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Below are all the wonderful people who spoke and demonstrated items at the 2013 Conference. Topics highlighted in blue are links to their presentation where it is available. Some also have a video.
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Derek Austin
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Derek Austin has more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry starting in technical roles before moving to sales, marketing and management. He has always worked with technically innovative technology companies such as Nuance Communications that are in the business of improving people’s lives in innovative ways. In his current role, Derek manages the Dragon desktop solutions business in the Asia Pacific region. Derek is married to Stephanie and has an eleven-year old daughter named Sienna. He holds an MBA (Exec) from the Australian Graduate School of Management as well as a postgraduate Diploma of Computer Science and BA (Hons) from the University of Queensland. |
Speech Recognition Technology Derek Austin from Nuance Communications is coming to ASCCA to show you the latest in speech recognition technology and how that can make you more productive. Not only is speech the fastest way to enter text into your computer, it’s also easier on your muscles, tendons and bones. Derek will show you what you need to do to get up and going with this fantastic software. |
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Jill Ball
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Jill Ball, now an amateur genealogist, has been a librarian, teacher and, most recently, Head of Information Technology in a Sydney School. In 2011 Jill was honoured with Life Membership of The School Library Association NSW for her work in education. This connected Granny shares her passion for integrating technology with genealogy via her blog, GeniAus geniaus.blogspot.com, and with presentations in Australia and internationally. Jill who loves Tech Toys chaired a panel session "The Genealogist's Gadget Bag" at the 2013 Rootstech Conference in Salt Lake City. Jill was recently voted as Australia's Gold Medal Rockstar Genealogist in an international online poll. |
The Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner provides an economical, portable means of scanning photos, documents, maps and even large patchwork quilts. In this presentation Jill will outline the benefits of digitising our personal collections, talk about various types of scanners available and discuss situations where the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner gives excellent results. |
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Peter Blasina
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Pete Blasina has been explaining technology to consumers for more than 22 years. He’s the on-air technology reporter for Channel 7, a tech trends commentator for Kochie’s Business Builders and is often called on to comment on technology for Seven’s 6.00pm News and Today Tonight current affairs program. Peter is currently the Department of Communications’ National Cyber Security Ambassador and he works closely with the federal department of Regional Development Australia, taking the technology story to the country. He is also Telstra’s technology ambassador and delivers regular presentations, touring the country demystifying technology for a broad range of consumers via a variety of events. The Gadget Guy provides valuable advice on how to assess product and make the most of today’s popular technologies at his popular website, www.gadgetguy.com.au. The experience Peter gained from 14 years as a senior science and mathematics teacher has come to the fore recently. He has been invited by a number of Australian Education Departments, TAFEs and Universities to provide an insight into technology trends and developments and their influence on the future of education and business in Australia.
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Where is technology going? What is the next revolution in Tech? What are the winning and losing gadgets? Let the Gadget Guy take you on a ride into the future.
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Nan Bosler OAM
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Nan Bosler has been heavily involved in volunteer community work for almost 60 years. She has worked with and for people of all age groups and levels of ability, with particular emphasis on the needs of older people and those with a disability. She is a published author and presents regularly at conferences in both Australia and overseas. She revels in the fact that she is a great grandmother.
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Jody Bowman |
Jody Bowman has experience with not-for-profit organisations spanning five years, with a focus on community engagement activities, stakeholder communications management, and the marketing and communication of accessible telecommunications initiatives. Jody is particularly interested in assistive devices and services, and how they impact health-related quality of life of people with disability. |
Introduction to ACE Australian Communication Exchange is a national not for profit organisation that provides communication access services for people who are deaf, hearing impaired or speech impaired. |
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Kathryn Braun |
x | Dr. Kathryn L. Braun is Professor of Public Health at the University of Hawai‘i, and chair of the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program. She is known for her work in community-based participatory research in cancer and gerontology, and she has published more than 160 peer reviewed journal articles on these topics. A 20-year cancer survivor, she loves to travel and has been to all 7 continents and more than 100 countries. She also is President of the Active Aging Consortium Asia Pacific (ACAP) | x |
Best Practices for Active Ageing from the Asia Pacific If everyone is living longer, how should individuals and society adapt? What new things can older adults learn and do that are fun and still allow them to contribute to society? What can government do to tap our increase in “silver” resources? This session will present a sampling of ideas from around the Asia Pacific region for keeping ourselves engaged, energized, and active |
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Charlie Brown |
Charlie Brown has a rapidly growing profile that has seen him become a much sought after speaker. He brings an unrivalled ability to communicate, educate and inspire his audience on issues relating to the technology of today as well as future trends, including how developments can and will change the environment in which we live and do business.
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Keith Buckley |
Keith Buckley is responsible for McAfee’s Australia and New Zealand business. Buckley has more than 15 years of experience in leading sales, engineering growth and driving change for industry-leading technology companies including EMC, Symantec and Dell. |
Practical tips to stay safe online In this session Keith Buckley will discuss some of the common areas in which seniors can be exposed to online security threats. Keith will also show you some simple tips that you can do when your online to make sure you stay safe. |
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Dr. Alex Byrne |
Dr Alex Byrne is a professional librarian, researcher and writer with deep interest in the roles of memory institutions, the complexity of issues relating to Indigenous peoples and transmission of knowledge. He has been State Librarian and Chief Executive of the State Library of New South Wales since September 2011 following positions in library and university management, most recently at the University and the University of Technology, Sydney. Alex served for a decade in leadership positions with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions including President from 2005 to 2007. He enjoys the travel and the bush, drawing and printmaking, and, inevitably, reading. |
Amaze & Curio: Revolutionising the State Library of NSW Tracing its history to 1826, the State Library of New South Wales holds the world’s foremost collection on the exploration and settlement of Australia and its region. It is now applying new techniques and novel technologies to making its collection available to all. The Library is revolutionising itself with Amaze, the first new gallery since 1929, and innovation including a mass digitisation program, a new app Curio, geo location, new discovery tools, social media and harvesting born digital content.
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Deputy CEO ACCAN
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Narelle Clark learnt to program computers back as a 9 year old in the days when that was weird, using punch cards and a computer as old as she was and the size of a room. Ten years later she was building nuclear energy detectors at a university and moving the data between computers, making the techniques up as she went along, all the time harbouring crazy ideas to connect everything together in one big network. Thankfully now she doesn’t feel like the only one with that crazy idea. |
Death and the Internet – Planning our Digital Legacy In the past, for many of us our legacy was very simple. With most of our belongings in the family home, the only complexity arose in allocating very tangible assets fairly amongst our heirs. Now, thanks to an increasingly digital life, the question is changing from who gets what, to where is what, as our heirs take on the complex task of unravelling the mysteries of our vast digital footprint. This talk raises some fascinating issues in planning our digital legacy, and will give some guidance on making things simpler for our loved ones when the inevitable happens. |
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Christopher Conybeare |
Dr. Chris Conybeare is a human rights attorney, television journalist, and a documentary film maker. He is on the faculty for the Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR) at the University of Hawaii-West Oahu. He is Secretary General of the World Association of Press Councils, President of Media Council Hawaii, and a member of the Active Aging Consortium Asia Pacific (ACAP) |
Media and the Struggle for Democracy: A Cautionary Tale A tenet of active ageing is civic engagement over the life course. Civic involvement requires information for decision making. An important source of information is the news media. Monopolistic forces and concentration of ownership threaten competition, diversity, and localism in print, broadcast, and internet news sources. To combat these forces, we need to promote media literacy, become citizen journalists, and campaign for an equitable regulatory environment for the media. |
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Natasha Crampton |
Natasha Crampton has specialised in technology and intellectual property law since the outset of her legal career. She has advised on copyright, trade mark, privacy, and Internet safety and security laws in the context of contractual negotiations, litigation and law reform initiatives. At Microsoft, Natasha is part of the Australian and New Zealand team that focuses on Microsoft’s commercial legal work. This includes advising the business on legal issues relevant to Microsoft’s cloud services, and the contractual frameworks under which Microsoft provides those services.
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Legal Issues with Cloud Services The uptake of enterprise cloud services is growing in Australia as Australian organisations seek to take advantage of the benefits of cloud services. Legal issues are one of a number of issues that fall for consideration when Australian organisations consider whether to take up cloud services. Natasha will provide an overview of some of these legal issues from the perspective of |
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Angus Deveson
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Angus Deveson is an industrial designer with a passion for designing and making things. He teaches 3D Design and 3D Printing in Schools and Businesses around Australia, and loves to experiment and push the boundaries of 3D Printing technologies. |
Create anything with 3D Printing |
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Anne Doherty |
Anne Doherty works as a consultant to public library services for the State Library of NSW. Her role is to provide advice to councils and libraries on the provision of quality public library services. |
Beyond These Walls: New Approaches for
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Peter Foye |
Peter Foye joined COTA NSW peer education programs to be involved in an area that is important to older people and retuning something to the community. Peter provides a wealth of experience with adult education and a computer technical background. |
Internet safety: be confident online Council on the Ageing NSW (COTA NSW) is a non-government organisation representing people over 50. For over a decade, it has attracted volunteer peer educators who deliver engaging, informal education sessions to people aged 50-plus. Since 2012, Peter Foye has been one of COTA NSW’s peer educators and has been delivering the ‘Internet Safety: be confident online’ program to groups of older people. The session is designed to reduce the fear of the internet. Peter will deliver an ‘Internet Safety’ education session, which highlights the simple steps computer users can take so they ‘go online’ safely and securely. These sessions are often used to attract new people |
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Kathryn Greiner AO
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Kathryn Greiner AO is Chair of the NSW Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ageing (MACA) and has an incredibly diverse background starting in social work and extending to experience in business and local government. MACA provides advice to the NSW Government through the Minister for Ageing on the impact of population ageing on government and the community. Over the course of her career Mrs Greiner has been actively involved in a number of not-for-profit organisations such as the Salvation Army, and has held directorships for the Financial Planning Association, John Singleton Advertising, a former Councillor on the City of Sydney, and Deputy Chancellor of Bond University. |
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Colin Griffith |
Colin Griffith is the Director of the Australian Centre for Innovation (ACBI), a new collaborative research centre established by the CSIRO in partnership with NICTA. The Centre is designed to demonstrate and develop new applications and services that can utilise the capabilities of next generation broadband networks. Colin has been a leading exponent of innovative internet and electronic services over the last twenty years working in a variety of media, internet, consulting and government positions. He was responsible for establishing popular and awarding winning ABC Online and managing the ABC’s new media service during the 1990s. More recently, he has been a senior executive with the NSW Government Chief Information Office, responsible for promoting broadband and new forms of service delivery for health, education and other government services. Colin has been a Director of the Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG), the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing (ac3) and was the President of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA). Colin has also been a member of several industry advisory groups including the Federal Government’s Creative Industries Advisory Committee and National Broadband Development Group.
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How broadband connectivity can help seniors live independently at home for longer |
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Claire Keatinge |
Claire Keatinge became Northern Ireland’s first Commissioner for older People on 14 November 2011. She was a former director of the Alzheimer’s Society in Northern Ireland and her appointment has been hailed as a groundbreaking development.
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Greetings from Ireland 6min video |
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Jeffrey Landers |
Jeffrey Landers is a qualified dispensing optician and is a Low Vision Consultant with Quantum. Jeff has worked in the eye care industry for 35 years and is able to assist clients with simple tasks such as reading a paper or book and for computer users with a reduction in vision provide assistive technology products to enable the client to use their computer. |
Adaptive Technology for Seniors |
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Trish Levido |
Trish Levido has been an oral historian recording people’s life stories for over 30 years. She has conducted oral history workshops for state & local libraries, the Royal Australian Historical Society and the Oral History Association of Australia. Many of her recordings are kept in national and international archives. Her research into the digital aspects of recording, editing and preserving memories has been widely documented and published on numerous web sites. |
Valuing Memories – Oral History in the Digital Age
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President Judy Joyce Trainer Parramatta Computer Pals for Seniors |
Judy Joyce is an adventurous computer user, very versatile and trains in just about anything we ask her to! Between 2008-2011 she was our training co-ordinator and is now the club's vice president. Judy has been a Mac user since 2010 when her brother gave her husband a Mac. Deborah Martin joined the Club as a trainer when she retired in 2008. She enjoys passing on the computer skills she learned in her working life. Deborah is a very versatile trainer with good knowledge of word processing and spreadsheets, and says that the more she teaches, the more she learns. Deborah has been our president since October 2012.x |
Judy Joyce introduced Apple Mac with a demonstration to members in March 2011. We purchased a Mac, then started a Special Interest Group for Mac users, then started offering classes. This presentation tells the story of how we introduced Apple Mac to our Club. |
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Joe Moreno |
Joe Moreno has been photographing since the early 1980s and loved the hours in a darkened room listening to talkback radio playing in the background. Digital photography was introduced to Joe in 1996 just as his daughter was entering the world. The darkroom had now moved beside his new daughters cot in the way of a desktop computer and some type of photoshop product to used to create photos, but the use of floppy discs to store images of their new daughter was a total marvel as far as he was concerned.! Now, just as his daughter HOLLIE turns 17 ,the technology that Joe has seen in that short time seems like it was yesterday…just like the days he was sitting next to that cot. |
Photography and connectivity gets closer |
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Gerry Murphy Managing Director, BeingThere SolutionsPty Ltd
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Gerry Murphy has been involved in video conferencing since 1994 when a VC endpoint cost more than the regular suburban house. The technology also required a lot of engineering and administrative support.
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Video Conferencing – No Longer Futuristic, But Here And Now Video of Gerry Murphy's Presentation (YouTube)
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Joy and Allan Murrin Family History Research |
Allan and Joy Murrin have been researching their Family History for more than 40 years, and, in 1995 Joy was appointed as an Accredited Transcription Agent by the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. The family business has now grown to provide NSW Transcriptions and Certificate Services for England/Wales, Scotland, Victoria and New Zealand. Over the course of time, Allan and Joy have visited family history libraries and centres throughout the world, and since 1989 been volunteer librarians at the Mortdale LDS Family History Centre. Allan and Joy have a range of Family History topics and have spoken to many societies and groups.With years of experience and a vast array of knowledge, Allan & Joy continue to find Joy in their own family, and in assisting others find joy in family history.
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Family history, is it the best of times? Genealogy research has become more accessible with technology advancements. Knowing the resources will assist anyone getting started or look differently at hard to find ancestors. This session will explore processes to enhance family history research by showing practical examples. Living in the BEST OF TIMES for genealogy, there is more to come. |
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Scott Riddle Strategy & |
Scott Riddle manages the Asia Pacific strategy and operations function for Google’s partner solutions team – spanning AdSense, Doubleclick for Publishers, AdMob and the Google Ad Exchange. He also leads Google’s local employee volunteering programme. Prior to Google Scott was a trade diplomat for the New Zealand government, working out of New Zealand’s Washington DC embassy and Sydney consulate. He is a graduate of the BOC Group’s Australian management development program and spent time at Mincom and Kea New Zealand. Scott earned bachelors degrees in Law and International Business from Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with honours. He has an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management in the United Kingdom where he was a Ford Scholar. |
Life & the Internet – We’re only just getting started A walk through some of the extraordinary ways in which the internet is changing the way we live our lives and examples of the role that Google is playing. |
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General Manager Digital Inclusion Telstra |
Jillian Riseley is General Manager, Digital Inclusion at Telstra. This newly created leadership role leads a team with responsibility for the $230 million per annum regulatory and voluntary social investment, policies and strategies for digital inclusion programs, initiatives and partnerships. Areas overseen within this portfolio include accessibility and low-income support, cyber safety, disability programs and services, and digital literacy. These programs directly reach more than 2 million Australians and 2000 charities each month.
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Everyone Connected – enjoying the benefits of the digital age Today we live in a connected world. It’s a world underpinned by rapid technological innovation and adoption, and a world that is challenging and re-inventing traditional business and community service models, and realising social and economic benefits. The opportunities of the digital age are immense, and Telstra is committed to everyone enjoying the everyday benefits of being connected to modern communication technologies – irrespective of age, income, ability, location or disadvantage. |
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Ian Robertson COMMBOX |
Ian Robertson is an engineer. He established the forerunner of CommBox back in 1976 to develop ways to make it easier for teachers to access video technology. |
Changing Interactive Technologies |
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Leonie Smith |
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Social Media and Your Privacy
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Eric Whitehouse has a BA/Diploma of Teaching from University of Queensland and spent 10 years with the Education Department before joining IBM and gaining computing experience from mainframes to PCs. He finished his career on 2009 running the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communication. Eric is an ASCCA Director and a member of Computer Pals for Seniors – The Hills where he is a Senior Trainer and member of the Management Committee. He is also involved with U3A, and a volunteer mentor to small business owners as part of programs run by the NSW Department of Industry and Trade.
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