Pre-Conference Workshops
Tuesday 15 October
(Additional fee applies — limited availability. Book with one or two-day conference packages or individually. Prices are ex-GST))
Stream 1 (ARCIA):
With conference package: $449
Workshop only: $499
Stream 2 (ARCIA):
With conference package: $249
Workshop only: $299
Stream 3 (ACCF):
AM - With conference package $249
AM - Workshop only $299
PM - With conference package $299
PM - Workshop only $349
STREAM 1- ARCIA
Introduction to P25 Standards and Systems
9.30am-1.00pm
This course is designed for students with basic knowledge of land mobile radio technology and systems. An understanding of how frequencies, antennas systems and transmitters and receivers work is preferred.
This course introduces the student to the P25 digital land mobile radio standard. Modules include a high-level overview of the P25 digital radio standard as a transmission media including the TIA standards, modulation, vocoders, channel access. An introduction to the P25 standard will be covered including Phase 1 & 2, conventional and trunked system, encryption, system components (e.g., RFSS, ISSI, CSSI etc). The information is introductory in nature and designed for all audiences, however a basic understanding of radio communications would be beneficial.
Presenter: Chris Stevens -Managing Director, CartGIS and Vice-President, ARCIA
STREAM 2 - ARCIA
The TAK Imperative: Why Australian Mission Operations will embrace this unifying common operating picture
9.30am-1.00pm
Join an international line-up of TAK experts as they deep dive into a technology that delivers an interoperable unified common operating picture (COP) based on non-proprietary, open-source software developed and continuously updated by the US Department of Defence.
Australian public safety agencies and emergency management organisations can embrace the civilian TAK stream as a unified operational picture that fits in the hands of remote emergency workers, that is available to benefit private-sector users too, such as park operations, marathon organisers, festivals and other large public events.
STREAM 3 - ACCF
From Narrowband to broadband critical networks – “Connection is the lifeline” - How do we make this journey work?
This workshop will cover topics from narrowband to broadband critical networks, where connection is the lifeline, and how the LMR/broadband industry makes this journey work.
This is your opportunity to hear and discuss the most pressing topics and share the challenges and solutions we are all facing where critical connectivity is the lifeline.
Presenters: Alan Seery - Chairman, ACCF; Kevin Graham - CEO, ACCF; Daniel Hill - Director - Motorola Solutions, Darren McLeod - Mobility Networks Architect, Vertel; Rhys Clare - Key Account Manager, APAC, Airbus Defence and Space; Phil Retsas - Product Manager, Sepura; Dion Stevenson - Product Manager, Tait Communications; Prashant Valayam - National Program Manager, Radlink Communications; Terence Wong - Head of APAC 5G Industry & IoT, GSMA
STREAM 1- ARCIA
Private LTE/5G – The Fundamentals of the Technology and System Designs
1.30pm-5.00pm
This course will provide students with the skills to be able to outline the key elements and components of a typical wireless broadband communication system. Students will be able to develop the block diagrams and system elements for designing a basic system and demonstrate the expected requirements and outcomes of such a system, both in basic and extended formats.
On completion students will be able to understand and identify the various elements associated with system design, including the relevant spectrum sectors that are associated with wireless broadband and understand the potential outcomes that a relevant to all options that are applicable.
Presenter: Simon Lardner - Head of Wireless Business, Vocus
STREAM 2 - ARCIA
P25 Standards, Systems & Governance used in Public Safety networks
1.30pm-5.00pm
This workshop will build upon the success of the P25 panel held at Comms Connect in 2023 and welcomes once again the return of P25 Technology Interest Group (PTIG) Director Ms Cheryl Giggetts.
As the past 12 months have proven, despite predictions by government bureaucrats and industry pundits over past years regarding the imminent demise of Land Mobile Radio (LMR) used by Australia’s Public Safety Agencies and its replacement by public safety mobile broadband (PSMB) networks, LMR remains the key technology platform for mission critical voice communications used by agencies and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The Workshop will be a valuable forerunner to a presentation to be made by Ms. Giggetts about the P25 Standard during Comms Connect, followed by a Panel Session which will discuss the current and future use of the P25 Standard in Australia and New Zealand.
Cheryl Giggetts - Director PTIG & Principal Consultant, CTA Consultants; Geoff Spring – Senior Industry Advisor, University of Melbourne, Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety; Peter Sharman – Support Officer, Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria; Dawn Hartog – Captain, Toolangi Fire Brigade Victoria
STREAM 3 - ACCF
Learning from International Mission Critical LMR/Broadband Deployments and Roll-out of Networks
This workshop will concentrate on global mission-critical LMR/broadband deployments and roll-out of networks of government, public safety/civil defence internationally and Australia and New Zealand. This is your opportunity to hear and discuss the most pressing topics and share the challenges and solutions we are all in facing globally where critical connectivity is the lifeline.
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