Peter Kerney1, David Crossman2,Peter Brenton3, Raisa Hashem4, Dr Fabiana Santana5
1 ANZ Solution Architect Manager, Intel Australia, Sydney
2 Product Manager, Australian Institute of Marine Science
3Manager, Applications, Atlas of Living Australia
4Research Technology Lead, ANZ Public Sector, Amazon Web Services
5Senior Solutions Architect, Science, Research & Education – Amazon Web Services, Federal Government, ACT, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Institutions are needing to redefine themselves to help solve increasingly urgent global challenges including climate change, resource depletion, and the widening economic, social, and digital divides. Researchers are requiring wide-ranging capabilities to manage the ongoing data explosion, enable seamless collaboration between global partners, and rapidly deploy a wide range of tools and technologies. Cutting-edge data analysis is critical to accelerating the time to insights. As the urgency of global challenges grows, a number of institutions are innovating using cloud services and capabilities to stay ahead of the curve.
In this session, we will hear from panellists Peter Brenton (Acting Deputy Director and COO – Atlas of Living Australia at CSIRO), David Crossman (Product Manager at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)), Peter Kerney (Manager at Intel), Raisa Hashem (Research Technology Lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS)) and Fabiana Santana (Senior Solutions Architect at AWS) on the tools and techniques researchers are using to access data and compute on-demand to seamlessly collaborate across the globe and accelerate innovation.
Biographies:
Peter Kerney manages the Enterprise Solution Architect team with Intel Australia. This team works closely with end users and solution providers to architect solutions that support new Intel platforms and optimised workloads. Peter has extensive experience in a number of markets and technologies including high performance computing, visualisation, broadcast, defence and simulation.
David is a leader within the AIMS Data Systems Engineering development team. David and the team design and implement data driven systems to support and disseminate research data and information to government, industry partners and the wider public. With strong engineering discipline David is pragmatic in combining technical expertise with a quality network of peers to deliver useful software to enable change and value add.
David is currently the technical lead for ReefCloud a transformational digital tool that uses artificial intelligence to fast-track the recording of changes to reef communities to interpret, report and communicate on coral reef conditions.
Peter Brenton manages the Applications Team at the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). The ALA is Australia’s national biodiversity data facility providing FAIR, aggregated, standardised biodiversity information for researchers, government and managers. The Applications Team develops tools for primary data creation and mobilisation into the ALA. Peter has extensive experience in applied environmental science as well as many years managing IT projects.
Raisa Hashem is a Senior Research Technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where she helps universities, government institutions and medical research facilities accelerate their research outcomes on AWS. She has a background in Biomedical Engineering and over 15 years experience in deploying, securing and delivering large scale enterprise applications. She is an advocate for women in technology and works with Australian primary schools, high schools and universities to drive diversity and inclusion in STEM.
Dr Fabiana Santana is a Senior Solutions Architect working with Science, Research & Education customers based in the ACT. Fabiana works with government agencies, universities, and research organisations to help define their research and technical strategy and deliver key projects using AWS. She has extensive leadership experience; in Australia, she was the Head of the School of Information Technology and Systems at the University of Canberra and a Senior Manager at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). In Brazil, she was the Head of the School of Computer Science at a Federal University and a Senior Manager in the Banking Industry. Fabiana is a computer scientist with a PhD in electrical engineering and a Masters in parallel computing/HPC. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Ecological Informatics journal and contributes to other journals in Biodiversity and Climate Change modelling.