ADSN 2022 Conference: Brisbane, 21-22 November
Our Inaugural Conference is in the books - and it was a big success!
The QUT Centre for Data Science hosted the event in Brisbane. Around 90 people from around Australia attended the two-day, face-to-face get together.
The conference featured:
- 2 Keynote talks
- 9 Invited Speaker talks
- Industry Panel Discussion
- Communications Workshop
- Workshop on formulating a response to the Australian Academy of Science report on advancing Data-intensive research in Australia
- Workshop on formulating ideas and plans for the ADSN in 2023
- Two poster sessions
- Networking - get to know each other sessions
Thank you to everyone who attended and made this such a special event. We'd like to give a special thanks to the QUT Centre for Data Science for organising the event.
The ADSN hopes this is just the first of many conferences to follow!
Day 1 Keynote Speaker:
Dr Tomasz Bednarz, Director of Strategic Researcher Engagement at NVIDIA
Day 2 Keynote Speaker:
Richard Fox, Data & Analytics Manager for the AFL (Australian Football League)
Invited Speakers:
Prof Joanna Batstone, Monash Data Futures Institute: AI & Data Science for Social Good
Becki Cook, QUT Centre for Data Science: Indigenous Data Science: co-designing a framework for best practice enhancement of data literacy
Prof Lewis Mitchell, The University of Adelaide: Data science and mathematical modelling
Prof Richi Nayak, QUT Centre for Data Science: Neural Natural Language Processing Methods with added Context
A/Prof Yoni Nazarathy, The University of Queensland: Julia as a data science research tool
Dr Emi Tanaka, Monash Econometrics & Business Statistics: Towards a unified language in experimental designs
Dr Ides Wong, CSIRO: Healthcare, tech-celerated: using data to power an open and equitable health system.
A/Prof Andrew Zammit Mangion, University of Wollongong: Deep learning for facilitating parameter estimation in statistical models
Dr Astrid Zeman, Melbourne Centre for Data Science: Analysing images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to supplement human decision making
Levi-Craig Murray, Strategic Manager of Indigenous Data, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Tim Macuga, Senior Project Officer, ADSN & QUT Centre for Data Science: Communicating your research story
Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen, QUT Centre for Data Science Director: Conference Host & Moderator
Industry Panel Discussion
Moderator: Prof Michael Rosemann, Director of QUT's Centre for Future Enterprise. Panellists (L-R): Dr Iain McCowan, Dubber AI; Dr Matt Aburn, WearOptimo; Emma Black, BlackBox Co; Prof Mark Harvey, QUT VP of Business Development
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