Invitation to Graphene+2018: The 4^th Industrial Revolution conference

Monday October 8, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Melbourne

Scientists, academia, advanced manufacturers and global start-up incubator leaders address: How Australia can spearhead the technology, and foster the start-up culture, that will drive the next generation of interconnectedness through the Internet of Things using graphene as the enabler of change.

Speakers include — 

Government:

• Daniel Mulino MLC, Parliamentary Secretary for Treasury and Finance, Victoria

Startup incubation:

• Omer Gozen, VP, New Materials & Packaging, Plug and Play (USA)

Academia:

• Professor Linda Kristjanson AO, Vice Chancellor, Swinburne University
• Professor Bronwyn Fox, Director, Manufacturing Futures Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
• Professor David Officer, Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Research

Business:

• Chris Gilbey OAM, CEO Imagine IM; Chair, Australian Graphene Industry Association
• Ray Gibbs, CEO, Haydale Limited
• Brendan Swifte, CEO, Geofabrics
• Elina Ollila, CEO, UX-Fit (USA)
• Dominic Rohrmus, Senior Engineer, Siemens AG (Germany)
• Professor Peter Middendorf, Director Arena2036 (Germany)
• Volkmar Doericht, R&D for Digitalization and Automation, Siemens (Germany)

Issues to be discussed include —

• Graphene: Solving big problems
• Designing Materials: Doing more with less
• From startup to billion dollar markets
• Invention, research and IP
• Making Australian manufacturing globally relevant

For the complete agenda, please visit: grapheneindustry.org.au/conference/schedule

The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Pacific PNT Conference is a global event dedicated to the cooperative development of positioning, navigation and timing technology and applications.

The conference attracts policy and technical leaders from Japan, Singapore, China, South Korea, Australia, the United States and many other countries, who meet to discuss policy updates, receive program status updates and exchange technical information.

The conference will cover a wide range of topics:

• GNSS policy/status
• Polynesian navigation
• Aircraft navigation and surveillance
• Algorithms and methods
• Alternative navigation and signals of opportunity
• Aviation applications of GNSS
• Challenging navigation problems
• Emerging PNT consumer applications
• GNSS-R and GNSS-RO for environmental monitoring
• High-precision GNSS correction and monitoring networks
• Inertial navigation technology and applications
• Interference and spectrum
• Ionosphere monitoring with GNSS
• Natural hazards detection and other remote sensing applications
• Time and frequency distribution
• Space navigation technologies

Substantial discounts are available for early registrations.