Thousand Voices

Dr Cori Stewart is Founder and CEO of the ARM Hub, a not-for-profit company on a mission to digitally transform industry. The ARM Hub specialises in AI, robotics and manufacturing, collaborating with industry and universities to modernise manufacturing practises, commercialise R&D, and build workforce capability.

Cori has had a distinguished career and is a recognised leader in developing large-scale partnerships between industry, research institutions, governments and the community. Cori has previously held senior university appointments and government policy roles in industry development, the digital economy, creative industries and innovation.

Associate Professor Cori Stewart was awarded Women in AI Australia NZ- AI for Manufacturing Winner in 2022 and Women in Technology's Professional Technology Leader of 2020.

In this episode we discuss AI and Robotics applications in manufacturing and infrastructures, policies and regulations for AI, collaboration between nonprofits and governments for funding AI innovations, and challenges to face as a leader.

Additional links:

Thousand Faces investment club: www.thousandfaces.art

Discord Community: https://discord.gg/Ss7dhyNpmM

Arm hub: www.armhub.com.au/made-with-artificial-intelligence/

Camille Goldstone-Henry is a wildlife scientist, and the Founder and CEO of Xylo systems, a tech biodiversity startup. She is a descendent of Kamilaroi, which is the second largest nation on the eastern coast of Australia, indigenious tribes.

As an experienced wildlife conservation manager, she has worked with the world's most endangered species, including the Tasmanian devil and Sumatran tiger.

In 2020 she built a cloud-based platform to connect, track and manage conservation projects. The platform aggregates data from various sources and provides insights into some of these conservation projects so that decision makers can optimize resources. Camille is on a mission to turbocharge wildlife conservation globally.

She is the Women in AI trailblazer 2022 and Winner of the women of the future 2021 awards.

In this episode we talk about indigenious wisdoms, the climate change and conservation projects, and how AI contributes to saving biodiversity.

Adriana Simona Mihaita is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney, where she leads the Future Mobility Lab. She is an industry-focused academic, aiming to improve people's movement via artificial intelligence in a smart city context.

She is an award winning scientist , including winner of the 2022 Women in AI Infrastructure award in Australia and New Zealand, a triple finalist in the 2022 Women in AI awards,

In this episode, we talk about digital twins, AI in transportation and traffic management, sustainability, self-driving vehicles and much more.

For more information about Simona’s Digital Twin platform Demo: http://digital-twin.datasci.institute/

And her personal publications:

http://www.simonamihaita.com/publications.html

In this episode we talk about AI and its applications linked to bioinformatics, genome sequencing, diseases and how AI is helping scientists study and analyze the human genome and diseases, and the effects of climate change. You will hear the story of an inspiring AI expert who shares her incredible journey of becoming an award winning woman in AI.

Dr Denis Bauer is an internationally recognised expert in artificial intelligence, who is passionate about improving health by understanding the secrets in our genome using cloud-computing technology. She is CSIRO’s Principal Research Scientist in transformational bioinformatics and adjunct associate professor at Macquarie University.

She keynotes international IT, LifeScience and Medical conferences and is an AWS Data Hero.

Her achievements include developing open-source bioinformatics software to detect new disease genes and developing computational tools to track, monitor and diagnose emerging diseases, such as COVID-19.

She was the winner of the AI in Innovation Category for Women in AI Awards 2022.

Prof Karin is an Executive Dean, School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University. She is a senior academic leader, with a strong desire to create inclusive, cohesive, and productive collaborative research and educational environments. She is also passionate about supporting #WomenInSTEM and diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Prof Karin is a computer scientist by training, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and cognitive science, particularly focused on language representation and processing in the biomedical domain. Her research focuses on the use of computational techniques, particularly natural language processing, machine learning, text mining and knowledge integration, primarily in the context of biomedical data analysis.

Prof Karin is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. She has been applying her AI skills in the biomedical domain since 2003, addressing problems ranging from information extraction of biological concepts and events, to the use of text mining to support interpretation of biological data, to detection and prediction of disease from clinical data.

Malliga is the Vice President, Head of Insights & Data at Capgemini, ANZ. She is an experienced data and analytics leader who builds market leading AI capability and drives long term sustainable business growth.

Malliga advises executive stakeholders, designs and delivers innovative and fit-for-purpose data and AI solutions at scale. Malliga’s professional experience spans Consulting (Capgemini, EY, PwC, IBM) and industry (Mercer Investments).

Malliga is a commercially astute business leader who leads by example. She has a professional reputation for fostering and inspiring high performing teams through strong workplace relationships and collaboration.

Sonja Griegoschewski is a regional director for Goethe-Institut Central Eastern Europe. She is a Cultural strategist, international networker, and art lover with over 20 years of experience in leadership and intercultural exchange.

Expert on contemporary (German) art and culture with an international network of cultural leaders, artists, curators, academics, facilitators, experts, and stakeholders. At ease with independent, not-for-profit organizations as well as major festivals, museums, universities, and within the corporate world.

Strong interest in exploring digitalization and artificial intelligence to find ways for enhancing collaboration, society, and creative life, while ensuring that human rights, diversity, and ethical standards are met.

Alumni of Freie Universität Berlin (Dipl.-Bibl.) and the University of Wales (MSc Econ) with a passion for life-long learning. Most recently ‘Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy’, an online program at MIT Sloan Management.

Proud member of the ‘Goethe Family’ with postings to Croatia, South Africa, Canada, Belgium, Australia, and currently Prague, Czech Republic.

Leading role in the development and global implementation of our Internet strategy, global internal evaluation concept, and strategic management tools while based at the Goethe-Institut head office in Munich, Germany.

A strong advocate of the European Union and its cultural values, heading the national clusters of ‚European Union International Institutes for Culture‘ (EUNIC) in Canada and Australia.

Passionate about sharing my knowledge and experience through tutoring as well as supporting local communities, e.g. through my role as a ‘cultural ambassador’ at the Rotary Club of Sydney Cove.

Dr Yun Sing Koh is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science, The University of Auckland. Her main research area is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Specifically, she focuses on three major research strands: continual learning and adaptation, anomaly detection, and data stream mining. She is passionate about using machine learning for social good, and her research has been applied to interdisciplinary applications in environment and health domains.

To date, she has published 100+ peer-reviewed publications in top conferences and journals, including IJCAI, IEEE ICDE, IEEE ICDM, Machine Learning Journal and Journal of Artificial Intelligence. She won the New Zealand Royal Society of Fast-Start Marsden funding (2018) and the United States Office of Naval Research Grant (2019).

She has been active in the research community, including serving as the General Co-Chair at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2021, Workshop Co-Chair at the ECML 2021, Program Co-Chair of the Australasian Data Mining Conference 2018 and as the Workshop CO-Chair for the 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Amy is the Chief Data Scientist at the Australia National Bank (NAB), leading the acceleration of advanced analytics, AI/ML at scale. Prior to NAB, Amy held various leadership positions, including the Global Head of Analytics and Data Science at HSBC, General Manager of Group Data Science at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and the Founding member and Chief Data Scientist at DataSpark, Singtel’s pioneering data monetization spin-off. Amy has extensive expertise in large scale AI/ML ecosystem and end-to-end value chain, with proven commercial success and is recognised as a global leader in AI and data-driven innovation.

She is a member of the Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authorities AI Public-Private Forum, a Data Board member at MIT Center for Information Systems Research, and an Advisory Board member at Melbourne Business School Center for Business Analytics. Amy also serves as a Trustee at Mental Health Innovations (UK's largest digital mental health charity) and a Founding Editorial Board member of Springer’s Journal of AI & Ethics.

Amy is a champion for diversity and inclusion, a frequent public speaker, a co-inventor and co-author of multiple Patents and Publications. She is actively involved in promoting industry-academic collaboration and contributing to industry and scientific standards. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her leadership and contributions in the fields of data science, and named as one of the global top 100 innovators in data and analytics in 2021 and 2022.

Amy has a Ph.D in Data Mining, a MSc in AI, a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA.

Elisha Harrington is an Evangelist on the Innovation team at ServiceNow. In her role, Elisha is laser focused on the future of work, digital transformation, and the power of intelligent systems.

As a thought leader in operational improvement and innovation, she is responsible for all efforts to evangelize the transformative world of work for enterprise customers in the Asian-Pacific region. Elisha is helping customers re-imagine the possible and solve important problems to create stunning change.

Prior to ServiceNow, Elisha worked for a number of top tier professional services firms, consulting with the largest global and Australian local enterprises across banking, telecommunications and more. From running large Digital transformations (both technical and business). Elisha worked for PwC across technology solutions which included fraud detection, risk sentiment, automation, and advanced analytics as well as blockchain and other leading technology cloud SaaS solutions.

Working within C-suite agendas and large impactful programs impacting employee and customer experience, Elisha aims to supercharge productivity scaling across the organization whilst cultivating a culture of innovation at its core.