Bill has worked on a review panel for the University of Wollongong Masters of Digital Media as well as a speaker at the Australasian Music Business Conference. He has also acted as a consultant to Channel 7, Channel 9, and SBS. In the early days of Apple’s resurgent entry into the professional video market, Bill provided technical support for many of the Australia post-production houses such as Animal Logic, Rising Sun Pictures, and Fuel.

Before working for Apple, Bill was a Programmer/Engineer at the Defence Force Academy, working for the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering programming Macintoshes and learning about remote sensing, satellite images, and image processing. Before this in the early 1980s, he was a committee member of Opunka, the UNSW film group, for four years where he was able to indulge himself with showing six feature films a week, learnt how to drive 35mm projectors, and developed a critical eye for films.

Peter has produced projects for radio, television and interactive media and he has worked on a wide range of industry training initiatives. He is the past chair of the Sydney chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH.

Tracey has more than 20 years experience working as a design manager in the fashion industry, coupled with ten years experience in the field of digital media education, and a total of eighteen years experience as an art and design educator and curriculum developer. Tracey’s previous roles include Manager, TAFE NSW Design Programs; Curriculum Project Coordinator, TAFE NSW; Business Development Consultant, TAFE NSW Sydney Institute; and Manager, Silicon Graphics Centre, Design Centre – Enmore College.

Tracey holds a Masters in Art and Design Education and a Bachelor of Art Education from the College of Fine Arts (COFA), Sydney, as well as a number of VET qualifications in a variety of design and educational disciplines. Tracey was the recipient of the Award for Excellent Service to Public Education and Training 2004. She is passionate about creating and maintaining excellence in education for the design and digital media industries in Australia.

In April 2008, she was the keynote speaker for the Norwegian Film Institute’s Digital Storytelling Conference and jury member for the Norwegian Best Visual Effects awards. In June 2008, she was the keynote speaker for Framework: create – an event and forum for games and convergent industries. In November 2009, she spoke at the Creative Industries Innovation Centre’s Screen Business- Global Trends event. In March 2010, she was a speaker at Arts NSW’s Creative Industries Focus Group Workshop and a participant in the Digital Sydney Forum in May 2010.

Shilo designs and conducts seminars, workshops, and lectures for industry and tertiary courses in filmmaking, digital visual effects, architecture and storycraft. She is a consultant to the Screen NSW Digital Visual Effects Scheme, Vice Chair of Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH (Professional Chapter) and was Digital Strand Curator for the 2006 & 2007 Sydney Film Festivals, producing and directing a series of podcasts for the Festival site in 2006. She continued her work with the Festival as a pre-selector for the Dendy Awards in 2009.

Her consulting and editorial work ranges from digital image curation for games developers, strategic advice on educational/media ICT development and digital content, and the development of strategy documents and reporting in the areas of digital media/ICT. She is the editor for the Network Insight Institute and the author of various articles for industry publications including the chapter on digital visual effects for the Screen Australia‘s production management ‘Satchel’.

She worked with Ausfilm in the development of its international Factsheet series for filmmakers and with NICTA on its 2020 Vision and Annual Reports 2009.

Her film credits include: Adding Strings To Your Bow (60 minute documentary, Producer/Director). How Long Is A Piece Of String (50 minute documentary, Producer/Director). The Tichborne Claimant (UK feature film, 2nd Unit production), The Zipper (digital short, Post-production Producer, selected Cannes Film Festival 1999), Dreaming of Freedom (Independent short film, Writer/Director/Producer), The Beat Manifesto (Producer – short film – Winner 3 AFI Awards, screened Cannes, Venice, Cork, Aspen, Singapore, Montreal, Toronto, Dakino, Goteborg, St. Kilda and Henri Langlois International Film Festivals), Out (Line Producer – short film, nominated Dendy and AFI awards), Desire Lines (Producer – short film, NSWFTO Young filmmakers fund), Smoked Oysters (Producer – music video).

She has a PhD from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a graduate of the Australian Film Television & Radio School.