From the team that brought you the Indo-Pacific Space & Earth Conference
Bringing together leaders from across the
Indo-Pacific and beyond for opportunities in
robotics, autonomy, AI and cyber
Bringing together leaders from across the Indo-Pacific and beyond for opportunities in robotics, autonomy, AI and cyber
- Pan Pacific Perth
- 7-9 October 2025
7-8 October 2025
Conference & exhibition
9 October 2025
Technical tours
- Conference
- Exhibition
- Business networking opportunities

- Robotics
- Data
- Cyber
- AI
- Space
- Mining
- Oil & gas
- Energy
- Renewables
- Government
- Defence
- Agriculture
- Advanced manufacturing
- Education

- CEOs
- Government officials
- Managers
- Engineers
- Operations
- Consultants
- Researchers
Join us in October 2025
From the team that brought you the Indo-Pacific Space and Earth Conference (IPSEC)
After a resounding success of IPSEC in 2023 and 2024, we are proud to announce the launch of the Indo-Pacific Robotics, Autonomy, AI and Cyber Conference (IPRAAC) in 2025.
Following the same format of IPSEC, the conference is aimed at bringing together leading minds, thought leaders and industry experts from around the globe for opportunities in robotics, autonomy, AI and cyber. Through interactive sessions, workshops and discussions, the conference provides a unique platform for attendees to explore the infinite possibilities of robotics and related technologies and their impact around the world, forging collaborations that will drive innovation in various sectors.
Join us in October 2025 for the new installment of IPRAAC for invaluable opportunities to share knowledge, collaborate and network among key industry leaders.


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Join speakers and delegates from across the Indo-Pacific and beyond
Extensive business networking opportunities


















Anticipated audience based on previous events:

Australia

Canada

France

Germany

Hungary

India

Japan

Kenya

Malaysia

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Pakistan

Philippines

Singapore

South Africa

South Korea

Switzerland

Taiwan

UK

USA

Vietnam
We look forward to welcoming you to Western Australia
Speakers & panellists
We’re excited to announce our lineup of incredible key industry speakers and panellists – stay tuned for more speaker announcements still to come.
We have gathered an exceptional lineup of speakers and panellists from around the world including key industry players, NASA delegates, government officials, CEOs, educators, researchers and more.


Edna Addai
CEO – CLEAN-PILL


Preetham Akula
Founder and CEO – Akula Tech


Christian Andersen
Director of Research – Pisces Hawaii


Lucy Anderton
Principal Consultant & Director – LA.ONE Economics & Consulting Pty Ltd – myFARMSMART & The SMARTBEEF Project


Kim Antonio
Manager, Food Industry Innovation – Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD)


Shaun Azimi
Robotics Technical Discipline Lead, Software, Robotics and Simulation Division – NASA Johnson Space Center


Janelle Baily
Assistant Director, Data Science & Analytics – Western Australia Police Force


Felipe Barria
Senior Development Consultant, Food Industry Innovation – Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD)


Katherine Bennell-Pegg
Australian Astronaut


Dr John Blitch
Cognitive Scientist / Emergency Response Consultant – Blitz Solutions; Former Senior Research Scientist – US Air Force Research Laboratory; Former Program Manager – DARPA


Natasha Blycha
Managing Director – Stirling & Rose


Rick Brooks
Regional Manager (Southern Perth, Goldfields and Esperance) – AusIndustry


Keith Bulfin
CEO – Dunedin Capital Markets; CEO – Monitors Foundation


Glenn Callow
CTO – Austal; Former Chief Advisor (Digital Integrated Mine) and Manager (Mine Automation) – Rio Tinto


Kenneth Cheung
Principal Investigator for the Coded Structures Laboratory – NASA


Matt Clements
Director of Strategic Growth – Innovative Mining Services; Previous Global Lead for Mobile Equipment – Anglo American


Dr S. Kate Conroy
Wing Commander, Responsible AI Lead, Jericho Disruptive Innovation – Royal Australian Air Force


Leanne Cunnold
CEO – AROSE (Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth)


Matthew Curnow
Head of DataOps, Artificial Intelligence and GenAI Operations – WOOD


Paul Daly
Superintendent and Officer in Charge – Police Air Wing, Western Australia Police Force


Linda Dawson
Head of the Office of Defence Industries – Department of Premier and Cabinet WA


Hon Stephen Dawson MLC
Minister for Regional Development; Ports; Science and Innovation; Medical Research; Kimberley


Paulo de Souza
Executive Dean, School of Engineering – Edith Cowan University; Former Science Director and Chief Research Scientist – CSIRO; Collaborating Scientist – NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Program


Scott Elson
Director of Business Development – L3Harris Integrated Mission Systems Australia


Shawn Fernando
Head of Technology – Woodside Energy



Professor Bernard Foing
CEO – ILEWG LUNEX EuroMoonMars; President – Space Renaissance International; Chief Scientist – QOSMOSYS; Former Chief Scientist – European Space Agency


Samuel Forbes
Director – Fugro SpAARC (Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex)


Erik Franks
Founder and CEO – Cislune


Bennett Frerck
Technical Lead – Digital Mission Engineering (DME) – LEAP Australia (working with Ansys, PTC, nCode, Flownex, Moldex3D)


Jesse Gane
General Manager – Adisyn


Rachel Geddes
Director, Strategic Engagement and Comms – Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator, Australian Defence Force


Gavin Gillett
Solutions Architect, Autonomous Systems – Nova Systems; Former Specialist Integrated Operations – Rio Tinto


Ted Goranson
Chief Scientist –
Sirius-beta


Gary Hale
Director, National Resilience & Security (NRAS) – Curtin University; Former Director, Cyber Security and Innovation – CISCO; Former Royal Australian Airforce


James Healy
Managing Director - The Behaviour Boutique; Former Principal – Human Capital Consulting at Deloitte


Harry Hubert
Director and Chief Operations Officer – Greenroom Robotics


Roger Hunter
Program Manager, Small Spacecraft Technology Program – NASA Ames Research Center


Amber Imai-Hong
Avionics Engineer and Project Manager – Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems


Bindi Isbister
Precision Agriculture Consultant – Agrarian Management


Professor Helge Janicke
Professor in Cyber Security – Edith Cowan University; Former CEO and Research Director – Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre


Alex Jenkins
Director – WA Data Science Innovation Hub; Board Member – WA State Government’s AI Advisory Board; Chair – Curtin AI in Research Group (CAIR)


Matt Jones
Director and Co-founder – elttam


Renu Kannu
National Robotics and Innovation Lead – Australian Automation and Robotics Precinct


Michelle Keegan
Director – Mining and Space


Serena King
Assistant Director – National Office of Cyber Security, Australian Department of Home Affairs


Dr Nathan Kirchner
Founding Team & Head of Product – Zabidou; Mission Director, Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics – Arena Mars; Founder and Chief Evangelist – Presien; Founding Director – Robotics Australia Group; Founder and Director – Grey Wall Advisory; Venture Partner – Melt Ventures; Silicon Vandal’s Chief Evangelist


Sudheer Kumar N
Former Director, CBPO – ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation)


Evan Laske
Lunar Terrain Vehicle Ground Test Project Manager – NASA


Dr Roger Lawes
Principal Research Scientist – CSIRO Agriculture Flagship


Dave Lawie
Chief Geoscientist & Chief Technologist – Mining – IMDEX


Ed Lewis
Head of AI, Data and Automation – Unearthed


Professor Dr Artur Lugmayr
Director – UXMachines


Roberto Lujan Rocha
Co-Founder and Director – Squadrone; Senior Research Officer and Laboratory Manager – UWA


Mark McDonald
Gemini/AI Developer Relations – Google DeepMind



Dawn McIntosh
Space Systems Director – Fugro SpAARC (Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex)



Dr Colin McIvor
Cluster Manager – Subsea Innovation Cluster Australia


Hannah McKelvie
Cyber Innovation Principal – Cyber Security, Security & Operations, Global Networks & Technology – Telstra



Dr Mark Micire
Space Systems Principal Engineer – Fugro SpAARC; Former NASA, DARPA, FEMA/DHS


Rajeeshwaran Moorthy MRAeS
Strategic Advisor – Maldives Space Agency


Hirokazu Mori
Group CSO and CEO of USA - Warpspace


Dan Moss
Defence Industry Advisor – Defence Australia – Office of Defence Industry Support (ODIS)


Robert Mueller
IEEE Volunteer


Alex Murphy
Director & Head of Engineering – Ausco; Former Systems Integration Engineer – Fugro; Winner: AMDA INDO PACIFIC 2022 Young Innovator Award


His Excellency Vasyl Myroshnychenko
Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia


Danielle Nardini
Sustainability Principal – Sandfire Resources; Former APAC Business Line Manager – Automation, Sandvik


Emma O’Neil
Director – CyberWest Hub – WA Cyber Security Innovation Hub


Ankur Omar
Director & CEO – Farmonaut


Dr Tibor Pacher
CEO – Puli Space



Dr Siddharth Pandey
Space Systems Engineer and Strategic Partnerships Lead (Asia Pacific) – Fugro SpAARC


Jeannie Marie Paterson
Professor of Law; Co-Director – Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE), The University of Melbourne


Dr Thierry Peynot
Associate Professor – Queensland University of Technology (QUT); Chief Investigator – QUT Centre for Robotics (Space Robotics and Mining Robotics) activities



Venkat Pillay
CEO – LC60 AI


Janie Plant
Chair – Women in Technology WA (WiTWA)



Professor Ganna Pogrebna
Lead for Behavioural Data Science – The Alan Turing Institute



Rueben Rajasingam
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder – LC60 AI


Sakthikumar Ramachandran
Founder & Chief Executive Officer – OrbitAID Aerospace


Arvind Ramana
Director, Space Programs Technology Uplift – Australian Space Agency


Hale Reynolds
Managing Director –
All-Star Agency


Gohar Rind
Founder / Managing Director – Intaris


Zamara Rodriguez
Optus Industry Fellow & Capability Database Coordinator – Space Industry Association of Australia


Nicci Rossouw
Chief Executive Officer - Robotics Australia Group


Renae Sayers
Director, Strategic Initiatives for Earth and Planetary Sciences – Curtin University; Former Deputy Director, Space Science and Technology Centre – Curtin University


Jon Sciortino
Portfolio Manager, Autonomous & Intelligence Systems – Nova Systems


Maxwell Scott
Senior Program Manager, Office of Responsible AI – Microsoft


Dr Muhammad Bilal Shaikh
Chair – IEEE Signal Processing Society Western Australia Section; Ambassador on Entrepreneurship – IEEE Region 10 Adjunct Faculty, School of Science, Edith Cowan University; AI Researcher – Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML), Edith Cowan University


Liz Smith
Principal – Joseph Banks Secondary College and the Western Australian Space Science Education Centre


Pablo Sobron
Founder and Inventor, Space and Climate Tech – Impossible Sensing


Carl Solder
Chief Technology Officer – Cisco (Australia & New Zealand)


Dario Stefanelli
Senior Research Scientist and Lead of the Fruit and Perennial Crops Program – Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development WA


Veronika Stihler
Managing Director – GTD GmbH


Jonathan Stock
Chief Scientist for Innovation – NASA AMES; Former Director – US Geological Survey (USGS) National Innovation Center


Sandeep Taileng
Information Security Leader at State Trustees & member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)


Tadashi Takano
Director – Space Solar Power Systems Society; Chairman of the Board – Society for Space Travel


Lynette Tan
CEO – Space Faculty (Singapore)


David Taylor
Senior Cyber Security Advisor – Bunnings Group Limited


Natasha Teakle
National Coordinator – GRDC's Grain Automate Program; CEO – Agristart


Shaun Thomas
Defence Industry Adviser (Contractor to Defence) – Office of Defence Industry Support


Petra Trinke
Strategic Programs and Community Impact Lead – Women in Technology WA (WiTWA)


Shana Uhlmann
General Manager Technology – Perth Airport


Terry van Haren
Air Commodore (Retired); Vice President, Strategy, Director – DroneShield Defence Services


Vivek Varadharajan
CTO and Co-Founder – Unchartered AI; Lecturer on Swarm Intelligence


Aude Vignelles
Former Chief Technology Officer – Australian Space Agency; Senior Advisor – BryceTech


Dave Vosnakes
Director – National Office of Cyber Security, Department of Home Affairs


Pradyumna Vyshnav
Co-Founder & CEO – Uncharted AI


Joshua Wigley
CEO – Hyperion: Deployable 3D printing units for rapid, large-scale manufacturing


Jo Wilkie
Global Marketing Director – Arbortech


Dr Holly Yanco
Director – New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center at UMass Lowell


Bruce Yost
Director – NASA Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI) – NASA Ames Research Centre


Tully Young
Founder and Managing Director – Blue Tongue Skills


Erin Victor
Events and Partnerships Manager – Space and Earth Partners and Advisory


David Matrai
Committee Chair – IPRAAC; Joint Managing Director – MySecurity Media / Space and Earth Partners and Advisory


Chris Cubbage
Director & Executive Editor – MySecurity Media / Space and Earth Partners and Advisory
Technologies and industries represented
Robotics
Autonomy
AI
Cyber security
Space
Mining
Defence
Agriculture
Oil & Gas
Education
Investment
Emergency Services
Remote operations
Data Analytics
Venture Capital
Government
Finance
Energy
