Information on the Presenters
Greg Adamson
Greg Adamson has a Doctor of Philosophy from the RMIT University, Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Technology (Engineering) from the University of Southern Queensland. He has been a member of the Internet Society since 1998 and is currently a director of Isoc-Au. He is also founding chair of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) in Australia.
YDS Arya, IIT Kanpur, India
Dr. Y.D.S. Arya holds Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering and is presently working as Principal Computer Engineer in Computer Centre at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India). He is working with computers since year 1976, so he has worked on computers as old as 2nd generation IBM-1620, IBM 1401, IBM 7044 (punched card I/O systems). He has worked in m/c language, assembly language, almost all higher level languages and Operating Systems. His experience with Operating Systems includes: starting from TOPS0-10 of DEC (first of the Time-Sharing operating systems) to latest all flavors of UNIX: AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and IRIX. He is presently working with High Performance Clusters from HP (48 nodes of HP DL145) and Sun (96 nodes of Sun V 40 Z).
Karl Auer, Nullarbor Consulting PL
Karl Auer (BA, GradDipAppComp) has been working in computing for over twenty years. The last eight were at the ETHZ in Switzerland, with their Data Communications Group. He planned and executed the introduction of dynamic addressing at the ETHZ about five years ago, and has been handling address management at the ETHZ since then. Now back in Australia, Mr Auer consults to the ETHZ and others on address management issues. He is a director of Nullarbor Consulting Pty Ltd.
Lawrie Brown, Australian Defence Force Academy
Dr Lawrie Brown is a senior lecturer in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA) in Canberra, where he lectures courses in Cryptography, Computer Security, and Programming Fundamentals. He is also an instructor for the CISCO Regional Networking Academy at ADFA.
His professional interests include cryptography, communications and computer systems security, and safe mobile code. His current research is in the design of safe and secure remote (mobile) code execution environments, currently focusing on the functional language Erlang. He has previously worked on the design and implementation of private key block ciphers, in particular the LOKI family of encryption algorithms; Lawrie is a webmaster on the Internet Project (AUUG Canberra & PCUG) system.
Frank Crawford
Frank Crawford is professional System Administrator, managed computer systems for the AAEC, Qantas, ANSTO and now ac3 for over 20 years. He has gone from managing Unix systems involved in the control of scientific experiments through to the fastest system in Australia. However he also deals with low-end systems, running a home network which is documented in his regular column, "My Home Network" in AUUGN.
In addition to managing system, he is an extensive contributor to such organisations as AUUG and SAGE-AU, having been on the boards of both organisation and a frequent presenter at their conference and author of articles for their newsletters. He is also the co-author of the book OzInternet.
Tobias Eggendorfer, University of Federal Armed Forces, Neubiberg, Germany
Tobias Eggendorfer has been a programmer since he was 11 years old. To not become a nerd, he started studying physics, which soon become too dry. So he changed to mechanical engineering and business administration, got his diploma and continued working as an IT-Freelancer. However, studying was to exiting, so he continued with technical informatics (how nerdish ;-) ), informatics, computer science (that's even more nerdish) and again received some diplomas and a master degree. Being curious, he also graduated in business and labour law and adult education. While still being a student, he was offered a teaching position for Computer Science and Mathematics at Munich Business School. At the same time, he is working as research scientist at the University of Federal Armed Forces Neubiberg. His research focus is on security, with main interest in fighting spam. Self defense is also a big issue for him: He has been a judoka even longer than he has been a programmer. He just started with ju-jutsu. So attacking both him or his network might end up with a black eye ;-)
Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland, NZ
Peter Gutmann is a researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland working on design and analysis of cryptographic security architectures. He helped write the popular PGP encryption package, has authored a number of papers and RFC's on security and encryption including the X.509 Style Guide for certificates, and is the author of the open source cryptlib security toolkit. In his spare time he pokes holes in whatever security systems and mechanisms catch his attention and grumbles about PKIs.
Ian Holsman
Ian Holsman is the founder of Zilbo.com, a consulting firm that focuses on delivering high quality expertise in development and leveraging open source to the maximum advantage of it's clients. Prior to starting his own company, Ian was responsible for the operational effectiveness of CNET's US 4 data centres, which in total represented over 100 million page views every day or which supported $350M worth of annual revenues.
Ian has been a long-time contributor to the open source community and is also a member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Ian is a contributor and PMC member of the Apache HTTP Server. He also currently serves on the board-level Public Relations Committee where he helps lead the organization's public relations, marketing, and partnership activities.
Lev Lafayette
Lev Lafayette is a sociologist by profession and a network administrator by vocation and a old-school gamer for recreation. He has recently completed his doctorate at the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne on "A Social Theory of the Internet". He has worked for the Parliament of Victoria as a database administrator and trainer, and for East Timor's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as their ICT Advisor in their first year of independence. He is currently Vice-President of Linux Users Victoria, and President of the tax reform group Prosper Australia.
Arjen Lentz
Arjen Lentz (37) is originally from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since marrying an Aussie, he decided that Australia is a very nice place to live, so together with their daughter and black cat they reside in Kenmore, a Western suburb of Brisbane, Queensland.
Arjen initially started with programming, but has since branched out to other stuff that blends initial geekness with more human interaction. Arjen owns his own company, Lentz Internet Services, which specialises in infrastructure, and also advises on Open Source and related Business, Process, Intellectual Property and Licensing issues.
Arjen has been working for MySQL AB (the Swedish company that owns, develops and supports the MySQL database software, www.mysql.com) since 2001, dealing with Documentation, Community Relations, licensing, and acting as program chair for the 2005 and 2006 MySQL Users Conferences. His current gig is Support Engineer, and Trainer in the Australia / New Zealand region.
Arjen co-founded Open Source Industry Australia Inc. (www.osia.net.au) and helps on the press team of Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au).
Andrew McRae
Andrew McRae is a senior software engineer at Google Inc., based in the Sydney Engineering office. Andrew has over 26 years of experience in the networking and computing industry. Previously, for 3 years he was employed at NetDevices Inc (a Silicon Valley startup) as the Senior Principal Engineer. Prior to that, 8 years at Cisco Systems as a Distinguished Engineer in the Routing Technology Group, working on next generation router architectures. He has filed twelve patents in networking and related technology, and has published numerous papers in the field of Routing, Linux/Unix, Local Area Networking, Internet Engineering etc. He is a founding member and current director of the Australian Chapter of the Internet Society, and is a regular presenter at AUUG conferences.
Devraj Mukherjee
Devraj Mukherjee is the one of the founding members and the principal consultant of Eternity Technologies Pty Limited, an open source consulting company operating in rural New South Wales. Devraj largely spends his time integrating enterprise solutions based on open source software platforms. In his spare time Devraj contributes code to many open source projects hoping to add value to the wide range of open source software products he works with.
Jonathan Oxer
Jonathan Oxer is President of Linux Australia, is author of "How To Build A Website And Stay Sane" and "Ubuntu Hacks", has written numerous articles for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and his writings have been translated into French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, and Spanish and appeared in dozens of publications. He is one of the few people in the world to have been surgically implanted with an RFID chip which he is using to experiment with technical issues such as authentication techniques and exploits as well as philosophical issues such as privacy and identity.
Jonathan is Founder and Technical Director of Internet Vision Technologies which has developed hundreds of websites, intranets, extranets and custom web applications for clients ranging from backyard businesses to multinational corporations. He is also a Debian developer and has convened the Debian Miniconf in a different city for the last four years, and has presented dozens of tutorials, papers and keynotes on various technology and business topics at corporate and government seminars, usergroups, and conferences around the world.
Adam Pointon
Adam Pointon is a security researcher and co-founder of Assurance.com.au. Prior to forming Assurance Adam co-founded and managed Sentinel Data Security from 2000-2005. In the past 12 months Adam has identified several vulnerabilities in products from Cisco, Barracuda, the Asterisk PBX and some products which shall currently rename nameless (at least publicly)
Navpreet Singh, IIT Kanpur, India
Navpreet Singh is working as Principal Engineer at Computer Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He did B.Tech (1990) and M.Tech (1996) from IIT Kanpur, India. He has been working in the area of Telecom and Data Networks for more than 16 years and currently manages the Network and Internet services of IIT Kanpur. He is on the Advisory Board of many Companies and Government Departments. He is also associated with "Prabhu Goel Centre for Computer and Internet Security" at IIT Kanpur. His areas of interest are Network Design, Implementation and Performance Analysis.
Stewart Smith
Stewart Smith is a Software Engineer working for MySQL AB on MySQL Cluster. He lives in Melbourne and enjoys beer, music and code - sometimes all at once.
Michael Still
Michael Still released his first Open Source project in July 2000, and has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a Tux out of fairy lights. He is the author of the recently published "Definitive Guide to ImageMagick" from Apress. His gym program states his exercise goal as "develop laser death vision". Michael grew up in Canberra, Australia but now lives and works in Silicon Valley for Google with his wife and two kids. Michael is an past committee member of AUUG, Linux Australia, and linux.conf.au 2005
Michael Strong, MetaSkills Pty Ltd
Michael Strong has more than 25 years experience in the computer industry - most of it in UNIX. He enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with others. Mike has extensive experience in Project Management, Technical Management and Team Leadership combined with a diverse hands-on technical background and a strong interest in documentation. Michael is the director of MetaSkills Pty Ltd.
Neal Wise
Prior to co-founding Assurance.com.au, Neal developed and managed the vulnerability management practices at Dimension Data Australia and eSec. Neal was also an instructor for Foundstone's Ultimate Hacking courses from 2001-2004. Neal has been a regular presenter on 802.11 wireless security and vulnerability lifecycle management at events like AusCERT's annual conferences and as a guest lecturer at RMIT and Monash Universities. Wise is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
Wise's company Assurance.com.au provides secure solution design, deployment and management. Assurance also provides wireless audit and penetration testing services to confirm wireless solution security design and implementation.