Melbourne Connect Information Session

Melbourne Connect Information Session

What is Melbourne Connect's ambition? Why is it focused on our digital future? How will it expedite our research translation?

By Melbourne Connect

Date and time

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM AEDT

Location

Sunderland Theatre, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus (Medical Building, #181)

181 Grattan Street Melbourne, VIC 3004 Australia

About this event

Professor Jim McCluskey, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, warmly invites to you attend a Melbourne Connect Information Session.

Learn how Melbourne Connect will establish itself as a digital and data science powerhouse by co-locating innovative organisations, startups and SME's with the University's interdisciplinary expertise, creativity and graduate talent.

Hear from key research groups that will be located at Melbourne Connect as they share why co-location is an important part of their faculty/school strategy.

Understand the various ways for you, your students and staff to engage with Melbourne Connect, beyond tenancy.

Participate in the discussion and ask questions.

SPEAKERS

  • Prof. Jim McCluskey, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), UoM
  • Prof. Mark Hargreaves, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Collaboration and Partnerships), UoM
  • Prof. Frank Vetere, Deputy Dean Engagement, Melbourne School of Engineering, UoM
  • Prof. Colin McCleod, Enterprise Professor and Executive Director Melbourne Entrepreneurial Centre, UoM
  • Prof. Jeannie Paterson, Director Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE), UoM
  • Prof. Howard Bondell, Director Melbourne Centre for Data Science, UoM
  • Rose Hiscock, Director Museums and Collections, UoM
  • Georgia von Guttner, Project Lead – Melbourne Connect Partnerships and Tenancies, UoM

Read more about Melbourne Connect here.

Seats are limited, please RSVP to secure your place.

Organised by

Melbourne Connect places the highest calibre research, industry, entrepreneurs, higher degree students and other elite thinkers in a single purpose-built precinct. It is a new model for collaborative innovation within the STEM disciplines.

The people, place and program at Melbourne Connect is designed to foster the type of collaboration that can expedite and amplify innovation. It is a project where all participants will be deeply engaged to find innovative solutions for our future challenges and enabled to contribute to the greater wellbeing of societies globally.

Melbourne Connect is led by the University of Melbourne, in partnership with a consortium led by Lendlease.

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