Symposium Speakers
Symposium speakers play a pivotal role in shaping the overall experience and success of an event. The PGCS organising committee aims to choose individuals based on their experience, expertise, knowledge and ability to engage and inspire the audience.
Speakers are chosen from various backgrounds, including industry leaders, academics, thought leaders and experts in the project and program management field.
Please view all our confirmed speakers below. Information on their presentations can be found on the program page once available.
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Keynote Speakers
Invited Speakers
Masterclass Presenters
Keynote Speakers
Mr Chris Deeble
DEPUTY SECRETARY | CAPABILITY ACQUISITION AND SUSTAINMENT GROUP (CASG)
Chris has extensive experience spanning the defence, industry and commercial sectors and working with Government. He also served for 37 years in the Australian Defence Force, most notably as an Air Vice-Marshal.
His most recent appointment was Chief Executive at Northrop Grumman Australia. Prior to that he worked for Airservices Australia as the program executive for OneSKY, responsible for delivering the Civil Military Air Traffic Management System for Australia.
Chris returns to CASG after previously holding the role of Senior Program Manager where he managed more than $25 billion of complex acquisition and sustainment programs including the Joint Strike Fighter, Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control, Multi Role Tanker Transport and Collins Class Submarine.
Chris has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Sydney. He was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) in 2007, and recognized in 2016 as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).
Dr Keith Joiner, CSC, CPEng, CPPD
Senior Lecturer Test, Evaluation and Aircraft Design | University of New South Wales
Dr Keith Joiner, CSC, was an Air Force aeronautical engineer, project manager and teacher for 30 years before joining the University of New South Wales to teach and research test and evaluation. As Defence’s Director-General of Test and Evaluation for four years, he was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross and for doing drawdown plans for the Multi-National Force in Iraq, he was awarded a U.S. Meritorious Service Medal. He is a Certified Practising Engineer, a Certified Practising Project Director, and has over 100 published research articles on assuring engineered systems. His research is diverse, for example:
1) assuring cyberworthiness, AI-enabled systems, and robotic autonomous systems,
2) using high throughput test design and complex systems governance, and
3) developing air-sea hybrid vehicles and the electrification of aircraft.
Invited Speakers
Mr David Williams AM
Program Assurance Specialist | Australian Electoral Commission
In his current role, David Willaims works closely with internal partners, industry, academia and the broader government community to ideate, design, acquire and deliver technology that enables the agency to support the development and maintenance a world-class intelligence and information management systems capability. He also undertakes broader research, analysis, planning and implementation of technology, analytical and information management services to support both Intelligence, policing and corporate capabilities across the agency and with partners. His background is in project management in industries covering construction, defence, organizational development and information systems. Projects of interest include Loy Yang power station in Victoria, the Submarine construction facility in SA, Bruce Stadium & New Parliament House in the ACT and a series of ICT protects across government. He joined the Department of Defence on the Collins Class Submarine project back in 1990 before working across Defence in the management fields of program evaluation, information systems, quality, risk and enterprise architecture.
He has managed several major ICT procurement and implementation projects in government departments for both services and solutions. He developed information architectures and strategies for multiple government departments. He is also the President of the Australian Society for Knowledge Management (AuSKM) and lecture at the Australian National University on Project Management.
Masterclass Presenters
Dr Keith Joiner, CSC, CPEng, CPPD
Senior Lecturer Test, Evaluation and Aircraft Design | University of New South Wales
Dr Keith Joiner, CSC, was an Air Force aeronautical engineer, project manager and teacher for 30 years before joining the University of New South Wales to teach and research test and evaluation. As Defence’s Director-General of Test and Evaluation for four years, he was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross and for doing drawdown plans for the Multi-National Force in Iraq, he was awarded a U.S. Meritorious Service Medal. He is a Certified Practising Engineer, a Certified Practising Project Director, and has over 100 published research articles on assuring engineered systems. His research is diverse, for example:
1) assuring cyberworthiness, AI-enabled systems, and robotic autonomous systems,
2) using high throughput test design and complex systems governance, and
3) developing air-sea hybrid vehicles and the electrification of aircraft.
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