QUESTnet Streams

Cyber Security & Identity Management
The Cyber Security and Identity Management stream focuses on some of the key contemporary issues, challenges and solutions facing cyber security and identity management. A broad spectrum of cyber security will be covered, from managing phishing threats and progressing cybersecurity awareness to mobilizing effective governance of cyber security. Identity management continues to be a challenging area of growing importance to the sector. University solutions which aim to address the challenges of disparate and complex technical environments while providing increasing automation will be discussed.

Networks & Cloud Adoption
The presentations and sessions in the Networks & Cloud Adoption streams will inform you about novel solutions to issues and pain points that your institution may be facing with connectivity, network management and administration, and cloud integration.

Learning Spaces & End-user Compute
The learning spaces and end user compute stream for Questnet will incorporate presentations on digital workspaces, user experience, and service management, including service management implementations.

Program is subject to change.

Wednesday 26 September

Welcome and Official Opening

Keynote Presentation - Re-Wiring for the future

Dr Michelle Dickinson - Nanogirl Labs

PPT   VIDEO

Click Click Boom – how USC is using Mimecast to overcome click happy user security breaches

Connie McIntosh
University of the Sunshine Coast

PPT   VIDEO

Journey to Hybrid Cloud – Azure Backup and its adoption

Catherine Tan & Victor Wei
Griffith University

PPT 

Tough Success: Using technology discussions to create organisational change

Louise Brosnan
University of Southern Queensland

PPT 


Technically, this is what Federal Law looks like!

Peter Vanheck
Central Queensland University

Enabling a Smart Campus through video, IoT and AI

Andrew Slapp, DXC
Sam Field, Curtin University

PPT   VIDEO 

James Cook University’s journey with ServiceNow

Julie Land
James Cook University

PPT   VIDEO 

Allowing end users to efficiently access products and services securely

Don Mackintosh
AARNet

Campus, data centre & cloud networks. Utilising AARNet better

James Sankar
AARNet

PPT   VIDEO 

Removing the pain from ICT Procurement

Vanessa Dossetto
University of Southern Queensland

AusCERT CAUDIT ISAC - Share Today, Save Tomorrow

Nick Soysa
AusCERT

IoT Smart Campus BoF



Partnering with vendors for agility and success

Clinton Bell
University of Southern Queensland

PPT   VIDEO 

Cybersecurity Community of Practice

Clinton Kerrison
Alcorn Group

IoT Smart Campus BoF Continued

Developing valuable products and services for Education and Research

Don Mackintosh
AARNet

Thursday 27 September

Cisco Systems Sponsored Breakfast

Brad Davies
Vector Consulting

PPT

DXC Technology Sponsored Breakfast

Mark Simpson
DXC Technology


Extreme Networks Sponsored Breakfast

Iain Robertson & Pavel Rogik
Extreme Networks

PPT

Maser Sponsored Breakfast

Kevin Raymond & Ben Vertigan, Maser
Alex Vasilovski, Cohesity

PPT

F5–APM the “Glue” for USQ’s SSO and Access Management Solution

Daniel Ehrlich
University of Southern Queensland

PPT   VIDEO

Highly Available IP Telephone services – the Griffith experience

Andrew Williams
Griffith University

Engaging in Engagement – a ground up learning analytics approach

Scott Sorley
University of Southern Queensland

Multifactor Authentication at Deakin University

Dushyant Sattiraju
Deakin University

Case Studies on how to Optimise Your Network for Simplicity, Scale and Agility

Chris Georgellis
Extreme Networks

Student Digital Workspace

Steven Jorgensen
Griffith University

Keynote Presentation - 2050: To be human in a tech dominated world

Lani Refiti - IoTSec Australia

PPT   VIDEO

TLS 1.3 – Minor Version, Major Change

Brett Smith
F5

PPT   VIDEO

Event/Intent/Self driving networks – getting on with network automation to make your life easier

Mark Barrett
Juniper

The network’s impact on student and staff experience

Darren Smith
Aruba

James Cook University – Student App project

Jackie Atkin, James Cook University
Tiernan Messmer, James Cook University

The changing face of enterprise internet access – Griffith experience

Peter Kutrz
Griffith University

Zoom Roadmap

Sergio Aguilera
Zoom

Tacking the persona challenge: unlocking IAM as a strategic enabler

Andre Zitelli
Queensland University of Technology

Adelaide GigCity Program

Ralph Leonard, SABRENet
Stavros Patiniotis, EscapeNet

PPT

Zoom Roadmap

Sergio Aguilera
Zoom

Identity and Access Management at JCU

Adrian Tarca, James Cook University
Jeffrey Bird, James Cook University


Developing the Smart Campus through Intelligent Analytics and Insights

Mark Krischer
Cisco

PPT

A GPU enabled remote desktop for astronomers

Dr Bernard Meade
University of Melbourne

PPT

Identity & Access Management BoF

AARNet Update

Angus Griffin
AARNet


PPT

The Research Bazaar: cost effective digital literacy PhD training communities

Dr Christina Tuke Flanders, University of Melbourne
David Flanders, University of Melbourne

VIDEO

Friday 28 September

Dell EMC Sponsored Breakfast

Krista Jordan, Animal Logic
Melissa Osborne, Dell EMC

Pure Storage Sponsored Breakfast

Michael Boots
Pure Storage

SailPoint Technologies Sponsored Breakfast

John Singleton
SailPoint Technologies

RIoT Solutions Sponsored Breakfast

Mark Cross, RIoT Solutions
Petr Chrapavy, RIoT Solutions

Secure Campus of the Future

Rodney Hobbs, DXC
Lee Hickin, Microsoft

VIDEO


Developing a Multi-Cloud Strategy for Higher Education Institutes in Australia

Mark Swalwell
Cisco

PPT   VIDEO

Optimising student engagement: our student portal journey

Elisha Hulme
University of Southern Queensland

PPT   VIDEO

Cyber Heroes - Winning Hearts and Minds

Peter Vanheck
Central Queensland University

PPT 

Remote power and communications: the next wave of network devices

David Harris
CommScope

PPT   VIDEO

The Smart Classroom

Peter Nikoletatos
Optus

Designing a smart cybersecurity strategy on shoe-string budget

Mark Laffan & Stephanie James, Australian Catholic University
Wayne Tufek, CyberRisk

PPT   VIDEO


The UQ Metropolitan Data Caching Infrastructure: Taming the Data Deluge

Jake Carroll
University of Queensland

PPT

Learn 2020: A whole of institution transition to next generation learning environments

Dr Kathryn Meldrum
James Cook University

JCU/Fortinet Implimentation

Kevin Lane
James Cook University

PPT   VIDEO 

The Internet with a Cloudy Future – a Divine Story

Jason Andrade
Information Ecosystems

PPT

Real-time networked music therapy in virtual reality

Ben Loveridge
University of Melbourne

VIDEO

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for CyberSecurity Applications

Rob Collins
Cylance

PPT   VIDEO 

RESTing on our laurels: automating the network the “easy” way

Ayden Beeson
Charles Sturt University

PPT

Fighting Cybercrime with Artificial Intelligence

Toan Trinh
Fortinet

PPT   VIDEO

Keynote Presentation - Achieving more with less in the age of digital transformation

Simon Naylor - Extreme Networks

PPT   VIDEO