Meet the Mentors

Emily Jenke

Emiy Jenke is the CEO of Democracy Co and a specialist in deliberation and participation – encouraging clients to allow their public a greater decision making role on decisions that might be complex and impact on their lives.

She also owns and runs Talinga Grove, one of South Australia’s boutique Olive oil producers, and sits on the following board of SA Native Vegetation Council, River Murray Advisory Committee and Community Advisory Panel, Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray mouth.

Rae Johnston

Rae is a journalist/television and radio presenter, as well as an actor, voice artist, .
Rae is a proud Wiradjuri woman from Kalari clan in Cowra, NSW. She grew up on Dharug country and lives and works on Gadigal Land, Eora country (Sydney).

Rae is the Editor of Gizmodo Australia, focusing on science, technology, video games and “geek” entertainment. Rae is also the producer and host of Static Podcast, discussing the biggest stories in the world of technology and gaming. On television she hosts The Feed and Small Business Secrets for SBS, as well as the upcoming children’s Indigenous Science series Rewired for NITV. You can also catch Rae on Radio National’s Drive and Download This Show programs regularly chatting technology.

An experienced actor, voice artist, and MC, Rae tours the country delivering keynote speeches and hosting pop culture, technology, science and and video game conventions and events.

Code Camp

Code Camp teaches kids how to code. They’re on a mission to inspire and engage children to become digital creators, innovators and change makers.

The Australian Science and Mathematics School

Students are the future. This exhibit showcases some of their innovative work at the Australian Science and Mathematics School through Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

Aerometrex

Aerometrex provides aerial mapping services and products. They offer aerial orthophotography products including precision digital surface and terrain model, 3D models and value-added geospatial services.

Piers Hogarth-Scott

Piers Hogarth-Scott established and leads the IoT management consulting practice at KPMG and works with the Firm’s Technology Global Centre of Excellence to drive their capability globally. He works with senior business leaders to help them create value through taking advantage of digitising the physical world with the Internet of Things, with a key sector focus on Smart Cities, Smart Food & Fibre and Smart Power & Utilities.

A founding member of the Executive Committee of the IoT Alliance Australia (IoTAA), board advisor to Hypercat a leading standard for interoperability of IoT, and recognised by Business Age as one of the Top 50 Entrepreneurs in the UK to have made the most significant contribution to the Internet, innovation and wealth creation.

Tony Clark

Tony is Co-founder and Managing Director of the South Australian business Rising Sun Pictures [“RSP”]. He has been pivotal in growing from a small facility in 1995 with four founders, to a multi-million dollar, award winning and internationally acclaimed business employing over 170 people. Under his leadership, RSP has gathered critical acclaim, with Academy and BAFTA Award nominations, as well as a number of Australian business and export awards.
As Visual Effects Supervisor, he led the RSP team to deliver numerous projects, the most notable being the Academy Award winning Gravity, working alongside Director Alfonso Cuarón.

Through ongoing research and development, he has produced several successful software products and seized the opportunity to develop new businesses. As co-founder of Cospective [previously Rising Sun Research], he conceived and developed cineSpace [sold to THX] and the remote collaboration tool cineSync, which garnered an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement in 2010. His deep understanding of digital film technologies led him to develop Cinenet; an initiative to bring affordable, high-speed broadband to the creative industries in Australia, which was sold in 2015 to ASX listed Superloop [SLC.AX].

As an Emmy award winning Cinematographer, he began his career at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1983, before moving to London where he was involved in the startup of News Corporation’ Sky Television as a news cameraman. Throughout his career, he maintained an ongoing passion for the utilisation of technology to advance the arts, participating in developments including robotic camera systems, broadband networks and film production software

Tony has served as a board member and deputy chair of the South Australian Film Corporation that oversaw the expansion and relocation of the SAFC into its new studios at Glenside, and currently serves on the boards of Ausfilm, Superloop and riAus. He is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Visual Effects Society.

Session: Bigger than Adelaide

@rajclark | Rising Sun Pictures

Untethered VR

With virtual reality (VR) technology, you don’t just play the game – you live it. At this exhibit, you’ll strap on a VR ‘backpack’ and have complete freedom in movement as you as experience, battle and interact with virtual worlds.

You’ll get to experience some of the most surreal and immersive games developed for VR. Once you come and play with this new form of technology, we know you’ll want more.

Voxon Photonics

Voxon Photonics are the creators of the world’s most advanced 3D volumetric display.

Voxon’s 3D volumetric technology brings digital content to life and helps empower people to visualise, communicate, learn and have fun in a collaborative manner with no barrier to the 3D experience. No special glasses are required.

The Voxon VX1 is a high speed digital light engine capable of producing 3D digital images that can render animated or static imagery as genuinely three-dimensional holograms. These holograms are high definition, infinitely complex and manipulable, and viewable with the unaided eye from any angle and will blow your mind.

University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide is one of Australia’s leading Group of Eight, research-intensive universities and is consistently ranked among the top 1% of universities in the world. Established in 1874, it is Australia’s third oldest university with a strong reputation for preparing educated leaders and delivering research outcomes that contribute to local, national and global wellbeing.

Uniti Wireless

Uniti Wireless has been disrupting an Internet industry plagued by performance issues since 2014. Founded in Adelaide, Uniti’s mission is to deliver a super-fast, reliable alternative to the NBN, enabling all Australians to reach their full potential. We’re independent and our fixed, wireless broadband network delivers the high-performance Internet that Australian communities are desperately seeking!

ThincLAB

ThincLab is the place where unconventional thinkers can give their ideas an unfair advantage.

It’s home to the creative thinkers, the rule-breakers, the challengers. The ones who see the world differently, and for whom ideas are everything and the future is unlimited. ThincLab is an early stage business incubator where innovative companies can work with like minded people. We help these businesses by offering the usual office requirements of desk, internet and all the coffee they can drink but we also pair them up with specific industry mentors which helps them through their journey and offer a workshop series to help build their knowledge about running a start-up. Part of ThincLab we have a 3D studio which allows members and external clients to prototype their designs and to get engineering / manufacturing expertise and advice.

Neumann Space

Neumann Space was formed to commercialise the research of Dr Paddy Neumann in spacecraft propulsion systems. His work indicated that a pulsed cathodic arc plasma thruster could propel spacecraft with higher fuel efficiency than anything currently used in space today. The team at Neumann Space have been working to develop the technology from a laboratory prototype to a model that will be ready to fly for on-orbit verification.

Inovor Technologies

Inovor Technologies is a world-leading supplier of next generation nanosatellite technology. Their unique low-cost, disaggregated technology has the flexibility to host an extensive range of technical applications including communications, remote sensing, imaging and scientific payloads. Positioned at the centre of Australia’s growing space hub, we are owned and operated in Adelaide, South Australia. Uniquely, all hardware is manufactured in Australia making us the only true Australian satellite manufacturer.

Inovor’s business model is to provide a turnkey solution for commercial, government and research clients wanting missions flown in space. Our locally developed family of nanosatellites range from 2kg to 35kg, and include our novel distributed architecture power system, a fine pointing attitude control system, a telemetry, telecommand and control communications link and a main mission computer, all integrated into an easy to assemble main structure.

Ignite VR

VR is impacting our world in a multitude of ways. From tourism to education; the technology is creating opportunities and experiences that haven’t been seen in the world before now.

The computer game industry has been one of the fastest to adopt VR, offering mind-blowing immersive experiences to users. Ignite VR will bring one of the world’s first mobile VR game labs to Hybrid World Adelaide, allowing the public to experience a pop-up VR games arcade. Get ready to play.

Aerometrex

Aerometrex provides full aerial mapping services and products to our clients by exploiting both existing and emerging air and ground imaging technologies.

Aerometrex is fully Australian owned and all work is performed in Australia. Since its foundation in 1977, it has significantly expanded its scope and scale of operations so that today it is one of Australia’s foremost companies in the field of geospatial data collection, management and distribution.
Our award winning company is particularly experienced in aerial photogrammetry and offers a growing range of aerial orthophotography products, precision digital surface and terrain model, 3D models and value-added geospatial services.

Aero3Dpro is an innovative 3D aerial modelling service based on aerial photogrammetry techniques for the production of location accurate, high-resolution and fully textured 3D models of natural and urban environment.

Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson is the Head of Industrial Strategy for BAE Systems Australia. She has worked for the company for 27 years.

During her time with the Company Sharon has held a number of roles including project management, Head of Procurement, and Head of Estimating, before becoming the General Manager of the BAE Systems Global Supply Chain program. Sharon was recently appointed Head of Industrial Strategy, in recognition of the importance BAE Systems places on its industrial solutions.

She is a member of the CDIC Advisory Board and is the Chair of the Northern Advanced Manufacturing Industry Group Management Board, an industry led not-for-profit organisation delivering Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics projects in schools.

Session: Machines that Think / Autonomous Machines

Hannah Wade

Hannah Wade is an Adviser in the Services and Technology team at the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade), focusing on advising emerging and digital technology companies on accessing international markets, and facilitating productive foreign direct investment into these sectors in Australia. Prior to working at Austrade, Hannah was a corporate lawyer at international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, where she advised domestic and international clients on mergers and acquisitions in Australia. Hannah has lived and worked in countries including Austria and Canada and holds a Bachelor of International Studies with a Bachelor of Laws with honours from Macquarie University in Sydney.

Session: Bigger than Australia

Robert Tercek

Mr Robert Tercek is a digital pioneer and one of the world’s most prolific creators of interactive content. He has created breakthrough entertainment experiences on every digital platform, including television, game consoles, broadband Internet, interactive television and mobile networks. His expertise spans media, telecommunications and software. The author of Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World, Robert is a sought after creative strategist, speaker and innovation expert. Digital Media Wire named him one of ‘25 Executives to Watch’ in 2009, and Variety dubbed him one of the ‘Digital Dozen’ most influential players in new media.

Los Angeles-based Robert will lead presentation of the industry events at Hybrid World Adelaide in July.

Sessions: Keynote: Five Technologies That Will Shape Your Future & AgTech Futures Breakfast

Karen Ross

Karen Ross is currently General Manager Innovation, Digital and Brand at Elders Ltd, a 179 year old agribusiness company headquartered in Adelaide, Australia with both a national and international footprint. Karen has responsibility for the innovation function at Elders which is charged with building a strategy for the business to bring innovation to a business in a sector undergoing rapid change including automation, technology, environment and changing markets. Karen’s challenge is to ensure Elders is well positioned to meet new and evolving market demands while maintaining the core values of this well- established relationship business.

Session: Bigger than Australia

Greg Pearce

Greg Pearce works at TWE as the Supply Chain Optimisation Manager. Having spent most of his career working in and around vines and wine Greg’s focus recently has seen him working in a Continuous Improvement roll to enhance the skillsets and strategic abilities of TWE’s people. Greg is an outcome- driven, future-oriented contemporary leader with a very progressive view on how Australia could drive change to optimise our unique growing environments.

Session: AgTech Futures Breakfast

Dr Darren Oemcke

Dr Darren Oemcke has spent over thirty years working in agricultural technology, product development, management and marketing, watching and waiting for the promise of AgTech to be realised. He believes that the current generation of technology has all of the puzzle pieces in place to finally realise the digital transformation of broad acre agriculture. He works with clients on digital approaches and is developing a revolutionary approach to biosecurity management for wine and grapes. He’s active in the wine sector’s development of asymmetric digital training models and analytics of internet sentiment, movement of people in agri-tourism and global price indexing.

Session: AgTech Futures Breakfast

Dr Paddy Neumann

After reading a lot of science fiction growing up in WA, Paddy decided to explore the limits of science fact by studying aerospace engineering and plasma physics as a student at the University of Sydney. After spotting something interesting in the lab, he began adapting a machine that works kind of like an arc welder into a motor for spacecraft. His honours, master’s and PhD research were focussed on this project, and finished up by showing that a pulsed cathodic thruster is more fuel efficient than any flight-rated system. He then co-founded Neumann Space to develop and commercialise the system and is now settled into Adelaide’s burgeoning space ecosystem.

Session: New Possibilities in Space

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Flavia Tata Nardini

Flavia Tata Nardini began her career at the European Space Agency as a Propulsion Test Engineer. She then joined TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research to work on advanced space propulsion projects. In 2015, Flavia co-founded Fleet, a connectivity company set to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation through low cost, low power remote massive IoT. Fleet will launch the first of over 100 planned nanosatellites in 2018, enabling the next industrial revolution with a free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.

Session: New Possibilities in Space

Dr Christyl Johnson

Johnson came to NASA Goddard from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she served under the President’s science adviser as the executive director of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), which is the principal means within the executive branch to coordinate science and technology policy across the Federal research and development enterprise. She was responsible for ensuring the establishment of clear national goals for Federal science and technology investments in a broad array of areas across the executive branch, including basic science, technology, energy, environment, natural resources, and homeland and national security.Prior to joining the White House staff, Johnson served as the assistant associate administrator in NASA’s Office of the Administrator. In this role, she and the associate administrator provided the oversight of the agency’s technical mission areas and field center operations.
Johnson came to the Office of the Administrator from the Office of the Chief Engineer, where she served as the deputy chief engineer for program integration and operations. There, she provided an integrated focus for the development, maintenance, and implementation of agency engineering and program/project management policies, standards, and practices.Prior to her appointment to the Office of the Chief Engineer, Johnson served as the associate director for exploratory missions in the Office of Earth Science, where she managed the formulation and development for all exploratory missions. The missions that she managed included QuikToms, GRACE, CLOUDSAT, Triana, AQUARIUS, HYDROS and OCO, and involved mission development activities at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, Langley Research Center and several international and industry partners.

Johnson began her career at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., where she designed and built laser systems for advanced active remote sensors. She was recognized internationally for delivering the first tunable diode-pumped Cr: LiSAF laser system to achieve 33 mJ. Johnson also established a state-of-the-art laboratory for stress optic coefficient measurement of laser crystals, and utilized this laboratory to provide the science community and laser industry with the first stress optic coefficients for the Cr:LiSAF laser material.

Session: New Possibilities in Space

Felicity Hennessey

Felicity Hennessey is KPMG Australias Associate Director, Internet of Things (IoT) – Smart Food & Fibre Lead with 15 years experience in food and fibre in both industry and government, coupled with work across IoT and AgTech eco-systems. Felicity is focused on using IoT to move food and fibre through the supply chain. This means helping producers, processors, logistics operators, biosecurity, sustainability, trade validation processors, government regulators and policy makers to create value and take advantage of innovation in IoT.

Session: AgTech Futures Breakfast

Anton Van Den Hengel

Anton van den Hengel is the founding Director of The Australian Institute for Machine Learning, a Chief Investigator of the Australian Centre of Excellence in Robotic Vision, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. Prof. van den Hengel has been a CI on over $60m in external research funding from sources including Google, Canon, BHP Billiton and the ARC. Prof van den Hengel has won a number of awards, including the Pearcey Foundation Entrepreneur Award, the SA Science Excellence Award for Research Collaboration, and the CVPR Best Paper prize in 2010. He has authored over 300 publications, had 8 patents commercialised, formed 2 start-ups, and has recently had a medical technology achieve first-in-class FDA approval. Current research interests include Deep Learning, vison and language problems, interactive image-based modelling, medical devices, and learning from large image databases.

Session: Machines that Think / Autonomous Machines

Dr Alice Gorman

Dr Alice Gorman is an internationally recognised leader in the field of space archaeology. She is a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, where she teaches the Archaeology of Modern Society. Her research focuses on the archaeology and heritage of space exploration, including space junk, planetary landing sites, off-earth mining, rocket launch pads and antennas. Her current project is investigating culture on board the International Space Station. She is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and a Director on the Board of the Space Industry Association of Australia. Her writing regularly appears in The Best Australian Science Writing anthology, and 2017 she won the Bragg Prize for Science Writing. She tweets as @drspacejunk and blogs at Space Age Archaeology.

Session: New Possibilities in Space

Dr Nick Falkner

Dr Nick Falkner is inaugural Director of the University of Adelaide’s Australian Smart Cities Consortium, which brings together more than 50 academics from each faculty across the University. The Consortium is working with state and local government, industry, and entrepreneurs, to address many of the challenges of the modern city. An award-winning computer science academic, Associate Professor Falkner, took the long road to academia, with more than a decade spent in the computing industry and as a professional winemaker before returning to university and completing his PhD in Computer Science. He now conducts research into computer network design and development, network security, privacy preservation, the Internet of Things and educational research.

Session: Machines That Think/Autonomous Machines

Marita Cheng

Marita Cheng is the founder and CEO of aubot, a company which makes a telepresence robot that allows kids in hospital with cancer to attend school, people with disabilities to attend work, and facilitates the monitoring of, and socialising with elderly people.

She was the 2012 Young Australian of the Year and is a passionate advocate for women in technology and in 2008 she started up an organisation called Robogals Global to do just that.

Recently, Marita was honoured by the Asia Society with an Asia Game Changers Awards at the United Nations.

Session: Augmenting Human Capabilities

André Noël Chaker

André Noël Chaker is one of Finland’s leading business speakers and writers. He was voted Speaker of the Year 2012 by the customers of Speakers Forum Finland and Speaker, Moderator and Coach of the Year at the Finnish Evento Awards in 2014. In 2015 he received the Business Moderator of the Year award by the customers of Speakers Forum. For the past four years André has spoken at over 400 business events in Finland and abroad.

His books The Finnish Miracle (2011) and The Finnish Miracle – One Hundred Years of Success (2017) are among the most sold business books in the history of AlmaTalent, one of Finland’s largest and most established business book publishing companies. His books and his talks have been praised for their fresh and helpful Nordic insights into achieving sustainable business and personal success.

André is a speaker, a writer, a performer, an entrepreneur and a business executive all rolled into one person. He is a law graduate from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is a member of the New York Bar and the Finnish Lawyer’s association. He also holds an MBA in Finance & IT from Aalto University.

As an entrepreneur, André has been a leading force in many science, technology, gaming and sports related start-up ventures. He has worked with some of the world’s largest IT companies including Nokia, Microsoft, IBM and CGI. At a young age he led two major global scientific organisations in sports (ICSSPE, ECSS). He later served as Director of Entertainment & Digital products and Senior Advisor of the CEO at the Finnish National Lottery, Veikkaus Oy, for nine years.

Session: Keynote: Escape from Stadis Kuo – Insights from the Finnish Miracle

Mark Billinghurst

Mark Billinghurst is Professor of Human Computer Interaction at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia. He earned a PhD in 2002 from the University of Washington and researches innovative computer interfaces that explore how virtual and real worlds can be merged, publishing over 400 papers in topics such as wearable computing, Augmented Reality and mobile interfaces. Prior to joining the University of South Australia he was Director of the HIT Lab NZ at the University of Canterbury and he has previously worked at British Telecom, Nokia, Google and the MIT Media Laboratory. His MagicBook project, was winner of the 2001 Discover award for best entertainment application, and he received the 2013 IEEE VR Technical Achievement Award for contributions to research and commercialization in Augmented Reality. In 2013 he was selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Session: Augmenting Human Capabilities

Prof Genevieve Bell

Professor Bell is the Director of the 3A Institute, Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, and Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University (ANU), as well as a Vice President and Senior Fellow at Intel. Prof Bell is a cultural anthropologist, technologist and futurist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development.

Prof Bell joined the ANU in February 2017, after having spent 18 years in Silicon Valley, helping guide Intel’s product development by developing the company’s social science and design research capabilities.

Prof Bell now heads the Autonomy, Agency and Assurance (3A) Institute, launched by the ANU in collaboration with CSIRO’s Data61, tasked with building a new applied science around the management of artificial intelligence, data, technology and their impact on humanity.

Prof Bell is the inaugural appointee to the Florence Violet McKenzie Chair at the ANU, named in honour Australia’s first female electrical engineer, which promotes the inclusive use of technology in society. Prof Bell also presented the highly acclaimed ABC Boyer Lectures for 2017, in which she interrogated what it means to be human, and Australian, in a digital world.

Prof Bell completed her PhD in cultural anthropology at Stanford University in 1998.

Session: Keynote: Is The Future Already Here Yet? Making Technology and Culture

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Peter Auhl

Peter Auhl is the 2017 CEO Magazine national “CIO of the Year” and also forms part of the CIO50 2017.

Passionate about putting people at the centre of everything his teams do, Peter has led large scale implementations across State and Local Government departments, changing how people interact with government services and information.

Hyper focused on using technology infrastructure to enable economic reform, Peter is the architect of Ten Gigabit Adelaide and has led the project at the City of Adelaide over the past 3 years.

From searching for rare opals during his time in the mining industry to designing solutions to complex problems that solve issues for the State of South Australia, Peter has received personal praise for his innovation from Steve Wozniak and Sir Richard Branson.

Session: How Ten Gigabit Adelaide will transform the City?

Anton Andreacchio

Anton Andreacchio is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Jumpgate Virtual Reality, a value-finding VR studio that helping partners look to the future of VR and AR technology. The team works across a range of industries, with active projects in high performance sport training, mining visualisation, safety training, live streaming with Telstra and the development of high-concept artworks, both in the film industry and beyond.

In 2018, Jumpgate produced the award winning VR work Summation of Force, co-directed by Trent Parke, Narelle Autio and Matt Bate, which screened at Sundance Film Festival, SxSW and was proudly supported by the Adelaide Film Festival. Jumpgate also sponsor projects with the Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Australian String Quartet, and Adelaide Crows.

Session: Bigger than Australia

Dr Phillip Alvelda

Dr. Phillip Alvelda is the founding CEO of Cortical.ai, a U.S. based developer of anthropomorphic AI and machine learning tools, digital twins, and synthetic personalities. Prior to Cortical, Dr. Alvelda was a Program Manager at DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office where he developed national scale R&D programs and technologies at the intersection of engineering and biology. Most notably, he catalysed the nascent brain-machine interface industry by creating the $60m Neural Engineering System Design program and Industry group.

Prior to DARPA, Dr. Alvelda was the founding CEO of MobiTV, which launched the world’s first live television service over mobile networks. MobiTV’s service has grown since its launch in 2003 to over 18 million subscribers across all of the major North and Latin American and UK mobile networks. Dr. Alvelda was awarded an Emmy by the Academy of Motion Pictures, selected by Fast Company as the US’s 15th most influential high-tech entrepreneur, and has received numerous other industry awards from AlwaysOn, CNET, Mobile Entertainment (one of the top 20 most influential New Media Executives), and Red Herring for innovation and market leadership. He is a regular invited speaker at media, telecom, and education industry events, including the World Economic Forum where he was chosen as a “Technology Pioneer” in 2007.

Prior to MobiTV, Dr. Alvelda founded The MicroDisplay Corporation, a manufacturer of miniature displays for low cost HDTVs and VR headsets. Prior to MicroDisplay, Dr. Alvelda was a developer of spacecraft hardware and new neural computing architectures at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he designed and built sensors that flew on the Space Shuttle as well as the Galileo and Magellan interplanetary spacecraft. Dr. Alvelda holds over 30 patents and patents-pending on a wide range of technologies, a technical Emmy Award, a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Cornell University, and Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT.

Watch Dr. Alvelda’s MIT presentation on NESD.

Session: Augmenting Human Capabilities

Bigger Than Australia

3.50pm

Transforming an idea into reality is hard, making it fly in the global market is harder but Australian companies are doing it. What do Australian businesses need to know and need to do to crack global markets? What can we learn from those who have gone before and what can we learn from the rest of the world?

Andre Chaker will facilitate a discussion with panellists from diverse industries about how and why Australian businesses must start thinking ‘Bigger than Australia’.

Hannah Wade (AusTrade)
Anton Andreacchio (Jumpgate VR)
Karen Ross (Elders)
Tony Clark (Rising Sun Pictures)

“What Does Smart Mean for Human Habitation?”

2.55pm

Smart City projects are everywhere but what does it all mean? There’s lots of talk about sensors and networks; these are crucial tools to provide measurements of what is happening where people live.

But these numbers only tell one side of the story. To get the whole story, we need to use a range of techniques, exploring the reasons behind the numbers and the motivations behind the humans who give us all the numbers.

In this talk, Nick will discuss how we can use surveying, interviews, and observations, in conjunction with systematic electronic measurement and machine learning, to work out WHY something is happening to go with WHAT is happening, which will lead us to HOW we can improve living for everyone.

What We Can Learn From Other Industries

2.35pm

The defence industry produces advanced products but surprisingly not always using advanced production systems, tools and techniques. The historical challenges the industry has faced of low volumes, high technical barriers to entry and a feast or famine workload has meant the cost of implementing advanced manufacturing technologies, such as those used by the automotive industry, has outweighed the savings.

With the ever decreasing costs of Industry 4.0 technology now is the time to embrace the innovations that have been proven in the automotive, mining and logistics industries. Sharon will discuss some of the applications in the defence industry, the challenges for small to medium enterprises and prime contractors alike. The unique challenges that working in the defence industry presents and how the changes in the use of design tools such as digital twins and virtual visualisation are transforming the industry.

Some Ideas about the Future of Machine Learning

2.05pm

The last decade has seen machine learning transform the way we shop, search, and communicate through Amazon, Google and Facebook, amongst others. This talk will present some ideas about the where this powerful technology might go next.

Machines That Think/Autonomous Machines

2.00pm

Digital technology now infuses every aspect of manufacturing and production. We are in the process of migrating from the Big Idea of the 20th century (Mass production >> Mass Distribution >> Mass Retail >> Mass Marketing >> Mass Media) to a completely different mode of production for the 21st century (personalized, on-demand manufacturing, also known as “mass customization”). This session will spotlight the latest developments that will reshape how we design, build and distribute products .

INDUSTRIES:
Automotive, consumer products, consumer electronics, durable goods, apparel

TOPICS / ISSUES:
Additive manufacturing / 3D printing, robotics and software automation in the factory, smart devices, smart products, Industrial Internet of Things, blockchain for supply chain, autonomous vehicles, future of work, human workers displaced by robots, capital-biased technological change, robot apocalypse, robot takeover

Citizens of Space on the Final Frontier

12.40pm

The world is entering a new phase of space exploration where private corporations are taking over from the traditional space agency as the leaders of technology. At the same time, small satellites are making access to space more affordable than ever before. In this new space race, who gets to control the future use of space and what lessons can we learn from the terrestrial past?

Fleet Space

12.25pm

The world is becoming more connected than ever. Join Flavia Tata Nardini, founder of Fleet Space Technologies – one of Australia’s most exciting space-based technology startups — to discuss how satellite connectivity will transform some of the world’s oldest industries, from agriculture and mining.

Fleet Space Technologies is ushering in a new era of Industrial IoT for businesses globally. The Portal, Fleet’s recently launched flagship product, will enable enterprises to connect hundreds of devices to private, secure and Low Power Wide Area Networks anywhere around the world, at a fraction of the cost of traditional satellite systems, making remote enterprises able to run IoT networks more efficiently.

Fleet is set to transform billion-dollar industries, from precision agriculture on isolated rural farms in Africa, lone worker safety applications in remote Canada, to maritime monitoring in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

Flavia will reveal how her Adelaide-based startup is trialling The Portal and massive, smart IoT, in a number of pilot projects across Australia.

Space Missions 101: What you need, how to get them and why we do it all

11.55am

Every space mission has four key segments, being the launch, space, ground and support segments. Each of these are needed for a successful mission, each of these require the interplay of complex systems, and each of them require talented people in order to succeed. This talk will briefly describe each of these segments before discussing how they all interact and create opportunities for new businesses to solve the problems faced by established players.

Shaping Commercial Opportunities of the Future

11.20am

Dr. Johnson will share the vision for NASA and its international partners for the journey to the moon, Mars, and beyond. In order to realise this exciting vision, new technologies will have to be invented, new capabilities will have to be developed, and a new generation of STEM leaders will have to be trained.

Dr. Johnson will share ways in which NASA is transferring its innovative technologies to enable commercial opportunities in space, health and medicine, transportation, public safety, energy and environment and industrial productivity.

New Possibilities in Space

11.15am

Adelaide has become a global center for privatized space innovation, and this session will bring together some of the leading minds in the Australian space industry to discuss the possilibities and potential in the field. The concept of the “adjacent possible” was introduced by biologist Stuart Kauffman in 2002 to describe how life forms combine (and recombine) into more complex organisms. The concept was later modified by author Steven Johnson in his book “Where Good Ideas Come From”, to describe how novel insights in one field can spur breakthroughs in others. Today we stand at the brink of another kind of “adjacent possible” by combining new technologies for space exploration with terrestrial systems.

TOPICS/ISSUES:
Private space flight, new forms of propulsion, using space based systems to monitor and control earth installation, the immense challenge of coordinating robotic systems out of reach of ground crew.

How Ten Gigabit Adelaide will transform the City

10.30am

Peter Auhl

City of Adelaide’s Ten Gigabit Adelaide project is a revolutionary high-speed, high-performance fibre optic data network that is being rolled out to commercial buildings across the City and North Adelaide. The Australian-first network will enable businesses and organisations to share and receive high-volumes of data at phenomenal 10Gbps symmetrical data speeds. It will also provide secure and direct connectivity to the cloud, exclusive connectivity to other City-based businesses and dedicated access to the latest business communications and data services at never before-seen prices.

Peter will share insights into how Ten Gigabit Adelaide came about, how he and his team are working with TPG Telecom as the ‘Official Network Partner’ to implement the project, the benefits it will bring to businesses and how it will totally transform the city overall.

"Escape from Stadis Kuo - Insights from the Finnish Miracle"

9.40am

Presentation of the Nordic “Possibility Model” for positive change in business. A value-based journey towards the creation of sustainable success.
Hybrid insights from Finnish unicorns: Supercell and Rovio
The rise, fall and rise of Finnish tech: the Nokia story
Different paths to globalise your business: case examples will include Abbloy, Isku and Happy or Not
The creation of thriving start-up ecosystem – the genesis of SLUSH, Polar Bear Pitching and the Ski Lift Pitch
New approach to pitch your business “Speak or Die: How to Speak Your Truth and Save the World”.

KPMG and Treasury Wine Agritech Breakfast

7.00am

New and emerging technologies are reconfiguring the way all industries operate, agriculture included. This session, featuring a range of industry specialists and HWA_2018 creative director and futurist Robert Tercek – will explore some of the big trends, promises and challenges of AgTech.

The discussion will challenge the modus operandi of agricultural industries, share ideas and discuss collaborative strategies for accelerating progress throughout the sector.

Greg Pearce – Continuous Improvement Coach, Treasury Wine Estates
Robert Tercek – Creative Producer, Hybrid World Adelaide Tech Conference
Piers Hogarth-Scott – National IoT Practice Leader, KPMG Australia
Dr Darren Oemcke – AgTech consultant, Hydra Consulting
Emily Jenke – CEO, Democracy Co

Spaces will be offered on a RSVP basis to HWA 2018 ticketed conference guests. To RSVP, HWA Tech Conference ticket holders only should email .

HWA Development Lab Pitching

3.50pm

Over two days Australian start-ups worked with local and international mentors to refine their ideas and plans, develop their pitches and work to make their ideas and their vision a reality. Participating start-ups will be pitching for a share of $85,000 in State Government development grants.

Ignite SA Gigabyte ‘Preserve’ a partnership with the SA Museum

3.00pm

The Ignite SA Gigabit Challenge Preserve is the first project out of the Ignite SA program and a partnership between Ignite SA (UniSA and the State Government) and the South Australian Museum to utilise South Australia’s high speed internet capabilities to make the Museum’s extraordinary collection of Australian Aboriginal culture, accessible to the world.

The winners will receive $20,000 to develop their idea into a functional platform using Adelaide’s Gigabit capabilities which could potentially be used by other digital humanities collections across the world, as well as the chance to receive a further $5,000 to attend a conference in the US, to possibly pitch the idea on a global stage.

The Reality of Mixed Reality

2.00pm

Mixed Reality technology allows us to collaborate in ways never before possible. This presentation shows how MR technology can be used to allow people to see, hear and feel from the perspective of other people, and so move towards Augmented Tele-Existence where you feel that you are really in the body of someone else far away. The latest results will be shown from the University of South Australia, and other leading research groups.

Helpful Robots

1.30pm

Ever dream of having your own Rosie from the Jetsons? With that goal in mind, Marita has created robotic arms for people with a disability, robots for kids with cancer to go to school remotely and robots for people to explore museums remotely.

Come and hear about these robots and more, and learn how we’ll see more and more of these robots helping us in our everyday lives going forwards.

Less Artificial Intelligence and Trustworthy Machines

11.35am

Imagine yourself weighing the medical treatment or surgery of a loved one facing a life threatening disease or injury. Or worse, imagine that split second before an impending accident, when with the flick of a wrist, you must choose to either hit a school van filled with children or instead, swerve of the road to hit a lone elderly pedestrian. Would you trust a machine with such a life-or-death decision? Had you noticed that machines are already making such decisions hundreds of times a day for you already?

Dr. Alvelda will speak about building new generations of synthetic machine that don’t just have artificial intelligence, but are also equipped with artificial emotions and digital ethics and empathy to make them more understandable, relatable, and trustworthy.

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Augmenting Human Capabilities

11.30am

Last year the topic of artificial intelligence was on the cover of every magazine and in the business pages of every newspaper. Thanks to the confluence of three things – big data, powerful GPU microprocessors, and algorithms – machines have gained the ability to learn. But this is only the beginning. What’s next in the field of machine intelligence? Attend this session to learn about self-aware machines, the ethics of AI, and the broad range of business applications for intelligence on demand.

TOPICS / ISSUES:
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Conscious Machines AKA Artificial Consciousness, Technological Unemployment.

Is The Future Already Here Yet? Making Technology and Culture

10.00am

Designing wonder in the age of AI: implications from the 4th wave of industrialisation

If the 19th century was about the evolution from mechanisation to industrialisation, and the 20th was about a move from electrification to computing; then we are surely in the midst of a shift from digitisation to a fully data-centric world.

Emergent technologies such as the Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems are all taking advantage of rich data layers and increased processing power. New business models and new markets are appearing, and disruptions seem likely across markets, ecosystems and institutions, with the likelihood of profound social, cultural and political impacts.

These emergent techno-economic transformations, like many of their predecessors, will then also be accompanied by a great deal of societal and cultural anxiety regarding economic impact, sustainability and trust. But these new technical systems also offer new ways to engage, delight and build, and new ways to imagine how we might be human in the 21st century.

Professor Genevieve Bell will discuss how this emerging data-driven world suggests profound challenges and opportunities.

Five Technologies That Will Shape Your Future

9.15am

Digital media pioneer and award-winning author Robert Tercek will open Hybrid World 2018 with a sweeping overview of the technologies that are converging and maturing to create the framework for the next phase of change.

Big data and advanced microprocessors beget Machine Intelligence which in turn enables widespread software automation.

The fusion of physical identity with digital metadata recorded in blockchains will enable that machine intelligence to operate in the real world around us, controlling robotic systems.

The result: entire corporations defined by software. Are you ready to work for an AI corporation?

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