Ms. Jane Holloway is a Senior Systems Scientist in the Australian Department of Defence with a background in systems agriculture, wool industry, new and emerging Defence technologies with both operational and strategic impacts.  She co-leads a group leading the consideration of environmental and climate change and Defence preparedness. She has worked to bring strategic military geography change into Defence and published a seminal chapter on the concept.  She seeks to ensure that strategy occurs in a geography-aware way.

Mr. Richard Thackway is a consulting research scientist implementing ecological frameworks and information systems to improve natural resource decision making. He is the Managing Director of VAST transformations an innovative start-up company.  In his contributions to design and implementation of Australia's National Reserve System and National System of Representative Marine Protected Areas and the Indigenous Protected Areas his work stands out. His frameworks are used in Australia's 2011 State of the Environment and the 2013 State of the Forests Reports and he his experience with Australian and state and territory governments, scientists, academics, Defence and regional non-government groups is outstanding.