Glenn Irvine

Glenn Irvine is the National Practice Manager - Google Enterprise for Dialog Information Technology, the Largest Google Enterprise Business Partner in Australia. Dialog is Australia's leading privately owned IT Services and Solutions Provider with over 900 consulting staff nationwide. The Google Enterprise Practice works with some of the cutting edge Geospatial/Enterprise Search/Cloud/Collaborative & Mobile Computing technologies in the Corporate Market.

Glenn has been instrumental in the introduction of these technologies for his clients ranging from Public Sector Agencies to large Enterprise Corporations.

He is active in the software industry within Queensland and Australia, and has spoken at IT conferences and produced articles on the adoption of these emerging and Web2.0/Social Computing technologies. He actively participates in IT Queensland and the Australian Information Industry Association.

Glenn has achieved the WebSphere Top Gun award with IBM (2005) and has also achieved the IBM Resellers Award for Software Group in Queensland two years in a row in 2006 and 2007.

Glenn was recently the Secretary for Software Queensland responsible for the media and communications portfolio, and has spoken on the Industry opportunities for ICT Students at Secondary College Futures Advisory Boards, at Griffith University’s ICT Faculty (BIT@Work Program), and a Keynote for the Qld Government's ICT Factor 2007 and Food Factor 2009.

In 2008 Glenn was appointed to the ICT Industry Advisory Board for Griffith University, the Futures Advisory Board of Sheldon College, and the Advisory Board of the Australian School of the Arts (ASTA).

In 2010 Glenn was appointed to the Qld Deputy Premier's ICT Ministerial Advisory Group and was made a Life Member of Software Queensland (Now IT Queensland).

In 2012 Glenn was appointed to the Google Global Partner Council.