Visiting WA

Steve Vamos, managing director of Microsoft Australia, to speak at an Australian Information Industry Association seminar about the ICT industry, August 21 at Fraser’s Restaurant. Professor Claus Hviid Christensen, director of the Centre for Sustainable and Green Chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark, to speak at the seventh Energy in Western Australia conference, August 23 and 24 at the Sheraton Hotel. George Negus, founding member of television current affairs program 60 Minutes and currently presenter of SBS current affairs program Dateline, to speak at the Australian Institute of Company Director’s Annual Winter Dinner, August 31 at Burswood Entertainment Complex. Xavier Amador, forensic expert in some of the most notable US court cases and professor in clinical psychology at Columbia University in New York, to speak at a UWA Extension seminar on forensic science, crime and mental health, September 7 at UWA. Dr Kumar Ramakrishna, a Jemaah Islamiah expert from the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technology University in Singapore to speak at Amlec House’s Regional Terrorism & Security Conference, September 8 at the Novotel Langley Hotel.