Investing in Future Industries
Saturday 9 April 6.45 am - 8.45 am
Networking
Please see our guest list for today below. Feel free to walk around and meet everyone. Use today as a networking opportunity. ​
Company
AAM Pty Ltd
AAM Pty Ltd
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ABECK Group
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AECOM
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Altair
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ATS Enterprises Global
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Australian Medtech Manufacturing Centre, DJPR
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BASE Services Group
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Beca
Beca
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Bendigo Kangan Institute
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Big Screen Video
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Bluefreight Project Logistics Pty Ltd
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BMC Group (Aust) Pty Ltd
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Bosch Rexroth
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Coherics
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CSIRO
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DeakinCo.
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Douglas Partners
Douglas Partners
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Earthco Projects
Earthco Projects
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Empire Cranes
Empire Cranes
Empire Cranes
Empire Cranes
Empire Cranes
Empire Cranes
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Engineers Australia
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Express Demolition
Express Demolition
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Favelle Favco Cranes Australia
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Fyfe Pty Ltd
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Gangi Germicidal Systems
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GQS
GQS
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Greencap
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Harvester Technical College
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Hugh Jorgan Developments Pty Ltd
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Hydrogen East Pty Ltd
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ICN
ICN
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IHC IQIP Australia
IHC IQIP Australia
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Integra Systems
Integra Systems
Integra Systems
Integra Systems
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Integrated Energy Pty Ltd
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Intertek
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Into Work
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JK Green
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John Holland Group
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Kinaway Chamber of Commerce
Kinaway Chamber of Commerce
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Mackay Consolidated Industries Pty Ltd
Mackay Consolidated Industries Pty Ltd
Name
Ricky Thomson
Sam Houston
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Peter Angelico
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Likhwelihle Kaira
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Alex Quirk
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Joel Steindl
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Shelley Jackson
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Stefan Di Benedetto
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Craig Waddell
Harshal Patel
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Sally Curtain
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Craig Thomson
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Richard Dexter
Brian Culley
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Daniel Begley
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Stephen Baker
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Claire Manson
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Annmarie Carroll
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Gareth Griffith
Dean woods
Abu Bakar
Tamara Fitzpatrick
Jarrod Belsey
Tiffany Keane
Aakash Sharma
Tanya Dutta
Mark Hamilton
Panthea Hamilton
Alesha Printz
Joe Selvaggi
Leanne Selvaggi
Ben Jin
Tim Reynolds
Robert Gangi
Alvin Yee
Shaun Tosch
Peter Ballinger
Kerrie de Man
Mark Skinner
Ken Mathews
Timothy Piper
Tariro Makwasha
Martin Simanto
Elio Franchi
Sanjay Babu Jeyachandran
Paul Hughes
Russell Hughes
Nick Restall
David Cavanagh
Sheldon Harvey
David Turnbull
Edward Green
Jim Green
Scott McCartney
Brendan Hede
Eliza Scull
Graham Scull
Company
Name
Marand
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Mascot Industrial
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McCulloch's Hydraulic Engineers
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MEKS Solutions Pty Ltd
MEKS Solutions Pty Ltd
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Neo RD&C
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NERA
NERA
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Newpath Pty Ltd
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NNH Land Surveyors
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Panku Safety Solutions
Panku Safety Solutions
Projection
Remedy Asset Protection
RPC Technologies
SAAB
Skylar Safety
Skylar Safety
Skylar Safety
Skylar Safety
South Gippsland Shire Council
South Gippsland Shire Council
SPEE3D
SPEE3D
Stable Engineering Services
Stable Engineering Services
Star of the South
Star of the South
Stonestar Wholesale Pty Ltd
Stonestar Wholesale Pty Ltd
Struber V
Struber V
SupraG Energy
Swinburne University of Technology
The Enterprise Evolution Group
The Enterprise Evolution Group
The Enterprise Evolution Group
The Enterprise Evolution
Group Pty Ltd.
The Only Straw
The Only Straw
Turnex Pty Ltd
Turnex Pty Ltd
VESTAS AUNZ
VESTAS AUNZ
Victorian Chamber of Commerce
Watershed Building Consultants
Wilson Transformer Company
Wilson Transformer Company
Simon Walter
Paul de Man
Steve McCulloch
Michael Ingwersen
Jack Ingwersen
Craig D'Souza
Leigh Kennedy
Richard Reilly
Ben Dexter
David Neville
Jadah Pleiter
Travis Ling
Glenn Millar
Richard Osborne
James Zegir
Heino Lundgren
Anita Edens
Pramono Edens
Jeremy Francis Chew
Priscilla Clare Li Xueling
Pauleen Boulton
Ken Fraser
Byron Kennedy
Ben Hockley
John Buhagiar
Dale Harriman
Erin Coldham
Katrina Langdon
Fan Zhang
Feng Shi
Lif O'Keefe
Lucy McLaren
Gary Carroll
Jason Zheng
Bryce Steele
Eren Bultan
Ashraf Abdelmoteleb
Nail Adnan Bultan
Glenn Dawson
Chris Diggeden
Julian Baccega
Matthew Dennison
Shaun Maree
Braydon Maree
Paul Guerra
Matthew Curtain
Keron McCallum-Gaul
Lisa Maro
Questions
Feel free to email us with any questions you may have from today's Keynote Speaker Presentations. We will answer these to the best of our ability and get back to you as soon as we can.
Please put in the subject line 'ICN Grand Prix Breakfast - Speaker Questions' or 'ICN Grand Prix Breakfast - Enquiry'.
Program
Opening Addresses - Colin Young, MC
Welcome to the Grand Prix - Andrew Westacott, CEO, Australian Grand Prix Corporation
Welcome from ICN Victoria - Dianne Smith, CEO, ICN Victoria
Claire Manson, Chief of Staff, CSIRO
Leigh Kennedy, General Manager, Hydrogen at NERA
Byron Kennedy, CEO, Spee3D
Erin Coldham, Chief Development Officer, Star of the South
Speakers
Andrew Westacott
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Grand Prix Corporation
​Andrew Westacott is the longest serving Chief Executive of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC).
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Andrew commenced at the AGPC in 2006 as the General Manager - Operations before later being appointed Deputy CEO. He was appointed as CEO in February 2011. He is currently a Director of Karting Australia and a Member of the Organising Committee for the Australian Motorsport Hall of Fame Awards. He has previously been a Member of the Formula 1® Commission and the Australian Motorsport Foundation.
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Prior to commencing at the AGPC, Andrew started his professional life as a chemical engineering project manager before taking up senior positions in logistics, procurement and supply chain management with MasterFoods Australia New Zealand and Uncle Ben’s of Australia. He then moved into major events in 2005 and played a key part in the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games as Group Manager for Venue Delivery and Capital Projects.
He has a love of sport and sporting events and is committed to showcasing Melbourne and Victoria to the world through the Formula 1® Australian Grand Prix and the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix.
Dianne is CEO of ICN Victoria which, supported by the Victorian Government, has been working for local industry since 1984 to increase local capability and economic growth opportunities for local industry.
Previously, Chief Executive of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce and Chief Executive, Victoria Tourism Industry Council (VTIC), Dianne uses knowledge gained from over 20 years in the visitor economy, working in regional and metropolitan positions in marketing, visitor services, policy and strategy. Other roles in the sector included Manager - Tourism Partnerships, Parks Victoria, for nine years, Executive Director, Ballarat Tourism and Marketing & Visitor Services Manager of Melbourne Zoo. She has worked in the hotel and computer industries, and holds a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University.
Dianne represented regional Victoria on the State Government’s Community Support Fund Community Advisory Panel in the late 1990s. She was a member of Victoria University’s Vice Chancellor’s Industry Advisory Board (IAB) from 2016 – 2019. Dianne is currently a non-Executive Director of the Emerald Tourist Railway Board and is the Deputy Chair.
Dianne Smith
Chief Executive Officer
ICN Victoria
Claire Manson
Chief of Staff
CSIRO
We thank Claire for stepping in today, she has kindly offered to present in place of Professor Bronwyn Fox who is unwell.
Professor Bronwyn Fox is Chief Scientist of CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency and innovation catalyst.
Professor Bronwyn Fox joined CSIRO in October 2021 and became CSIRO’s fourth female Chief Scientist. She is known globally as a leader in advanced manufacturing, materials science, and industry 4.0 technologies, and is passionate about bringing together multidisciplinary teams for collaborative research.
She was formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at Swinburne University of Technology and founding Director of Swinburne’s Manufacturing Futures Research Institute. During that time, she established a world first Industry 4.0 Testlab for additive manufacturing of carbon fibre composites, in collaboration with CSIRO.
Leigh Kennedy is NERA’s General Manager - Hydrogen with a focus on working collaboratively across Australia to develop regional hydrogen technology clusters and build a national hydrogen technology cluster that can be promoted around the world.
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Before joining NERA, for almost the last decade, Leigh worked with Austrade’s international network and government partners to drive Austrade's global resources and energy foreign direct investment attraction and facilitation strategy and assist clients (developers, capital and technology companies) deliver on their Australian expansion plans. Aligned to many global companies transition to becoming green and announcing net zero emission targets, the focus honed-in on renewable energy and hydrogen investment opportunities. Working collaboratively with all state and territory governments along with key Australian Government agencies and clients, Leigh built relationships with strategic investors across the world. He also has significant experience in energy security policy when based in Canberra.
Leigh Kennedy
General Manager
Hydrogen at NERA
A serial entrepreneur, having cofounded the first spin-off company from Charles Darwin University before exiting to NYSE listed company Regal Beloit (Fasco). Product successes have included world record holding solar cars, innovative electric motors, electric bicycles, pool pumps and more. He is a currently cofounder and CEO of SPEE3D, a high-speed, metal 3D printing company.
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Spee3D will be demonstrating their WarpSPEE3D cold spray metal printer live at the Versor Tech Hub. To watch the demonstrations and view the parts, visit the Versor Tech Hub – see map for location.
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Byron Kennedy
Chief Executive Officer
Spee3D
Make Metal Anywhere Video:
Metal Parts at Grand Prix Video:
Erin Coldham
Chief Development Officer
Star of the South
Erin Coldham is the Chief Development Officer at Star of the South, a trailblazing offshore wind project which seeks to harness Bass Strait winds to power more than a million homes with clean energy, while creating thousands of jobs.
Erin is responsible for the project’s development activities, working with industry, regulators, policy-makers and local communities to make Gippsland and Victoria the home of offshore wind in Australia.
Included in A Word About Wind’s Top 100 Women’s Power List 2021, Erin is a champion for female talent in the energy industry and in her spare time enjoys spending time with family and watching various sports including AFL, horse racing and Formula 1.
Colin Young
Industry Advisor
ICN Victoria
As ICN’s Gippsland Industry Adviser for the last 5 years, Colin is part of a team across Australia focussed on the delivery of over $20 B of government and private projects covering energy, health, infrastructure, and defence to mention a few.
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Colin joined ICN (Vic) in April 2017 after more than 38 years in the Victorian Power Industry, including 20 years as Engineering Manager at Victoria’s largest power station, Loy Yang A.
Colin’s academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), a Master of Engineering (Mechanical), a Master of Business Administration, and he is also the joint recipient of several Victorian Engineering Excellence awards.
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