Category: Talks

  • Government Innovation NSW Panels

    Government Innovation NSW Panels

    Great to speak on two panels yesterday at the Government Innovation Week NSW on Cyber Security and AI alongside some great panelists such as The Hon. Victor Dominello and the NSW Privacy Commissioner Sonia Minutillo. Here are my four messages across the two panels: ๐Ÿ”น Everyone has an opinion on AI performance and riskโ€”but personal…

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  • PAKDD25 Talk on Scalable AI

    PAKDD25 Talk on Scalable AI

    ๐Ÿ’ก People often think scalable AI just means handling more transactions or bigger datasets. But scalability isnโ€™t about size. ๐™„๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฎ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ข ๐™ ๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ๐™จ ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™™๐™š๐™ง ๐™œ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™™๐™š๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™™ ๐™˜๐™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™š ๐™—๐™ฎ ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™–๐™™๐™™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ก, ๐™ค๐™ง ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™ช๐™—-๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ก, ๐™ง๐™š๐™จ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง๐™˜๐™š๐™จ. ๐™‰๐™ค ๐™—๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™ก๐™š๐™ฃ๐™š๐™˜๐™ ๐™จ, ๐™ฃ๐™ค ๐™ง๐™š๐™™๐™š๐™จ๐™ž๐™œ๐™ฃ๐™จ. At the PAKDD AI Forum earlier today, I shared three dimensions of…

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  • APS Digital Professionals Talk: Reading in the Age of AI

    APS Digital Professionals Talk: Reading in the Age of AI

    ๐Ÿ“š How I Read Thousands of Papers In the Age of AI At a session for the Australian Public Service today, I gave a personal talk on how my reading life has transformedโ€”both professionally and personallyโ€”through deep AI integration. With AI, I now digest over 2000 academic papers a year, share detailed notes with my…

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  • NZ Gov Summit: AI Evaluator/Peer Reviewer

    NZ Gov Summit: AI Evaluator/Peer Reviewer

    ๐Ÿค” ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’˜ ๐’…๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’Š๐’‡ ๐‘จ๐‘ฐ ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’•๐’•๐’†๐’“โ€”๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’…๐’๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’ ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’‰๐’๐’˜ ๐’ˆ๐’๐’๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’„๐’–๐’“๐’“๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’‰๐’–๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ ๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’„๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’Š๐’”? ๐‘จ๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐‘จ๐‘ฐ ๐’†๐’™๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’” ๐’Š๐’•๐’”๐’†๐’๐’‡, ๐’‰๐’๐’˜ ๐’…๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’Š๐’‡ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’•๐’“๐’–๐’”๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’†๐’™๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’? At the NZ Government Data Summit, I shared three important, often overlooked insights from real-world AI deployments:– AI alone…

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  • WWW25 Special Talk: ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž ๐–๐ž๐›-๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐€๐ˆ ๐€๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ

    WWW25 Special Talk: ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž ๐–๐ž๐›-๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐€๐ˆ ๐€๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ

    A great day at the WWW conference where I had the chance to present at the special event onย ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž ๐–๐ž๐›-๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐€๐ˆ ๐€๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ. A central, and perhaps contrarian, view I shared: ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐–๐ž๐› ๐ข๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐€๐ˆ, ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฌ. Increasingly, humans will converse with agents, and those agentsโ€”not humansโ€”will interact with the…

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  • IEEE Panel – Bridging Academia and Industry in Computing

    IEEE Panel – Bridging Academia and Industry in Computing

    I had the pleasure of joining the IEEE Early Career Program Summit 2025 panel on โ€œBridging Academia and Industry in Computing.โ€ It prompted me to reflect on two lessons I wish Iโ€™d learned much earlier in my careerโ€”because the conventional wisdom I heard early on turned out to be deeply limiting. ๐Ÿ”ปย ๐Œ๐ˆ๐’๐†๐”๐ˆ๐ƒ๐„๐ƒ ๐€๐ƒ๐•๐ˆ๐‚๐„ #๐Ÿ: โ€œ๐ƒ๐จ๐งโ€™๐ญ…

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  • Navigating AI Standards and Regulations: Lessons from My eMBA Lecture

    Navigating AI Standards and Regulations: Lessons from My eMBA Lecture

    I gave a lecture at an Executive MBA course on the interactions between regulations and standards in AI, data, and digital technologiesโ€”both globally and in Australia. Here are the key takeaways. I highlighted potential solutions to these challenges, including ongoing efforts in Australia to develop AI safety standards that are currently being established. Dropbox slides…

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  • Panel – Europe’s Path in Artificial Intelligence

    Panel – Europe’s Path in Artificial Intelligence

    ๐ŸŽ‰ Kicking off the new year with a big topic – “Europe’s Path in Artificial Intelligence”. I had the privilege of joining a stellar panel organised by Fraunhofer, with an online audience of ~500. I shared Australiaโ€™s AI regulation status, including the pivotal role of the Voluntary AI Safety Standards in accelerating AI adoption with…

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  • AJCAI panel: Making AI Safety Real

    AJCAI panel: Making AI Safety Real

    ๐Ÿ”ฅ Excited to have joined the AJCAI panel on responsible and safe AI, focusing on operationalising Australia’s AI Safety Standard! As a key author of the standard, I shared some insights about the motivations behind it and how it fits with other international standards. Here are a few key points: ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ AI Safety Standards: ๐Ÿค–…

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  • AJCAI Keynote: Trustworthy AI

    AJCAI Keynote: Trustworthy AI

    Itโ€™s my great honour and pleasure to deliver the opening keynote at the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024. https://ajcai2024.org/ ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ In this keynote, I reflected on the journey and challenges of trustworthy AI: from models to systems to agents. ๐Ÿš€ Although you might be familiar with much of the work CSIRO’s Data61 do…

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About Me


About me – According to AI

Director/Head of CSIRO’s Data61
Conjoint Professor, CSE UNSW

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