Technology Innovation: Energising Australia
A South Africa Event on 2016-05-11 18:00:00
You are invited to be part of the discussion at our upcoming event co-hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies and the Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering. Moderated by Professor Tony Vassallo, Delta Electricity Chair in Sustainable Energy Development at the University, the panel will feature successful entrepreneurs, innovators and policy leaders with a focus on energy sustainability & storage and current policy. Join the discussion with panellists: Dr Lachlan Blackhall, Reposit Power Professor Joe Dong, Director, Sydney Energy Internet Research Institute, University of Sydney David Hind, Barefoot Power Dr Susan Pond AM FTSE, Chairman, Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Panellist biographies Dr Lachlan Blackhall Lachlan is the co-founder and CTO of Reposit Power. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney and a PhD in systems and control theory and is a leading expert in the optimisation and control of energy storage devices. Lachlan has been heavily involved in the entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and investment domains for over a decade. This involvement has included starting a number of companies, being involved in the mentoring and development of entrepreneurs and their ideas, and working to advise or invest in a number of companies. Lachlan is a passionate advocate of education and outreach in both STEM and entrepreneurial domains. He is an adjunct lecturer at the Australian National University and has undertaken outreach activities around Australia and in Malaysia, Pakistan, Uganda, and Kenya. Professor Joe Dong Professor Z.Y. (Joe) Dong is Head of School of Electrical and Information Engineering, and Director for the Sydney Energy Internet Research Institute, at the University of Sydney, and a contractor with Ausgrid and EPRI, USA. He is now a member of the ARC College of Experts. Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2013, he was Ausgrid Chair and Director of the Ausgrid Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Electricity Networks (CIEN) at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has also worked for Hong Kong Polytechnic University and as system planning manager with Transend Networks, Australia. Professor Dong's research interest includes power system planning and stability, smart grid, load modeling, renewable energy, electricity market, and computational methods. He is an editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, IEEE TRANSACTONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, IEEE PES LETTERS, IET RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION, and Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. He is an international Advisor for the lead Chinese journal of Automation of Electric Power Systems. He also serves as guest editor for International Journal of Systems Science. David Hind David Hind is an angel investor in Barefoot Power Pty. Ltd and has been its Chair since 2009. In the 10 years since it was founded, Barefoot Power has provided more than 700,000 sustainable solar powered affordable energy systems (lighting, phone charging, fans, radios and TVs) to more than 3 million people and SMEs in Africa, India and Papua New Guinea. David was previously Managing Director of BOC South Pacific until his retirement in 2005. David is an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies at the University of Sydney. He holds an honours degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and a Fellow of IEAust. Dr Susan Pond Dr Susan Pond AM FTSE is a senior leader in business and academia, recognised for major national and international contributions in biotechnology, renewable energy and sustainability. Dr Pond’s particular area of expertise is the development of the advanced biofuels industry as part of the transport energy system, particularly for sectors with critical needs such as aviation, shipping and defence. Dr Pond is Adjunct Professor in Engineering and Information Technologies at the University of Sydney, Director of Biotron Limited and Engineering Sydney, and Chairman of the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. In 2013, the Australian Financial Review and Westpac named her a Top 100 Women of Influence. Professor Tony Vassallo – panel moderator Professor Tony Vassallo holds the Delta Electricity Chair in Sustainable Energy Development at the University of Sydney, in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Prior to this, he held the position of Senior Principal Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation, followed by a period of consultancy to industry and government in the field of sustainable energy technology. Tony has a PhD in Chemistry from Macquarie University. Tony's energy storage research has been recognised with the CSIRO Chairman's Medal, for the Low Emissions Vehicle Team (joint) in 2000. He also shared the CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement in 2004, as joint team leader of the High Power Supercapacitor Team. He is the immediate past President of the Australian Institute of Energy, and leader of the Clean Energy Research Cluster in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney.
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