Tim Kastelle - Lecturer - Innovation Management - UQ Business School - The University of Queensland

Tim Kastelle is a Lecturer in Innovation Management at the University of Queensland Business School. After graduating from Princeton University with a degree in economics, he worked for twelve years in senior positions in a variety of industries including radio, office equipment, industrial chemicals, higher education and software.

Tim developed an interest in the role of innovation and firm growth which led to further study at the UQ Business School including an MBA (Advanced) and a PhD looking at the link between innovation and economic development. Tim was awarded the UQ Business School’s Dean’s Commendation for MBA.

Tim’s broad research interests are the impact of innovation on firm and economic growth, and the application of complex network analysis to the study of innovation at the levels of the firm, region, sector and nation. His current projects include the evolution of national innovation systems, how internal structures influence innovation outcomes in project-based firms, and a study of internal networks within an organisation and their impact on innovation performance.

Tim has completed work for a range of organisations including Brisbane City Council, Ergon Energy Corporation, Fusidium Pty Ltd, Queensland Health, Rio Tinto, and Hatch Engineering. Common projects include innovation reviews, aligning innovation with corporate strategy, improving innovation performance, innovation workshops, and network analysis.

Tim also runs the UQ Business School’s Innovation Leadership Executive Education Program and is an editor of the journal Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice.

More information is available on his website: timkastelle.org

David James- CEO & Director Brasserie Bread

Prior to joining Brasserie Bread David was the CEO and co-founder of SandwichDirect.com an online food delivery company. Having raised the start-up capital to launch the company in Sydney in 2000 he relocated it to California. Over the next of 3 years he grew the company raising several rounds of venture capital and building a high profile board of directors. In 2003 David negotiated the merger of SandwichDirect.com with Specialty’s Café & Bakery a small retail chain based in San Francisco. David remains on the board of directors and the company has since grown to 30 stores in Seattle, San Francisco, LA and Chicago and it continues to expand.

Prior to this David was the founder of a telecommunications VAR subsequently sold to Telecom Australia, a software development company, and a marketing & distribution company servicing international IT vendors entering the Asia Pacific market.

Brasserie Bread
Brasserie Bread is the realization of a dream that started decades ago at Bayswater Brasserie in Kings Cross, the iconic Sydney restaurant where Michael Klausen and Tony Papas first started baking sourdough bread for its guests in 1996. Since 2000 Brasserie Bread has established a reputation for supplying premium artisan products to top food industry professionals and now supplies over 300 top restaurants, hotels, cafés and deli's across Sydney and the ACT.

Everybody at Brasserie Bread is passionate about the quest to bake true artisan products, and expert training, skill and a love of great ingredients have come together to create Australia’s leading sourdough bakery. Brasserie Bread’s mission is to “honour the traditions of artisan baking”, to this end it has developed and implemented sophisticated IT systems and logistics so it can deliver its products accurately and on time every day, 365 days a year. In another demonstration of its commitment to quality and customer satisfaction Brasserie Bread became HACCP accredited in 2007.

Brasserie Bread is located at 1737 Botany Road, Banksmeadow in an old saw-tooth warehouse a stone’s throw from the cranes of Port Botany. This is home to the wholesale baking business, the retail shop and the hugely popular Café. In September 2008 a dedicated Baking School was opened providing artisan baking classes for kids & schools, and a range of artisan baking workshops for adults. Brasserie Bread has become a unique destination for chefs, foodies, kids and all lovers of great food!

www.brasseriebread.com.au

Helen Crozier - businessproductivitygenius.com

Helen has over 20 years consulting experience since graduating with a Business Degree in New Zealand.  After working for IBM and becoming more than proficient at this new thing called 'email' she forged her way intrepidly onto the world wide web.  Becoming an internet pioneer enabled Helen to freelance while raising her two young children now 18 and 15. A stint at nineMSN which included taking care of the Cleo Chat Room brought her rapidly up to speed with the brave new 'online' world.

Always hungry for finding the perfect tools, Helen makes good use of her life as an insomniac reading technology and productivity blogs, finding the best applications and passing this information on to her business clients and members of her extensive social networking communities. Helen is completely excited by latest developments in online/mobile tools that make it easier to develop and run businesses where-ever we are, whenever it suits us.
Helen also dabbles in photography, European languages, cooking and reading both digital and old-school books.

businesspoductivitygenius.com
Transforming technology into productivity.

She consults to businesses face to face or remotely is soon to be launching a 'productivity academy' which will offer a combination of downloadable and live productivity training focusing on managing contacts, time and data.

Helen thoroughly tests out a variety of web and iPhone/iPad applications and uses them in her own business at all stages of client engagement.

Helen's blog is Keyboard Karma and her twitter handle is @helencrozier.