Official Event Advisory Panel
Quest Events would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the official event advisory panel who contributed their valuable time and expertise to ensure the agenda for this event is timely and relevant for all IT infrastructure professionals.
David Abramson
Director Research Computing Center
University of Queensland
David has been involved in computer architecture and high performance computing research since 1979.
He has held appointments at Griffith University, CSIRO, RMIT and Monash University.
Prior to joining UQ, he was the Director of the Monash e-Education Centre, Science Director of the Monash e-Research Centre, and a Professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash.
From 2007 to 2011 he was an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow.
David has expertise in High Performance Computing, distributed and parallel computing, computer architecture and software engineering.
He has produced in excess of 200 research publications, and some of his work has also been integrated in commercial products. One of these, Nimrod, has been used widely in research and academia globally, and is also available as a commercial product, called EnFuzion, from Axceleon.
His world-leading work in parallel debugging is sold and marketed by Cray Inc, one of the world's leading supercomputing vendors, as a product called ccdb.
David is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), and the Australian Computer Society (ACS). He is currently a visiting Professor in the Oxford e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford.
David Carroll
Chief Technology Officer
Adelaide City Council
Andrew Hatch
Dev Ops Manager
SEEK
Andrew Hatch is currently the DevOps Manager at Seek, overseeing a team of 12 people whose functions range from being embedded in Product Delivery Streams with the goal of driving better DevOps practices in development and testing, perform Level 1 support duties, manage our rapidly growing usage of AWS and assist in the delivery of projects aimed at improving Seeks platforms and services
Prior to Seek Andrew worked as a consultant for a number of years delivering small through to large scale IT solutions in a number of roles spanning across Architecture, Development, Testing, IM and DevOps. Andrew has worked both in Australia and India and built his first continuous delivery pipeline in 2009. Since then Andrew gravitated more and more into DevOps focused roles, due in part to getting bored with Architecture and Development roles and being more interested in the unique challenges DevOps presented with changing traditional work and organisation practices to deliver better IT solutions. Andrew has a real passion for working in dynamic, innovative and challenging environments and building high-performing teams of talented and unique people and still enjoys getting his hands dirty with code
Currently a 17 year veteran of the IT industry, Andrew comes from the Mornington Peninsula in south-eastern Australia which is located in the state of Victoria. A unique part of the world renowned for its surf beaches, natural parks, wineries and wildlife. In between dividing his time between being a dad to 2 boisterous primary school age children he loves nothing more than surfing a few waves on the weekend, gardening and fiddling with old Datsun 510 cars.
Nicholas Tan 
Chief Infrastructure Architect
NewsCorp
Nicholas is currently the Chief Architect for Digital Infrastructure, Cloud and Cyber at News Corp Australia.
He is a passionate advocate of open and elastic software defined services to underpin the Digital Business agenda at scale. He is widely known as a leading Enterprise Technology Executive in Australia and has previously held senior strategy, execution and product engineering roles at KPMG, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and PwC Consulting.
Nicholas is also currently a member of the Megaport Advisory Council (megaport.org) with a key mission to foster community and drive initiatives that contribute to the future of the Open Internet.