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