It’s been a great first day joining Australia’s AI delegation to Israel – the startup nation. No matter how much you’ve read about it, it never beats a deep conversation with the founders, the ecosystem nurturers and the researchers. Lessons of the day, from the philosophical to the technical: the need to fund high-risk AI…

I was thrilled at the NSW iAwards event the other evening – seeing two cybersecurity teams (collaborations between the Cybersecurity CRC, CSIRO’s Data61 and industry/gov partners )named winners and going up to the stage twice with them (although I take no credit for the achievements!). Smart Shield’s anti-phishing technology is an exemplary human-centric machine-learning approach, leveraging human…

The Australian Government has a consumer data right (CDR) regime to increase the level of competition and breadth of services available to consumers. The CDR regime aims to make it easier, with the consumers’ consent, to have citizen data—held by banks, telecommunication companies, energy companies and similar organisations—made available to other, trusted third parties so…