Craig Mudge

Craig Mudge has recently established the new Macquarie Institute for Innovation at Macquarie University after ten years in Silicon Valley. There he led the legendary Xerox PARC computer science lab, the source of many technologies that are commonplace today, such as the laser printer, the Ethernet, and the point-and-click windows interface. In the mid-nineties he nurtured the next generation Internet Protocol, IPv6, and other PARC innovations. From Sydney and Silicon Valley today, he operates Pacific Challenge, a strategy consultancy working with both startups and established firms - on entrepreneurial marketing, product planning, disruptive innovation, and technology management - as a board member or advisor. Clients have included Citibank in New York, Visa in San Francisco, Elders in Adelaide, AMP in Sydney, Jade in New Zealand, and ICM Agribusiness in Melbourne, CommerceNet, and AT&T Labs in the U.S. as well as over seventy startups through his work with venture firms.
Craig Mudge was CEO of Austek Microsystems, a technology company he founded on a breakthrough design technology developed at CSIRO. He raised $US 6.7 million to found the company and grew it to $24 million in revenues and profitability from logic chips including the world’s first single-chip cache and signal processing chips.
Acquisitions of spinoffs and licensing deals from his labs total $500 million. He was a computer designer at DEC (now HP) in Boston and founded and led micro-chip research at CSIRO. He co-authored Computer Engineering with Gordon Bell, has published over sixty papers, and holds six patents. He has held faculty positions in Computer Science at Caltech, Carnegie Mellon University, and Flinders University. Mudge holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an undergraduate degree in mathematics, statistics, and economics from the ANU. His formal management education occurred at the AGSM and Harvard Business School.
In 2006 the new Macquarie Institute for Innovation gave its first classes in entrepreneurship and the management on innovation across life sciences, computer technology, and the social economy. It is building a leadership position in entrepreneurship education in the Asia Pacific region, through its strong links in the U.S. and its mantra of being practical, international, and connected.
Since 2008, Craig Mudge has chaired a Working Group on Cloud Computing at Australia’s Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Speaker Topics Include:

A Fourth Driver of technology Innovation
A World of Sensors - the Implications for Business.
An Eco-system for Nurturing Startups – a Silicon Valley View
Australia in a Flat World
Cloud Computing
Drivers of Innovation
How Wireless Sensors are revolutionising the Supply Chain