Dr John Gray has 30 years of computing experience in across Australia and the UK in both industry and academia. Jon’s research interests have included parallel and distributed systems design, database technologies, information modelling, software engineering methods and tools, organisational capability development, and business process improvement. 

From 2006, Jon led a research initiative for National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA) in Canberra focused on software methods and tools for the improvement of business processes in government. He then led Performance Assurance, a spin-out company from NICTA from 2017, specialising in predictive modeling and risk management.  Jon is currently CEO & Chief Data Scientist for Catapult BI, a Dialog Group company. 

Jon has led numerous consulting engagements with across the Australian Government as well as in the NSW and QLD Governments, and large corporations such as Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Telstra, Optus, and NBN Co. Jon has extensive experience in planning, designing, and evaluating Business Transformation initiatives including enterprise architecture and SOA, ISR information systems integration, cloud migration, data centre consolidation, application portfolio rationalisation, legacy infrastructure retirement, and mainframe migration.   

Jon has published widely in many fields of software engineering, information systems, and computer science, and he is a frequent speaker at Australian and International conferences.