2018 SYDNEY
COMMS CONNECT SYDNEY 2018
14 –15 JUNE, ROSEHILL GARDENS, ROSEHILL Jonathan Nally
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omms Connect returns to Sydney in June, this time at a new venue — Rosehill Gardens, very close to Parramatta in the geographic and demographic heart of the greater Sydney region, and one of the fastest growing areas in the nation. The conference and exhibition are always great opportunities for those in the business- and mission-critical communications sector in Sydney and beyond to come together and share and learn from one another, so make sure you register today (sydney.comms-connect.com.au) to guarantee your participation.
Speaker sessions The Sydney event always attracts a first-class list of speakers from industry and government, and this year’s line-up will be no exception, with experts from home and abroad coming together to share their knowledge and insights. The first day will begin with an opening keynote address by Bill Schrier, senior advisor to FirstNet in the United States. He will provide an overview of how FirstNet will enable smarter public safety services through the use of new technologies. His presentation will be followed by a plenary address by Luke Brown, assistant secretary with Emergency Management Australia, which will provide the audience with a much-awaited update on the status of Australia’s forthcoming public safety mobile broadband system. Not to be missed. The second day’s plenary address will be given by Giles Tanner, general manager of the ACMA’s Communications Infrastructure
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Division. He will speak about the challenges facing spectrum regulators in the new technology environment. The other speaker sessions will be broken into three streams across the two days. In the public safety stream, the presentations will include: • Supporting day-to-day mission-critical operations of public safety networks (Sohan Domingo, Nokia) • Designing reliable fixed wireless networks for public safety and IoT applications (Eddie Stephanou, Cambium Networks) • Using PTT to extend mission-critical LMR networks (Station Officer Graham Tait, Fire & Rescue NSW) • Victorian marine boating public safety infrastructure (Marcus Grinblat ESM, Victoria State Council) • Next-generation networks for mission-critical services case study (Nilesh Joshi, CommTel Network Solutions) • Mobile broadband applications: innovations for business- and mission-critical users (James Reed, Titan ICT Consultants) The technology stream will include the following presentations: • Li-Fi: mobility for the 2020s (Lawrence McKenna, Wood & Grieve Engineers) • What’s it all about — 5G? (Roger Kane, Vicom) • 5G roadmap: pipe dream to reality (Dale Stacey, SAT Pty) • A ‘smart world’ — so what? (William Heapy, Axicom) • LPWAB connectivity options as the backbone for Industrial IoT (Loic Barancourt, Thinxtra) • Rethinking two-way radio intrinsic safety (Paul Barnes, Fire & Rescue NSW)
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