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Eddie Pallotta

Mechanical and metallurgical engineer Eddie Pallotta has been with the Hickory Group since 2010, joining us after excelling in the automotive industry in both Australia and internationally for General Motors. Combining technical knowledge that spans mechanical design, manufacturing, material selection, welding and corrosion with a broad range of management and people skills, Eddie has been an important part of the Group; improving process and design on both the conventional construction and prefabricated sides of the business.

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Michael Wheatley

Michael Wheatley is the a/Head of Housing Portfolio, for the newly created Homes NSW Division. Prior to the creation of Homes NSW, Housing Portfolio was known as Land and Housing Corporation.

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Jonathan Fernando

Jonathan Fernando is the Project Manager at the Canadian Standards Association (CSA Group) responsible for the welding and modular construction standards.

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Adam Shkolnik

Adam Shkolnik is a seasoned program manager that delivers on key objectives. He is a risk management specialist, with demonstrated success in managing complex and sensitive projects. Adam has extensive experience with large scale Government projects, including two major election commitments regarding asbestos removal from schools and parks infrastructure.

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Professor James Murray-Parkes

For the past seven years or so, renowned scientist and engineer, James Murray-Parkes has been the director of the Brookfield Scientific Solutions Group, part of the famed Brookfield Asset Management out of Toronto and New York.

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Wendy Steele

Wendy Steele is an Associate Professor in Cities and Sustainability at the Centre for Urban Research (CUR) at RMIT University in Melbourne. She is also an expert commentator on urban planning, policy and governance.

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Kasper Guldager Jensen

Kasper Guldager Jensen is a Senior Partner at Danish architecture company 3XN and the Director of 3XN’s innovation company, GXN. The ‘G’ in GXN stands for green, highlighting GXN’s dedication to advancing ecological design.

At GXN, Kasper is passionately engaged in sustainable design, digital processes and new materials. Through his work in the green building space, he has become a spokesperson for the shape of future architecture, focusing on the circular economy, integration of new materials and green technologies.

In addition to his industry roles, Kasper regularly lectures on topics such as environmental design and circularity at prestigious universities around the world. In 2018, he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Calgary (Canada) and Delft University of Technology (Netherlands).

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Tom Durick

Tom Durick is a Business Development Manager (BDM) at CSIRO’s Data61 – Australia’s leading data innovation group, which was formed in 2016. Data61 combines data science, engineering and design to help Australia create new technology-based industries that can reach global scale.

As a BDM, Tom’s work centres around commercialisation, intellectual property development and applied research in the fields of digital innovation, data analytics and optimisation. He advises stakeholders – both internal and external – of impacts, opportunities and threats for digitally enabled enterprises. He has a particular interest in distributed ledger technology and blockchain, which informs his work at Data61.

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