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Amy has been in rail since she graduated in 2007. In that time she has worked in maintenance, design and delivery. She started her career in Materials and Fire Engineering, she then worked in RAMS and Through Life Engineering. Amy has been in Engineering Governance for over 5 years, bringing together her learned experiences. As a people leader, Amy focusses on enabling the individual to deliver for the team.

Across her career, Amy has focussed on a ‘whole of life, whole of system’ view. She has a passion for sustainability and finding the balance for people, planet and profit.

A/Professor Noushin Nasiri is the Head of the NanoTech Laboratory at the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, where she leads a team of nine research personnel, including four PhD and five Master of Research students. Her research team is focused on design and fabrication of nanostructured materials, functionalised coatings, miniaturised sensing technologies and wearable devices for health, energy and environmental applications.

She is one of Australia’s 2021-2022 Superstars of STEM, 40 under 40: Most Influential Asian-Australians, and the recipient of 2023 NSW Cancer Institute Fellowship, 2022 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship, 2021 Royal Society of New South Wales Warren Prize and 2019 NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals including Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials and ACS Nano, with more than 1700 citations, a h-index of 23 and i10-index of 31. Her vision is to combine state-of-the-art techniques in the field of nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, and chemistry to develop innovative nanomaterials that can potentially transform the landscape of nanosensing technologies. She is a passionate science communicator who has received considerable outside recognition for her research including TEDx Sydney Salon 2017, TEDx Macquarie University 2019 and TEDx Bligh Street 2020.

Professor Alan Wong is the founder and CEO of IND Technology. He invented and commercialised the award-winning EFD product that is used by utility companies around the world. The EFD detects and locates failing power assets before they eventuate into power outages or initiate arcing that can start a fire. The uptake of the patented technology has increased exponentially since 2013, from one single power utility to over 20 companies across Australia, Asia, Canada and North America.