Program

Time

Session

 

9:00 – 9:30

Coffee and tea on arrival

 

9:30 – 9:45

Welcoming 

Marthie Grobler | CSIRO’s Data61

 

9:45 – 10:00

Opening address

Tamara Ogilvie | CSIRO SME Connect

 

10:00 – 10:45

Keynote

Emile Rademeyer | VANDAL

Welcome to the Metaverse: The Future of Creativity

 

10:45 – 11:10

Morning tea

 

SMEs and Modelling, Simulation and Digital Twins

Session chair: Deborah Lawler-Dormer

 

11:10 – 11:30

Deborah Lawler-Dormer | MAAS

Discovery, prototyping, partnership and collaboration

 

11:30 – 11:50

Joseph Bevitt | ANSTO

“The Invisible Revealed”: Material insights and engineering solutions with neutron beam science

 

11:50 – 12:10

Mari Velonaki | UNSW Creative Robotics Lab

Towards Human-Centred Technologies: An Essential Symbiosis between Academia & Industry

 

12:10 – 12:30

Maggie Zhang | NVIDIA

Accelerate AI Applications with NVIDIA GPUs  Slides

 

12:30 – 1:15

Lunch

 

SMEs and Cyber security

Session chair | Marthie Grobler

 

1:15 – 1:40

Liming Zhu | CSIRO’s Data61

Cyber technologies for SME growth – Barriers and Solutions Slides

 

1:40 – 2:05

Julian Fay | Senetas

Keys to the future – Cyber resilience in the era of Quantum computers

 

2:05 – 2:30

Dali Kaafar | Macquarie University

Digital Privacy Preservation: Are we getting there?

 

2:30 – 2:50

Afternoon tea

 

2:50 – 3:50

Panel session: Empowering SMEs through digital innovation

Anne-Louise Brown | CSCRC

Maggie Zhang | NVIDIA

Joseph Bevitt | ANSTO

Julian Fay | Senetas

 

3:50 – 4:00

Closing

Marthie Grobler

 

4:00 – 4:30

MAAS tour

 

4:30 – 5:30

Networking Event

 



Tuesday 3 May 2022

 

Time

Session

 

9:00 – 9:30

Coffee and tea on arrival

 

9:30 – 9:40 

Welcoming 

Viveka Weiley | CSIRO’s Data61

 

9:40 – 10:35

Keynote

Ian Opperman | Chief Data Scientist, Department of Customer Service

Some thoughts on Unlocking Value from AI Slides

 

10:35 – 11:00 

Morning tea

 

SMEs and Reinventing science

Session chair: Viveka Weiley

 

11:00 – 11:25

Viveka Weiley | CSIRO’s Data61

Collaborating to Reinvent How Science is Done

 

11:25 – 11:50

Alex Chapman | CSIRO’s Data61

Democratising Simulation for Agricultural Scientists

 

11:50 – 12:15

Matthew Grace | CSIRO’s Data61

Reinventing Reef and Ocean Science – Opportunities for SME Collaboration

 

12:15 – 1:15

Lunch

 

SMEs and Artificial Intelligence

Session chair: Haris Aziz

 

1:15 – 1:40

Prem Naraindas | Katonic.ai 

Is AI Only for Big Companies or Can It be Beneficial to SMEs too? Slides

 

1:40 – 2:05

Prof. Mary-Anne Williams | UNSW Business School

AI a critical growth factor for SMEs

 

2:05 – 2:30

Jake An | Raiz Invest

Achieving AI-driven value creation Slides

 

2:30 – 2:50

Afternoon tea

 

2:50 – 3:50

Panel session: How will AI change the future of science and SME collaboration?

Bill Simpson-Young | Gradient Institute

Dr Fatemah Vafaee | UNSW Data Science Hub, Computational Biology, 

Bioinformatics, AI in Biomedicine Laboratory

Xerxes Battiwalla | Bionic Vision Technologies

 

 

3:50 – 4:00

Closing

Deborah Lawler-Dormer | MAAS