Remaining Connected is the key to Business Continuity through COVID-19. The role of Infrastructure

Executive General Manager, Sales NBN Co

Brendan is a seasoned ICT Executive Director, with a career spanning 30 years in the industry. In his current role as Executive General Manager nbn Business Sales. This role entails working with Retail Internet Service Providers to transform Australian Business and Government customers through better Business Grade Internet Connections to better leverage technology and innovation.

Prior to nbn Brendan had a long career in Telstra involving Small Business, Medium Business and Enterprise & Government with a common theme of bringing technology to life across all 3 segments.

Brendan holds an MBA and Diploma of Electrical Engineering, together with his passion for small and medium business, is a great combination for helping businesses of all sizes use technology to thrive.

Head of nbn local SA/WA/NT NBC Co

Tim Saul is Head of nbn™ local, South Australia and the Northern Territory at NBN Co.

Working for NBN Co across SA and the NT, Tim is responsible for managing corporate expectation and reputation, and for delivering community education and engagement programs in areas where the nbn™ broadband access network is being deployed.

Tim’s major stakeholders include all levels of government, local media and business, and community stakeholder groups. He is passionate about working with all communities to ensure they understand and embrace the opportunities provided by the nbn™ access network.

Tim understands the importance of telecommunications to regional and remote Australia and is committed to helping people living and working in these areas gain access to all the benefits that can be delivered by fast and reliable broadband.

Tim is also passionate about indigenous engagement, recently spending time in the APY Lands and Laynhapuy Homelands to understand how the nbn™ access network can improve health, education and lifestyle services to those communities and other indigenous communities across the country.

Tim is also the Corporate Affairs representative on NBN Co’s Reconciliation Action Plan Implementation Team.

Director, One Solution Mobile & Dat

Our ability to adapt to circumstances and innovate is being tested to the extreme. As the national wholesale network provider to over 11-million Australians, nbn takes its access and enabling role seriously at this time – infrastructure and connectivity matter. Join members of the business and corporate affairs team from nbn, as they step through responses to COVID-19 and what that means for your businesses. Going digital remains a fundamental requirement and continues to provides opportunity to create new or modify existing business models, reinvent core processes, improve efficiency, drive productivity and get closer to the customer. And so the nbn team will share commissioned business sector research insights by AlphaBeta, Connecting Australia – the big future of small business; look at recent Telsyte research on the digital workplace in 2020, and showcase tools to help businesses migrate and reap the benefits of high-speed broadband. All of this in the contest of a near-completed nbn™ access network rollout across Australia.

National Industry Engagement Manager, Business NBN Co

A member of NBN Co’s corporate affairs team, Chris leads nbn’s national peak business industry body stakeholder function. Based in Adelaide, he’s worked across local, state, national, and international business and community sectors in stakeholder management, change management, communications and training. With 8-years under his belt on the national broadband network project, Chris’ peers tell of a collegiate and solution-minded approach, seeking “first to listen, then to understand”. Customer-centred, always professional, sometimes obsessive, he’s seen as an asset to any conversation, project, or initiative. Chris aims to share the journey of change, showcasing technology as an enabler wherever he goes, with particular reference to the business community.