Next Generation AI and Emerging Technologies Symposium

Looking to pivot careers or learn more about AI and emerging technologies? Or are you currently a student working with AI or emerging technologies?

We warmly welcome you to join a free virtual four day symposium from Tuesday 8 March to Wednesday 6 April 2022.

The Symposium will cover four key modules that will become some of the foundational aspects of the Next Generation Graduates Programs:

• AI and emerging technologies in the real world
• Ethics in AI and technologies
• Autonomous systems
• Entrepreneurship and innovation in AI and emerging technologies

The full program of the Symposium is now available.

How to access livestream

Access the streaming platform with this link. Please use the email you entered in registration to log in. You will then be prompted to create a password, which will be used each time you access the platform.

Missed the sessions you'd like to attend? Watch on demand is now available on the streaming platform.

Launch

8 March 2022 | 2-4.30pm AEDT

Intro to AI and emerging technologies

• Professor Jon Whittle - Director, CSIRO's Data61
• Professor Sally Cripps - Research Director, Analytics & Decision Sciences, CSIRO's Data61
• Stela Solar - Director, National AI Centre, CSIRO

Symposium presentations

17 March 2022 | 9am-4pm AEDT

AI and emerging technologies in the real world

• Ben Hutchinson – Researcher, Google Centre for Responsible AI
• Dr Petra Kuhnert – Data Scientist and Research Statistician, CSIRO's Data61

• Professor Dacheng Tao – ARC Laureate Fellow and Director, UBTECH Sydney Artificial Intelligence Centre
• Dr Karen O’Connor – Missions Program Lead, Fire & Flood Resilience, Minderoo Foundation
• Dan Jermyn – Chief Decision Scientist, Commonwealth Bank
• Dr Liming Zhu – Research Director, Software and Computational Systems, CSIRO's Data 61
• Professor Jason Potts – Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University
• Professor Carsten Rudolph – Head of Department for Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Monash University
• Dr Damien Watkins – Research Team Lead, Computational Software Engineering and Visualisation Team, CSIRO's Data61
• Dr Michael Kuiper, Team Lead, Molecular & Materials Modelling group, CSIRO's Data61
• Dr Thierry Rakotoarivelo, Senior Research Scientist, Information Security and Privacy Group, CSIRO's Data61
• Dr Paul Tyler, Data, Privacy Team Leader, CSIRO's Data61

23 March 2022 | 10am-4pm AEDT

Ethics in AI and technologies

• Professor Toby Walsh – ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI
• Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, Senior Principal Scientist, Strategy And Foresight, CSIRO's Data61
• Professor Kim Weatherall – Co-Chair, AI Ethics Committee, Australian Computer Society
• Professor Seth Lazar – General Co-Chair, ACM Fairness, Accountability and Transparency Conference 2022
• Dr Lachlan McCalman – Chief Practitioner, Gradient Institute
• Dr Cathy Robinson – Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
• Vincent Zhang – Co-founder and President, Tech for Social Good

30 March 2022 | 10am-3.45pm AEDT

Autonomous systems

• Professor Peter Corke – Distinguished Professor of Robotic Vision, Queensland University of Technology
• Professor Stefan Williams - Head of School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney
• Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte – NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer
• Dr Navinda Kottege – Group Leader, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, CSIRO’s Data61
• Dr Juxi Leitner - CEO and Co-Founder, LYRO Robotics
• Dr Stefan Hrabar, CEO and Co-Founder, Emesent
• Professor Fabio Ramos – Professor of Robotics and Machine Learning, University of Sydney

6 April 2022 | 10am-3.45pm AEST*

Entrepreneurship and innovation in AI and emerging technologies

• Jeremy Howard – Founder, Fast.ai
• Sally-Ann Williams – CEO, Cicada Innovations
• Dr Sue Keay – Founder and Chair of Robotics Australia Group
• Dr Denis Bauer – Transformational Bioinformatics Group Leader, CSIRO
• Camille Goldstone-Henry, Founder and CEO, Xylo Systems
• Dr Peter Cronin, Co-Founder and Head of Data and Partnerships, Prospection Pty Ltd
• Ros Harvey, Founder and CEO at The Yield

*Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) ends on 3 April, Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) applies to the last day of the Symposium.

Contact us

For any enquiries, email us at Data61-NextGenGrad@csiro.au.