Media Alert

CeBIT 2013 - What’s on at Advantage Wollongong

Advantage

Wollongong exhibitor

Opportunity Media Contact When can we

meet at CeBIT?

Ask NSW Trade & Investment’s Nigel

McKinnon about the Wollongong

Advantage for ICT and Knowledge

Services business. Find out about

Wollongong’s key advantages and why

Wollongong is a superior business

location.

Nigel McKinnon

Regional Director

Illawarra/South

East

NSW Trade &

Investment

M: 0418 259 055

Wednesday

afternoon & all

day Thursday

With 5,200 people now employed in

knowledge services in Wollongong, the

city is well on the way to becoming

Australia’s ‘Silicon Beach’ – discuss

Wollongong’s transformation from a

steel and coal-led city with Mark

Grimson, Wollongong City Council.

Mark Grimson

Economic

Development

Manager

Wollongong City

Council

M: 0409 155 240

All day Tuesday

and Wednesday

morning

The University of Wollongong produces

the highest number of ICT graduates in

NSW. Interview Craig Peden on the

University’s award-winning Innovation

Campus business & research precinct and

its success in attracting international IT-

enabled tenants to Wollongong including

Pactera, Joy Global, Tickets.com &

CommScope Inc.

Craig Peden

Director, Corporate

Relations

University of

Wollongong

M: 0438 825 514

All day Tuesday,

Wednesday and

Thursday

University of Wollongong-led iAccelerate

is accelerating innovation in the city

through its StartPad incubator for

technology-focused ideas, education and

mentoring programs, pitching workshops

and Entrepreneur Club. Meet Melissa

Ryan and find out why Wollongong

punches above its weight for start-ups.

Melissa Ryan

Innovation

Ecosystem

Development

Manager,

University of

Wollongong

M: 0409 188 978

All day Tuesday,

Wednesday and

Thursday

Ask ICT Illawarra President and founder

and director of Wollongong-based Selera

software why the city is the ideal location

for ICT businesses and their clients.

Michael Lawler

President, ICT

Illawarra

M: 0411 539 876

All day Tuesday

and Wednesday,

Thursday

afternoon

Advantage

Wollongong exhibitor

Opportunity Media Contact When can we

meet at CeBIT?

Talk with Selera Labs Program Manager

Rod Hockey about its DataIgnition

financial compliance suite which has just

secured another major ASX-listed

customer, joining Telstra, ANZ, Fairfax

Media, BlueScope Steel, SEEK, and

international clients John Deere,

Monsanto and HSBC Bank in Hong Kong.

Rod Hockey

Program Manager

Selera Labs

M: 0419 798 999

All day Tuesday

and Wednesday,

Thursday

afternoon

Wollongong-based Relativity specialises

in video communications, creating

content that distinguishes and connects

organisations to their avatar clients.

Relativity’s Gerardo Cres will be available

to speak about the company’s video

production & rich media presentations.

Gerardo Cres

Director

Relativity

M: 0417 673 922

All day Tuesday,

Wednesday and

Thursday

Daniel Rowan became MD of Internetrix

following a recent management buyout.

Talk to Daniel about the Wollongong-

based IT company’s plans to expand its

China office and how it will use its IRIIF

co-investment grant to develop a new

digital platform for buying & configuring

websites online.

Daniel Rowan

Managing Director

Internetrix

M: 0414 847 604

All day Tuesday

and Wednesday

morning

Metronode is building the NSW

Government’s new Tier 3 data centre in

Wollongong and a matching facility in

Sydney’s west. Set to open later this

year, the facility will mean Wollongong is

within two milliseconds of Sydney and

Canberra. Metronode’s Chris Eckert will

be available to speak about the centre’s

progress and the company’s plans for

Wollongong.

Chris Eckert

NSW Government

Practice

Metronode

M: 0400 995 983

All day Tuesday,

Wednesday and

Thursday

China-headquartered global IT services

company Pactera (formed by the merger

of HiSoft and VanceInfo) announced on 8

May it will establish a Nearshore

Development Centre at the Innovation

Campus. Michael McCann will be on

hand to discuss the services the Centre

will offer ANZ clients and Pactera’s plans

to collaborate with the University.

Michael Mccann

Principal

Consultant

Pactera

M: 0418 285 974

All day Tuesday,

Wednesday and

Thursday