Chris Winter

Chris’ current interests include the concerns of the GLAM sector - galleries, libraries, archives and museums, the work of the NFP New York think tank The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), the Australian Smart Communities Association (ASCA) and the potential of ICT in general and fast networks in particular for the development of progressive outcomes for education, health, media, and life in the intelligent community and the digital economy generally.

Chris is a jury member of the ICF, whose annual conferences he has been attending since 2011, a member of the American Alliance of Museums, Museums & Galleries Australia, The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the Australian Society of Archivists, the Australian Digital Alliance, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), and until recently the Music Council of Australia (MCA) and the erstwhile Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA). He is also working on a project commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive to create a new media oral history collection.

He has spoken at a number of events in Australia in the media and collection sectors, at the KANZ broadband conference in Seoul in 2008, for XMediaLab in Amsterdam in 2009, and at broadcast technology conferences in Singapore, Paris, Las Vegas and San Francisco. Most recently he has been asked to speak, MC or moderate at Tech 23, GoDigi’s panel session regarding digital inclusion, and the City of Sydney’s CitySwitch sustainability awards.

Based in Sydney, Chris worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation freelance and full time from August 1971 until August 2012, most recently for 12 years in the ABC's New Media and Innovation Divisions. With the ABC, he has had a long background in radio, web and mobile projects, digital and interactive TV and technology marketing. He managed the ABC's first digital only channel ABC2 for its first two and half years from March 2005, was in 2004 the joint recipient of an Australian Recording Industry Association award for Best Music DVD for his production work on Midnight Oil’s “Best of Both Worlds” and was presented with the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association's 2007 Outstanding Achievement award.

Since the ABC he has worked on projects for Data 61 and CSIRO's erstwhile Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation.