Associate Professor Ady James, UniSA

Dr James teaches Systems Engineering, Space Studies and Space Science at UniSA. He holds a Ph.D. In 1997, Dr James he developed a fast ion spectrometer for the Russian Mars 96 spacecraft. He has worked on various space programs including Mars 96, Cluster II, XMM Newton, MOSES and Solar-B (Hinode). In early 2012 Dr James taught Project Management and Systems Engineering as well as supervising numerous MSc and PhD student. From 2013 until it’s closure in 2017 Dr James was Academic Director for the UCL Australia campus. Dr James has been involved in the Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program since 2012 and was co-Director for the 2018, 2019 and 2020 programs.

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Asat Mahmutov, Accenture

Asat Mahmutov, studied accounting and finance at the University of Adelaide and has been with Accenture for over three years. During his time there, he has had had several roles, from maintaining contract financials, pricing and solutioning deliverables, project management and now mainly working as a business analyst. He has always had an interest in all things space but never had the background to get involved so is looking forward to ActInSpace as an excellent opportunity to dip his toes in the water.

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Baber Majid Bhatti, Accenture

Baber Majid Bhatti is passionate about solving the problems of this world and believes technology innovation is to problem solvers as the hammer is to Thor! But Thor works in the ethereal world, and the real world needs problem-solvers in this world to act in our space! By being part of the mentoring team at this event, he want to help find the problem-solvers and assist them in innovation. Baber also calls UniSA home because it is where he did his PhD and where he quenched his desire for research and teaching. Previously Baber worked in the government, defence and telecom industries for two decades. Currently, he provides consulting and advisory services in these industries and solve problems through technology and innovation.

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Bez Mohammadi, 2018 ActInSpace global champion, South Australian Space Industry Centre

Bez Mohammadi is Pathways Manager at the Defence Innovation Partnership. In his role, Bez works closely with project teams to identify and promote their research to commercialisation partners and end users. He is also responsible for scoping further funding and partnership opportunities. Bez brings extensive experience working across technology and entrepreneurship, including co-founding several space and social enterprise start-ups. Over the past five years, Bez has worked in the aerospace and defence industries across business development, operations and stakeholder engagement. Prior to his role at the Defence Innovation Partnership, Bez was a technology and project analyst at Accenture. Bez is representing the South Australian Space Industry Centre at ActInSpace. 

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Doctor Catherine Grace, South Australian Space Industry Centre

Dr Catherine Grace was appointed as the Associate Director of the South Australian Space Industry Centre in 2021. Supporting the advancement of South Australia as the centre-of-gravity for space activity, Catherine is a strategic-initiatives lead, focusing on emerging opportunities in disruptive technology, within the Space and Defence sectors.

Catherine is a (registered) physician who has held international roles in clinical researcher, partnership engagement, and strategy development. A graduate of the International Space University (SHSSP22), Catherine has also studied Archaeology & Human Biology, holds a MBBS (Medical University of Warsaw), and also holds Post Graduate qualifications in Research and Defence.

An enthusiastic speaker and multilingual orator, Catherine has also been recognised for contributions to research.

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Helen Loudis, Australian Space Agency

Helen is Acting Assistant Manager, Strategy Branch, Australian Space Agency. Helen started her career managing clinical trials, after completing a Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences. In 2017, she embarked on a career change into the space sector, undertaking post graduate studies in Project Management and Astronomy. Helen has performed various roles within the sector, including supporting the SmartSat CRC’s establishment whilst at the University of South Australia. She then went on to support Southern Launch, as Project Manager in late 2019 and spent the next two years at the Department for Trade and Investment as Business Development Officer to deliver the South Australian International Education Strategy and the Space Strategy. In February 2022, Helen joined the Australian Space Agency, within the Strategy Branch, and is committed to supporting the sector through various volunteering roles and community engagements.

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Georgia Minarelli, UniSA

Georgia brings a passion for writing and storytelling to her role as the Marketing, Communications and Project Officer for UniSA’s Innovation & Collaboration Centre.

Georgia’s ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders is based on her experience working in the corporate, not-for-profit and higher education sectors.

She specialises in managing both proactive and reactive media enquiries, creative PR campaigns, proofing and editing, corporate communications, and brand and marketing management.

More than 12 years working in communications roles has seen Georgia greatly develop her flair for writing and editing and hone her passion for exceptional customer service and attention to detail.

Georgia is one of the founding menbers of the team who created the Venture Catalyst Space program, a globally recognised space accelerator program.

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Kyle Faulkner, Accenture

Kyle Faulkner is a Senior Analyst at Accenture, helping clients with the implementation of the Salesforce platform.

This is a service which stores and analyzes sales, customer service, and marketing data on a single cloud-based platform.

He also holds a degree in Space Science & Astrophysics from the University of Adelaide.

In 2019, as part of the Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program hosted by UniSA and the ISU, Kyle participated in writing a comprehensive report on the reliance of current and future technology on satellite networks.

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Lauren Springer, Accenture

Lauren graduated from Curtin University Western Australia with a Bachelor in Physics (Astrophysics) in 2020. She completed her third-year paper with the ICRAAR team, discussing the "Earthshine" effect and its impact in detecting an elusive hydrogen radio signal, representing a remnant of the big bang and the formation of the early universe.

Lauren joined Accenture in February 2021 as part of the Pega Practice team. Working as a Lead Business Analyst for a major Australian bank, Lauren focuses on gathering requirements, solution design and uplifting manual processes onto new platforms leveraging automation. She remains passionate about space and the space industry.

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Samantha Dawes, UniSA

Samantha brings a diverse skillset to University of South Australia’s Innovation & Collaboration Centre, having worked across multiple industries.

As part of the marketing team, she strives to expand the ICC's global brand awareness across space and high-tech sectors. She has previously held senior roles in the digital marketing industry, working with major retailers like Speedo, The North Face, and Lacoste.

Her marketing career is underpinned by extensive media and communications experience, having worked with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for close to six years.

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Sumen Rai, South Australian Space Industry Centre

Sumen has spent two decades working at the intersection of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and social sciences. As Director of the Defence Innovation Partnership, Sumen is responsible for engagement with industry, government and the research community, and strategic marketing and communications. Over the past seven years, Sumen has worked at Defence SA focusing on the development of defence science and technology activities across South Australia’s priority areas such as cybersecurity, maritime technology and autonomous systems. She also helped develop the state’s aim to expand opportunities in the space sector.

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Kosta Canatselis, 2018 ActInSpace global champion

Passionate designer with five years of both entrepreneurial and professional experience across software, web and mobile applications, and video games.

Skills in UX/UI design, service design, games user research, software development, game design, and business strategy.

Kosta was one of the four team member who won the Australian ActInSpace compeition. He and his team travelled to France and won the global ActInSpace title in 2018.

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Michael De Angelis, Silentium Defence

Michael is a Systems Engineer and has worked in a number of industries including medical devices, defence and space. The experience of being in the 2018 ActInSpace global Champion team lead Michael to his current role, developing passive radar systems for applications such as Space Domain Awareness and UAS Traffic Management. Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic) and Bachelor of Mathematical and Computer Sciences from the University of Adelaide.

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Matthias Siefert, AIRBUS

Matthias Seifert joined Airbus 17 year ago and works across sales and marketing, business development and program management activities of the Defence and Space division of Airbus into Australia. He facilitates contact between Defence, Governmental agencies and the European capabilities of Airbus Defence and Space. Prior to his appointment in Australia, he worked ten years in Germany in various positions in the Services business for Military Aircraft, in Training and Flight Simulation, Logistics, Electronics equipment and Mission Avionics. In Australia he has been working on introduction of Unmanned Aerial Systems, High Altitude Pseudo Satellites and related applications for communications, surveillance, earth observation and monitoring and supports the development of industrial partnerships and R&T collaborations with SME and academia to build a sovereign local industry capability.

Matthias holds a degree of Aerospace Engineering from the University of the German Armed Forces and served in the German Air Force, retiring as a Captain and Chief Engineering Officer in a maintenance, repair and overhaul squadron of Air Transportation Wing 61. He completed a post graduate programme in International Management with University of the German Armed Forces and the Brisbane Graduate School of Business at QUT.