology?
Keynote Address: Professor Tim McCormack
Title: The Legal Regulation of New Military Technologies:
Why the Drone Controversy?
Abstract: Legal regulation invariably lags behind
developments in weapons technology and normative
prohibitions on specific categories of weapons are
challenging to negotiate. But in the absence of specific
prohibitions, the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC)
incorporates key general principles regulating the use of
all weapons systems. Combat RPAVs can be deployed
consistently with those general principles and do not pose
conceptual legal challenges (unlike autonomous systems,
human enhancement technologies and cyber warfare) but
still controversy rages. Tim will reflect on some of the
reasons for the controversies surrounding the US RPAV
targeted killings program: the criteria for inclusion on a killlist; accountability for disproportionate collateral damage;
the choice of LOAC as the applicable legal regime and the
self-declared Global War on Terror; the use of combat
RPAVs in foreign state airspace without permission from
the territorial state. But these sources are overshadowed
by other potential scenarios including, for example: the
hijacking of combat RPAVs and use of them by states with
no intention of abiding by the law or, perhaps worse, by
non-State armed groups whose value systems are
antithetical to the notion of legal constraints on the
conduct of armed hostilities.
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3.3.
Day 2: The Public Sector, Commercial and Military
Ownership and Use of RPAVs
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Venue:
The Executive Boardroom
Faculty of Business & Economics, The University of Melbourne
Level 12, 198 Berkeley Street Carlton, Victoria 3010 Australia
The sessions on Day 2 will focus on RPAVs currently used or proposed by the civil and military
sectors. For the purposes of this workshop, the civil sector is considered to include public sector
organisations (e.g. police and emergency services, environmental monitoring, etc.), academic and
research institutions and commercial entities (e.g. utility management, media and advertising, freight
and parcel delivery, real estate agencies, private investigators, etc.). Current capabilities and
emerging trends in airborne vehicle and payload technologies and their mission capabilities, along
with operator/pilot skill and integrity, will be considered against relevant existing regulatory, legal and
insurance frameworks and provisions. The robustness and resilience of communications between the
remote operator/pilot with the vehicle and its payload will also be considered. Military ownership and
operation will be considered within the context of its relevance to civil operations.
09:00-10:30
Session 3.1: Vehicle/Platforms (without payload)
Moderators:
This session will focus on the current and foreseeable
range of airborne vehicle types, sizes and capabilities:
Peter Smith
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10:30-11:00
John Thynne
How do we differentiate between vehicle/platform
complexity and size from simple quadcopters used
for traffic surveillance to 747 aircraft used by FEDEX
for international freight?
Do vehicle size and flight envelope really matter, or
is it really a question of the nature of the operational
scenario and operator/pilot skill?
Is the governance and insurance provisions of
commercial RC/RPAV ownership and operation a
Federal, State or Local issue (i.e. who determines
today what RC/RPAV a commercial entity
can/cannot buy, where it can/cannot fly it and if/how
it can be insured)?
Are existing Federal/State/Local regulations, laws
and insurance provisions governing the commercial
sale and operation of aircraft adequate for the
current and foreseeable range of RC/RPAVs?
o what difference does taking the pilot out of the
cockpit make?
o are there parallels to military RPAV operations
and what can we learn from them?
Coffee break
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11:00-12:30
Session 3.2: Payload and Mission Capabilities
Moderators:
This session will focus on the current and foreseeable
range of payloads and mission capabilities of civil sector
and commercially owned and operated RC/RPAVs, with
input from the military sector:
Alistair Dawson
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How are civil sector and commercial RPAVs
currently being used, and how could they be used in
the future?
How do we determine whether these ‘uses’ are a
Federal, State or Local issue in terms of regulation,
law, and insurance?
What analogous situations can be drawn upon to
address and improve the governance of civil sector
and commercial RPAV operations:
o civil and commercial aircraft regulations and
provisions?
o restrictions on the use of commercial motor
vehicles and other forms of transport?
12:30-1:30
Lunch
1:30-3:00
Session 4.1: Command and Control Integrity, and
Future Directions & Challenges
This session will focus on the robustness and resilience
of command and control that the remote operator/pilot
has over the vehicle and its payload. The consequential
risk of communication loss and potential mitigating risk
management strategies will be discussed. The session
will also focus on operator/pilot skill levels and integrity,
drawing on discussions in previous sessions:
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Andrew Duggan
Moderators:
R.E. Burnett
Tom Tierney
How robust are existing communication, command
and control technologies between the operator/pilot
and the vehicle/payload?
How do we reduce the risk and consequential
impact of losing control of the vehicle and/or its
payload from:
o technical failure (onboard or external)?
o denial (e.g. reckless, mischievous, malicious,
criminal or terrorist hacking)?
o hijacking (e.g. mischievous, malicious, criminal
or terrorist hacking)?
o operator error, incompetence or other means?
How will we deal with autonomous ‘program and
release’ airborne vehicles and aerial systems?
3:00-3:15
Closing Address
Peter Smith
3:15-3:30
Closing Remarks
Workshop Committee
Workshop Communique
The Workshop Communique will be prepared after the workshop under the editorial stewardship of
the Workshop Chair and Committee. It will cover our deliberations, outcomes and recommendations,
and the final version will be endorsed by the workshop participants (abstentions, if any, will be noted
where applicable). The communique will inform SAF05 reports to the Australian Government, and
IEEE-USA position papers to the US Congress and Administration.
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4. Information for Participants
The following information is provided to assist participants maximise their contribution to the
workshop, which is intended to be conducted in a friendly, relaxed and collaborative environment that
fosters knowledge sharing and thought leadership.
4.1.
Venue
The RPAV Workshop will be held in the Dean’s Executive Boardroom, Faculty of Business &
Economics, The University of Melbourne, Level 12, 198 Berkeley Street Carlton, Victoria 3010
Australia.
p: +61 3 8344 1670 | w: https://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/
4.2.
Registration
As mentioned in the introductory section, the RPAV Workshop is a side event of the Carlton Connect
2014 Conference: Challenges, Partnerships, Solutions (#14CCC), which will be held at the Sidney
Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne from 30 September to 02 October, 2014. The draft
program for #14CCC (as at 26 August) is provided at Annex A.
The #14CCC Organising Committee cordially invites all Workshop participants to attend #14CCC and
extends to them the entitlement of complimentary registration to the Conference.
All RPAV Workshop participants are required to register for the conference through the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/carlton-connect-conference-2014-challenges-partnerships-solutionsregistration-11879974323?discount=CCICPART
The link gives the free registration for participants code.
Registration it is to ensure participants receive their correct affiliation for both the RPAV Workshop
and the #14CCC conference. Being an invited participant in the RPAV Workshop automatically gives
entry into the main conference and workshop participants are encouraged to stay on where possible
for engagement and networking in the conference sessions.
Queries regarding registration should be directed to Alida Apostoloudas (alida.a@unimelb.edu.au) or
Elena Toh (tohe@unimelb.edu.au).
4.3.
Dress Code
The dress code for the workshop sessions and the workshop dinner is business casual (i.e. no ties).
4.4.
Guidelines for Session Moderators
Each session is allocated 90 minutes and assigned two moderators, who will work as a team to
introduce and direct discussion on the session theme. Each session moderator is requested to give a
short presentation (10-15 mins) at the beginning of their session to set the scene and put a range of
issues on the table for discussion. Session moderators are also welcome to suggest or provide to
workshop participants source materials in advance or on the day. The Workshop Chair (Philip Hall)
will be the lead facilitator for all sessions.
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4.5.
Lunch, coffee breaks and Workshop Dinner
Lunch will be provided on both days, and light refreshments will be provided at the scheduled coffee
breaks.
Workshop participants are invited to attend the Workshop
Dinner, which will be held on Monday evening 29 September
from 6:30 to 9:30pm at University House. The Dinner is
sponsored by ACOLA, CCI, DSI and UOW.
For catering purposes, please RSVP by Monday, 15
September with advice of any special dietary requirements to
Alida Apostoloudas (alida.a@unimelb.edu.au).
University House, which is located on Professor’s Walk, just
off Tin Alley, is the Staff Club of The University of Melbourne.
It is a beautiful Victorian era home built in 1885, and the sole
survivor of the Victorian Professorial houses that once lined
Professors’ Walk.
4.6.
Travel and Accommodation
Workshop participants are requested to make their own travel and accommodation reservations
directly with their preferred airlines and hotels.
Workshop participants need to be aware that Saturday 27 September is a major sports day in
Melbourne, with the Australian Football League Grand Final being played at the Melbourne Cricket
Ground (MCG). This will impact airline and hotel accommodation availability as well as create ‘heavy
traffic’ in CBD restaurants and public places over the period 26-28 September.
A block of rooms has been reserved at a special room rate for Workshop attendees at the RYDGES
ON SWANSTON MELBOURNE HOTEL, 701 Swanston Street, Melbourne. The Hotel is a relaxed 10
minute walk to the workshop venue.
The negotiated University of Melbourne rate for a Standard deluxe room is $170 per night. There are
also Parkview rooms available at the University rate of $199 per night. The special room rates are
available from Sunday 28 September through to Wednesday 01 October. To make your reservation
please telephone or email the Hotel and quote University of Melbourne – RPAV Workshop.
p: +61 3 9347 7811 | e: reservations_carlton@rydges.com
w: http://www.rydges.com/accommodation/melbourne-vic/swanston-melbourne/welcome/
The Hotel is just 1.5km north along Swanston Street from the CBD. It is on the University tram route,
for which you will need to have a MYKI travel card, which can be purchased at numerous outlets
throughout the CBD. A taxi is approximately $8.00 and a five minute drive.
The Hotel is about half an hour (20km) south-east from Melbourne International Airport.

Taxis are located on the ground floor level of Melbourne Airport. A fare to the CBD will cost
approximately $50 and take approximately 20 minutes depending on traffic.

Shuttle – SkyBus offers a shuttle bus service from the airport to the CBD terminal at
Southern Cross Train Station. Buses run every 10 minutes throughout the day and every 3060 minutes overnight. The cost is $18 one way or $30 return, and takes approximately 30
minutes each way depending on traffic. SkyBus also offers hotel transfers at no additional
charge, a taxi fare to the hotel is approximately $8.00. SkyBus tickets can be purchased at
the airport or online by visiting the SkyBus website (www.skybus.com.au).

Car – from the Airport, travel along the Tullamarine Freeway turn left onto Flemington Road.
Turn left at Grattan Street, right at Swanston Street and right again at Lincoln Square North.
Rydges on Swanston Melbourne is situated on your right. Secure undercover car parking is
available at the Hotel for $25 per day for in-house guests and is subject to availability.
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5. Invited Participants – Confirmed
Participation in the workshop is by invitation only and limited to 20 invitees and members of the
Organising Committee. The following have been invited to participate in the workshop as experts with
specific knowledge or interest in RPAVs and their related technologies. All invitees listed in this
section are confirmed participants.
5.1.
1.
Academic / Industry / Technology Sector
Dr Reece Clothier (RMIT University)
Dr Reece Clothier
Deputy Director, Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Centre
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
RMIT University
Melbourne VIC 3083 Australia
p: +61 3 9925 7007 | m: +61 421 873 608 | e: reece.clothier@rmit.edu.au
w: http://www.ruasrt.com
w: http://www.rmit.edu.au/research/institutes/platformtechnologies/uav
Reece’s research areas include the design and analysis of engineering systems, quantitative risk
assessment, risk theory, human factors, bio-inspired systems and systems engineering. Areas of
application include Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), airspace planning and air traffic management
systems, sensing from airborne platforms, accident and incident modelling, safety management
systems, autonomous systems and risk perception.
One of the primary focuses of Reece’s work has been on the design and regulation of UAS for safe
operations in non-segregated airspace. Reece initiated and remains an active member of a number of
industry forums for the development of safety regulations for UAS. He has advised the Australian
Department of Defence on matters relating to UAS airworthiness and has developed quantitative risk
assessment tools for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO).
Reece has also been internationally recognised for his contributions as an early career academic in
the field of probabilistic safety assessment, receiving the 2012 George Apostolakis Fellowship.
2.
Mr Andrew Duggan (Insitu Pacific)
Mr Andrew Duggan
Managing Director, Insitu Pacific Limited
95 Mina Parade
Alderley, Queensland 4051, Australia
p: +61 7 3182 4003 | m: +61 421 588 338
e: andrew.duggan@insitupacific.com
w: www.insitu.com/regions/asia-pacific
Andrew has been the managing director of Insitu Pacific since the company's inception in 2009. In this
role, he has led the company through a significant growth period, capturing major Unmanned Aircraft
Systems (UAS) contracts with defence forces in Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and the UAE.
Andrew came to Insitu Pacific from Boeing Defence Australia, where he was the senior manager of
unmanned systems operations and oversaw the company's unmanned-systems-focused business.
He joined Boeing Australia in 2000 as an operations analyst in the System Analysis Laboratory,
where he worked on projects such as Air 87 (armed reconnaissance helicopter), Air 6000
(replacement fighter) and Sea 4000 (air warfare destroyer). He then moved into a business
development manager role and worked on JP-129 (tactical UAS) and as capture team lead on AATTS
(rotary wing training), before forming the new Advanced Unmanned Systems group in 2005, where he
led the development of the initial ScanEagle contract for the Australian Army.
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After the initial contract for ScanEagle was signed in October 2006, Andrew was appointed senior
manager of unmanned systems operations in 2007 and managed BDA's unmanned-systems-focused
business. He has an excellent background in the development and analysis of requirements related to
unmanned aerial systems.
Andrew is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon. As an Australian Army officer he served
six years in the Army Intelligence Corps, with a significant period in electronic warfare roles.
3.
Mr Jai Galliott (Macquarie University)
Mr Jai Galliott
Department of Philosophy
Level 7, Building W6A
Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia
p: TBA | m: +61 424 043 247 | e: jai.galliott@mq.edu.au
w: www.jaigalliott.com
Jai is an applied ethicist at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is Lead Editor of Ashgate’s
Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs series and prior to entering academia, served
briefly as an officer of the Royal Australian Navy. He is author of Military Robots: Mapping the Moral
Landscape (Ashgate) and several other forthcoming books, including Super Soldiers: The Ethical,
Legal and Social Implications (Ashgate), Commercial Space Exploration: Ethics, Policy and
Governance (Ashgate) and Ethics and Intelligence Collection: Technology and the Future of Spying
(Routledge). Jai also operates DefenceTech Consulting, through which he conducts strategic
consulting for defence and industry, both within Australia and abroad.
4.
Mr Peter Smith (Aerosonde)
Mr Peter Smith
Chair and Director, Aerosonde Pty Limited
1/585 Blackburn Road, Notting Hill VIC 3168 Australia
p: +61 (0)3 9518 7300 | m: +61 (0)419 806 474 | e:
peter.smith@bartonvale.com.au
w: www.aerosonde.com
Peter has a continuing role in Australian UAS industry strategy and development through his position
for more than a decade as Chair and a Director of Aerosonde Pty Limited, Australia’s largest UAS
manufacturer. Concurrently, he has been involved in UAS advocacy as Vice President of AAUS, the
Australian Association of Unmanned Systems, and a Director of AUVSI, the Association of Unmanned
Vehicle Systems International headquartered in Washington, DC. In these roles he has been a
regular speaker at Australian and international conferences, focussing primarily on strategic aspects
of the UAS industry, working to ensure Australia takes its proper place in the development of
Unmanned Air Vehicle systems, skills and operations, and particularly meets the emerging needs of
user industries such as the resources sector, emergency services and environment.
He runs a strategic consultancy providing advice and assistance to governments, companies, service
providers and industry organisations, primarily in the areas of defence industry and aerospace policy,
and serves on a number of company boards, particularly innovative SMEs.
His professional career has focussed on Australian and international defence and aerospace industry
roles including Managing Director of AWA Defence Industries and British Aerospace Australia and as
a director of Hawker de Havilland.
He has also served on many Government and Industry Committees including Chair of the Australian
Association of Aerospace Industries, Chair of the Aerospace Technology Forum, a member of the
Defence Industry Committee, the Capability Development Advisory Forum, and the AIG Defence
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Council. He has spent many years involved in governance in further education and training including
as Pro Chancellor of the University of South Australia and Deputy Chair of the SA Vocational
Employment & Training Board.
5.
Dr Tom Tierney (IEEE-USA and Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Dr Tom Tierney
Vice President for Government Relations, IEEE-USA
Scientist, Global Security Programs
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545
p: +1 505-667-6944 | m: +1 505 699-4639
e: tierney@ieee.org; tierney@lanl.gov | w: www.tomtierney.info
Tom is currently IEEE-USA Vice President, Government Relations, where he oversees the
development of technology policy recommendations on behalf of over 200,000 IEEE members that
reside within the USA. He also advises numerous organizations on technology policies that affect
fundamental research in international environments.
In the past, Tom served as Chairman of IEEE-USA’s R&D Policy Committee and as a member of the
Committee on Communications Policy. He has held several positions in IEEE Region 6 including
Government Affairs and Section Chair. In 2009, Tom served as the IEEE Engineering and Diplomacy
Fellow; he supported the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism within the U.S. Department of
State by providing technical advice on counterterrorism and nuclear policy. He received the U.S.
Department of State’s Meritorious Honor Award for his work there.
He is also currently co-chair of Department of Commerce’s Emerging Technologies and Research
Advisory Committee, which advises the Bureau of Industry and Security on emerging technology
issues as well as the impact of export control regulations in fundamental research environments.
He received an A.A. degree in foreign languages from Saddleback College, a B.S. degree in
astrophysics and a M.S. in physics from the University of California at Irvine. He completed his Ph.D.
thesis on strongly coupled plasmas at LANL and UC Irvine in 2002.
For his day job, Tom is a scientist and senior project leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory
(LANL), where he supports emerging technologies research for counterterrorism and counter nuclear
threats technologies. He has coauthored over 150 unclassified and classified journal articles and
reports in the areas of high energy density physics, laser systems, dynamic materials sciences,
radiation transport, radiation hydrodynamics, inertial confinement fusion, and nuclear policy.
6.
Mr Greg Tyrrell (Australian Association for Unmanned Systems)
Mr Greg Tyrrell
Executive Director
Australian Association for Unmanned Systems (AAUS)
22-24 Boronia Rd
Brisbane Airport QLD 4008, Australia
m: +61 458 850 202 | e: greg.tyrrell@aaus.org.au
w: www.aaus.org.au/
The Australian Association for Unmanned Systems (AAUS) is Australia’s largest industry advocacy
group for unmanned systems. AAUS represents unmanned systems across all three domains: land,
sea and air. It’s objective is to promote a professional, safe and commercially viable unmanned
systems industry by focusing on facilitating awareness, integration and collaboration between
industry, academia, government and defence. AAUS offers its members a range of benefits and
services. These include industry advocacy, representation, advice, networking opportunities, business
promotional opportunities, and discounted insurance.
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Greg graduated with an MSc in Dynamic Meteorology from Monash University (Melbourne) in 1995.
He started with Aerosonde in 1995 as part of the foundation team initially as Principal Meteorologist /
Mission Specialist. He worked in Aerosonde as Project Manager of R&D and Operations Manager
over the next 7 years as the company developed its innovative unmanned aerial system. In 1998, the
organisation flew an Aerosonde across the Atlantic Ocean (duration > 26 hrs, range > 3200 km).
Intensely involved with flight operations of the Aerosonde UAS, Greg is a CASA certified UAV
operator and served as Aerosonde’s Chief Pilot between 2002 and 2006. He has been involved in
over 5000 flight hours of UAS operations throughout the World. He has been part of operational
deployments with the Australian Defence Force (Solomon Islands 2003), NASA (US 2000-2007) and
NSF (Alaska 1999-2003). In 2004 and 2006, Aerosonde UAVs successfully performed
reconnaissance of a hurricane.
In 2004, Greg became Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Aerosonde and held this
position through to late 2011. During this time, he lead a UAS company of 30-40 staff that developed,
produced and operated the Aerosonde UAS. In 2006, Aerosonde was acquired by AAI Corporation
and in 2007, it became a Textron company. After leaving Aerosonde in 2011, Greg worked as a
consultant in the UAS industry and continued working as an UAS operator. In 2014, he became
Executive Director of the Australian Association for Unmanned Systems.
7.
Mr Mark Xavier (V-TOL)
Mr Mark Xavier
Managing Director & Chief UAV Controller, V-TOL Aerospace Pty Limited
w: www.v-tol.com/
Director and Chief Flying Instructor
Australian Unmanned Systems Academy (AUSA)
w: www.ausacademy.org
Unit 18 Rocklea Junction Business Park
1645 Ipswich Road
Rocklea QLD 4106, Australia
p: +61 7 3275 2811 | m: +61 413 746 659 | e: markxavier@v-tol.com
Mark is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, the University of NSW, the Australian
School of Military Intelligence and the University of Queensland. Mark’s 13 year military career
included airborne and military intelligence operations. He was first introduced to unmanned aircraft
vehicle (UAV) technology while serving in the ADF in 1990.
Mark is a founding Director of V-TOL Aerospace Pty Ltd and the Australian Unmanned Systems
Academy Pty Ltd. Both are Queensland-based organizations established in 2004 and 2009
respectively, to develop and supply Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) technology, products and
services into the emerging civilian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) commercial sector.
Both organizations work closely with leading Australian research organizations, CASA, its government
and commercial customers with the aim of making this technology an economic value-adding
multiplier in all ‘core’ Australian and global industries.
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5.2.
8.
Civil Service Sector
Assistant Commissioner Alistair Dawson (Queensland Police)
Assistant Commissioner Alistair Dawson, APM
Operations Support Command
Queensland Police
Brisbane QLD, Australia
p: +61 7 3364 4476 | e: Dawson.AlistairE@police.qld.gov.au
Alistair served in the Metropolitan Police, London, England prior to immigrating to Australia in 1981.
In February 1982 he joined the Queensland Police Service and has served in General Duties, Traffic
Branch, and Water Police. He has also served as the Sergeant, State Search and Rescue (SAR)
Coordinator and Training Officer, coordinating the development of the first Diploma of SAR
Coordination Course in Australia and providing lecture support to the National Police Search and
Rescue Course, as both the Deputy and Director of Studies.
In 2000 he was promoted to Inspector at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
(CHOGM) Planning Unit, later serving in Toowoomba and the Gold Coast. From 2003-2010 he was
the Superintendent, Logan Police District in the South Eastern Police Region, and was awarded the
Australian Police Medal (APM) in the 2010 Australia Day Honours List. In November 2010 Alistair was
promoted to Chief Superintendent, Command Coordinator, Operations Support Command, having
responsibility for a wide variety of highly specialised policing functions. This also included the role as
co-chair of the State Disaster Coordination Group (SDCG) coordinating the whole of government
response to the disaster events across the state between December 2010 and February 2011 caused
by Cyclones Tasha, Anthony and Yasi (Category 5 Cyclone), as well as the Australia Day disasters of
2012, 2013 and 2014. In September 2012, he was seconded to the QPS G20 Group as the Program
Director for the 2014 G20 preparations for the Finance Ministers’ Meeting (Cairns) and the Leader’s
Summit (Brisbane).
In June 2013, Alistair was promoted to Assistant Commissioner, Operations Support Command and is
currently the Executive Officer to the State Disaster Management Group. He is Member of the
Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD), has a Graduate Diploma of Executive Leadership
(Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM/Charles Sturt University), a Graduate Certificate in
Applied Management (AIPM/Charles Sturt University), a Graduate Diploma of Public Administration
(Policing) (Charles Sturt University) and a Diploma of Public Safety – Police Search and Rescue
Coordination (Queensland Police Service). He is also a graduate of the International Police
Management Program (Northern Territory Police/Northern Territory University) and the Leadership in
Counter Terrorism (LinCT) Program.
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5.3.
9.
Civil Society
Dr Roger Clarke (XAMAX)
Dr Roger Clarke
Principal, XAMAX Consultancy Pty Limited
Chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation (APF)
Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of NSW
Visiting Professor in Computer Science, Australian National University
78 Sidaway Street, Chapman, ACT 2611, Australia
p: +61 2 6288 6916 | e: Roger.Clarke@xamax.com.au
Roger is a consultant and researcher on strategic and policy aspects of advanced information
technologies, based in Canberra, Australia. He holds degrees in Information Systems from University
of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, and a doctorate in data surveillance from the Australian
National University (ANU). He spent a decade as a senior academic, and continues to publish and
supervise doctoral candidates as a Visiting Professor in Computer Science at ANU and in Law at
UNSW. Roger is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (FACS), and of the international
Association for Information Systems (FAIS). He has spent the last 8 years as Chair of the Australian
Privacy Foundation (APF), and is Secretary of the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU).
10.
Mr Tim Cousins (Tim Cousins & Associates)
Mr Tim Cousins CFEI MEI
Director, Tim Cousins & Associates Pty Limited
Engineering Systems Failure Analyst and Disaster Recovery Consultants
Level 8, 350 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
p: +61 3 8605 4805 | m: +61 419 195 918 | e: tim.cousins@timcousins.com.au
Tim is an engineering failure analysts with 24 years of hands-on field experience consulting to
Insurance companies as well as businesses affected by electrical / electronic engineering losses both
here, the United States and in South East Asia. He is a NAFI Certified Fire and Explosion
Investigator. His work largely involves determining the cause, as well as the nature and extent of
damage to data centres, power stations, industrial machinery and robotics including drones. He is a
member of the Attorney Generals Department Resilience Expert Advisory Group (REAG) and worked
as an Expert Advisor to the Sydney Water Climate Change Adaptation Program.
5.4.
11.
Defence Sector
Dr R.E. Burnett (US Department of Defense)
Dr R.E. Burnett
Professor, Department of International Security Studies
College of International Security Affairs
National Defense University
Washington, DC/Ft. Bragg, NC
p: +1 540-435-0770 | e: Robert.Burnett.civ@gc.ndu.edu
R.E. is an analyst and theoretician in the field of emerging technologies. He has conducted research
and analysis for the National Intelligence Council, the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Joint Military
Intelligence College, and the Homeland Security and National Defense Education Consortium and
has recently been a featured speaker and researcher to the National Intelligence Council’s Science
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and Technology Committee.
His work on the evolution of human-machine symbiosis for advanced situational awareness in
intelligence and combat spaces was featured in the IEEE Technology & Society Magazine and
Homeland Security Review in 2013. He is currently writing a chapter on ubiquitous information
networks and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for a new book entitled Remote Control, to be
published in 2015.
R.E. was previously professor at Virginia Military Institute (2005-2013), where he was also Director of
the Science and National Security Program in Washington, DC. He was also Director of the VMINational Defense University of Hungary International Exchange Seminar in Budapest, in which he has
taught for the last seven summers. In 2003, at VMI, he held the Moody-Northen Endowned Chair in
Economics and was also the 2007 & 2009 winner of the Hinman Award for Excellence in Research.
From 2000 to 2005, he was Associate Professor of Integrated Science & Technology at James
Madison University, where he was awarded the Most Captivating Lecturer Award in 2005. From 1993
to 2000 he was Assistant Director and Assistant Professor of the Patterson School of Diplomacy &
International Commerce.
12.
GPCAPT Alan Lawrence (Australian Defence Force)
GPCAPT Alan Lawrence, RAAF
Deputy Director General - Aerospace Development
Capability Development Group
Department of Defence
R3-1-087, Russell Offices ACT 2600 Australia
p: +61 2 6265 2548 | m: +61 405 506 217 | e: alan.lawrence@defence.gov.au
Alan joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1987 as a direct entry Navigator after completing
a Bachelor of Science (Physics) degree in Adelaide. Upon graduation from Navigator course in 1988,
he was posted to 292 Squadron for the P-3C basic navigator conversion course, and on completion to
11 Squadron in December 1988.
At the end of his operational tour on 11 SQN in 1992, Alan was posted to 292 Squadron, where he
became the Senior Navigation Training Officer. In 1995, he was selected as the exchange officer on
staff with the United States Navy’s Patrol Squadron Thirty, located in Jacksonville, Florida. During his
tour, he served in the positions of Navigator Standards Officer and Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer for
the P-3C Atlantic Fleet’s Tactical Training Team.
Alan returned to Australia on promotion to Squadron Leader in 1998, to the position of B Flight
Commander at 292 SQN. He was then selected to attend the inaugural Australian Command and
Staff Course (ACSC) at Weston Creek in 2001, which prepared him well for his next posting as Staff
Officer to Director-General Career Management Policy within the Australian Defence Headquarters.
In January 2003 Alan was posted for a second overseas exchange position with the United States
Navy, reporting to the Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet, where he
served as Readiness Officer and Assistant Training Officer for two years. During this time, he worked
with Patrol Squadron Nine in the Middle East. Alan was promoted to Wing Commander upon return to
Australia in 2005, and was posted to the Directing Staff of the Australian Defence Command and Staff
College, where he was the lead Air Force Directing Staff Member, the Directing Staff Coordinator and
Director of Studies-Air.
Alan took over as Commanding Officer of No 292 Squadron in April 2008. During his command tour,
he served: in the Middle East from March to August 2009 as the inaugural Executive Officer of the Air
Component (JTF633.2); supported Operation RESOLUTE numerous times; and, performed as
Deputy Commander, Task Group 172.1, the multinational Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance
Aircraft (MPRA) Group, for Exercise RIMPAC 2010.
In August 2010, Alan was appointed the Strategic Reform Program Officer for RAAF Edinburgh-based
Surveillance and Response Group organisations (AP-3C and Over-The-Horizon-Radar - OTHR).
Developing the reform strategy, program and project methodology, communications plans and
reporting requirements for AP-3C and OTHR, Alan assisted the leadership team in reducing the cost
of ownership to both these systems, without compromising safety, airworthiness or capability.
Alan was promoted to Group Captain in August 2012, and transitioned into the Director, Surveillance
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and Response position within Capability Development Group. His projects include AIR 7000 (the AP3C Orion replacement project), AIR 5077 (AEWC Wedgetail capability assurance program), among
others. He has been Deputy Director General - Aerospace Development Branch, since April 2014.
13.
Dr Simon Ng (Defence Science Institute)
Associate Professor Simon Ng
Associate Director, Defence Science Institute (DSI)
Level 4, 204 Lygon Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia
p: +61 3 9035 6313 | m: +61 416 103 319 | e: simon.ng@unimelb.edu.au
w: www.defencescienceinstitute.com/
Simon is currently seconded from the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) to the
Defence Science Institute as Associate Director.
He has degrees in Materials Engineering and Materials Science from Monash University and a PhD in
conducting polymers, also from Monash University. Prior to his appointment to the Defence Science
Institute, Simon was Head of Joint Systems Research in the Joint and Operational Analysis Division
at DSTO. In this role he led the group providing systems modelling and design expertise to support
the capability lifecycle in Defence.
Simon’s personal research has focused on the modelling of enterprise systems within Defence,
complementing his work over the past ten years supporting the development of information and
organisational architectures in the joint and space operations domains. He is the Australian National
Lead on the Systems Engineering for Defence Modernisation technical panel within the Technical
Cooperation Programme (TTCP).
14.
Dr Jason Scholz (Defence Science & Technology Organisation)
Dr Jason Scholz
Research Leader Decision Sciences
Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO)
Department of Defence
Edinburgh, South Australia 5111, Australia
p: +61 8 7389 5972 | m: +61 411 747858 | e:
Jason.scholz@dsto.defence.gov.au
Jason leads research for fifty science and technology staff in cognitive psychology, decision aids,
decision automation, and the integration of human and machine decision-making. He also leads an
International Defence panel on Autonomy.
Through scientific leadership, he provides scientific innovation, technology prototypes, risk
assessments and advice on new and in-service C2 capabilities to the Department of Defence and
National Security organizations to improve C2 for operational and strategic headquarters, national
security, joint logistics and preparedness areas. Significant achievements of the Decision Sciences
Branch include operational transition of the Vital Planning and Analysis (VIPA) system, development
of a wide range of decision aids to enhance situation awareness and planning, and psychological
instruments for measuring individual cognitive styles in the formative education of Commanders.
Jason has over fifty refereed publications and several patents, covering research in
telecommunications, digital signal processing, artificial intelligence and human decision making. He is
passionate about the potential for machine learning based on neuroscience insight, human cognitive
enhancement, anti-fragile organizations and is driven to achieve the transition of innovative, validated
and verified technology and techniques into Defence.
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5.5.
15.
Hobby and Model Aircraft Sector
Mr Kevin Dodd (Model Aeronautical Association of Australia)
Mr Kevin Dodd
Secretary, Model Aeronautical Association of Australia (MAAA)
16 Illidge Road, Victoria Point QLD 4165, Australia
p: +61 7 3207 9067 | m: +61 411 645 637 | e: secretary@maaa.asn.au
w: http://www.maaa.asn.au/
The MAAA is the only national body in Australia that is recognised by CASA as a Recreational
Aviation Administrative Organisation and as such works closely with CASA on all issues involving
model aircraft. Because of this, it brings clubs the freedom to carry out model displays, certification of
models up to 150kg and night flying, without the cost of having to apply to CASA for permits. It is able
to negotiate on behalf of clubs in area and airspace issues as well as being in a position to submit
recommendations on changes to regulations when safety issues arise.
Kevin has an extensive aviation background with operations mainly in Papua New Guinea. As MAAA
Secretary, Kevin is employed to run the MAAA on a daily basis. In addition to dealing with
membership & club issues, he coordinates the organisation’s activities with industries and
Government departments. These include insurance brokers, lawyers, marketing consultants, the
Australian Sports Commission and CASA.
Kevin is also the Technical Secretary for the FAI Commission for International Aero Modelling (CIAM).
CIAM meets twice a year in Lausanne, Switzerland and through CIAM, information is gained on future
technology in aero-modelling from around the world.
5.6.
16.
Insurance Sector
Mr Doug Williamson (Corporate Marsh)
Mr Doug Williamson
Managing Principal and National Manager, Aviation and Aerospace Practice,
Australia / Pacific Corporate Marsh Pty Ltd
Riverside Plaza, Brisbane QLD, Australia
p: +61 7 3115 4579 | m: +61 404 045 492
e: Douglas.B.Williamson@marsh.com
Doug has 40 years total Insurance experience. He joined Marsh, Brisbane in 1993 and transferred to
Kila Marsh, PNG in 1995. His Insurance experience includes management and broking of
Commercial, Mining/Resource (including Lihir Gold Mine, construction and operational phase) plus
Major Aviation Insurance Programs. He has specialised in Aviation Insurance for the past 15 years
working with Australian & Pacific business, including placements within the Australian, SE Asian, UK
& EU markets.
Doug served as Queensland Chairman of National Insurance Brokers Association of Australia (NIBA)
for 8 years and Director on the Board for one 1 year. He is a Member of The Regional Aviation
Association of Australia; The Association of South Pacific Airlines; Australian Airports Association and
Aviation Insurance Law Association.
His specific skills and experience include Australian and Pacific airlines; regional aviation operations;
and major airports, with particular emphasis in Australia/PNG/Pacific/New Zealand regions. He holds
a Private Pilot’s Licence.
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5.7.
17.
Legal Sector
Professor Tim McCormack (University of Melbourne)
Professor Tim McCormack
Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School and the Special Adviser on
International Humanitarian Law to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal
Court in The Hague
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
p: +61 3 8344 6595 | e: t.mccormack@unimelb.edu.au
w: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/melbourne-law-school/community/ourstaff/staff-profile/username/Tim%20McCormack
Tim is a Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School and the Special Adviser on International
Humanitarian Law to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He also acts as
expert consultant on the Law of Armed Conflict to the ADF Director of Military Prosecutions. Tim leads
the Australian Research Council funded Program on the Regulation of Emerging Military
Technologies at the Melbourne Law School and, with his research team, has been engaged to
provide research support to the Australian Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO).
In June 2011 he was appointed by the Government of Israel as one of two international observers for
Phase 2 of the Turkel Commission of Enquiry into Israel's processes for investigation of alleged
violations of International Humanitarian Law in Jerusalem. From 2002-2006 he acted as amicus
curiae on international law matters to the judges of Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for the trial of Slobodan Miloševic. From 2003-2007
he provided expert International Humanitarian Law advice to Major Mori for the defence of David
Hicks.
Tim is a member of the international advisory boards of a number of academic institutions in the US,
Israel, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, and is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the
University of Tasmania Law School in Hobart. He was the Foundation Australian Red Cross Professor
of International Humanitarian Law (1996-2010) at the Melbourne Law School and also the Foundation
Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law (2001-2010) – a collaborative initiative (established
2001) between the Melbourne Law School and The Australian Defence Force Legal Service.
18.
Professor Andrew Goldsmith (Flinders University)
Professor Andrew Goldsmith
Strategic Professor of Criminology
Flinders Law School, Flinders University
Sturt Road, Bedford Park, South Australia 5042
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
p: +61 8 8201 3114 | e: andrew.goldsmith@flinders.edu.au
w: http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrew.goldsmith
Trained originally as a lawyer, Andrew spent nearly three years in legal practice before undertaking
postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom and Canada. That further study was in the fields of law,
criminology and social theory. From teaching criminal law and criminology at Warwick University he
moved to Brunel University, London, and then to Monash University. He joined Flinders University in
1997 as Foundation Professor of Legal Studies. From 2009-2012 he held the position of Executive
Director, Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, University of Wollongong. He re-joined Flinders
in late 2012 to take up his current position.
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19.
Dr Adam Molnar (Deakin University)
Dr Adam Molnar
Lecturer, Department of Criminology
Deakin University, VIC Australia
p: +61 3 9244 3793 | e: adam.molnar@deakin.edu.au
Principal, Block G Privacy and Security Consulting
e: molnar@blockg.ca
w: http://www.blockg.ca/watching-below-dimensions-of-surveillance-by-uavsin-canada-2/
Adam specializes in practices of policing and national security as they relate to technology,
surveillance, and issues of privacy. He recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen’s
University, Canada, in the Surveillance Studies Centre and is conducting research on the surveillance
and privacy implications of the domestic application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Australia
and Canada. In addition, he continues to research and publish on data protection and privacy, as well
as on integration in policing and national security initiatives, in particular in the areas of public-order
policing, cross-border lawful access arrangements, and civil-police military partnerships.
5.8.
20.
Regulatory Sector
Mr John Thynne (Civil Aviation Safety Authority)
Mr. John Thynne
Manager, Systems Safety Office
Office of the Director of Aviation Safety
Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)
Brisbane QLD, Australia
p: +61 7 3144 7484 | m: 0413 251 349 | e: John.Thynne@casa.gov.au
w: http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_100374
A former helicopter pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force, John saw war serve in Vietnam and peace
keeping duties in the Sinai Peninsula Egypt. After completing RAAF Staff College in 1992, he served
in Air Force Flying Safety for three years, for which he was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross.
His next posting was an exchange with the United States Air Force at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.
On return to Australia, he contributed to the international planning team for intervention in East Timor.
John left the permanent Air Force in 2000, but provided continuous Reserve service for a further eight
years, including a stint as a consultant with Jacobs Sverdrup working on Command and Control
systems. This led him into Information management and he served as a civilian in the Department of
Defence in that field for several years before moving to CASA in 2010. In 2012 he took up his current
position, where he is responsible for management of CASA’s surveillance framework, safety analysis,
interaction with the Australian Transportation Safety Board, and since December 2013, the Remotely
Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) certificate management team.
About CASA and RPAs
Australia was the first country in the world to regulate remotely piloted aircraft with the first operational
regulation for unmanned aircraft in 2002 (Civil Aviation Safety Regulation [CASR] Part 101 is this
regulation.) CASA is reviewing CASR Part 101, and will modernise it into CASR Part 102. CASA
expects to have this completed by 2016.
Phase 1 involves amendments to CASR Part 101 and the development of a notice of proposed rulemaking – 1309OS – Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Terminology and Weight Categorisation of
Remotely Piloted Aircraft. This will also formalise the name change to RPA and RPAS.
There will also be a suite of advisory circulars (ACs) to provide guidance to industry, including:
 AC101-1 – General
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AC101-4 – Training and Licensing
AC101-5 – Operations
AC101-6 – Manufacturing and Initial Airworthiness
AC101-7 – Maintenance and Continuing Airworthiness
AC101-8 – Safety Management/Human Performance
AC101-9 – Applying for an Operators Certificate
AC101-10 – Operations in Controlled Airspace
Phase 2 will be a complete re-write of the regulation resulting in a new CASR Part 102 for RPAS.
Privacy concerns and CASA's role
The list of advisory circular topics does NOT include the effect of RPA on privacy. Privacy and RPA is
a real issue, but as the aviation safety regulator, CASA's task is restricted to aviation safety. However,
CASA recommends those applying for an unmanned operators certificate (UOC), that they make
themselves familiar with privacy matters and how this affects their use of an RPA. The UOC
application process includes a reading list about privacy matters.
The principal area of the Australian Government concerned with privacy is the Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner: www.oaic.gov.au.
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6. Invited Guests and Observers
The following people will be attending the workshop as invited guests of the Committee or invited
observers.
1. Dr Greg Adamson (2015 President-elect, IEEE SSIT) – Invited Guest
Dr Greg Adamson
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne School of Engineering
Melbourne VIC, Australia
m: +61 423 783 527 | e: g.adamson@ieee.org
Greg is the 2015 President-elect of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT),
and a keynote speaker on Technology and Society at the 2015 World Engineering Conference and
st
Convention in Kyoto. He recently chaired the IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21 Century,
in Boston. He has presented and published extensively on the role of technologists in society, and is a
Principal Fellow in the University of Melbourne Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
He previously managed the business communications network at AirServices Australia.
2. Ash Ravikumar (The University of Melbourne) – Invited Observer
Mr Ash Ravikumar
Research Commercialisation Manager
Melbourne School of Engineering
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
p: +61 3 8344 1292 | e: ashwin.ravikumar@unimelb.edu.au
Ash is the Research Commercialisation Manager with the Melbourne School of Engineering. He
graduated with a MS in Electrical Engineering from University of South Florida (USF). He has worked
as a IP licensing manager at USF, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Adelaide and
Honeywell Inc.
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7. Invited, but unable to attend
The following people were invited to participate in the workshop, but unfortunately are unable to
attend due to other commitments.
7.1.
Civil Service Sector
1. Dr John Appleby (US Department of Homeland Security)
Dr John Appleby
Head of UAV Research, DHS Advanced Research Projects Agency
Department of Homeland Security
Washington D.C. USA
John joined DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate in 2008 to lead next-generation technology
transfer programs concerning unmanned aircraft and satellite systems needed to achieve Homeland
Security missions. He came to DHS following four years as vice president of science applications at
Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation in Manassas, Va., where he directed unmanned aerial systems
work for NASA, NOAA, other civilian government agencies, for commercial partners, and for national
defense and security agencies (Air Force; Army; other).
2. Mr Jonathan Cantor (US Department of Homeland Security)
Mr. Jonathan Cantor
Deputy Chief Privacy Officer
Privacy Office
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington D.C, USA
p: +1 (202) 343-1717 | d: +1 (202) 343-1673 | e: Monica.Carter-Johnso@hq.dhs.gov
Note: Monica Carter-Johnson, Executive Administrative Specialist
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employ
several types of aircraft including manned helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, and Unmanned Aircraft
Systems (UAS) for border surveillance and law enforcement purposes. These aircraft are equipped
with video, radar, and/or other sensor technologies to assist CBP in patrolling the border, conducting
surveillance as part of a law enforcement investigation or tactical operation, or gathering raw data that
may assist in disaster relief or responses to other emergencies. Video, images, and sensor data
collected through these Aircraft Systems alone cannot be used to identify a person, but they may later
be associated with a person as part of a law enforcement investigation or encounter with CBP officers
or agents. DHS/CBP is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment to evaluate the privacy impact of
these technologies on persons.
In early 2013, the Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties also
created a working group to "clarify any misunderstandings that exist" about DHS's unmanned aircraft
program, as well as make an effort to "mitigate and address any outstanding" privacy concerns.
3. Mr Tony Pearce (Department of Justice, Victoria)
Mr. Tony Pearce
Inspector-General for Emergency Management
Department of Justice, State Government of Victoria
Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
p: +61 3 8684 7933 | m: +61 418546702 | e: tony.c.pearce@justice.vic.gov.au
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Tony was appointed Victoria’s first Inspector General for Emergency Management in August 2014.
For more than thirty years he has worked in intelligence, security and emergency/crisis management
and in that time has held a number of senior roles in both state and federal government including four
years in the role of Director General - Emergency Management Australia.
He was founding President and Patron of the Oceania Council of the International Association of
Emergency Managers (IAEM), Global Board member of the IAEM and former Editor in Chief of the
Australian Journal of Emergency Management. He is a current Advisory Board Member to the
Research Network for a Secure Australia, and Advisory Board Member to the Monash University
Disaster Resilience Initiative.
4. Mr Adam Sims (Federal Opposition, Shadow Ministry for Defence)
Mr Adam Sims
Senior Advisor to Shadow Minister for Defence (Sen S. Conroy).
m: +61 408 258 457 | e: Adam.Sims@aph.gov.au
Adam is unable to attend the Workshop as it coincides with Federal Parliament sitting sessions. In
extending his apologies, he commented: “I think the intersection of public policy/privacy/defence
capability and drones is an issue that is now upon us, despite a lack of knowledge about it in the
community. The topic is certainly something that should be discussed more widely. I wish you all the
best for the conference – the agenda looks great.”
7.2.
Regulatory Sector
5. Mr Jim Williams (US Federal Aviation Authority)
Mr. Jim Williams
Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Office.
Federal Aviation Authority
800 Independence Avenue, SW. Washington, DC
p: +1 (202) 267-8306 | e: james.h.williams@faa.gov
Jim is the Manager of the FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Office. This office
functions as the single agency focal point for all UAS-related activities and is uniquely positioned to
develop and coordinate solutions to UAS challenges across the FAA and with external organizations.
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8. Committee
1. Mr Philip Hall (IEEE SSIT, IEEE-USA CTAP and University of Western
Australia)
Mr. Philip Hall
Chair, The Eighth Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security:
Remotely Piloted Airborne Vehicles and Related Technologies
Chair, IEEE SSIT Australia and SSIT Member, IEEE-USA CTAP
Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia (UWA
Crawley WA 6009, Australia
p: +61 3 9015 9691 | m: +61 417 595 501 | e: philip.hall@ieee.org
Philip is a strategic business and project management consultant providing services to major
companies, organisations and government agencies. In August 2013 he co-chaired a high-level
workshop sponsored by the Australian Government to consider the role of new technologies in
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Securing Australia’s Future, and in November 2013 he participated in the 2 World Emerging
Industries Summit (WEIS 2013) in China as a guest of the Asia-Pacific CEO Association (APCEO)
and the Wuhan Municipal Government. He is also an international adviser on practical strategies for
emergency management and climate change adaptation and has consulted to the Australian
Government, the United Nations, and participated on expert panels convened by the UNESCO,
UNFCCC and the IPCC.
Philip is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering within the
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at The University of Western Australia, and
holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Aeronautical) degree and a Master of Engineering degree from the
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). He is a Fellow of both the Australian Institute of
Management (FAIM) and Engineers Australia (FIEAust), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical
& Electronic Engineers (SMIEEE), and a Member of both the International Water Association (MIWA)
and International Association of Emergency Managers (MIAEM).
In IEEE he is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Society of Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) and
current Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Program, Chair of IEEE SSIT Australia and Chair of the
IEEE SSIT Chapters Committee and SSIT Chapters Coordinator. He is also the SSIT representative
on IEEE-USA's Committee on Transportation and Aerospace Policy (CTAP), where he participates in
the full range of committee activities, including development and approval of position statements and
policy letters to the US Administration and Congress.
A former Aeronautical Engineering Officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Philip is a graduate of
the Royal Navy Engineering College (UK) and the Australian Defence College. His Defence
experience includes jet aircraft operations at sea, major capability asset procurement and
infrastructure construction projects, and engineering policy development in Defence Headquarters. He
currently holds the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the RAN Active Reserve.
2. Professor Robin Evans (The University of Melbourne)
Laureate Professor Robin J. Evans
Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Director
of the Defence Science Institute
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
p: TBA | m: TBA | e: robinje@unimelb.edu.au
After completing a BE degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1969, he
worked as a radar systems engineering officer with the Royal Australian Air Force. He completed a
PhD in 1975 at the University of Newcastle followed by postdoctoral studies at the Laboratory for
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Information and Decision Systems, MIT, USA and the Control and Management Department,
Cambridge University, UK.
In 1977 he took up an academic position at the University of Newcastle, where he was Head of the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1986-1991, and Co-Director of the ARC
Centre on Industrial Control Systems between 1988-1991.
In 1992 he moved to the University of Melbourne, where he was Head of the Department of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering until 1996. He was Research Leader for the Cooperative Centre for
Sensor Signal and Information Processing until 2000 and Director of the Centre for Networked
Decision Systems until 2004. He was Director of the Victoria Research Laboratory of National ICT
Australia from 2004-2012. He served as Executive Dean of Engineering during 2007. He is currently
Head of the Department of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Director of
the Defence Science Institute.
He has worked extensively with industry in Australia and overseas over the past 40 years especially
in the areas of industrial control and electronics and civil and military radar systems. He was Director
of Technology for TUNRA Industrial Electronics from 1983-1992.
He has also served on many national and international committees including a number of
Government and Academy committees. He was a member of the Council of the International
Federation for Automatic Control from 2002-2008. He was a Director of Hearing CRC since 20072014.
Rob’s research has ranged across many areas including theory and applications in industrial control,
radar systems, signal processing and telecommunications He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy
of Science (FAA), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
(FTSE), a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, USA (FIEEE) and Fellow of
the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust).
3. Dr Nicholas Thomson (Carlton Connect Initiative)
Dr Nicholas Thomson
Research and Partnerships
Carlton Connect Initiative
The University of Melbourne
Level 5, Arts West Building
Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia
p: TBA | m: +61 409 690 256 | e: nicholast@unimelb.edu.au
w: www.carltonconnect.com.au
Nick has a background in the intersection of security and health having spent 12 years in South East
Asia as the Field Director for Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. His primary academic interest is
in the resolution of conflict between the security sector and human rights groups. He has joint
appointments at the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and the Johns
Hopkins School of Population Health. Nick is also the Chief of Operations for the Carlton Connect
Conference and represents Carlton Connect on the organising committee for the Eighth Workshop on
the Social Implications of National Security: Remotely Piloted Airborne Vehicles and Related
Technologies.
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4. Dr Lyria Bennett Moses (The University of New South Wales)
Dr Lyria Bennett Moses
Vice Chair, IEEE SSIT Australia Chapter
Senior Lecturer, Australia Law
The University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
p: +61 2 9385 2254 | m: +61 434 033 799 | e: lyria@unsw.edu.au
Lyria's research explores issues around the relationship between technology and law, including the
types of legal issues that arise as technology changes, how these issues are addressed in Australia
and other jurisdictions, the application of standard legal categories such as property in new sociotechnical contexts, the use of technologically-specific and sui generis legal rules, and the problems of
treating “technology” as an object of regulation. Her current projects in this field include a comparison
of “technology assessment” and “law reform” as means for formulating legal and policy responses to
technological change and an exploration of the legal issues arising in the context of Big Data. She has
also written on legal issues around drones, excised human tissue, nanotechnology and online content
regulation.
5. Dr Katina Michael (The University of Wollongong)
Dr Katina Michael
Associate Professor and Associate Dean – International
School of Information Systems and Technology
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
p: +61 2 4221 3937 | m: +61431201172 | e: katina@uow.edu.au
Katina is an associate professor in the School of Information Systems and Technology at the
University of Wollongong. She presently holds the position of Associate Dean – International, in the
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences. Katina is also the IEEE Technology and Society
Magazine Editor-in-Chief and associate editor of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. Since
2008 she has been a board member of the Australian Privacy Foundation, and presently serves as
Vice-Chair.
Katina researches on the socio-ethical implications of emerging technologies. She has written and
edited six books, guest edited numerous special issue journals on themes related to radio-frequency
identification (RFID) tags, supply chain management, location-based services, innovation and
surveillance/uberveillance. In 2013 she held a drones forum in Canada that was well-represented by
major stakeholders.
Katina conceived and proposed the Social Implications of National Security workshop in 2005 under
the Human Factors series for the Australian Research Network for a Secure Australia. She and fellow
collaborator MG Michael have chaired and edited the proceedings of the national workshop since its
inception under the ARC Centre of Excellence.
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9. Sponsors
9.1.
IEEE SSIT Australia Chapter
The Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is concerned with how technology
impacts the world, and with how the application of technology can improve the
world.
The Society focuses on issues such as:
 humanitarian engineering;
 environmental issues, including climate change, green technologies, and sustainable design;
 privacy and security;
 other economic, health, and safety implications of technology;
 engineering ethics and professional responsibility;
 engineering education, including k-12 and engineering education in social implications of
technology;
 history of technology;
 public policy related to engineering, technology and science;
 health and healthcare technologies and impact;
 reliable energy and social issues related to energy, and
 social issues of information technology and telecommunications.
Established in 2006, the SSIT Australia Chapter is a joint chapter with the IEEE Region 10 Sections of
Victoria (VIC), Australian Capital Territory (ACT), New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD),
South Australia (SA), and Western Australia (WA).
For more information, please see: http://ieeessit.org/
9.2.
ACOLA Securing Australia’s Future (SAF05)
Securing Australia’s Future (SAF) is a three‐year research program funded by
the Australian Research Council (ARC) and conducted by the four Learned
Academies through the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA)
for the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council
(PMSEIC), through the Office of the Chief Scientist.Securing Australia’s Future delivers researchbased evidence and findings to support policy development in areas of importance to Australia’s
future.
Project 5 - New technologies and their role in our security, culture, democratic, social and
economic systems.
SAF05 will examine the risks and opportunities of a broad range of technologies, and evaluate their
transformative implications for Australia’s society, democracy, environment, security and economy. It
will address questions including, but not limited to the following:
1. What are the key science and technology developments currently affecting Australia’s
security, cultural, democratic, social and economic systems (SCDSES);
2. What are the potential impacts of new and emerging technologies on our SCDSES?
3. What are the key determinants (now, and the foreseeable future) of industry’s uptake of new
technologies and to what extent are these capable of influence by government policy?
4. To what extent can new developments in science and technology, and their economic and
societal impact, be anticipated? How should technological uncertainty and risk be assessed
and communicated?
5. What are the opportunities, barriers and determining factors for new or different uses of
modern information and communication technologies broadly across Australia’s SCDSES?
6. How should these questions be considered by Government in an ongoing fashion in the
future?
For more information, please see: http://www.acola.org.au/index.php/projects/securing-australia-sfuture/project-5
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9.3.
Carlton Connect Initiative, 2014 Conference
The Carlton Connect Initiative is an ambitious strategy to unite talented
people who share a desire to tackle some of our biggest sustainability and
social resilience challenges and a passion for designing new ideas and
technologies to help secure Australia’s prosperity. For more information see:
http://www.carltonconnect.com.au/
For information on the Carlton Connect Conference 2014 (#14CCC), please
see Annex A and http://www.carltonconnect.com.au/news-events/conference/
9.4.
IEEE-USA CTAP
IEEE-USA's Committee on Transportation and Aerospace Policy (CTAP) is an
advisory body to the United States Administration and Congress. It
contributes to the formulation of sound legislation, regulations and policies
affecting aeronautics, astronautics and ground transportation technologies in
the United States. Its scope includes civil aviation, intelligent transportation systems, manned and
unmanned space exploration programs and related communications, infrastructure security, remote
sensing and privacy protection issues.
For more information, please see: http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/ctap/
9.5.
Defence Science Institute (DSI)
The Defence Science Institute was established in 2010 within the University
of Melbourne. It is funded jointly by the State Government of Victoria, the
Commonwealth Government’s Defence Science and Technology
Organisation (DSTO) and the University of Melbourne. It promotes the
application of cross-disciplinary research to solve complex long-term challenges in the defence
sciences and national security sector with spin-off outcomes for other areas including emergency
management and biomedical engineering. It achieves this by actively engaging the Australian science
and technology community, building defence science research networks, and assembling multidisciplinary teams including Defence scientists and engineers and researchers from industry and the
academic community.
The DSI Executive is guided by an advisory board and a research leaders forum, and it overseas five
research programs that align to Defence research priorities. Each program is led by a senior
researcher from DSTO or Academia, who oversees the establishment of DSI research projects. DSI
has supported over 50 research projects and invested more than $1 million dollars into research and
research-related activities within the state of Victoria.
For more information, please see: http://www.defencescienceinstitute.com/
9.6.
The University of Wollongong (UOW)
The University of Wollongong’s Faculty of Engineering and Information
Sciences places a great emphasis on ensuring soft skills are embedded into
their undergraduate Engineering/IS courses. Staff responsible for engineering
ethics education at UOW, have developed educational approaches which
encourage students to consider the complexity of ethical dilemmas they will
encounter in the workforce. UOW engineering and IS students are supported
in developing engineering ethics skills that have a distinct strength toward
intercultural competency. The link between ethics, culture and social
responsibility is well developed with some students even graduating from the
Faculty with a Social Policy major in Information Technology.
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In understanding the tension between Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Drones, students are
provided with contextual case studies from which to form personal judgements about the value of
different technologies. In essence, it is ‘engineering-in-context’ that provides the litmus test for
whether or not the application of a technology will be beneficial to society or is likely to cause harm to
society. The context for deploying a drone for instance, may be informed by social policies, geopolitical processes, and economic systems of state.
Historically, UOW has had researchers who have researched and built first generation UASs for
“search and rescue” as far back as 2001. Students are exposed to a variety of scenarios and case
studies that show how some risks can be curbed by building in technical limitations to an innovation.
In other contexts, regulations and licensing may be entirely absent requiring students to think about
how new guidelines might be established for the safe use of UASs in a public airspace.
As complexity continues to rise with highly interconnected systems of a non-homogeneous nature and
society’s demands for service growth, the focus on non-technical areas of engineering education are
essential. Culture inextricably impacts what is considered to be socially responsible and ethical in
everyday life.
UOW was ranked 186th in the world overall in the 2013 Leiden Ranking. Overall, UOW was rated fifth
in Australasia (and number one in NSW) for research quality. A standout for UOW was the quality of
its Engineering disciplines which, according to the Leiden Ranking, has now seen Natural Sciences
and Engineering move into 81st spot in the world.
For more information, please see: http://www.uow.edu.au/index.html
Acknowledgement – The University of Melbourne
The Workshop Organising Committee acknowledges and extends their
sincere gratitude to the Dean and Faculty of Business & Economics, The
University of Melbourne, for their support for this Workshop and the use of
their facilities.
w: www.fbe.unimelb.edu.au
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Annex A – The Carlton Connect Initiative Conference
(#14CCC)
Carlton Connect Conference 2014:
Challenges, Partnerships,
Solutions
1. Conference Overview
Dates: 30 September – 2 October, 2014
Venue: Sidney Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne
The Carlton Connect Conference is a 2.5 day event featuring keynote lectures, panel discussions,
networking events and a public lecture, organised around the theme of Challenges, Partnerships,
Solutions. The Conference is preceded by several specialised workshops that enable attendees to
take a deep dive into specific thematic areas, so that the main Conference can take a broader
perspective and focus on exploring connections across thematic boundaries.
Background
The Carlton Connect Initiative is an ambitious strategy to unite talented people who share a desire to
tackle some of our biggest sustainability and social resilience challenges and a passion for designing
new ideas and technologies to help secure Australia’s prosperity.
Located in the burgeoning South Carlton Precinct, the Carlton Connect Initiative provides a foundry
and meeting place for its world-class research and development neighbours. The Innovation District is
also home to unparalleled ICT infrastructure and capability.
Presenting a biennial conference, the intention is to bring together industry, government and
academia to highlight and debate approaches to some of society’s most complex resilience and
sustainability challenges and the innovation and solution-driven partnerships required to solve these
issues at the local, national and global levels.
The conference is a strategic enabler for the University of Melbourne’s knowledge transfer and
engagement objectives as articulated in Growing Esteem.
Conference Objectives
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To bring together talented people from government, industry and academia to build stronger
social networks as they discuss shared challenges.
To showcase innovative approaches to tackling problems that are currently being used, and
to use these as a stimulus to explore possible approaches for the future.
To build the profile of the Carlton Connect Initiative and its role as a platform for enabling
collaborative work of this type anchored in South Carlton.
To foster the formation of new coalitions and partnerships that can work together to take
forward the ideas and approaches that are explored at the conference.
Conference Pass
Conference Pass includes catered lunch, morning and afternoon tea and two networking functions.
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2. Program
This program is current as at 24 September, 2014 and will continue to change. Please refer to the
conference website (http://www.carltonconnect.com.au/news-events/conference/) for the latest
program information.
DAY 1 | Tuesday 30 September
3.00pm
Registration Opens, Tea & Coffee
Bringing the Future Closer: Global Challenges, Big Opportunities
The Carlton Connect Conference will convene to consider how partnerships at the nexus of AcademiaIndustry-Government can be leveraged to more effectively respond to challenges of sustainability and
resilience at the local, national and global level through the driving of innovative and technological
solutions that will secure better future for all.
4.00 –
5.00pm

Dr Charlie Day, Project Director, Carlton Connect Initiative
Opening Formalities
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Uncle Colin Hunter Jnr., Wurundjeri Elder of the Kulin Alliance
Welcome to Country
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Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, City of Melbourne
The City of Melbourne and its Role in the C40 in Meeting the Local and Global Challenges,
Knowledge, Innovative, Cutting Edge Response to Sustainability
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Oliver Yates, Chief Executive Officer, Clean Energy Finance Corporation
Innovation in Clean Energy, and Innovation in how Clean Energy is Funded – Harnessing Business
Acumen for Sustainability
Towards Sustainable, Zero Carbon Cities
As the implications of climate change become increasingly apparent, cities need to plan urban systems
that are resilient and sustainable. The opening session explores how three of the most urbanised
nations in the world, Australia, Brazil and Chile, are tackling global climate change through locally-led
projects and policy initiatives.
5.00 –
6:30pm
6.30 –
8.00pm
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Professor Brendan Gleeson
Session Chair
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Krista Milne, Manager Sustainability, City of Melbourne
Getting People to the ‘What if’: Imagining, Planning and Achieving our Zero Carbon City
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Associate Professor Adrian H. Hearn
Connecting the Dots: Resource Economies in the Environmental Age
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Petras Shelton-Zumpoino, Technical Adviser, Instituto Pereira Passos (IPP)
Building Trust in Multi-Sector Networks for Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro
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Professor Paul Burton, Urban Research Program , Griffith University
Sneaky Strategies: Planning for Sustainability an Imaginary Zero Carbon City
Opening Reception (YHM Room, Level 1):
A cocktail reception celebrating partnerships at the nexus of industry, government and academia.
END OF DAY 1
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DAY 2| Wednesday 1 October
8.30am
Registration Opens
Asia Pacific Energy and Resources – Finite Supply, Growing Demand
With its growing population and development, meeting the energy needs of Asia provides a complex
insight into the balance between socioeconomic development and the energy demands that drive
socioeconomic development. This session will examine the current and future energy needs of the
Asian region and explore the challenges in how these needs will be met.
9.00 –
10.20am
10.20 –
11.00am
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Dr John Dore, Senior Regional Water Resources Specialist, Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade, Australian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
Session Chair
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Dr Tira Foran, Social Scientist, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences
Asian Energy Futures: a Multi-Dimensional Approach
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Professor Peter Scales, Deputy Dean, Melbourne School of Engineering
Emerging Issues in Water Resources Management: The Australia-China Water Partnership
Morning Tea
Options for Our Future Energy Mix
Despite its abundant energy resources, Australia is facing significant challenges in providing secure,
affordable and environmentally sustainable energy services. This session will outline the key challenges
and emphasise the potential for partnerships between government, industry and research
organisations to form a coordinated and consistent approach to meeting these challenges.
11.00am –
12.20pm
12.20 –
1.25pm
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Lara Olsen, Head of Strategy, Australian Renewable Energy Agency
Session Chair
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Professor Mike Sandiford-Director, Melbourne Energy Institute
The Problem in the Grid
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Tony Wood, Energy Program Director, Grattan Institute
Creating Low Carbon Energy Supply
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Peter Cowling, General Manager Sales, GE Energy Asia Pacific
Lunch
Risk and Resilience – New Approaches to Disaster Preparedness and Response
Since the start of the century, natural and manmade disasters have resulted in untold human and
societal tragedy. This session will explore the details and inter-linkage between six key priority areas
and explore the intersection between the human and technological advances in driving effective next
generation preparedness and response in disaster management.
1:25 –
2.30pm
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Greg Scott, Inter-Regional Adviser, United Nations Statistics Division
International Keynote Speaker
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Professor Abbas Rajabifard, Head of Department, Centre for Spatial Infrastructures & Land
Administration
Session Chair
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Panel:
o Robert Jensen, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of
Homeland Security, USA
o Associate Professor Alan March, Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Building &
Planning, The University of Melbourne
o Dr. Juerg von Kaenel , Associate Director, IBM Research, Australia
2.30 –
2.40pm
Quick changeover
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The Human Dimensions of Big Data: Risks and Opportunities
In this century of digital information, an increasing amount of data is available to consumers,
governments and industries with increasingly less regulatory structure or censorship. This session will
introduce the ethical dimensions associated with the use and availability of big data sets in world of
pervasive information and communication.
2.40 –
3.30pm
3.30 –
4pm

Dr Margaret Simons, Director, Centre for Advancing Journalism
Session Chair
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Professor Richard Sinnott, Director eResearch, The University of Melbourne
Big Brother with Big Tools
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Associate Professor Jodie McVernon, Head, Modelling and Simulation Unit, Centre for
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
How can our Experience with Medical Ethics Inform our Approach to Big Data?
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Hugh de Kretser, Executive Director, Human Rights Law Centre
Afternoon Tea
Celebration of the First Year Anniversary of the Australian-German College of Climate & Energy
Transitions
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Mr Josef Reichhardt, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Toast
Climate Change: Towards the Conference of Parties in Paris 2015
Outlining the expected approach that countries and their governments, industries and communities
must take to increase emissions reduction ambitions and understand what role Australia and European
countries will play to encourage the rest of the world to start their decarbonisation path and to feed
into the next Conference of Parties in Paris 2015.
4.00 –
5.30pm
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Cathy Alexander, Research Fellow (research translation), and former environmental journalist,
Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
Session Chair
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Associate Professor Malte Meinshausen, Australian-German College of Climate and Energy
Transitions
ZERO – On the Power of a Long-Term Decarbonisation Target
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Kath Rowley, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Climate Change Authority
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Professor Don Henry, Public Policy Fellow – Environmentalism, Melbourne Sustainable Society
Institute
Interview with Ariadne Gorring
Professor Kate Auty will interview Ariadne Gorring to explore the intersection of indigenous
communities, climate change and carbon credits. Ariadne is the Manager of the Kimberley Land
Council’s (KLC) Land and Sea Management Unit, which has facilitated the registration of a number of
carbon farming Initiative projects out of the Kimberley, Western Australia. These initiatives are focused
on fire abatement schemes conducted by Indigenous rangers on native title land, involving cool late
season burns which reduce the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere. The economic
possibilities associated with native title land are far more limited than other freehold title because it
cannot be mortgaged. These carbon farming enterprises represent an important way in which
traditional owners can earn an income from their traditional land, and are a much valued employment
opportunity for young traditional owners keen to work on country.
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Professor Kate Auty, Vice-Chancellors Fellow and Former Victorian Government Commissioner
for Environmental Sustainability
Interview Host
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Ariadne Gorring, Manager, Kimberley Land Council, Western Australia
Indigenous Led Land Resilience: Brokering Carbon Credits with Industry in the Kimberly
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Cissy Gore Birch, Balanggarra IPA Coordinator
END OF DAY 2
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DAY 3 | Thursday 2 October
8.30am
Registration Opens
Making More Food with Less: Removing Supply Chain Impediments and Increasing Food Production
9.00 –
11.00am
11.00 –
11.30am
With world population projected to reach at least 8 billion by 2050 and increasing urbanisation and
wealth of the Asian middle class, demand for high value foods is set to increase. Due to Australia’s
proximity, strong ties and focus on sustainable production we are well placed to meet increasing
demand in Asia and other developing nations. This session will explore the opportunities for
collaborative research to address the challenges facing food production for growing populations.
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Professor Frank Dunshea, The University of Melbourne
Session Chair
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Professor Robert J van Barneveld, Former executive Chairman, Sunpork Pty Ltd
Supply Chain Challenges
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Rob Cumine, Technical Manager Agriculture/Animal welfare, Quality Control, Coles
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Professor Robyn Warner, Faculty of Veterinary and Agriculture Science, The University of
Melbourne
Morning Tea
Designing, Building and Growing Innovation Precincts in a Knowledge City
This session will look at innovation through the lens of geography and place-making. This session will
explore the architecture, design, engineering and the social science considerations that are necessary
when conceptualizing innovative and sustainable precincts that bring the best of industry, government
and academia together for effective innovation and problem solving.
11.30am –
12.45pm
12.45 –
1.45pm
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Rod Glover (Innovation Adviser)
Session Chair
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Robert Moore, Urban Design and docklands Branch, City of Melbourne
Keynote: Public Realm for a Knowledge City
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Peter Steele, Senior Consultant, Sustainability and climate Change, AECOM
Precinct Planning for Innovation
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Brian Donovan, Principal, BVN Donovan Hill
The City is a Project and a Project is a City
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Alexandra Lawlor, Senior Projects manager, Chancellery Projects, The University of Melbourne
Precincts as Catalysers for Innovation: Some Global Reflections
Lunch
Surveying the Technology Frontier, and How Leaders are Taking Advanced Ideas to Market
This session will provide a glimpse over the horizon to examine emerging technologies that are being
developed and the interplay between technological advances and its impact on society and the global
sustainability and security agenda. The session will also explore the role of partnerships in driving and
responding to these technological advances.
1.45 –
3.20pm
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Dr Kate Cornick, Director of Industry Engagement & Innovation, The University of Melbourne
Session Chair
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Bernd Ploderer, Deputy Director, Microsoft Research Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces
A Social Perspective on Natural User Interfaces
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Tim Marshall, External Affairs Director, Alcatel-Lucent Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands
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Professor Peter Taylor, Director, Victorian Life Sciences Computation initiative
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Q&A Fireside Chat
3.35pm –
4.00pm
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Ben Spincer, Director, Technology, Strategy and Innovation, Telstra
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Leonie Walsh, Lead Scientist, State Government of Victoria & President, Australian Industrial
Research Group
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Rohan Workma, Manager, Melbourne Accelerator Program
Afternoon Tea
What have we learned and where are we going next?
This closing session will review the conference and articulate specific next generation lines of research
and collaboration between Industry, Government and academia that have emerged from the
conference and its specialised series of workshops.
4.00 –
5pm

Dr Charlie Day, Project director, Carlton Connect Initiative
Session Chair
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Dr Nicholas Thomson, Convenor & Rapporteur, Carlton Connect Conference
Report back from Satellite Meetings and Workshops
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Panel:
o Professor Jim McCluskey, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), The University of Melbourne
o Shiv Kalyanaraman, IBM
o Robert Johanson, Chair, Carlton Connect Initiative Board
o Councillor Aaron Wood, City of Melbourne
5.00pm
Closing Reception, TSUBU
Hosted by the Carlton Connect Initiative
END OF DAY 3
3. Related Events
Specialised Workshops
A program of invitation-only Specialised Workshops will take place in the days prior to the conference,
focusing on:
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Best Practice in Data Journalism.
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New Approaches to Disaster Management.
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Sustainable Intensification of Food Production, Primary Industries Climate Change Centre.
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Water Knowledge Hubs: Application of the water Blueprint to Asia, Australia-China Joint Water
Research Centre for River Basin Management.
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The Eighth Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security: Remotely Piloted Airborne
Vehicles and Related Technologies.
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Managing the Space Beneath the Ground: Towards a Shared Collaborative Research Agenda for
Sedimentary Basin Research.
Outcomes from these workshops will be fed into the overall conference program.
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Public Event: Managing the Space Beneath
Fracking, Groundwater, CO2 Sequestration, Legal, Regulatory and Political perspectives
Date: Wednesday 1 October 2014, 6:00-7:30pm
Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne
There is a critical need for an integrated approach to understanding and managing sedimentary
basins, as their subsurface resources are crucial to agricultural productivity, energy, water, waste
management (including CO2 Sequestration) and the management of ecosystems. This exciting public
lecture and Q&A will offer an opportunity to question and conduct dialogue with key figures and
stakeholders in sedimentary basins, featuring prominent voices from industry, policy-makers and
academia.
Includes:
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Dr Paul Willis, Director, RiAus
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Dr John White, Executive Director, Ignite Energy Resources
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Brian Wyatt, CEO, National Native Title Council
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Dr Charles Jenkins, CSIRO
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Associate Professor Peta Ashworth, CSIRO
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Dr Sar Bice, Research Fellow in the Centre for public policy, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Rein Herber, Professor Geo-Energy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and exmanaging director of shell exploration (via Skype)
FREE Registration: www.carltonconnect.com.au/sedimentarybasins
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