Loading Deb Krause Senior Scientist, CSIRO’s Food Innovation Centre Tony Tan SilFresh Michael Alaoui Business Development Manager – Dorner, Contech Parisa Amiri Multi Product Specialist, Central Innovation Siemens Australia Siemens Chris Balazs CEO, Provenir James Balzary CEO, TilliT Karin Blacow Food Safety Specialist, Commercial Food Sanitation Bill Blyth Energy Conservation Group Manager , SMC Pneumatics (Australia) Pty Ltd Tony Bowyer Owner, Automation Systems & Controls Paul Camilleri Senior Packaging Engineer, Abbe VIC Jozef Ceh Global Accounts Manager, SMC Corporation Braydon Cocks Product Specialist - iDSnet & LPA Solutions, Matthews Australasia Mike Corbett National Generator Manager, PR Power Barry Cosier Director – Sustainability, Australian Food & Grocery Council Dr. Marlene Cran Ph.D., BSc (Hons), Research Fellow, The Sustainable Packaging Research Group, Victoria University Dirk Crouse Principal Consultant, Lean Sensei Consulting Tessa Eastman Connected Products Strategist, Markem-Imaje, Software Solution Division Ben Elkington Director of Product Line Management – Global Trays, Klöckner Pentaplast Dr George Feast SME Collaboration Nation Lead, CSIRO Joe Foster CEO, O F Packaging / Close the Loop Group Pouya Ghobadi ERP integration Solution Sales Executive , Central Innovation Diren Gokal Head of Manufacturing, NCI Packaging Buhler Group Buhler Group Paul Grundy Sales Director, Paringa Pet Foods Ryan Hart Manager Deep Learning & Machine Vision Solutions, Automation Systems & Controls Ross Headifen General Manager, Biogone Brett Hottes Automation Manager, Abbe (Austcor) NSW Filip Janakievski Team Leader Food Engineering, CSIRO Brad Jeavons Business Improvement Manager, Signet Blair Keating Business Development Manager, CSIRO Dr Simon Lockrey Reduce Program Leader, Fight Food Waste Wilfrid Marie CEO and Managing Director , IMA Dairy & Food Asia Pacific Simon Meens Business Development Manager - Automation, Abbe Moreno Minghetti Executive VP, AlphaMAC Simon Murray Reliability Coach, Your Maintenance Coach Kesh Nair General Manager, Close the Loop David Newell General Manager, Matcon Limited Charlotte Payne Head of Procurement Excellence, Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) Andy Pearson National Services Manager, PILZ Australia Darren Phipps Regional Business Manager - Power Products, JCB Professor Vincent Rouillard Ph.D., M.Eng., B.Eng., FIEAust., The Sustainable Packaging Research Group, Victoria University Gerard Ryan Managing Director, Prodex Systems Monika Szabo SME Strategy Advisor, CSIRO Helmut Thissen Team Leader, CSIRO Manufacturing Adam Waldron Technical Sales & Sustainability Manager , Klöckner Pentaplast Food Packaging Jim Wallace National Sales Manager, Balluff Tim Way Technical Director, Waterform Technologies Kate Whitehead Managing Director, Avant Group Pty Ltd Morgan Wyatt Co-Founder & CEO, Greenlid