Oracle Modern Cloud Day
Sydney | 3 December 2019

Associate Professor Christopher Gordon is a teaching and research academic at Sydney Nursing School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. He is a Research Leader of insomnia and chronobiology research at Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. His research focuses on phenotyping, pathophysiology and treatment responses of insomnia. He is currently the national project leader of the insomnia program in the Alertness CRC and is leading the development of novel translational digital therapies. He has worked with academic, industry and government partners on research projects focusing on health solutions at the population level.

Sanja is an experienced and accomplished technology leader, program and change manager. Sanja’s career includes multiple leadership roles where she played an integral role leading infrastructure teams in implementing complex systems and applications development projects for prominent accounts. As General Manager Technology and Innovation at Aspen Medical, Sanja has built a responsive IT environment. This has brought substantial improvement in operational and clinical service delivery, standardisation and business/systems performance. In addition, she has effectively raised ITs visibility within the organisation by bringing technology decisions and issues to the forefront of crucial Executive Committee discussions.

Tancy Kao is a Senior Research Data Scientist at Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. She has over 10 years of experience in cognitive neuroscience and uses machine learning and statistics to analyse neurophysiological signals. She also has an industry experience of building and productionising bespoke models to analyse and report in real-time the learning behaviour from click-by-click rich activity report data collected from K12 students’ computers during classrooms. She is responsible for analysing and building models of complex real-world sleep disorders. She applies machine learning and deep learning to biometric timeseries to predict sleep problems.

Cyril Lam is Head of IT at Moose Toys, a family owned and run Australian toy company. Moose leads in ground-breaking design, development and manufacturing of award-winning toys. Not stopping at WOW inducing toys, Moose also trailblazes the way in the entertainment industry and develops worldwide licensing deals. Cyril is responsible for and leads an innovative, robust and secure information technology environment throughout Moose’s global operations, driving their IT strategy and digital transformation. A long-standing member of the Moose family, Cyril has previously held similar roles in the retail, manufacturing and F&B industries.

Brooke Charlton is Executive Manager of Marketing Automation at Suncorp Group where she leads a team of 25 in leveraging data to create connected experiences through direct marketing, digital media and loyalty. With over 12 years of marketing experience, Brooke‘s career has involved working for some of Australia’s most recognisable brands, including Suncorp, AAMI, GIO, Apia, Nestle, University of Melbourne and Barclays Bank in the UK. Brooke is a big believer in making the complicated simple and the simple compelling.

Lara joined Inland Revenue in April 2016. Before joining IR, Lara was the Deputy Chief Executive - Finance at the Tertiary Education Commission. Lara worked for the Ministry of Justice initially as the CFO and then as General Manager Performance and Improvement, Courts and Tribunals. She also spent time as the CFO at Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand, and working in planning and finance teams across the public sector. Lara started her career working in receivership and insolvency with accountancy firm Price Waterhouse and then McCallum Petterson and Co.

Danielle Furini is a digital strategist at Latitude Financial Services where she drives a program of innovative best in breed technology solutions which maximizes her background in human centre design, analytics and experimentation with a goal to ensure Latitude is finding the best way for their customers to borrow money. Before moving down under Danielle grew up in the leading UK bank driving ecommerce capability, optimisation and NPS across the digital portfolio. Once hitting the sunnier shores, she was at the forefront of the no. 1 accounting software company digital transformation from desktop to cloud.

Paul is a passionate and detailed Supply Chain Leader with over 30 years’ experience working in various organisations driving Supply Chain Management change and optimisation both internally and on behalf of many clients. In his current role at Facebook, he leads the engineering, product management and business teams to drive better outcomes for Facebook customers.

Andrew is an innovative talent acquisition leader who specialises in “recruitment transformation" for mid to large companies. Among his accomplishments in the recruiting field, Andrew has built in-house talent acquisition functions for high growth global businesses like National Bank of Abu Dhabi and Synlait Milk Ltd, run regional recruitment operations via RPO for Bank America during a heavy hiring activity, and built an executive search practice and contractor supply service to major Middle Eastern Oil & Gas companies. Andrew is a trusted business advisor on recruitment & retention strategies, executive search and diversity and inclusion.