Charles
Wright

Speaker Profile

As the founder of The Age's lift-out Computer section, and subsequently of the Australian Financial Review's daily Information section, Charles Wright drove both those newspapers, and through them the Australian business community, on to the Internet.

Charles established one of Australia's first Internet Service Providers and played an influential role in the acceleration of the allocation of Internet domain names to business. He founded and is a final judge of the AFR-Telstra annual Australian Internet Awards, which are the industry's version of the Academy Awards. A strategic adviser or director of several Internet startup companies, Charles has first-hand experience of the issues confronting business as it tries to come to terms with electronic commerce and its possiblities and implications for the future.

From Bill Gates to Michael Dell, from Vinton Cerf to Marc Andreessen, Charles has interviewed and written about the world's most influential IT figures in The Age, his weekly column on computers and the Internet appearing weekly in that newpaper's 'Green Guide', and he also appears weekly on 774 ABC Radio's Jon Faine Show.

Travels from Victoria