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Background

Andrew is a qualified Civil Engineer with 20 years experience in the public and private sectors in Australia. For the last 15 years he has held senior management roles across a number of major civil engineering infrastructure projects throughout Australia. Andrew has a thorough understanding of project development, management and construction processes to deliver multi-million dollar projects. Over the past 5 years Andrew has managed a variety of projects in Australia and the UAE.

Andrew has been involved in MBD since its inception in 2006. In his role as Managing Director Andrew has been responsible for transforming MBD into a vertically integrated CO2 to Energy Company. Under Andrew’s direction MBD has pursued a strategy of integration with major CO2 emitters in Australia and Internationally. The Company has a robust business model based on the sale of algae oil and algae meal products.

Andrew has built a strong team that contains considerable depth of technical and financial experience to design, build, own and operate profitable algae based energy projects initially with Australia's 3 largest power stations and then pursue MBD's process on a global scale.

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Partnerships in Action

How can we achieve greater market driven collaborative research outcomes in Australia?

Background

Bruce Grey is Managing Director of the Advanced Manufacturing CRC. Prior to his appointment as Managing Director, Advanced Manufacturing CRC Limited, Bruce Grey was Managing Director of the Bishop Technology Group Limited. Bruce has extensive experience in general management of engineering and manufacturing companies. He has been an Executive Director of two Australian public companies and for 10 years until 2009, was Chairman of a German JV between Bishop and Mercedes-Benz Lenkungen GmbH. He is currently Chairman of the IP and Commercialisation Committee for the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and is also Chairman of the Victorian Government’s Small Technology Industry Uptake Program, Expert Advisory Panel.

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Competitively priced energy underpins Australia's economy from a domestic and export perspective. Contemporary expectations for environmental impacts from Australia's energy producers is driving innovation within the power industry to achieve improved performance from existing operations, and establish the shape of future developments.

Coal will remain an important resource within the energy sector for the foreseeable future. The high carbon content of coal results in high emissions of carbon dioxide, when it is combusted.

The presentation will discuss:

• Significance of Energy to Australia;
• Evolution of the Electricity Industry;
• Recent Innovation Opportunities for coal;
• The strength of collaboration and partnerships;
• Why Government support for Innovation is needed; and
• How Industry is responding to the challenges.

Background

Roland has worked in the Victorian Power industry for over 30 years, commencing as a communications, power engineering & control systems specialist, supporting large scale mining systems.

He is currently accountable for leading the strategic development and pursuit of growth and diversification opportunities to enhance long-term business value for Loy Yang Power, including leadership of:

• Coal, Energy and By-product Development Projects.
• Clean Coal Technology Research, Development and Deployment
• Future Generation Technologies feasibility assessments; and
• Government Engagement on Technology and Resource Development

Prior to leading Loy Yang Power's Business Development activities, Roland managed Loy Yang Power’s the Mining Division Engineering, Maintenance and Technical Support functions.

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Sustainable Healthcare Solutions

GE has been a world leader in healthcare diagnostics since the invention of the X-ray in the late nineteenth century. Now in the 21st century, GE is continuing its global leadership through its investment in technologies and innovation that support a more sustainable healthcare system. One of the influences on GE's current thinking is its 'healthymagination' strategy. This looks at where the company wants to improve healthcare and then imagines how this might come about. Under healthymagination, GE has already invested $2.2bn in 53 technologies that address many of today’s health challenges including helping to increase access to healthcare while improving its quality and lowering its cost.

One way that GE is working to improve clinical delivery and lower healthcare costs is by offering an extended range of products. Through innovative technology, GE is developing smaller versions of larger diagnostic systems including a pocket-size visualisation tool with ultrasound technology and a smaller, more cost-effective MRI system whereby the patient sits in a chair and puts his arm or let into the MRI.

In 2011, GE made a global commitment to accelerate cancer innovation and aims to better help clinicians and the pharmaceutical industry match therapies more closely to the patients that they can benefit. By combining excellent diagnostics and the next generation of therapies, GE aims to bring to market comprehensive solutions that will make a difference in battling diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer.

Background

Harry has worked in the healthcare technology industry for more than 20 years. He has spent most of his career at GE which has a strong history of innovation and successful development of ideas through execution. As the CEO of GE Healthcare in Australia and New Zealand for the past eight years, Harry has overseen the growth of the company to become the leading healthcare technology company in ANZ. He is currently responsible for leading locally, the company’s healthymagination initiative which includes a global $1 billion commitment to cancer-related research and development in addition to helping clinicians deliver more accurate diagnosis and better treatment through faster, more effective technologies.

Prior to this appointment, Harry was the General Manager of GE Healthcare’s Service Team for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Based in Singapore, he also led the logistics team in Asia Pacific as the Global Parts Operations Manager. Harry holds a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma and operated in this role for the Asia region between 1997 and 2000.

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Background

Professor Coiera is the Foundation Chair in Medical Informatics within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of NSW. He is the Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, a part of the newly formed Australian Institute for Health Innovation at UNSW. Professor Coiera’s research is concerned with advancing the safety and quality of health care through the use of information technology. He has recently broadened his interest to supporting consumers in making decisions about their health care, as well as focusing on the broader challenges of health system redesign.