A/Prof David Pearson

CQUniversity
Associate Professor - Management 
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Dr David Pearson is an Associate Professor at Central Queensland University and adjunct Professor at University of Canberra. He is the Education, Training and Behavioural Change Program Leader in the recently announced Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre.

Dr Pearson has an international research profile in applied management and marketing seeking environmental sustainability within consumer society. His expertise is in encouraging consumers to make considered choices, such as dietary options to improve health and contribute to a more environmentally sustainable global food system. In addition, he has considerable leadership achievements in tertiary education, a broad portfolio of curriculum development for high-level tertiary subjects as well as significant engagements with industry, government and charity sectors. This is built upon over 25 years of professional experience that includes a successful career in industry.

Mr George Peppou

Cicada Innovations
Director, Growlab 
Your interests
Agtech, foodtech and startups

Dr Eddie Pereira

EPA International is an Innovation Engineering service provider. We delivers specialist services for the digital transformation of firms on the utilization of emerging digital technologies, including research and deployment of Artifical Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Multi-functional Service delivery Platforms, Robotic automation, and new connectivity technologies such as Zigbee, LORA, Laser-LIDAR-drone systems, and retroconversion of IC engine systems and electric-hybrid vehicle conversion.

Our Principal Engineer possesses more than 40 years of direct engineering experience int he areas of energy, environmental services, building services, automation, digital manufacturing transformation, smart logistics, smart sensor systems, forestry managment services and air-conditioning and Web 4.0 systems.

EPA International
Innovation Engineer & Digital Transformation specialist 
Your interests
New emerging digital technologies for the transformation of Australian industries with a strong focus on SME advancement within consortia and purpose-designed business ecosystems.

Dr Joseph Pereira

University of Technology Sydney
Visiting Professor 
Your interests
Emerging Technologies, Block chain, Cloud Computing, Edge (or Fog) Computing and Internet of Things

Ms Zoe Piper

Ms Zoe Piper
Data61 | CSIRO
LinkedIn logo Partnerships Lead 
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As the Partnerships Lead for Data61 I'm responsible for developing a range of platforms designed to help connect researchers & industry. These include: Expert Connect (https://expertconnect.global/), Innovation Challenge marketplace (https://expertconnect.global/challenge/results) and InnovationMap (https://www.data61.csiro.au/Map). I'd be very interested to connect with anyone with relevant data (or who would like to make use of our data), and anyone who has an innovation challenge we might be able to help solve.

I also have a range of business interests that I'd be happy to connect with people about, including www.ecolour.com.au (non-toxic paint), and www.ethitrade.com.au (blockchain based provenance tracking for produce - currently working on tracking dragon fruit from Vietnam)

Dr Leanna Read

CRC for Cell Therapy Manufacturing
Managing Director and Chair 
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Cell therapy manufacturing and therapeutic development

Company growth strategies

CRC management issues

Dr Tifelle Reisinger United Kingdom

Domainex is a fully integrated drug discovery service company based near Cambridge, UK serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic and patient foundations globally.  Domainex’s drug discovery service business was established in 2001 and since that time has continued to expand to serve a wider range of clients across the world including Auspherix, UCB, FORMA Therapeutics, St George’s University and The Institute of Cancer Research.  Our expertise and commitment to providing high quality services has resulted in a strong success record in drug discovery, delivering an average one candidate drug every year for the past six years.

Domainex’s highly experienced molecular biologists, assay biologists, medicinal, computational and analytical chemists can be leveraged through our CRO services.  Domainex’s focus is on providing highly efficient and well considered scientific solutions to enable successful drug discovery programmes against a wide range of drug targets.  Whether your project is at an early stage of drug discovery or has already identified chemical matter, our processes have been shown to result in a 30% time-saving compared to industry standards and use less resource, allowing prudent management of your own budget.

Domainex
Head of Business Development, Asia Pacific 
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Domainex offers a one-stop-shop service to meet all your drug discovery needs, from target to candidate. This includes:

- Domainex's platform technologies

- Combinatorial Domain Hunting (CDH)

- protein expression and purification

- biochemical assay development

- cell biology, including mode of action studies

- hit identification, using virtual or fragment-based approaches

- computational chemistry

- medicinal chemistry

- DMPK analysis

Domainex's focus is on providing a highly efficient and well considered scientific solution to enable successful drug discovery programmes against a wide range of drug targets (kinases, protein-protein interactions, GPCR, epigenetic, phenotypic...) in various therapeutic areas (oncology, anti-infectives, inflammation, cardiovascular diseases...).

I would be happy to discuss how Domainex can support your drug discovery programme.

Mr Mike Ridout

Food Agility CRC
Innovation Broker 
Your interests
Agribusiness

Dr Craig Rogers

DST Group
A/Director Industry Engagement 
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DST Group is seeking opportunities to engage in collaborative research projects in the area of Defence. General areas in Defence we are looking to collaborate in include:

1. Sensors & hypersonics
2. Cyber
3. Medical Countermeasure
4. Quantum Technologies
5. Space Capabilities
6. Human Performance
7. Surveillance
8. Autonomous Systems
9. Material Sciences

As well as in our traditional domains of Maritime, Aerospace, Land.

Ms Clare Russell

Ms Clare Russell
RMIT University
LinkedIn logo Senior Advisor, Research Initiatives 
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I am responsible RMIT’s participation in national research initiatives - with particular focus on CRCs and CRC-Ps. Our team lead and facilitate consortia management throughout bidding and establishment to meet the needs and priorities of our industry partners. I look forward to meeting delegates who are keen to learn more about RMIT’s capability, our team’s role for the university and our partners, and if you are looking to collaborate.