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Fiona Wood | Australian of the Year


2005 Australian of the Year, Fiona Wood is a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Director of the WA Burns Service and a consultant at Princess Margaret Hospital and Royal Perth Hospital. In October 2002, her leadership, innovation and vision were brought into the world’s spotlight as she treated survivors of the Bali bombing with her ground breaking research on tissue-guided regeneration.

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Roy Singham | Founder and Chairman, ThoughtWorks


As Founder and Chairman of ThoughtWorks Inc., Roy Singham is recognised globally as a software development innovator of change. Throughout his 20-year career, Roy has inspired the industry as an influential supporter of emerging technologies, open source programming languages, and Agile methods of software development. He is regularly featured as a keynote speaker and panel presenter to global conferences and organisations such as Fortune's Brainstorm Technology conferences. Recently, Roy gave the opening addresses to the Latin American conference on Agile methodologies conference in Florianopolis, Brazil and the first Ruby Conference in Bangalore, India. Roy Singham is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC.

ThoughtWorks Inc., headquartered in Chicago, IL. has evolved into the world's most influential custom software development firm with more than 1,500 employees worldwide and operations in the U.S., China, Brazil, India, Australia, Canada, Singapore and the UK. The ThoughtWorks Studios division is an innovation products group that set the standard in Agile Application LifeCycle Management Software. ThoughtWorks is recognised as the pioneer of Lean and Agile software development principles and champion of software excellence.

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