Speakers

Our goal is invite thought leaders from Australia and abroad to share their thoughts about the future of laboratory R&D, and the innovation they are pursuing.

Our invited speakers include:

Tuesday 5/October

• Cathy Foley, AO PSM – Australia’s Chief Scientist
• Jason Hein, Professor and Leader of The Hein Lab @ U. of British Columbia
• Tanja Junkers, Professor and Leader of the Polymer Reaction Design Group @ Monash University
• Brian Frezza, Co-founder and Co-CEO @ Emerald Cloud Labs
• Shanti Krishnan, Deputy Director of the Factory of the Future @ Swinburne University
• Dean Muluk and Melanie Vig @ Thermofisher Scientific Automation
• Shawn Cowdrey from Omron Automation
• Amira Abou-Hamdan and Jos de Keijzer from Chemspeed Technologies
• Navinda Kottege from CSIRO Data61 speaking on his group’s recent second place finish at the DARPA SubT challenge
• Andy Cooper, Professor and Director of the Materials Innovation Factory and the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design.

Wednesday 6/October

• Colin Sakinofsky, Director @ L2D Architects
• Canan Dagdeviren, Professor and Leader of Conformable Decoders @ MIT Media Lab
• Brendon McNiven, Professor at Melbourne School of Design @ University of Melbourne
• Stephanie Robinson from My Green Labs
• Elizabeth Baron, Enterprise Solutions Executive @ Unity Technologies
• Bruce Thomas, Professor and Director of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments, Adjunct Science Fellow CSIRO Data61 Imaging and Computer Vision Group
• Lawrence Crumpton from Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Solutions
• Przemysław Budnicki, CEO @ Holo4Labs
• Angel Gil from LabTwin

Thursday 7/October

• Stefan Hajkowicz from CSIRO Data61’s Insights team
• Vanessa Moss from CSIRO Space & Astronomy
• Angus Macoustra from CSIRO Information Management & Technology
• Tomasz Bednarz from CSIRO Data61
• Fawad Nazir from CSIRO Data61
• Alan Duffy, Professor and Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute @ Swinburne University
• Kym Lowes, Director of Screening Laboratory @ Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
• Rebecca Doerge, Dean of Science @ Carnegie Melon University
• Kathryn Hall from the Australian Characterisation Commons at Scale
• Kimberly Holtz from Iris.ai
• Mark Billinghurst, Professor of Human Computer Interaction @ the University of South Australia
• Sean O’Donoghue, Professor and Laboratory Head @ Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Additionally we will have a number of offline videos/presentations to share for viewing on demand (this list may be updated through 5/October)

• Moana Simpson from Compounds Australia
• Phil Valencia from CSIRO Data61
• Craig James from CSIRO Minerals
• Subbu Sethuvenkatraman from CSIRO Energy