From Ubiquity to Invisibility…and Beyond
From the 16th century to the 20th century AD human systems and processes evolved rapidly through the industrial era and are now transitioning to the information age, where physical form (make, create, transport store, buy/trade/sell, consume) gives way to virtual form (intangible, voracious, flexible, exponential) and where rapid demand can emerge for products and services we didn’t even know existed last year. Remember the first big year of Google, the You Tube year, of virtualization, and now it’s mobility, social media, crowd sourcing and the cloud…and the SKA…
What can an IT professional learn from farmers, canal builders, interstate highways, and even derivative traders, about how to make sense of this crazy world? Do we build it and they will come? Do we lay out a banquet and ask users to have as much of each dish as they like – or can afford? Or should we focus on a few core services and outsource what could be a number of exponential supply risks to outsiders?
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Nigel Poole's Biography
Nigel Poole is Acting Group Executive, Information Sciences at CSIRO. He is a member of CSIRO’s Executive team, and reports to the Chief Executive, Dr Megan Clark.
The Group he is responsible for conducts research in the areas of information and communication technology, mathematics, informatics and statistics, and radio astronomy. It also delivers all computing, network and data storage for CSIRO facilities around Australia.
Current priorities are delivering the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth, taking the lead in developing a Sydney Precinct, setting up a Digital Productivity Flagship and completing the Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, a radical new radio telescope in Murchison,
Western Australia.
Mr Poole joined CSIRO in 2002 and has had responsibility for commercialisation of new technology and formation of start-ups, legal and intellectual property, information management and technology, contract administration, major client relationships, and property services. He has most recently been leading a major patent licensing and litigation programme in the US.
Nigel was previously Group Director, Corporate Development at Goodman Fielder Ltd, a senior consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an investment banker in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Nigel has degrees in Law and Economics from the University of Otago in New Zealand and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, where he a facilitator for the Company Directors Course.
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