ISA Digital Transformation Conference – Asia Pacific

Zorba Parer is the current Executive Director of Zorba Parer Aerospace Consultancy Pty Ltd (ZPAC) was founded in November 2017 after Zorba spent 20+ years training and working in the aerospace industry across a range of domains. ZPAC is focused on providing top tier aviation software, safety, and systems, consultancy services. Currently ZPAC is focused on Digital Engineering and implementing Model Based Systems Engineering processes.

Eduardo joined ABB Brazil in 2005 as a field service engineer, where he supported the latest industrial automation technologies in process and power control, implemented the first remote diagnostic service center for process industries. In 2013, as a product manager, he led the development and market launch of a plant asset management solution for mining.

In 2016, he joined ABB Switzerland as a global product manager for mineral processing, where he led the development and market launch of the Operations Management System for mining. In 2020, he managed ABB's digital mining and cement portfolio globally. Currently, he is part of Global Industry Consultant team enabling mining customers to transform their operations through digitization.

John Kirkman is the Co-Founder of UWA Industry 4.0 Energy & Resources Digital Interoperability (ERDi) Test Lab.  Co-Founder of Manufacturing Intelligence Pty Ltd a Cloud Native, Auto-scaling Fault Tolerant, 3D Spatial, SaaS, Operational Real-time Digital Twin -engineered to optimise physical goods value chains via enabling rich, accurate, spatial, real-time visibility of operations and enabling a step change in automated value chain optimisation in mining, oil and gas and manufacturing. Current Managing Director at Enterprise Transformation Partners Pty Ltd., the world’s foremost Industry 4.0 experts in mining interoperability. Designing, building, and implementing the integrated and system optimised mine. Passionate about interoperability in mining, oil and gas and manufacturing. Contributing to Open Process Automation Forum, ISA-95 and B2MML, OPC-UA. Concept, Designed, Established and Operate the UWA I4.0 ERDi Testlab as part of the National I4.0 TestLab Network.

Bas Mutsaers is an innovative, growth oriented strategic executive with extensive experience in setting and executing digital and technology strategy and how it influences economic and sustainability drivers. He commercialises client focused innovation like Green Mining, Green Steel, Green Glass and Cement.

Bas has created and grown various high performance multi disciplinary teams, initiated several startups, and developed business models and partnerships in the areas of Sustainability, Process Efficiency, Process Heat, Software Development XaaS and EaaS, (pre) Sales, Management Consulting, Projects, Data science and Artificial Intelligence.

An early-stage industry, sustainability, and technology expert - whether its new product, service, startup, or organisation's transformation journey, removing risks, building great teams, and ensuring outcomes is my happy place....

To do this David leads a talented global team to develop strategy, offerings, go-to-market plans and manages execution across all Accenture's services, Industry experts, brands, market teams, and partners. These spans multiple sectors in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa.

David also has significant international expertise. He has executed global leadership roles across industry in his three decades of experience, most notably in Tier 1 Miners and Oil & Gas supermajors, for operators, consultants, technologists, EPCs, R&D and academia, and is passionate about building the renewable sector, decarbonising existing ones, carbon strategy and monetisation, and our societal imperative in doing so.

David maintains eminence in industry being a Chartered Professional Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, was a member of IBM’s Industry Academy; an executive group of seasoned Industry leaders and an author of many company and industry research studies & projects, and regularly speaks or chairs or participates in panels at industry conferences.

Ultimately David is passionate about helping create pathways toward a sustainable enterprise. He introduces a level of intelligent creativity, and an empowered culture with a growth mindset, building great teams and ensuring outcomes.

With over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, David provides business development, pre-sales support, advisory services, and digital transformation consulting for the energy segment.  The major emphasis is the digitalization of the energy sector to reduce the carbon footprint of existing operations and the transition to non-carbon energy.  

Before STS, David was at the BP Chief Technology Office (CTO), where he spearheaded a wide range of innovative projects, including:  

• Developing the “Digital Umbrella” concept and the resulting ISA100.15 effort
• Wireless Measurements systems including WirelessHART, ISA100, corrosion and passive sensors
• Predictive Analytics
• Mobility projects

David serves on the Leadership Team for Global Energy Mentors – a volunteer organization that mentors startups in the energy sector to obtain their first formal funding round.  David is also a mentor for the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator.

David advises several organizations on digitalization, including American Infrastructure Group Inc., ChampionX, and the International Society of Automation (ISA). 

David has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse 

Zorba Parer is the current Executive Director of Zorba Parer Aerospace Consultancy Pty Ltd (ZPAC) was founded in November 2017 after Zorba spent 20+ years training and working in the aerospace industry across a range of domains. ZPAC is focused on providing top tier aviation software, safety, and systems, consultancy services. Currently ZPAC is focused on Digital Engineering and implementing Model Based Systems Engineering processes.

Zorba Parer is the current Executive Director of Zorba Parer Aerospace Consultancy Pty Ltd (ZPAC) was founded in November 2017 after Zorba spent 20+ years training and working in the aerospace industry across a range of domains. ZPAC is focused on providing top tier aviation software, safety, and systems, consultancy services. Currently ZPAC is focused on Digital Engineering and implementing Model Based Systems Engineering processes.

Tina joined Schneider Electric in September 2022. Prior to her current role, Tina was the Director of Supply Chain and Manufacturing for Kimberly-Clark Australia and New Zealand.

Tina has been a senior executive leader in supply chain for over 18 years, working for some of the world’s largest companies including Gartner, Unilever, and Goodyear. She has led large teams in manufacturing, safety, E2E planning, customer supply chain, transformation, logistic, and warehouse operations.

She is a performance-driven and people-centric leader who is passionate about supply chain transformation and people development.

Abdullah Al-Nufaii is currently an Engineering Consultant with Saudi Aramco. 

Abdullah Al-Nufaii is also focused on process automation & IOT based on emerging technologies in wireless and fiber optic transmission systems. Developing strategies and master plans in automation engineering in addition to adviser and consultant for capital programs.

An early-stage industry, sustainability, and technology expert - whether its new product, service, startup, or organisation's transformation journey, removing risks, building great teams, and ensuring outcomes is my happy place....

To do this David leads a talented global team to develop strategy, offerings, go-to-market plans and manages execution across all Accenture's services, Industry experts, brands, market teams, and partners. These spans multiple sectors in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa.

David also has significant international expertise. He has executed global leadership roles across industry in his three decades of experience, most notably in Tier 1 Miners and Oil & Gas supermajors, for operators, consultants, technologists, EPCs, R&D and academia, and is passionate about building the renewable sector, decarbonising existing ones, carbon strategy and monetisation, and our societal imperative in doing so.

David maintains eminence in industry being a Chartered Professional Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, was a member of IBM’s Industry Academy; an executive group of seasoned Industry leaders and an author of many company and industry research studies & projects, and regularly speaks or chairs or participates in panels at industry conferences.

Ultimately David is passionate about helping create pathways toward a sustainable enterprise. He introduces a level of intelligent creativity, and an empowered culture with a growth mindset, building great teams and ensuring outcomes.

Using over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Lafferty founded Scientific Technical Services to help companies increase performance while improving safety and integrity through the application of technology and process improvement. The primary focus is the digitalization of the energy industry. Providing services in the areas of:

- Marketing, new product development and strategy setting
- Presale support
- Technology consulting and advisor role
- Fractional digital transformation manager

Mr. Lafferty is considered a thought leader in IoT for Oil and Gas and has made over 40 presentations on IoT for oil and gas, machine learning, analytics, "drones" and blockchain. Besides technical presentations, roles included serving as conference chairman, providing keynote "landscape setting" presentations and chairing discussion sessions. David has also developed an "IoT for Oil and Gas Masterclass" that offers a day-long deep dive into the technology stacks of sensors, communications, big data, analytics, and visualization.

Mr. Lafferty provides business development in the digitization area for many companies, including Adaptive Wireless Solutions, Agile Stacks, BSquare, CTG, CTRL2GO, Cambridge Semantics, Crimo Technologies, Cntl2go, SourceZon, Embassy of Things, Exterra Monitoring, Falkonry, Infodat, TimeLi, IoTech, IOTium, IXDen, ReMuv, Sumitomo, University of Cincinnati, VisualAIM and WellAware.

David is an IoT advisor to major companies such as Eunike Ventures, Aramco Ventures, Intel, Apergy(ChampionX), Yokogawa, and Emerson. But also advises startups such as IoTium, WellAware, and Rheidiant.

Mr. Lafferty is an ARC Associate for ARC Advisor Group and provides executive summaries for leading technology issues. David was an advisor to SPAR 3D and provided insights on the use of 3D technology in the oil and gas domain. David is also an advisor to incubators such as LaunchAlaska and Houston Technology Center.

Zorba Parer is the current Executive Director of Zorba Parer Aerospace Consultancy Pty Ltd (ZPAC) was founded in November 2017 after Zorba spent 20+ years training and working in the aerospace industry across a range of domains. ZPAC is focused on providing top tier aviation software, safety, and systems, consultancy services. Currently ZPAC is focused on Digital Engineering and implementing Model Based Systems Engineering processes.

Dr Paulina Chan received PhD, DIC in EEE specialising in Communications at Imperial College London, MSc (Business) at Birkbeck College, University of London, and PhD (honoris causa) International Open University - WHO/UNICEF Alma-Alta Declaration

Paulina is the Chair of IEEE Public Visibility Committee (worldwide), Immediate Past Chair of IEEE Hong Kong Section (9500 professional members 2020) and Chair of the Hong Kong Regional Board, Chartered Management Institute (10,000 CMgr worldwide).

As the Principal and CEO of Global Mutual Innovation Consortium, an international think-tank on multinational technology business, Paulina works with trans-disciplinary professionals across continents to foster collaborations and development in innovative technologies, intelligent infrastructures and green energies.

Her career includes Managing Directors and expatriates of AT&T/Lucent Technologies in the US, Asia/Pacific Region, and the EU; Project Director of Exxon/Mobil Corporation Headquarters, New York NY; China Regional General Manager and expatriate of ICO Global Communications London and Beijing; and Senior Adviser of the EU for Hungary.

Dr Chan is former Imperial College Ambassador (Hon). She is also the Founding & incumbent Champion of the Imperial College Mentoring Programme to guide young scientists / technologists / engineers / managers-in-training to develop career paths and personal growth. She is Life Member of Universal Energy Alliance (US, EU, AP). Paulina was Guest at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony (2009) in honour of Sir Charles Kao.

Prof. Wan-Chi Siu, PhD, DIC, Life-FIEEE, is Emeritus Professor (formerly Chair Professor, HoD(EIE) and Dean(FEng)) of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is Life-Fellow of IEEE and was a PhD graduate (1984) of the Imperial College London, Vice President, Chair of Conference Board and core member of Board of Governors of the IEEE SP Society (2012-2014), President (2017-2018) and Distinguished Lecturer (2021-2022) of APSIPA, and has been Guest Editor/Subject Editor/AE for IEEE Transactions on CAS, IP, CSVT, and Electronics Letters. He received many awards, including Distinguished Presenter Award, Best Teacher Award, Best Faculty Researcher Award (twice) and IEEE Third Millennium Medel (2000). Prof. Siu has been Keynote Speaker of many conferences, published over 500 research papers in DSP, transforms, fast algorithms, machine learning, deep learning, super-resolution imaging, 2D/3D video coding, object recognition and tracking, and organized IEEE society-sponsored flagship conferences as TPC Chair (ISCAS1997) and General Chair (ICASSP2003 and ICIP2010). He was an independent non-executive director (2000-2015) of a publicly-listed video surveillance company and chaired Engineering/IT Panel of the First RAE (1992-93) in Hong Kong. Recently, he has been member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board, IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing Committee, (2017-2020) and Hong Kong RGC Engineering-JRS Panel (2020-2024).

To do this David leads a talented global team to develop strategy, offerings, go-to-market plans and manages execution across all Accenture's services, Industry experts, brands, market teams, and partners. These spans multiple sectors in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa.

David also has significant international expertise. He has executed global leadership roles across industry in his three decades of experience, most notably in Tier 1 Miners and Oil & Gas supermajors, for operators, consultants, technologists, EPCs, R&D and academia, and is passionate about building the renewable sector, decarbonising existing ones, carbon strategy and monetisation, and our societal imperative in doing so.

David maintains eminence in industry being a Chartered Professional Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, was a member of IBM’s Industry Academy; an executive group of seasoned Industry leaders and an author of many company and industry research studies & projects, and regularly speaks or chairs or participates in panels at industry conferences.

Ultimately David is passionate about helping create pathways toward a sustainable enterprise. He introduces a level of intelligent creativity, and an empowered culture with a growth mindset, building great teams and ensuring outcomes

Duncan is a Director within PwC Australia's Cyber Security and Digital Trust practice. He has over two decades of experience in Offensive and Defensive Cyber Security roles and is the lead for PwC's Perth Cyber Security team. He has worked in United Kingdom, Indonesia, Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Australia.

During this time he has worked with many household names on multinational projects, designing and implementing large scale networks in ISP environments and implementing security solutions for multi-layer networks.

Specialities:

► Cyber Strategy and Architecture
► Cyber Security Operation Centres
► Cyber Threat Horizon and Monitoring
► Cyber Attack Simulation Exercises
► Security Transformation
► Operational Technology Cyber Security

George Coldham is a curious, friendly, earnest Cyber Security and Cloud Engineering Professional. Specialising in the Microsoft M365 Security stack, he is a Customer Engineer at Microsoft. George is an educator, a mentor and a friendly ear to those who are looking to get a start in our amazing industry. He enjoys sharing knowledge and look forward to opportunities to speak publicly or hold workshops at events and conferences.

George is a qualified Microsoft Security Engineer with earning all Microsoft Security related certifications including AZ104 / AZ500 / MS500 / MS100 / MS101 / SC200 / SC300 / SC400.

With over twenty years experience in ICT, he worked his way up from helpdesk at Westnet where his work ethic of outstanding customer service, ensuring the best outcome possible was formed. Working in Managed Service Providers he refined this through the broad range of activities a consultant faces, initially at a Small MSP with on-premises Windows based Infrastructure to Empired with enterprise cutting edge Hybrid and Cloud only deployments.

After completing my Degree in Computer Science, with a Double Major in InterNetworking and Mobile Computing George was employed as a Graduate at Telstra where I worked in the Area Planning team. This gave him a solid and often used foundation in understanding connectivity issues, limitations and solutions to common enterprise connectivity to the cloud.

George volunteered with the Australian Computer Society for 8 years at all levels of the society from Subcommittee to National Board. He contributed to ensure the growth and sustainability of our profession within Australia and the world. During his time on the board, he championed Diversity and Inclusion, being an ally's voice in the room and achieving positive change including diversity statement for all state events, and code of conduct and safe space policy at ACS events.

A natural teacher, he gave back through speaking engagements at TAFE and Universities. George presents and hosts workshops at conferences such as BSides Perth, ComfyConAU and the ACS WA State Conference.

Rob is PwC Australia’s Cybersecurity and Digital Trust Leader. He's been with PwC since his graduate days in 2006 and became a Partner in 2017. He's spent the past 17 years helping organisations and governments to manage information security risk and build cyber resilience.

Early in his career he was a penetration tester and has continued to maintain deep technical expertise whilst also being an advisor to boards and executives on cyber security. He has experience in delivering cyber security services to both Australian and global organisations in areas such as incident response, threat and vulnerability management, cloud security, DevSecOps, cyber threat intelligence and cyber risk and governance.

Over the past decade he has developed expertise working in Operational Technology (OT) / Industrial Control System (ICS) environments. Between 2016 - 2019 he led PwC Australia’s Cyber OT capability whilst working with organisations in mining, utilities, energy and critical infrastructure industry sectors.

In 2018 he led PwC’s collaboration with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Government agencies and the ACSC, to develop the Australian Energy Sector Cyber Security Framework (AESCSF). This framework and annual program has contributed to cyber security uplift across the energy sector since its inception, and is a leading example of successful government and industry collaboration on cyber security.

He was PwC’s Cyber Lead for Australia’s 2021 Digital Census, working closely with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, AWS and the ACSC / ASD across the three year program starting in 2019. The 2021 Digital Census remains a leading example of secure digital transformation for Government in delivery of citizen services. He lived and worked in Canberra between 2019 and 2022 supporting a number of agencies on cyber security programs.

He's always been a passionate communicator and teacher and has spoken at numerous internal and external industry conferences throughout his career, as well as being featured regularly on TV, radio and podcasts.

One of his personal goals is to elevate the importance of science and technology disciplines and encourage STEM careers for our nation’s youth. He's always been passionate about science since graduating with a Physics major in his Bachelor of Science degree. He's particularly interested in emerging technologies that lie at the intersection of science and tech, such as quantum computing, space technology and artificial intelligence.

Steve works with companies to improve their performance through the identification of process bottlenecks and the intelligent introduction of technology to remove them. Steve is originally from the UK and is now based in Houston, Texas, USA. A UK registered Chartered Engineer and European registered Eur Ing with development and management experience in business process automation across multiple sectors. A Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and an ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP). Former Chairman of the IET’s Americas Regional Board.

Steve Mustard has been in the software development business for over 20 years. Steve’s career has included development of embedded software and hardware for military applications as well as the development of products for the remote control and monitoring of utility assets.

During his career, Steve has gained extensive experience of the benefits of integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), real time processing, decision support and other disparate systems to improve business processes and now couples this with knowledge of the Six Sigma methodology to allow him to analyze existing processes and identify bottlenecks and other issues. Steve’s previous and current client list includes the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO; major utilities such as Anglian Water Services and Sydney Water Corporation; Oil and gas majors such as BG Group and Aera Energy; and leading commercial organizations such as Quintiles Laboratories.

Cyber Security and Digital Risk Management Professional with decisive business, technology, and process vision along with vast global experience driving enterprise-wide Information and Cyber Security transformation, Technology Risk and Operations Management in Fortune 100 corporations.

Duncan is a Director within PwC Australia's Cyber Security and Digital Trust practice. He has over two decades of experience in Offensive and Defensive Cyber Security roles and is the lead for PwC's Perth Cyber Security team. He has worked in United Kingdom, Indonesia, Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Australia.

During this time he has worked with many household names on multinational projects, designing and implementing large scale networks in ISP environments and implementing security solutions for multi-layer networks.

Specialities:

► Cyber Strategy and Architecture
► Cyber Security Operation Centres
► Cyber Threat Horizon and Monitoring
► Cyber Attack Simulation Exercises
► Security Transformation
► Operational Technology Cyber Security

With over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, David provides business development, pre-sales support, advisory services, and digital transformation consulting for the energy segment.  The major emphasis is the digitalization of the energy sector to reduce the carbon footprint of existing operations and the transition to non-carbon energy.  

Before STS, David was at the BP Chief Technology Office (CTO), where he spearheaded a wide range of innovative projects, including:  

• Developing the “Digital Umbrella” concept and the resulting ISA100.15 effort
• Wireless Measurements systems including WirelessHART, ISA100, corrosion and passive sensors
• Predictive Analytics
• Mobility projects

David serves on the Leadership Team for Global Energy Mentors – a volunteer organization that mentors startups in the energy sector to obtain their first formal funding round.  David is also a mentor for the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator.

David advises several organizations on digitalization, including American Infrastructure Group Inc., ChampionX, and the International Society of Automation (ISA). 

David has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse

Prof. Wan-Chi Siu, PhD, DIC, Life-FIEEE, is Emeritus Professor (formerly Chair Professor, HoD(EIE) and Dean(FEng)) of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is Life-Fellow of IEEE and was a PhD graduate (1984) of the Imperial College London, Vice President, Chair of Conference Board and core member of Board of Governors of the IEEE SP Society (2012-2014), President (2017-2018) and Distinguished Lecturer (2021-2022) of APSIPA, and has been Guest Editor/Subject Editor/AE for IEEE Transactions on CAS, IP, CSVT, and Electronics Letters. He received many awards, including Distinguished Presenter Award, Best Teacher Award, Best Faculty Researcher Award (twice) and IEEE Third Millennium Medel (2000). Prof. Siu has been Keynote Speaker of many conferences, published over 500 research papers in DSP, transforms, fast algorithms, machine learning, deep learning, super-resolution imaging, 2D/3D video coding, object recognition and tracking, and organized IEEE society-sponsored flagship conferences as TPC Chair (ISCAS1997) and General Chair (ICASSP2003 and ICIP2010). He was an independent non-executive director (2000-2015) of a publicly-listed video surveillance company and chaired Engineering/IT Panel of the First RAE (1992-93) in Hong Kong. Recently, he has been member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board, IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing Committee, (2017-2020) and Hong Kong RGC Engineering-JRS Panel (2020-2024).

Chris Riley is a highly motivated and commercially astute procurement supply chain and procurement advisor with ~20 years blue chip experience and across a variety of geographies and industries.

Track record delivering major procurement programmes and innovative, value creating strategies via effective collaboration with internal & external stakeholders.

Passion for collaboration of best practices and developing a high performance team culture.

Professor Emeritus Lance Fung was trained as a Marine Radio and Electronic Officer in Hong Kong and UK during early 70’s. He graduated with a B.Sc. Degree with First Class Honours in Maritime Technology and a M.Eng. Degree from the University of Wales in early 80’s. His PhD degree was awarded by the University of Western Australia in 1994. Lance has worked in the industry and academic sectors in HK, Singapore, UK and Australia for over 40 years. He has authored over 400 publications in the disciplines of AI, Computational Intelligence and related applications. He has supervised over 30 doctoral students to completion. Lance has served as Director of the Centre for Enterprise Collaboration in Innovative Systems, Member of Murdoch University Senate, Academic Council, Associate Dean of Research, Postgraduate Research Director and as representative and advisor to industry and government committees. Lance has been a dedicated volunteer in IEEE for over 20 years and he is the IEEE Asia-Pacific Region (R10) Director 2023-2024.

Steve works with companies to improve their performance through the identification of process bottlenecks and the intelligent introduction of technology to remove them. Steve is originally from the United Kingdom (UK) and is now based in Houston, Texas, USA. He is a UK registered Chartered Engineer and European registered Eur Ing with development and management experience in business process automation across multiple sectors. A Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and an ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP). Former Chairman of the IET’s Americas Regional Board.

Steve Mustard has been in the software development business for over 20 years. His career has included development of embedded software and hardware for military applications as well as the development of products for the remote control and monitoring of utility assets. He is currently working with BP and their new "Argos" offshore production project. 

During his career, Steve has gained extensive experience of the benefits of integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), real time processing, decision support and other disparate systems to improve business processes and now couples this with knowledge of the Six Sigma methodology to allow him to analyze existing processes and identify bottlenecks and other issues. Steve’s previous and current client list includes the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO; major utilities such as Anglian Water Services and Sydney Water Corporation; Oil and gas majors such as BG Group and Aera Energy; and leading commercial organizations such as Quintiles Laboratories.

He is a former ISA President and is currently a very active Treasurer serving on the ISA executive board. 

Rob is PwC Australia’s Cybersecurity and Digital Trust Leader. He's been with PwC since his graduate days in 2006 and became a Partner in 2017. He's spent the past 17 years helping organisations and governments to manage information security risk and build cyber resilience.

Early in his career he was a penetration tester and has continued to maintain deep technical expertise whilst also being an advisor to boards and executives on cyber security. He has experience in delivering cyber security services to both Australian and global organisations in areas such as incident response, threat and vulnerability management, cloud security, DevSecOps, cyber threat intelligence and cyber risk and governance.

Over the past decade he has developed expertise working in Operational Technology (OT) / Industrial Control System (ICS) environments. Between 2016 - 2019 he led PwC Australia’s Cyber OT capability whilst working with organisations in mining, utilities, energy and critical infrastructure industry sectors.

In 2018 he led PwC’s collaboration with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Government agencies and the ACSC, to develop the Australian Energy Sector Cyber Security Framework (AESCSF). This framework and annual program has contributed to cyber security uplift across the energy sector since its inception, and is a leading example of successful government and industry collaboration on cyber security.

He was PwC’s Cyber Lead for Australia’s 2021 Digital Census, working closely with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, AWS and the ACSC / ASD across the three year program starting in 2019. The 2021 Digital Census remains a leading example of secure digital transformation for Government in delivery of citizen services. He lived and worked in Canberra between 2019 and 2022 supporting a number of agencies on cyber security programs.

He's always been a passionate communicator and teacher and has spoken at numerous internal and external industry conferences throughout his career, as well as being featured regularly on TV, radio and podcasts.

One of his personal goals is to elevate the importance of science and technology disciplines and encourage STEM careers for our nation’s youth. He's always been passionate about science since graduating with a Physics major in his Bachelor of Science degree. He's particularly interested in emerging technologies that lie at the intersection of science and tech, such as quantum computing, space technology and artificial intelligence.

Steve works with companies to improve their performance through the identification of process bottlenecks and the intelligent introduction of technology to remove them. Steve is originally from the United Kingdom (UK) and is now based in Houston, Texas, USA. He is a UK registered Chartered Engineer and European registered Eur Ing with development and management experience in business process automation across multiple sectors. A Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and an ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP). Former Chairman of the IET’s Americas Regional Board.

Steve Mustard has been in the software development business for over 20 years. His career has included development of embedded software and hardware for military applications as well as the development of products for the remote control and monitoring of utility assets. He is currently working with BP and their new "Argos" offshore production project. 

During his career, Steve has gained extensive experience of the benefits of integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), real time processing, decision support and other disparate systems to improve business processes and now couples this with knowledge of the Six Sigma methodology to allow him to analyze existing processes and identify bottlenecks and other issues. Steve’s previous and current client list includes the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO; major utilities such as Anglian Water Services and Sydney Water Corporation; Oil and gas majors such as BG Group and Aera Energy; and leading commercial organizations such as Quintiles Laboratories.

He is a former ISA President and is currently a very active Treasurer serving on the ISA executive board. 

Duncan is a Director within PwC Australia's Cyber Security and Digital Trust practice. He has over two decades of experience in Offensive and Defensive Cyber Security roles and is the lead for PwC's Perth Cyber Security team. He has worked in United Kingdom, Indonesia, Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Australia.

During this time he has worked with many household names on multinational projects, designing and implementing large scale networks in ISP environments and implementing security solutions for multi-layer networks.

Specialities:

► Cyber Strategy and Architecture
► Cyber Security Operation Centres
► Cyber Threat Horizon and Monitoring
► Cyber Attack Simulation Exercises
► Security Transformation
► Operational Technology Cyber Security

Cyber Security and Digital Risk Management Professional with decisive business, technology, and process vision along with vast global experience driving enterprise-wide Information and Cyber Security transformation, Technology Risk and Operations Management in Fortune 100 corporations.

Prabhu's passion is to help organizations, CEO's, boards, private equity investors create enterprise, shareholder value through Value Creation, Innovation, Technology, Automation, Digital Transformation, ESG, Energy Transition, and Sustainability. He has  20 years experience in public, private equity backed companies with a proven record in P&L, operations, marketing, sales, business development, and sustainability.

He was very fortunate to learn and lead teams in my P&L role in $700M Honeywell measurement & control business and held executive roles at Honeywell Safety, where he created a $300M high growth industry category called connected worker to eliminate workplace fatality and enhance workplace productivity.

As Vice-President of Innovation in corporate development role at Republic Services, he helped waste industry innovate to new markets in next generation innovation in plastics circularity, decarbonization, waste to value, renewable energy, and environmental solutions.

He learned so much from successful Private Equity portfolio buy / sell experience with Vector capital (3X MOIC with RAE systems, sold to Honeywell at 15X EBITDA, $340M) and cleantech roll up (Lumasense $70M backed by Oak Investments). He is currently working with leading Private Equity funds on executive led thesis in facility services.

He has held four board positions in for profit and non-profit associations. He operates with authentic, inspirational leadership style that generates trust, loyalty, respect and results across the organization.

Using over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Lafferty founded Scientific Technical Services to help companies increase performance while improving safety and integrity through the application of technology and process improvement. The primary focus is the digitalization of the energy industry. Providing services in the areas of:

- Marketing, new product development and strategy setting
- Presale support
- Technology consulting and advisor role
- Fractional digital transformation manager

Mr. Lafferty is considered a thought leader in IoT for Oil and Gas and has made over 40 presentations on IoT for oil and gas, machine learning, analytics, "drones" and blockchain. Besides technical presentations, roles included serving as conference chairman, providing keynote "landscape setting" presentations and chairing discussion sessions. David has also developed an "IoT for Oil and Gas Masterclass" that offers a day-long deep dive into the technology stacks of sensors, communications, big data, analytics, and visualization.

Mr. Lafferty provides business development in the digitization area for many companies, including Adaptive Wireless Solutions, Agile Stacks, BSquare, CTG, CTRL2GO, Cambridge Semantics, Crimo Technologies, Cntl2go, SourceZon, Embassy of Things, Exterra Monitoring, Falkonry, Infodat, TimeLi, IoTech, IOTium, IXDen, ReMuv, Sumitomo, University of Cincinnati, VisualAIM and WellAware.

David is an IoT advisor to major companies such as Eunike Ventures, Aramco Ventures, Intel, Apergy(ChampionX), Yokogawa, and Emerson. But also advises startups such as IoTium, WellAware, and Rheidiant.

Mr. Lafferty is an ARC Associate for ARC Advisor Group and provides executive summaries for leading technology issues. David was an advisor to SPAR 3D and provided insights on the use of 3D technology in the oil and gas domain. David is also an advisor to incubators such as LaunchAlaska and Houston Technology Center.

Steve works with companies to improve their performance through the identification of process bottlenecks and the intelligent introduction of technology to remove them. Steve is originally from the United Kingdom (UK) and is now based in Houston, Texas, USA. He is a United Kingdom (UK) UK registered Chartered Engineer and European registered Eur Ing with development and management experience in business process automation across multiple sectors. A Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and an ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP). Former Chairman of the IET’s Americas Regional Board.

Steve Mustard has been in the software development business for over 20 years. His career has included development of embedded software and hardware for military applications as well as the development of products for the remote control and monitoring of utility assets. He is currently working with BP and their new "Argos" offshore production project. 

During his career, Steve has gained extensive experience of the benefits of integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), real time processing, decision support and other disparate systems to improve business processes and now couples this with knowledge of the Six Sigma methodology to allow him to analyze existing processes and identify bottlenecks and other issues. Steve’s previous and current client list includes the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO; major utilities such as Anglian Water Services and Sydney Water Corporation; Oil and gas majors such as BG Group and Aera Energy; and leading commercial organizations such as Quintiles Laboratories.

He is a former ISA President and is currently a very active Treasurer serving on the ISA executive board. 

Using over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Lafferty founded Scientific Technical Services to help companies increase performance while improving safety and integrity through the application of technology and process improvement. The primary focus is the digitalization of the energy industry. Providing services in the areas of:

- Marketing, new product development and strategy setting
- Presale support
- Technology consulting and advisor role
- Fractional digital transformation manager

Mr. Lafferty is considered a thought leader in IoT for Oil and Gas and has made over 40 presentations on IoT for oil and gas, machine learning, analytics, "drones" and blockchain. Besides technical presentations, roles included serving as conference chairman, providing keynote "landscape setting" presentations and chairing discussion sessions. David has also developed an "IoT for Oil and Gas Masterclass" that offers a day-long deep dive into the technology stacks of sensors, communications, big data, analytics, and visualization.

Mr. Lafferty provides business development in the digitization area for many companies, including Adaptive Wireless Solutions, Agile Stacks, BSquare, CTG, CTRL2GO, Cambridge Semantics, Crimo Technologies, Cntl2go, SourceZon, Embassy of Things, Exterra Monitoring, Falkonry, Infodat, TimeLi, IoTech, IOTium, IXDen, ReMuv, Sumitomo, University of Cincinnati, VisualAIM and WellAware.

David is an IoT advisor to major companies such as Eunike Ventures, Aramco Ventures, Intel, Apergy(ChampionX), Yokogawa, and Emerson. But also advises startups such as IoTium, WellAware, and Rheidiant.

Mr. Lafferty is an ARC Associate for ARC Advisor Group and provides executive summaries for leading technology issues. David was an advisor to SPAR 3D and provided insights on the use of 3D technology in the oil and gas domain. David is also an advisor to incubators such as LaunchAlaska and Houston Technology Center.

Steve works with companies to improve their performance through the identification of process bottlenecks and the intelligent introduction of technology to remove them. Steve is originally from the United Kingdom (UK) and is now based in Houston, Texas, USA. He is a United Kingdom (UK) UK registered Chartered Engineer and European registered Eur Ing with development and management experience in business process automation across multiple sectors. A Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and an ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP). Former Chairman of the IET’s Americas Regional Board.

Steve Mustard has been in the software development business for over 20 years. His career has included development of embedded software and hardware for military applications as well as the development of products for the remote control and monitoring of utility assets. He is currently working with BP and their new "Argos" offshore production project. 

During his career, Steve has gained extensive experience of the benefits of integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), real time processing, decision support and other disparate systems to improve business processes and now couples this with knowledge of the Six Sigma methodology to allow him to analyze existing processes and identify bottlenecks and other issues. Steve’s previous and current client list includes the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO; major utilities such as Anglian Water Services and Sydney Water Corporation; Oil and gas majors such as BG Group and Aera Energy; and leading commercial organizations such as Quintiles Laboratories.

He is a former ISA President and is currently a very active Treasurer serving on the ISA executive board.