Session: PANEL DISCUSSION: How can we reshape the tech ecosystem to achieve diversity?
Session: ROUNDTABLE 1: Navigating established industry structures and overturning the bro code
Narelle Clark joined IAA in 2019, becoming its first Chief Executive Officer in June 2020. Specialising in the application of networks and systems, Narelle has a broad technical and strategic view of Internet scale ICT delivery and has been a user, builder, operator and researcher of Internet networks through her extensive career with major telcos, research agencies and consumer bodies. Narelle also has a leadership and governance background in the not-for-profit sector and, until recently, held a five-year tenure on the board of the Public Interest Registry which operates the .Org top-level domain.
On first discovering the Internet in 1989, when a Lab Manager at UTS, Narelle set about wanting to connect every computer and piece of test equipment on her campus only to soon find herself in the team running the entire university network and all of the AARNet NSW regional network as well! This, in turn, led to a decade at Optus where ultimately, she led network architecture and their R&D program, working closely with Singtel in areas like IPv6 adoption, data centre construction and OSS. After leaving Optus she spent time with CSIRO leading their networking technologies research, sat on the Board of Trustees for the global Internet Society, then a stint in consumer advocacy and research, before acting as Principal Consultant with Pavonis Consulting where she advised companies in telecommunications regulation, operations and technology.
Narelle is a current member of the Australian Computer Society, a member of the UNSW Engineering Advisory Board, a Senior Member of the IEEE. Narelle has a degree in applied physics, a masters in telecommunications engineering and a post graduate diploma in management.