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Vincent Gramoli - RedBelly Network Dexter Cousins invites Vincent Grimoli, Founder and CTO of RedBelly Network to this week's Fintech Chatter Podcast. Vincent charts his journey in the blockchain environment from academia to entrepreneurship. He outlines the innovative approach RedBelly Network takes towards the tokenisation of real-world assets and the need for collaboration between Tradfi and Defi.Vincent shares insights on blockchain technology safety measures, the importance of compliance, and how he sees the future of fintech in Australia. About RedBelly NetworkRedbelly Network is a team of innovators, engineers, and visionaries committed to building a secure and inclusive blockchain ecosystem. RedBelly Network believes in the power of collaboration — within both their team and the global community, working towards reshaping the future of finance and technology.About Vincent GramoliVincent Gramoli is the Founder and CTO of Redbelly Network and the Head of the Concurrent Systems Research Group at the University of Sydney. Vincent has chaired the Cybersecurity Committee for the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) and the Blockchain Technical Committee for the Australian Computer Society.His accolades include the Digital National Facilities & Collections Award from CSIRO, the Best Paper Awards at ICDCS'21, IPDPS'22, ICDCS'22 and DSN'24 for his research on blockchains. He received the Education Leader of the Year Award from Blockchain Australia and the Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. Vincent has been affiliated with INRIA, Cornell, Data61 and EPF.Key TakeawaysRedBelly Network aims to provide a compliant blockchain solution for traditional finance.The company focuses on tokenising real-world assets to lower barriers for retail investors.Safety measures include linking accounts to real-world identities to ensure accountability.The collaborative approach to scalability is a key feature of RedBelly Network's technology.Commercialising innovation in Australia can be a lengthy process due to regulatory hurdles.Emphasising the importance of learning business skills for tech founders.Building stong networks is crucial for finding talent in niche markets.Investor interest in compliant asset tokenisation is growing.RedBelly Network aims to reduce transaction fees by maintaining a fixed fee structure.Sound Bites"We're entering a new era with tokenisation.""I had to learn the business side of things."Chapters00:00   Introduction to Vincent and Red Belly Network05:27   Navigating Regulation in Blockchain08:58   Tokenisation of Real-World Assets12:08   Safety Measures using Layered Technology19:33   Transitioning from Tech to Business24:36 Hiring the right Talent27:19 The Challenge of Funding30:51 Reducing Fees for Consumers34:30 The Pro-Crypto Movement39:23 Learning from TradFi for Future Innovations41:33 Future Plans for RedBelly NetworkSend us a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp

In this episode of the ASIAL Security Insider podcast, we speak with Professor Jon Whittle about the potential impact of AI on the future of security.Jon is the Director at CSIRO's Data61, Australia's national centre for R&D in data science and digital technologies. With over 800 staff and affiliates, partnerships with industries across almost every sector, and collaborations with over 30 Universities, Data61 acts both as a centre for expertise and an enabler for national initiatives.Data61's strengths are in #artificialintelligence and #machinelearning, #cybersecurity and #privacy preserving technologies, #robotics and #autonomous systems, and #computationalscience. Data61 works across the entirety of CSIRO, collaborating with scientists and engineers in manufacturing, health and biosecurity, agriculture and food, minerals, land and water, oceans and atmosphere, and energy.Data61 offers computer scientists, data scientists, engineers and designers a unique opportunity to work on cutting edge research that will translate into real-world positive impacts on society.Jon covers a range of topics including:The key security threats that AI and ML might help mitigate or prevent? How AI and ML are currently being used in both the physical and cybersecurity space, and what results have they achieved so far? The main challenges or limitations of using AI and ML for security purposes. How AI can help with threat detection, especially against sophisticated or zero-day attacks? How adversaries are using AI for malicious purposes. What can be done to counteract such threats? The role human experts play in an AI-driven security framework, and how that might change in the future? How organizations can ensure the AI systems they adopt for security are unbiased and reliable? What ethical considerations should be kept in mind when deploying AI and ML for security purposes? How AI might impact data privacy and regulatory compliance in the realm of physical and cybersecurity?For more information visit www.asial.com.au

The Artificial Intelligence revolution has dwarfed everything else in tech during 2024. But according to Toby Walsh, author of the upcoming The Shortest History of AI, 2025 also promises to be a revolutionary year in the history of AI. The AI agents are coming, Walsh suggests, warning that 2025 might be the first year in which we will be able to quantify the job losses caused by smart machines. And then there's regulation, the Australian based Walsh notes, predicting that in 2025 we are going to see more and more governments around the world directly confront the consequences of technology that is about to revolutionize the world. Toby Walsh is one of the world's leading researchers in Artificial Intelligence. He is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales and leads a research group at Data61, Australia's Centre of Excellence for ICT Research. He has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI for his contributions to AI research, and has won the prestigious Humboldt research award. He has previously held research positions in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland and Sweden.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

For episode 464, Founder & CTO Vincent Gramoli joins Brandon Zemp to discuss the Redbelly Network, which is Enabling asset issuers to tokenize and trade compliant on-chain structured products. Vincent Gramoli has chaired the Cybersecurity Committee for the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) and the Blockchain Technical Committee for the Australian Computer Society. He received the Digital National Facilities & Collections Award from CSIRO, the Best Paper Awards at ICDCS'21, IPDPS'22, ICDCS'22 and DSN'24 for his research on blockchains, the Education Leader of the Year Award from Blockchain Australia, and the Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. In the past, Gramoli has been affiliated with INRIA, Cornell, Data61 and EPFL. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 1:00 | Who is Vincent Gramoli? 4:52 | What is the Redbelly Network? 9:41 | Redbelly Network global partnerships 11:15 | Process of Tokenization 15:06 | Real world assets on Redbelly Network 17:24 | Double spending & Finality 22:43 | 3rd party audits for Redbelly Network 25:48 | Scalability on Redbelly Network 31:20 | Use-cases on Redbelly Network 33:56 | How can asset issuers start Tokenizing today 36:38 | Redbelly Network 2025 Roadmap 40:45 | Redbelly Community

The AI revolution, long in hype but short in practice, is finally beginning to happen. In today's WSJ, the tech writer Joanna Stern introduces her own Joannabot to review the new iPhone 16. Soon, of course, we will increasingly struggle to distinguished between the real Joanna and her Joannabot. And the same will also be true for yours truly on KEEN ON who will, in the not too distant future, be easily replicated (ie: replaced) by an Andrewbot. That, at least, is the view of Toby Walsh, one of the world's most respected AI experts and authors. As Walsh explained to me (the real AK), he's been playing around with Google's new NotebookLM, a break-through product which, he says, amazed him as much as his reaction to GPT3. Toby is right. NotebookLM is an astonishingly good product which, in the not too distant future, will make most podcasters like myself redundant. My only consolation is that my wife works for Google. And she, I'm proud to say, is impossible to replicate. Toby Walsh is Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and CSIRO's Data61. He is the winner of the prestigious Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science and was named on the international “Who's Who in AI” list of influencers. He appears regularly on TV and radio, has been profiled by the New York Times and has authored four books on AI for a general audience, the most recent ones entitled “Machines Behaving Badly” and “Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World” (Fall 2023). He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science and was named by the newspaper The Australian as one of the “rock stars” of Australia's digital revolution. He has won both the Humboldt Prize and the NSW Premier's Prize for Excellence in Engineering and ICT. His Twitter account was voted in the top ten to follow to keep abreast of developments in AI.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Vincent Gramoli is the founder and CTO of the Redbelly Network, a public purpose-built Real-World Asset Tokenisation Network. Why you should listen Redbelly was born at the University of Sydney when Prof. Vincent Gramoli set out to see if he could build a fork-proof blockchain. Through a rigorous scientific development process and in partnership with CSIRO, the Redbelly Network was commercialised in 2021 with Mainnet launch scheduled for late 2024. Redbelly's Compliant Asset Tokenisation solution is the bridge between the regulated Web2 economy of today and the Web3 economy of the future. Redbelly is the only open and purpose-built accountable RWA network. Open, fast, scalable, cost-effective and natively compatible with assets in regulated markets. Redbelly Network is a revolutionary solution for Compliant Asset Tokenisation, built on an open finance platform that embeds distributed ledger technology into the heart of financial relationships. This eliminates information asymmetry and dramatically increases efficiency, helping to build a fairer financial system for all. With a novel leaderless consensus mechanism, democratic byzantine fault tolerant (DBFT) consensus developed with The University of Sydney and CSIRO's Data61, they are able to achieve high performance and guarantee the impossibility of forking and mitigate double spending with near-instant finality. Redbelly Network is designed to focus on accountability. Accountability is enforced at a protocol level through a novel mechanism that constructs undeniable proofs of fraud -Polygraph; and at the functional level through an innovative identity layer that ensures all network participants are known. Redbelly is projected to be #1 in Global RWA TVL by late 2024. Supporting links Stabull Finance Red Belly Network Andy on Twitter  Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin   If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.  

Join Jennifer Didier as she has a lively conversation with Shelley Copsey.  They discuss Shelley career path and her goals to have a diversified workforce. Jennifer also adds a new place to travel on her bucket list. More about Shelley Copsey:  As the co-founder and CEO of FYLD, I lead a venture that empowers utilities field teams and managers to make data-driven decisions in real-time, leading to greater safety, productivity and quality assurance. I have over 20 years of experience in the intersection of physical infrastructure and digital technologies, as well as the human transformation required to deliver on the promise of emerging technologies. I have created and led multiple enterprise SaaS start-ups in this domain, including GeoSLAM, a world-leading geospatial company that transformed the way the real world was mapped (exited to Faro). I was a founding board member at Coviu, an award-winning telehealth platform that scaled from 400 to 25,000 consultations a day during the Covid-19 pandemic (on board through to completion of Series A). I also contributed to spinning out multiple companies from research powerhouse CSIRO, including drone technology company Emesent and regtech platform PaidRight. I have a strong background in finance, innovation, and commercialisation, having held senior roles at CSIRO's Data61, PwC, and KPMG. I am a Chartered Accountant and have undertaken executive education at MIT and Stanford on AI and corporate entrepreneurship. My roles have seen me hold numerous board positions and partner with scaling companies to achieve strong funding outcomes and exits, aligned to business strategy. Connect with Shelley Copsey on LinedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelleycopsey/

Over four decades ago the American author and futurist, John Naisbitt, captured the public imagination with his book Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives. Since that time, the concept has been widely adopted by researchers, consultants, private enterprises and governments to explore long-term futures across a diverse range of regions, industries and socioeconomic domains. Yet what are megatrends? And how can we better understand their significance and impact?To explore this I am delighted to be joined on Brain for Business by Dr Claire Naughtin.Dr Claire Naughtin is a Principal Research Consultant at Data61 – part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or CSIRO, an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research. Claire leads Data61's Digital Futures team and specialises in future-focused, strategic projects and has worked across a diverse range of policy and industry domains, including the future of trade, employment, healthcare and emerging technology and industry development opportunities. Among her most recent work, Claire co-led the delivery of CSIRO's Our Future World report – a once-in-a-decade report that identified seven emerging megatrends that will shape the next 20 years for Australia. Claire is passionate about bridging the gap between research and the real world and equipping leaders with a data-informed narrative of the future to help guide long-term decision-making. As part of this, Claire delivers strategic foresight training and workshops to help organisations build resilience to uncertain futures and publishes her research in scientific and industry journals. You can find out more about Claire and her work on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-naughtin/The “Our Future World” report can be accessed online: https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/data/Our-Future-WorldFurther information about Data61 and the CSIRO is available here: https://www.csiro.au/en/about/people/business-units/data61 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us a Text Message."AI is a little bit like fine wine in that everybody knows the name. Everybody thinks it looks great, but most people still really don't understand it."Simon KrissThis month's themeThis month we explore the latest trends reshaping various sectors in Australia, from technological innovations driving business growth to market disruptors demanding strategic adaptation for survival. Key topics include leveraging cutting-edge technologies to spur growth as well as formulating agile strategies to respond effectively to industry disruptions.In this episode you'll hear aboutHow to educate CEOs and leaders about AI and its potential impact.How CEOs and C-suite leaders need to communicate their position on AI to alleviate fears and build a safe environment for experimentation.How to use AI to explore new boundaries and create new products.How to identify pain points in the organisation and prioritise AI use cases Where to start your AI journey today.Key linksSimon's website: https://simonkriss.aiSimon's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonkriss/ (Simon mentioned he will send a free PDF of his book to anyone who connects with him after listening to this podcast episode)Simon's book on Amazon: "The AI-Empowered Customer Experience" by Simon Kriss https://www.amazon.com.au/Empowered-Customer-Experience-practitioners-possibilities-ebook/dp/B0C9YCPT4JCSIRO's Data61: https://data61.csiro.au/Australian Government AI Ethics Principles: https://www.industry.gov.au/data-and-publications/building-australias-artificial-intelligence-capability/ai-ethics-framework/ai-ethics-principlesOpenAI: https://www.openai.com/Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Canva: https://www.canva.com/Beautify: https://beautifycloud.com/Allmybraindecor: https://allmybrain.com/Katonic: https://katonic.ai/Brainfish: https://brainfish.ai/About our guestSimon Kriss, Chief AI Officer at simonkriss.ai is a sought-after keynote speaker and consultant. He is author of “The AI Empowered Customer Experience”, hosts podcasts on CX and AI, and was named in the 2024 CX Top 50 Global Influencers to follow. Based in Melbourne Australia, Simon is a CX and AI futurologist who presents to audiences around the world and works with company boards and C-suite executives to help them better understand where the AI opportunities lie for their businesses.About our hostOur host, Chris Hudson is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of Company Road, helping businesses and leaders find meaning, impact and positivity.Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world's most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with University of Melbourne in Innovation, and Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally. For weekly updates and to hear about the latest episodes, please subscribe to The Company Road Podcast at https://companyroad.co/podcast/

In this podcast, Toby Walsh is joined by Vision Australia assistive technology guru and 'Talking Tech' presenter David Woodbridge to chat all things Artificial Intelligence. Toby Walsh is Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, research group leader at Data61, adjunct professor at QUT, external Professor of the Department of Information Science at Uppsala University, an honorary fellow of the School of Informatics at Edinburgh University and an Associate Member of the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW. Need more from Professor Toby Walsh?  Listen to our recent Vision Australia Library presentation as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival, In conversation with Toby Walsh as he examines the possibilities and perils of emerging AI technologies, from ChatGPT to facial recognition and self-driving cars, with Elizabeth McCarthy. https://omny.fm/shows/interview-highlights/melbourne-writers-festival-special-in-conversati-1Support this Vision Australia Radio program: https://www.visionaustralia.org/donate?src=radio&type=0&_ga=2.182040610.46191917.1644183916-1718358749.1627963141See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to episode #932 of Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast. Nicholas Mattei is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tulane University. Nick has dedicated his career to exploring the theory and practice of artificial intelligence, with a focus on decision-making systems for both autonomous agents and humans. He's been into AI since he was young, influenced by his mother (a program coordinator at a science center, and his father, a professor). His early fascination with computers and programming laid the foundation for a career that has spanned prestigious institutions and cutting-edge projects. Before joining Tulane University, Nick worked as a Research Staff Member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory, where he tackled complex problems in question answering, natural language inference, decision making, and the ethical implications of AI on society. Prior to his time at IBM, he contributed to the AI & Algorithmic Decision Theory Group at Data61 in Australia. His work there and his involvement in organizing workshops on computational social choice highlight his commitment to advancing AI research. He also spent time at NASA in engineering where he was responsible for the design and implementation of control systems software for multiple small satellites. All cool stuff. At Tulane, Nick is not only advancing AI research but also emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration. He works closely with the law school and sociology departments to study the societal impacts of AI. His leadership at the Tulane Center of Excellence for Community-Engaged AI demonstrates his dedication to ensuring that technological advancements benefit the wider community. Nick is passionate about education and mentorship, continually striving to inspire the next generation of AI researchers. His ability to bridge the gap between theoretical AI and practical applications makes him a valuable asset to both the academic and broader communities... and business thinkers like you. If you're trying to understand the distinctions between traditional coding and AI, the nuances of machine learning, and the evolving landscape of AI technologies, this one is for you. Nick reflects on the challenges and opportunities presented by Generative AI, as well as his thoughts on the ethical deployment of AI systems, offering a nuanced perspective on the future of technology. His pragmatic approach to AI, coupled with his optimism about its potential to create value, provides a balanced view that is both insightful and thought-provoking at a time when we need it most. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 1:06:08. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. Check out ThinkersOne. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Nicholas Mattei. Tulane University. Tulane Center of Excellence for Community-Engaged AI. Follow Nick on LinkedIn. Follow Nick on X. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Takeaways Interdisciplinary work, particularly between computer science, law, and sociology, is crucial to understanding the societal impacts of AI. AI is broadly defined as making computers appear intelligent, covering tasks like Google Maps navigation and Netflix recommendations, while machine learning involves training computers to learn from data and make predictions without explicit programming. Traditional AI integrates data across sources, whereas generative AI predicts the next word in a sequence based on large datasets. Generative AI excels at repetitive writing tasks but struggles with truly innovative creativity, as it mimics patterns from its training data. Significant concerns exist about the ethical deployment of AI, particularly regarding data privacy, copyright issues, and potential societal impacts The transformer architecture, developed by Google, revolutionized AI by enabling faster and more efficient training of large language models. Skepticism exists about achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), but aligning AI tools with human values and ensuring they support human decision-making is valuable. AI's integration into various domains, from criminal justice to creative industries, poses both opportunities and challenges, necessitating continuous adaptation and training. Ongoing dialogue and exploration are essential to understanding and shaping the future of AI responsibly. Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction and Nicholas's Background 06:00 - Defining AI and Machine Learning 12:00 - Generative AI Capabilities 20:00 - Ethical and Societal Impacts of AI 30:00 - Transformers and AI Development 35:00 - AI in Practice and Real-World Applications 45:00 - Future of AI and AGI 55:00 - Alignment and Ethical AI 58:00 - Conclusion and Future Discussions 

In this episode of ESG in 10, we delve into the crucial intersection of AI and responsible investing. With the exponential growth of AI-driven businesses, investors are grappling with how to gauge the responsible use of this technology. Alphinity Investment Management, in collaboration with CSIRO's Data61 team, presents a groundbreaking framework aimed at guiding investors in assessing the ethical deployment of AI. Tune in as we explore key insights from their comprehensive research report, discuss engagement activities, and provide an overview of the investment framework, empowering investors to integrate responsible AI considerations into their investment strategies. Find out more about Alphinity's Responsible AI Framework for Investors 

 Welcome to the Inner Game of Change Podcast, where I explore the intricate layers of organizational change alongside insightful professionals. Today I welcome Sarah Kaur, a Design Thinking Practitioner at  the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO's) Data61. With a robust background, Sarah brings over a decade of experience collaborating across disciplines to embed human-centric design in machine learning and AI research. Her work focuses on Responsible AI, striving to enhance policy and consumer experiences through ethical and technically sound AI applications. Sarah's dedication shines through in her projects.Today, Sarah and I go through the rabbit hole of AI design for impact exploring the intersection of creativity, ethics, and technology. I am grateful to have Sarah chatting with me today.About Sarah (In her own words)Sarah Kaur is a strategic designer and HCD researcher. Her passion is supporting the creative work of teams across disciplines to collaborate, and come up with smart ways to create impact through using participatory design. She now works as a Design Thinking Practitioner at CSIRO's Data61, where she focusses on research into Responsible AI, and embedding human insight in machine learning and AI research and product development.Sarah realises both the incredible potential for AI to support positive outcomes in policy and consumer experiences, and the lack of awareness about appropriate ethical, and technical governance in the AI space. She holds a Master of Business Analytics and a Bachelor in Fine Arts, and 12 years of professional experience supporting NFP, Government and Private organisations realise their business objectives by placing humans and quality data, at the centre of their decisions and investments. Sarah has designed and led stakeholder engagements on projects delivering algorithmic decision-making models to users. This includes Australia's Family Court's first machine learning product amïca, helping couples separate by automating a two-party workflow to gather data, and suggesting a fair division of assets for their agreement. Prior to becoming a strategic designer, Sarah was a video artist working with dancemakers, and a curator and artistic producer for multidisciplinary festivals. Making a tough choice between staying an arts professional and a sustainable income meant a career change and an entry into the world of digital. She joined Tundra as a Digital Producer, and later Portable to lead the Production team and becoming the Chief of Operations and Strategy, Head of Account Management before founding the Business Design discipline.Sarah is on the Australian Red Cross Humanity First Advisory Panel to support the development of a humanitarian framework to guide ethical technology development.Contact SarahLinknedInlinkedin.com/in/sarah-tamara-kaurEmailsarahtamarakaur@gmail.comAli Juma @The Inner Game of Change podcast

Send us a Text Message.“The level of power that consumer facing Gen AI offers with such intuitive accessibility for such essentially a low cost for that high powered tool… is unprecedented.”Sarah KaurIn this episode, you'll hear about:AI as an enabler: How AI can be used to enable and empower unique work processes and scenarios, including key examples of how it it can enable design thinking and transformation workDigital divide and inequity: Confronting the challenge of digital inequity and strategies for evening the playing field of technology across the workforceAI's efficiency vs human value: Balancing the use of AI technology with traditional human work and where and how both are most valuableChatGPT in design workflows: Analysing how chatGPT has changed the approach to design, how it will continue to do so and how human participation and perspective must be recentered for continued valueAI upskilling and ‘Shadow AI': How ‘Shadow AI' is allowing for expanded creativity and creating opportunities for upskilling the workforce and why you should be taking advantage of itKey LinksMax Kalis episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_fTrmruTPkShadow AI: https://www.forbes.com/sites/delltechnologies/2023/10/31/what-is-shadow-ai-and-what-can-it-do-about-it/?sh=1b4aa39b7127ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/Data61: https://research.csiro.au/data61/Copilot: https://copilot.microsoft.com/Lorraine Finlay, Australian Human Rights Commissioner: https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/commission-general/human-rights-commissioner-ms-lorraine-finlayAbout our guest Sarah Kaur (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-tamara-kaur/) is a Strategic Designer and Human-centred Design Researcher. Her passion is supporting the creative work of teams across disciplines to collaborate, and come up with smart ways to create impact through using participatory design. She now works as a Design Thinking Practitioner at CSIRO's Data61, where she focusses on research into Responsible AI, and embedding human insight in machine learning and AI research and product development.She holds a Master of Business Analytics and a Bachelor in Fine Arts, and 12 years of professional experience supporting NFP, Government and Private organisations realise their business objectives by placing humans and quality data, at the centre of their decisions and investments. About our hostOur host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world's most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in Innovation, CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leadFor weekly updates and to hear about the latest episodes, please subscribe to The Company Road Podcast at https://companyroad.co/podcast/

AI-powered programs like ChatGPT can do everything from plan an itinerary for your next holiday or help you write a resume or business proposal. But with all great technologies, there are risks and challenges. AI expert and Chief Scientist at UNSW's AI Institute, Professor Toby Walsh, and Stela Solar, Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Centre hosted by CSIRO's Data61, join STEM journalist, Neil Martin, to take a deep  dive into the impact of AI on society in areas including healthcare, transport, education and defence. For more information on our speakers or for a full transcription of this episode, visit our website. Read more of our stories on AI: The defence review fails to address the third revolution in warfare: artificial intelligence Gaslighting, love bombing and narcissism: why is Microsoft's Bing AI so unhinged? Everyone's having a field day with ChatGPT – but nobody knows how it actually works Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech's AI race will transform search - and all of computing Can machines invent things without human help? These AI examples show the answer is 'yes' Have you given away secrets on ChatGPT? Let's connect: Follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram to stay up to date with the latest research and news from UNSW Engineering. Visit the UNSW AI Institute website to learn more about exciting developments in AI, data science and machine learning.   We would like to show our respects and acknowledge the Bedegal people who are the Traditional Custodians of the Land on which our Kensington campus is situated on, and to Elders past and present.

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Stela Solar, Director of National AI Centre, CSIRO Australia. They talk of "Australia's world first" initiative to develop, roll out and manage AI and how Stela Solar leads it.  Biography Stela Solar is the Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Centre, hosted by CSIRO's Data61. In this role, Stela is focused on building value for Australian people, businesses and the country, through use of Artificial Intelligence. Over the past 15 years, Stela has cultivated expertise in capturing new revenue opportunities presented by emerging technologies and business model transformation. Stela is passionate about removing barriers to positive technology adoption and engagement. She leverages her broad experiences across business development, strategy, ecosystem development, marketing and product management to inform her insights surrounding cross-organizational factors affecting an organization's ability to capture an advantage. Prior to CSIRO, Stela most recently held the position of Global Director of AI Solutions Sales and Strategy at Microsoft, and before that was with channel partners Ingram Micro, Express Data, and web security startup M86. Stela has recently returned to Australia from 7 years in the US technology industry. She has a Masters of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts from University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of NSW. Outside of work, Stela enjoys competitive sailing and plays cello and piano. Image credits: Stela Solar portrait: TBA Stela Solar and the National AI Centre CSIRO, Australia and RAIN Links: https://www.csiro.au/en/work-with-us/... https://www.csiro.au/en/work-with-us/... https://twitter.com/stela?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/stelasolar ideaXme links: ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com ideaXme is a global network - podcast on 12 platforms, 40 countries, mentor programme and creator series. Mission: To share knowledge of the future. Our passion: Rich Connectedness™!

For international women's day, we spoke with two academics of colour about their experiences of being minority women in academia.   Henrika McCoy is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Fellow in Services to Children and Families and associate professor at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. Henrika shares her experience of colleagues and students having erroneous expectations about her scholarship and background because she is a Black female academic. And she addresses the assumption that non-parent academics don't have any caring responsibilities.  More from Henrika: Diversity statements: the good, the bad and the ugly Questions you should ask yourself about your role in institutional racism Yes, your university perpetuates racism against BAME academics: what can you do? Didar Zowghi is a professor of software engineering and a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO's Data61. She leads a research team in "Diversity and Inclusion in AI" and "Requirements Engineering for Responsible AI". She is also the leader of the National AI Centre's think tank on diversity and inclusion in AI in Australia, emeritus professor at University of Technology Sydney and conjoint professor at the University of New South Wales. Didar speaks about about biases in AI systems, improving the gender imbalance among AI professionals and her journey from Iran to the upper echelons of the AI research community.   

In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Steve Nouri, Founder of AI4Diversity, Founding Member of Hackmakers, and Chief AI Evangelist at Wand. He's an award-winning technical leader, data scientist, academic, entrepreneur, and global leader on artificial intelligence. Nouri sits on the Forbes Technology Council, is a committee member at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and was named ICT Professional of the Year Gold Disruptor in 2019 by the Australian Computer Society (ACS). With more than 1 million followers on LinkedIn, he is one of the most influential voices in AI and Data Science. Steve describes his journey to computing, which started in his teens with computer games, and past work experiences including leading data projects at Data61, Australia's leading digital research network. He speaks about the importance of building your brand online and how it can create more opportunities for computing professionals. Steve and Rashmi also discuss his Hackmakers hackathons, created during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, he shares his big hopes for AI4Diversity, the growing non-profit organization he founded, with more than 10,000 volunteers from various backgrounds that engage and educate diverse communities about AI to benefit global society. Links: AI4Diversity Hackmakers

Welcome to episode 54 with Mark Staples, Senior Principal Researcher at Data 61. In this episode, Adriana and Mark discuss researching blockchain technology, the role research plays with government and industry and what Mark has identified as the "three blockchain adoption paradoxes".BioDr Mark Staples is the CTO for the Digital Finance CRC and a Senior Principal Researcher in CSIRO's Data61. He is on the ISO blockchain and DLT standards committee, and worked on the OECD's Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board and the steering committee for Australian Government's National Blockchain Roadmap. He is an experienced research manager and has held software engineering and engineering management roles in industry. He has degrees in computer science and cognitive science from the University of Queensland, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge.Connect with MarkSend a message to Adriana in one of the social channels below requesting his email address.Connect with AdrianaTwitter https://twitter.com/nonfungibleabLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti/Blockchain Pro PodcastWebsite https://blockchainpropodcast.comTwitter https://twitter.com/blockchainpro

Today, for International Women's Day, Cosmos journalist Matilda Handsley-Davis talks to Lauren Hanson from CSIRO. Lauren is a mechanical engineer in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group at CSIRO's Data 61 and her major work interest is mechanical design of robots. She was a member of the CSIRO Data61 team who competed at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge – AKA the robot Olympics – last year as covered in issue 93 of Cosmos magazine.  Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine website Watch and listen to all our Cosmos BriefingsSubscribe to Cosmos Magazine (print) or the Cosmos Weekly. Special 10% discount on Cosmos magazine print subscriptions (1 or 2 year), or 1 year Cosmos Weekly subscriptions for Cosmos Briefing podcast listeners!  Use coupon code COSMOSPOD in our shop.

We get an update on the development of Australia's world-first Bionic Eye System. Similar to Cochlear's bionic ear, it involves a visual implant to give functional vision to people who've lost their sight due to the genetic condition, Retinitis Pigmentosa.  The consortium behind this innovation, which has just been granted a Breakthrough Device designation from the US FDA, includes Bionic Vision Technologies, the Centre for Eye Research Australia, the Bionics Institute, CSIRO's Data61 and the University of Melbourne.Dr Ash Attia, the CEO of Bionic Vision Technologies and Associate Professor Penelope Allen, a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Eye Research Australia join the podcast to discuss the importance of the bionic eye breakthrough.MTPConnect co-hosts are Caroline Duell and Dr Gerard Gibbs, Senior Director of our BioMedTech Horizons program which is providing $1 million of MRFF funding to support this project. 

- Chỉ số năng lực cạnh tranh toàn cầu (GCI) do Diễn đàn Kinh tế Thế giới công bố cho thấy, trong hai năm 2018 và 2019, Việt Nam tăng 10 bậc và đứng thứ 67 trên thế giới. Còn trong bảng xếp hạng Chỉ số đổi mới sáng tạo toàn cầu năm 2021 do Tổ chức Sở hữu trí tuệ công bố: Việt Nam vẫn duy trì xếp hạng trong nhóm 45 quốc gia dẫn đầu toàn cầu- xếp thứ 44/132 quốc gia và nền kinh tế, và trong nhóm các quốc gia có cùng mức thu nhập, Việt Nam tiếp tục giữ vị trí đứng đầu. Đây là những thành tựu đáng ghi nhận cho thấy chúng ta đã nhận thức được tầm quan trong của đổi mới sáng tạo đối với sự phát triển của đất nước. Tuy vậy, trong các báo cáo về KHCN và đổi mới sáng tạo, đổi mới công nghệ ở Việt Nam được công bố mới đây, các chuyên gia nhận định: trong giai đoạn phát triển tiếp theo của nền kinh tế để tiến tới trở thành nước phát triển, có thu nhập cao vào năm 2045, đòi hỏi chúng ta phải tập trung nhiều hơn vào việc nâng cao năng suất lao động thông qua đổi mới công nghệ và sáng tạo công nghệ. Nhưng cũng có một thực tế là hiện 90% doanh nghiệp Việt Nam là doanh nghiệp nhỏ và vừa- tiềm lực còn nhiều hạn chế thì việc đầu tư cho đổi mới công nghệ, đổi mới sáng tạo vẫn còn gặp nhiều khó khăn, rào cản. Cơ chế “đột phá” nào giúp doanh nghiệp Việt Nam đổi mới công nghệ, đổi mới sáng tạo? Đây sẽ là nội dung được chúng tôi đi sâu phân tích và bàn luận trong chương trình ĐỐI THOẠI hôm nay, với sự tham gia của các khách mời. - Ông Nguyễn Đức Hoàng- Phó cục trưởng Cục Ứng dụng và phát triển công nghệ (Bộ Khoa học và công nghệ). - Tiến sĩ Phạm Thu Hiền– Chuyên gia Mạng lưới nghiên cứu Data61, trực thuộc Tổ chức nghiên cứu khoa học và công nghệ của Khối thịnh vượng chung Australia. - Ông Trương Vĩnh Thành- Phó tổng giám đốc Tập đoàn Sao Mai (An Giang). Chủ đề : Đổi mới công nghệ, Doanh nghiệp, Việt Nam --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vov1sukien/support

Australian's are known for their ingenuity, innovation and know-how, right?  Well a special bunch of Australians have taken this to the next level! On this episode of the podcast, Andrew sits down with Dr. Navinda Kottege, acting Group Leader of CSIRO's Data61's Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group and leader of Team CSIRO in the DARPA SubT Challenge.   Andrew and Navinda talk all things DARPA SubT Challenge. The DARPA SubT Challenge is a world-wide challenge with brilliant and amazing teams from all over the world competing for a first prize of $US2 million to continue their research. Team Data61 held their own, however you'll need to listen to the podcast to hear just how amazingly they did!  Once again, thanks for listening to the Drones for Good Podcast. If you enjoyed the show, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and give it a rating.   Enjoy!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After 3 years it came down to just seconds! Interview with Leader of team CSIRO's Data61 and CSIRO's Robotics group leader, Dr Navinda Kottege. Robotics experts led by Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, have beaten teams from NASA JPL/MIT, California Institute of Technology, and Carnegie Mellon University to claim second place in a world leading robotics competition dubbed the ‘Robot Olympics'. Organised by the US Government research agency DARPA and spanning a three-year-period, the Subterranean Challenge was designed to push the boundaries of autonomous robotic technology. Scientists were tasked with remotely running the robots in an underground environment that simulated a real-world scenario. This included locating models representing lost or injured humans, backpacks, or phones, as well as variable conditions such as pockets of gas. The $US1 million ($AUD1.3) prize money will be reinvested into team CSIRO's Data61's research and development of Australian technology. Further reading: https://drasticnews.com/australia-claims-historic-top-two-spot-in-the-robot-olympics/ #robotics #darpa #drones #emersent #data61 #csiro #subtchallenge

Ep. 58 Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell AO FTSE FAHAThis was one of the most interesting conversations I've had. And that's saying something. Genevieve's background is technical and almost overwhelming....but don't do what I did and shake your head and go, 'I'm not going to understand a single word of this,' because we break things down and build them back up again. And it's fascinating.Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell, AO FAHA FTSE is the Director of the School of Cybernetics and 3A institute (3Ai) at the Australian National University, and a Vice President and a Senior Fellow in the advance research and development labs at Intel Corporation.Genevieve holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and is a renowned anthropologist, technologist, and futurist, having spent more than two decades in Silicon Valley helping guide Intel's product development and social science and design research capabilities. She is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development and for being an important voice in the global debates around artificial intelligence and human society.In 2017, Genevieve returned to Australia and established the 3A Institute at the Australian National University in collaboration with CSIRO's Data61, with the mission of building a new branch of engineering to safely, sustainably and responsibly scale AI-enabled cyber-physical systems. In 2021, she was appointed Director of the new School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University.So....just to reiterate, amongst other things she BUILT A NEW BRANCH OF ENGINEERING!!!But we also talk about trivia, cricket, we get a tip on the best sci fi book if you had to read only one, and we spoke of her obsession with lifts. It's an AI thing. Have a listen.====================================GB refers to the sci fi author Ursula K. Le Guin#Reallyinterestingwomen #RIW #genevievebell #ANU #intel #siliconvalley #3ainstitute #artificialintelligence #AI #cybernetics #criticalthinking #womensagenda #futurewomen #profoundwomen #womenofinfluence #womenofimpact #womenintheworld #unwomen #extraordinarywomen #womensequality #generationwomen #womensleadership #wlasocial #huffpostwomen #richardinstagraham

The Young Professionals Podcast (TYPP), proudly brought to you by ADAPT Careers (https://adaptcareers.com.au) and co-hosted by Luke Marriott and Nicholas Sargeant (Sarge). Today we're speaking with Habiba, a research engineer and computer scientist at CSRIO's Data61, specialising in machine learning and data science. After completing a Bachelor of Computer Science in her hometown of Islamabad, Habiba moved to Chicago to complete a PhD of Computer Science, focused on computational biology. Following the completion of her PhD, Habiba worked throughout Europe before finding her way to Sydney, Australia, to work at Data61. Habiba's favourite coding language is Python, an open source language used for machine learning and deep learning, which we loved getting stuck into in this week's episode! If you have a career story you would like to share, a role you would like to learn more about or any questions you would like us to ask young professionals, you can reach us through any of our social media that can be found at TYPP.com.au. We would love to hear from you!

The Victorian government purchased a vaccination booking system from Microsoft in January this year for $6M and it is still not in use. According to InnovationAus, the booking system is an existing Microsoft product that was purchased on a six-month contract, which at the time was said to only need fine tuning before launch. Four months later, Victorians are still using a 1800 phone line to make bookings, a system that has not kept up with demand during the 1b expansion phase of vaccination rollout. The issues did not receive much attention until the latest outbreak brought renewed attention to making the vaccination rollout as efficient as possible.https://www.innovationaus.com/victorias-6m-microsoft-vaccine-platform-delays/After the recent changes at CSIRO that saw Data61 drop the trustworthy systems group, UNSW has stepped in to ensure funding for the group continues through the next six months to give it time to build new partnerships and funding – making it even clearer that the team was being dropped with zero notice or support. The team's work on the secure embedded L4 microkernel has been seen as a major breakthrough technology development – a first of its kind, with iTnews reporting the team has had interest in being acquired by companies in China and Singapore. Data61 dropped the team after deciding it did not fit with a new mission of pursuing artificial intelligence technologies as a seemingly myopic new focus.https://www.itnews.com.au/news/unsw-gives-dumped-data61-sel4-research-group-funding-lifeline-565274It's Computex week, which means we miss visiting Taipei but we're still getting news from the likes of Acer, Asus, Gigabyte, Nvidia and Intel. Today we see the latest 11th Gen Core updates from Intel with new U-series mobile processors for its thinnest, lightest designs. Recently we got the new chips for gaming laptops so this is the latest we'll find in many new Intel Evo branded laptops that deliver great performance in ultrathin bodies with 'all day' battery life.https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/better-processor-thin-light-laptops.html#gs.28en9vChinese hardware manufacturer Xiaomi has unveiled a new HyperCharger technology that can charge a large 4000mAh battery in its Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra smartphone in just eight minutes, and even charge in just 15 minutes over a wireless charge pad. If you've ever forgotten to put your phone on charge before going to bed, this kind of tech can make a big difference when you've just got 10 minutes before you have to run out the door.https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/30/22461435/xiaomi-fast-charging-world-record-200w-wired-120w-wirelessAmazon is quietly launching a new feature to allow Amazon devices to share their internet connections with other nearby Amazon devices that are not part of your own network, and it has some worried about everything from privacy to bandwidth. The feature, called SideWalk, is quietly opt-out, so users need to know to go and switch it off in their system settings to avoid being included in the plan. SideWalk seems to only be launching in the USA at this time. Amazon does seem to have clear security protocols in place around this technology and at some point in the future we do have to embrace mesh networks for the full power of 5G and internet of things technologies to take root, so I'm not against seeing this happen as long as the right processes and protections are in place?https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-soon-automatically-share-your-internet-with-neighbors/TCL has launched its new TV range this week, with its latest refresh bringing integrated Google TV across the new range, as well as mini LED and quantum dot tech in the backlighting systems. Dolby Vision is also supported, including a Dolby Vision IQ tech that reads the lighting in the room and adjust the HDR picture output to suit the conditions. Here at Byteside we'll continue to tell people to ignore 8K TVs... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

CSIRO's digital division, Data61, is in the midst of another restructure that is seeing 70 jobs lost from the research organisation. One of the victims of the changes is the loss of a world-leading team that has developed a highly secure computing microkernel, seL4. According to reports, the team has been disbanded with staff either exiting Data61 or being moved into an AI division. Members of the team were told last week it no longer fits the agency's strategic goals. The seL4 work will continue through an independent body.https://www.innovationaus.com/data61-dumps-world-class-sel4-security-team/ABC iView has begun an advertising campaign that tells users they will soon be required to create an account to continue using the public broadcaster's streaming service. The ABC says the requirement will be in place in July and is aimed at improving personalisation of the service for better recommendations, creating watch lists, and tracking of which shows and episodes a user has or has not watched. But privacy advocates decry not maintaining an optional approach, and that in the end the best security is to hold as little personal data as possible.https://www.innovationaus.com/abc-may-lock-out-iview-users-for-personalisation/Spotify has added offline music downloads for users of the Apple Watch. A lot of apps seem to have had a hard time getting Apple Watch audio downloads up and running, so it's a great milestone to see Spotify get support in place. It makes it easy for Spotify users to leave their phone behind when going out with just their Watch for exercise or just wanting to operate a little lighter during the day.https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447222/spotify-adding-feature-music-downloads-offline-apple-watchTwitch has been inundated with popular hot tub streams in recent weeks, with some streamers using a loophole in rules around 'contextual attire' to wear skimpy bikinis in paddling pools they've setup in their streaming rooms. On Friday, to better accommodate such activity while managing wider user and advertiser expectations, Twitch announced a new "Pools, Hut Tubs, and Beaches" category exclusively for these kinds of streams. The company admits it is a first step solution to manage controls for viewers and advertisers while not being overly censorious toward streams that can be seen as sexually suggestive.https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021/05/21/lets-talk-about-hot-tub-streams/In entertainment, talk of a Highlander reboot is heating up as word emerges that Henry Cavill is in talks to tackle the lead role. The new film is set to be directed by Chad Stahelski, who directed the John Wick films. Whether the lead role will hold to the name Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod remains to be seen. Just remember, they only ever made one film.https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021/05/21/lets-talk-about-hot-tub-streams/In esports, China's Royal Never Give up aka RNG won the Mid-Season Invitational event in League of Legends overnight, while in Rainbow Six Siege the Six Invitational in Paris was won by Ninjas in Pyjamas, defeating Team Liquid in a tight 3-2 series win. Three of the top four teams were Brazilian, showing the regions dominance in the game.https://dotesports.com/rainbow-6/news/nip-defeat-liquid-in-si-2021-grand-final-cementing-brazilian-rainbow-six-siege-dominanceAlso at the final, Siege announced the next season of the game, Operation North Star, will add a new operator to the game, Thunderbird, a healing defender, as well as a rework to the Favela map and more active play after death with control over drones and better camera controls. Operation North Star launches in June.https://www.dexerto.com/rainbow-six/rainbow-six-operation-north-star-details-operator-map-rework-1555554/That's your Bits bulletin for Monday. I'm Seamus Byrne from Byteside, thanks for joining me. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Bits, your daily tech news bulletin, for Monday, May 10, I'm Seamus Byrne.A big moment for Australian esports overnight, with Perth's Pentanet.gg becoming the first local team to make it out of the group stage of an international League of Legends competition. Pentanet split its victories with main group rival Unicorns of Love, 2-2, resulting in a play-off match to decide who would progress. Pentanet secured the victory and made history for the Oceanic region. At the end of 2020 League of Legends closed down the local region's official league, with top Australian talent largely moving to the USA to continue their careers. A new association formed to create a new local competition and to see Pentanet succeed on the world stage after such uncertainty and change is a spectacular moment for the local esports scene.https://liquipedia.net/leagueoflegends/Mid-Season_Invitational/2021The federal budget takes place tomorrow, and a pre-announcement late last week saw the government reveal it aims to establish a new National AI Centre to coordinate AI expertise and help drive adoption of AI opportunities across Australian businesses. The centre will sit within CSIRO's Data61. A number of additional initiatives were also announced, including encouragement for more AI-related graduate programs as well as programs to encourage the use of AI in regional Australia to solve both local and regional problems.https://www.innovationaus.com/govt-to-establish-50m-national-ai-centre/In a submission to a parliamentary enquiry into digital surveillance, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission has argued there is no legitimate reason for using encrypted communications and that such tools are used almost exclusively by criminals. In a submission that seemed to ignore Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Signal, and other everyday encrypted communication tools used by millions of Australians, the ACIC in no way made a distinction between other dedicated forms of criminal communication. In a statement to iTnews, however, ACIC did clarify it was focused on very specific tools in its argument. Hopefully it explains that to parliament better next time too.https://www.itnews.com.au/news/crims-using-encrypted-platforms-almost-exclusively-acic-claims-564255Social audio service Clubhouse has now launched on Android after a year of exclusive access for iOS users. After a lot of attention at the start of 2021 which slowed in recent months as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Discord have all launched similar services, the Android launch maintains the platform's invite-only focus. Whether it's too little, too late will be seen in coming weeks.https://www.joinclubhouse.com/blog/welcome-android-usersIn what sounds like a meme but is apparently very real, SpaceX has announced it will launch a lunar mission in 2022 named DOGE-1, which the Elon Musk led space company says is being funded entirely by Dogecoin. The mission will send a cubesat payload into lunar orbit, but details on why remain vague. The press release says Geometric Energy Corporation is the organisation funding the mission.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/spacex-to-launch-doge-1-to-the-moon-301287016.htmlIn more substantial science, researchers at the US National Institute for Standards and Technology have observed the effects of quantum entanglement at a macroscopic level. A pair of tiny aluminium drums, one-fifth the width of a human hair – positively gargantuan in quantum terms – were seen to move in a highly correlated fashion that could only be explained by entanglement. The research has long-term potential in continued development of quantum network and communication technology.https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-entanglement-has-now-been-directly-observed-at-a-larger-macroscopic-scaleFinally, in other esports results, ESL crowned the Season 12 ANZ Champs winners for CS:GO, with Order defeating Dire Wolves for... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We are joined by Dr Jed Horner, Strategic Advocacy Manager, Standards Australia discussing the NSW Cybersecurity Taskforce Recommendations and Dr Sushmita Ruj, Senior Research Scientist, Data61 discussing a new data privacy preserving tool fuelled by AI, called Personal Information Factor (PIF). Dr Sushmita Ruj has more than a decade of experience as a cybersecurity researcher. Her broad interests are in applied cryptography, cybersecurity, data privacy and blockchains. At CSIRO, she leads projects on Data Privacy with partners and collaborators from CybersecurityCRC, Western Australia Government and NSW Government. She is also a member of the working group on ``Blockchain For Cybersecurity" working group of the National Blockchain Roadmap of Australia and Trans-Tasman Initiative on Post Quantum Cryptography research. Prior to joining CSIRO, she spent more than 7 years in academia as Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at Indian Statistical Institute and Indian Institute of Technology, Indore. She's won various competitive grants including the Samsung Gro Award, Cisco Faculty Award, NetApp Faculty Fellow and IBM OCSP Grant. She is also a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM. Link to Data61 PIF release - https://australiancybersecuritymagazine.com.au/new-ai-tool-ensures-anonymous-covid-19-data-remains-secure-and-private/ Recorded and live streamed, Friday 5 February 2021 - video version available here - https://mysecuritymarketplace.com/av-media/live-stream-nsw-cybersecurity-taskforce-recommendations-ai-driven-privacy-tool/

We are joined by Dr Jed Horner, Strategic Advocacy Manager, Standards Australia discussing the NSW Cybersecurity Taskforce Recommendations and Dr Sushmita Ruj, Senior Research Scientist, Data61 discussing a new data privacy preserving tool fuelled by AI, called Personal Information Factor (PIF). This episode is for Part 1 - Jed Horner is an experienced public policy professional which spans successful advocacy for law reform, policy development in innovative areas, research and analysis, governance and management (companies, NGO Boards, and programs) and media management (proactive and reactive, global and local). He served as an advisor to the New Zealand Government and worked for the NSW Government to develop policy, programs and strategies, including around innovation and digital government. Link to NSW Cybersecurity Recommendations - https://mysecuritymarketplace.com/reports/nsw-cyber-security-standards-harmonisation-taskforce/ Recorded and live streamed Friday, February 5 - video version available here https://mysecuritymarketplace.com/av-media/live-stream-nsw-cybersecurity-taskforce-recommendations-ai-driven-privacy-tool/

Eps 10: In today's episode I talk with Professor Toby Walsh! Toby is a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence. He is a Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW, and leads the Algorithmic Decision Theory group at Data61. He was named by the Australian newspaper as a "rock star" of Australia's digital revolution.

Professor Toby Walsh is a world-leader in artificial intelligence, author of “2062: The World that AI Made”, and a Scientia Professor, based at UNSW and Data61. In this episode, we ask: Why are most digital assistants “women” and most AI developers men? Should we be warned when we’re talking to a robot? What does the future of work look like in an automated world? What should be done about robots who can decide who to kill? Why has Toby changed his mind about the use of facial recognition software? And who should be responsible when AI goes wrong? You can find Toby’s latest book here - https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/2062

Ellen Broad is a boardgame designer. But that’s not actually why I’m talking to her. The boardgames was something of a byproduct – her main focus is being a rather brilliant thinker on all things data and AI.In her career, Broad has worked for governments and UN bodies to help plot the future of data, digital issues and AI ethics, and she has also worked for Australia’s digital transformation and innovation body, Data61.She has worked as the head of policy for the Open Data Institute and today she is a Senior Fellow at ANU’s 3Ai Institute. You can also buy her book – Made By Humans: The AI Condition.(This episode first ran on Uplink, but is now available here as Jetpacks takes priority in the Byteside podcast network.) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Berserk Bear is back, and snuffling around Germany’s infrastructure. Two new Android issues surface. India opens up the source code for its COVID-19 contact-tracing app as such technological adjuncts to public health continue to arouse privacy concerns. [F]Unicorn poses as Italy’s Immuni app. An alleged FIN7 gangster is arrested. Australia’s Data61 urges companies not to scrimp on R&D. Joe Carrigan on Android mobile malware getting new features. Our guest is Frederick “Flee” Lee from Gusto on CCPA. And does your underwear come with a Faraday cage? We thought it might. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news brief: https://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/9/102

For many of us Covid-19 has meant a daily routine that likely involves watching the 1pm press conference, wondering when we will be out of stage four lockdown, then opening the fridge once for the hundredth time to see if something new has materialised.But for some people, there are much bigger questions to ask.What will the world look like after the pandemic? Why have some countries dealt with it so much better than others? And critically, how can we avoid this kind of pandemic from happening again?Technology Futurist, Geopolitics Specialist and Sci-Fi Novelist Dr Jamie Metzl is one person who is looking to answer all of these questions.Dr Metzl has a varied CV, including advising the World Health Organisation, the US National Security Council and the United Nations.Metzl is hosting a special Facebook live event next Sunday titled ‘Hacking the Coronavirus: The Future of Our World'.About Jamie Metzl's eventDr Jamie Metzl stands apart from his contemporaries with his exceptional insight into a diverse range of topics, including human genome editing, the ethics of our technology, and Asian economic and political issues. His impressive and storied resume led him to advise the World Health Organization, the U.S. National Security Council, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the United Nations. No. Big. Deal.As part of Think Inc.'s Outside The Box series, Jamie will delve into topics like: What is our future after the pandemic? Why do some Asian countries respond quicker and more effectively against a viral threat? How will an informed and educated global citizenry inoculate the world against the crises to come? How is genetic engineering set to revolutionise the core foundations of our lives — sex, war, love, and death? Will we be able to digitise and upload our consciousness to the cloud?Want to know what's next for the humble human species? Grab your tickets to Think Inc.'s, Outside The Box event, ‘Hacking the Coronavirus: The Future of Our World' with Dr Jamie Metzl.The event will be hosted by Toby Walsh, Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales and Data61. He is the author of the book 2062: The World that AI Made and he is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives. Toby has been a leading voice in the discussion about autonomous weapons, speaking at the UN in both New York and Geneva on the topic. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science and recipient of the NSW Premier's Prize for Excellence in Engineering and ICT.This event will consist of a 30-minute presentation by Jamie, followed by a 30-minute fireside chat with the event host Toby Walsh, and a 30-minute Q&A session.Check out more info at thinkinc.org/metzl

In Episode 36, “Onwards and Upwards”, Blenheim Partners‘ Gregory Robinson speaks to Adrian Turner, a technologist and successful entrepreneur who was the Co-Founder of Borondi Group and Mocana Corporation, a smartphone and Internet of Things security company based in Silicon Valley. He was also the Founding CEO of CSIRO’s Data61, Australia’s largest data innovation network, and is Co-Chair of The Australian Cyber Security Growth Network. Adrian was the Chairman of Australia’s expat network, Advance.org, helping it grow from just over a thousand Australians in New York City to a network of 24,000 across 83 countries. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Digital Economy. A person who makes things happen, Adrian is currently working with Andrew Forrest and the Minderoo Foundation and leads the Minderoo Wildfire and Disaster Resilience Program.Adrian gives us a rare insight into his Silicon Valley experience and how it all came together, sharing stories about the challenges of raising capital, bootstrapping a company to move forward, and the beginnings of tech giants and their founders who are now household names. We learn about the speed of decision making, the incredible spirit of entrepreneurship and the acceptance of failure as part of the journey. Greg and Adrian discuss his return to Australia armed with ideas, the desire to pay it forward and the tremendous success of Data61.Adrian’s forward-thinking attitude has made him a pioneer in his industry, and in this discussion, we hear about his vision: his next venture and the new industries about to emerge. We also find out more about his role in the Minderoo Foundation to lead the development of a globally-relevant national blueprint for fire and disaster resilience, having fought the fires up close and how a crisis can be an opportunity in disguise.

A new report from Australia's peak science and technology agency says artificial intelligence will be vital to the future of healthcare, natural resource management and the built environment. Data61's roadmap says more jobs will be created than lost, with digital technologies potentially worth AUD$315 billion to the local economy by 2030. By the same year, AI could be worth AUD$22.17 trillion to the global economy.

On this episode of AI Australia, we’re changing things up a little. With James overseas, Nigel and his friend Sarah Turner from REA Group hosted multiple panel conversations with some of Australia’s best and brightest in the field of AI, computer science, mathematics, and regulation to discuss the launch of OVIC’s new book: Closer to the Machine. OVIC is the Office of Victorian Information Commissioner and is the primary regulator and source of independent advice to the community and Victorian government about how the public sector collects, uses and shares information.   In this episode, we’re lucky to be joined by: Sarah Turner (co-host) - General Counsel, REA Group Adam Spencer - comedian, media personality and former radio presenter Rachel Dixon - Privacy and Data Protection Deputy Commissioner, OVIC Professor Toby Walsh (University of New South Wales and CSIRO’s Data61)  Professor Richard Nock (Australian National University and CSIRO’s Data61)  Associate Professor Ben Rubinstein (University of Melbourne)  Katie Miller (Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission)  Professor Margaret Jackson (RMIT)    In this episode we discuss: The degree to which we all take for granted how big a part AI plays in our lives The rate of improvement in algorithms in their narrow fields of “expertise”. We discuss how quickly a chess-playing AI went from basic to beating the chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov OVIC’s motivation for publishing the book on data privacy and protection Grappling with the implications of how AI systems can be misused, or easily breached from a security standpoint. Do we continue to push the boundaries in the face of privacy risks and concerns? Do we pull back? The challenge of discrimination. Eventually, machines will need to make decisions that “discriminate” against people in one way or another - but there is such a thing as good discrimination and bad discrimination. Who gets to make those definitions? What role should government play in the regulation (or non-regulation) of AI? Accountability. What happens when AI “goes rogue”? Where does the buck stop? How the conversation has evolved over the years, and become more “realistic” in a sense.   Links mentioned: OVIC: Closer to the Machine book

James Riley talks to Data61 CEO Adrian Turner, exploring what's needed to drive better R&D commitment and outcomes across Australian industry, and where we're succeeding today.

James Riley talks to Data61 CEO Adrian Turner, exploring what's needed to drive better R&D commitment and outcomes across Australian industry, and where we're succeeding today.

Have you seen a robot outside, or as roboticists like to say 'in the wild' this week? This year?

Professor Toby Walsh is a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, and has spent his life dreaming about machines that might think. He is a Professor of AI at the University of New South Wales and leads a research group at Data61, Australia’s Centre of Excellence for ICT Research. In this episode of Bridging the Gaps Professor Toby Walsh discusses his latest book ““2062: The World That AI Made”. By 2062 there will be huge developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence and some researchers believe that by that time we will have built machines as intelligent as us. But what will this future actually look like? When the quest to build intelligent machines has been successful, how will life on this planet unfold? In 2062, Toby Walsh considers the impact AI will have on work, war, politics, economics, everyday human life and, indeed, human death. Will robots become conscious? Will automation take away jobs? Will we become immortal machines ourselves, uploading our brains to the cloud? What lies in store for homo digitalis – the people of the not-so-distant future who will be living among fully functioning artificial intelligence? In “2062: The World That AI Made” Professor Toby Walsh describes the choices we need to make today to ensure that future remains bright.

At this launch event we heard from experts zero in on the compelling world of AI, shedding light on what engineering practitioners really need to know about this technology. Q&AI panellists included: Robyn Denholm Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy, Telstra Corporation Ltd Scientia Professor Toby Walsh Artificial intelligence expert at UNSW and Data61; author of 2062: The World that AI Made and It’s Alive! Mr Edward Santow Human Rights Commissioner Engineering the Future is a flagship thought leadership series presented by UNSW Engineering with the aim of fostering creative and focused discussion around issues of global and social relevance.

Meredith Broussard (author of 'Artificial Unintelligence' and data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Institute at New York University) and Toby Walsh (author of '2062: The World that AI Made' and professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales and Data61) in conversation with Anupama Raju. This episode is a live session from day 5 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Today, we’re chatting with AI expert, activist, and author Toby Walsh. Toby is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales and Data61 with an educational background from the University of Cambridge and University of Edinburgh in mathematics, theoretical physics, and artificial intelligence. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and has chaired multiple AI conferences. As an activist, Toby helped in the release of an open letter which gained over 20,000 signatures that called for a ban on offensive autonomous weapons. Toby is also the author of multiple books on artificial intelligence, the most recent of which is “2062: The World That AI Made” which we will discuss today. Dr Walsh opens his thoughts on the future of AI, when and how it could surpass humans, and how little we know about how it could impact our jobs. Toby also discusses with us other ways AI can impact society for better or for worse. How can our data privacy impact AI and how can microtargeting using this data change the course of history? What ethics should we stand by? Who is responsible for decisions made by autonomous machines?  And could government regulation actually help—rather than hinder—innovation? Insight into Toby's most recent book, “2062: The World That AI Made”, touted as the book to read, bar none, on AI and society. Will AI have consciousness? Is consciousness a biological construct? AI's impact on jobs. Will more jobs be displaced than created? Could AI lead to the second Renaissance when people focus on what's truly important? Which fictional future will AI lead us most closely to? Blade Runner, A Space Odyssey, Altered Carbon, The Jetsons, etc.? How did Toby become involved in AI? How did he become an activist? Which legal and ethical issues do we need to look at surrounding AI? AI is being used to target suspicious people for criminal surveillance. Bosses are now sometimes algorithms such as is the case with Uber. Should we regulate data monopolies? What is happening to our data privacy and how is it used to manipulate us? Cambridge Analytica and Facebook accused of involvement in manipulating elections through microtargeting using collected personal data. What is the regulatory landscape in Australia? How has it been impacted by GDPR? How has data been used illegally to discriminate based on race, gender, and other similar factors? What is the potential impact of government regulation on automation in travel? How could the safety of transportation increase through regulated data sharing in automated cars and planes? What are the advantages of machines over humans? How will global learning change humanity? Do we want humans to be manipulated to such an extreme degree? Can humans be hacked?  Should we regulate weapons of mass persuasion? How did AlphaGo create a ”Sputnik Moment” for AI? What impacts has it had? Is robotic soccer Australia's “Sputnik Moment” in AI? For full show notes and resources head to: eliiza.com/podcast/episode-3

Herbert Smith Freehills, King & Wood Mallesons, Data61 and IBM have joined forces to build an enterprise grade, permissioned blockchain called the Australian National Blockchain (ANB). It's set to launch in Q1 2019.Natasha Blycha and Ariane Garside of Herbert Smith Freehills invite Lay of the Land listeners in for a sneak peak.www.australiannationalblockchain.comwww.herbertsmithfreehills.comwww.kwm.comwww.data61.csiro.auwww.ibm.com/blockchainSupport the show (https://www.layoftheland.space)

Can artificial intelligence create art that’s as good as a humans? And if they could - would we even care about it, without that beating heart, that authentic human experience at its core? Professor Toby Walsh from UNSW and CSIRO’s Data61 explores the capabilities of AI-composed stories, and whether we will care about them when they get here. Lumina is a podcast about how tech innovations challenge and shape the way we share stories, produced for the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) by Audiocraft. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's episode of Crypto Watch is focussed on the 'Australian National Blockchain’ — Australia’s first cross-industry and large scale blockchain to be built by the CSIRO's Data61 in conjunction with Herbert Smith Freehills and IBM. Alan Kohler spoke to Dr Mark Staples, senior research scientist at the CSIRO’s Data61 and Natasha Blycha, Blockchain and Smart Legal Contract Lead from Herbert Smith Freehills to find out more. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Fernandez from Intel Labs to discuss Formal Verification.   Matthew Fernandez is a Research Scientist with Intel Labs. Matt began his programming career building Windows GUI applications and designing databases, before moving into operating system architecture and security. He has a PhD in formal verification of operating systems from the University of New South Wales in Australia, and worked with the Australian research group Data61. In the past, he has worked on compilers, device drivers and hypervisors, and now spends his days exploring new tools and techniques for functional correctness and verification of security properties. On the weekends, you can usually find Matt in a park with a good book, hunting for good coffee or helping a newbie debug their code. He hopes to avoid saying “monad” on this podcast. News C++17 in Detail now available Cross-language interfaces between C and C++ Spaceship Operator Links The sel4 Microkernel Isabelle - Generic Proof Assistant The Coq Proof Assistant Dafny - Microsoft language and program verifier Z3 Theorem Prover Sponsors Backtrace Patreon CppCast Patreon Hosts @robwirving @lefticus  

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Xavier Ho visits Elm Town to talk about creating (and pen-plotting!) generative art with Elm.

This episode, Ketan Joshi from our Data61 team joins Interronauts to talk about the future, specifically, the future of AI and autonomous cars, and all things robo-librarians, not to mention a recent study on Antarctica set 50 years in the future, which takes a retrospective at two courses of action we humans might take to slow the gradual degradation of that lovely white continent, and, following that, a chat about the >200 new species we've discovered and named in the last year—more than one species every second day, sheesh. And, this episode, we have an interview with our Dr Ben Muir, manager of the Rapid Automated Materials & Processing centre, who's been working with pet pharmaceutical group CannPal on developing a microencapsulation technology for precis medical marijuana delivery.Give us a rating on iTunes.Find the show notes at our blog | Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

Professor Toby Walsh is one of the world's leading researchers in Artificial Intelligence & recently returned from lobbying the UN to ban lethal autonomous weapons, aka Killer Robots.In his book "It's Alive", Toby considers the broader societal and philosophical questions of what happens when robots think and will they really fill our battlefields, take our jobs and eventually rule the world. You can follow Professor Toby Walsh on Twitter @tobywalsh

In the world of communication, there's one rivalry bigger than them all: internal vs external communication. The common belief is that external is superior simply because it's what you use to communicate with your audience. But something we often forget is the crucial role internal plays. It may not be pleasing your audience, and instead gratifying your staff. This week we talk with Kate Powl, Communications Manager at Data61. As a young agency attached to the CSIRO, Kate's role has been to build a strong team internally to ensure a strong external presence. When your team is organised on the inside, the external output improves. Discussed in this episode: Storytelling through data and building Data61's narrative Building a strong audience though a young agency The importance of incorporating digital and data experts into your teams How crucial internal communications is for strong external results Internal communications, more than just house keeping   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the world of communication, there’s one rivalry bigger than them all: internal vs external communication. The common belief is that external is superior simply because it’s what you use to communicate with your audience. But something we often forget is the crucial role internal plays. It may not be pleasing your audience, and instead gratifying your staff. This week we talk with Kate Powl, Communications Manager at Data61. As a young agency attached to the CSIRO, Kate’s role has been to build a strong team internally to ensure a strong external presence. When your team is organised on the inside, the external output improves. Discussed in this episode: Storytelling through data and building Data61’s narrative Building a strong audience though a young agency The importance of incorporating digital and data experts into your teams How crucial internal communications is for strong external results Internal communications, more than just house keeping  

As the world reacts to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, we look at the lessons to be learned from the group’s data mining mistakes and ask if it’s time to get off Facebook. We also discuss the Sunrise segment that had Australia up in arms and Indigenous rights groups accusing the show of racism. Plus we look at the cake that didn’t sit so well with ABC Audience & Consumer Affairs. To discuss these issues we were joined by Myles Morgan (SBS), Miranda Ward (nine.com.au) and Ketan Joshi (CSIRO’s Data61). This episode was hosted by Ninah Kopel. Fourth Estate is produced by 2SER 107.3 in Sydney and is broadcast across the Community Radio Network in Australia.

We talk about our recent trip to FOSDEM, we discuss the pros and cons of permissive licensing, cover the installation of OpenBSD on a dedibox with full-disk encryption, the new Lumina guide repository, and we explain ZFS vs. OpenZFS. This episode was brought to you by Headlines [FOSDEM Trip report] Your BSDNow hosts were both at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium over the weekend. On the friday before FOSDEM, we held a FreeBSD devsummit (3rd consecutive year), sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation and organized by Benedict (with the help from Kristof Provost, who did it in previous years but could not make it this year). We had 21 people attend, a good mixture of FreeBSD committers (mostly ports) and guests. After introductions, we collected topics and discussed various topics, including a new plan for a future FreeBSD release roadmap (more frequent releases, so that features from HEAD can be tried out earlier in RELEASES). The devsummit concluded with a nice dinner in a nearby restaurant. On Saturday, first day of FOSDEM, we set up the FreeBSD Foundation table with flyers, stickers, FreeBSD Journal print editions, and a small RPI 3 demo system that Deb Goodkin brought. Our table was located next to the Illumos table like last year. This allowed us to continue the good relationship that we have with the Illumos people and Allan helped a little bit getting bhyve to run on Illumos with UEFI. Meanwhile, our table was visited by a lot of people who would ask questions about FreeBSD, take info material, or talk about their use cases. We were busy refilling the table throughout the day and luckily, we had many helpers at the table. Some items we had ran out in the early afternoon, an indicator of how popular they were. Saturday also featured a BSD devroom (https://twitter.com/fosdembsd), organized by Rodrigo Osorio. You can find the list of talks and the recordings on the BSD Devroom schedule (https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/bsd/). The room was very crowded and popular. Deb Goodkin gave the opening talk with an overview of what the Foundation is doing to change the world. Other speakers from various BSD projects presented their talks after that with a range of topics. Among them, Allan gave his talk about ZFS: Advanced Integration (https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/zfs_advanced_integration/), while Benedict presented his Reflections on Teaching a Unix Class With FreeBSD (https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/reflections_on_reaching_unix_class_with_freebsd/). Sunday was just as busy on the FreeBSD table as Saturday and we finally ran out of stickers and some other goodies. We were happy with the results of the two days. Some very interesting conversations at the table about FreeBSD took place, some of which we're going to follow up afterwards. Check out the FOSDEM schedule as many talk recordings are already available, and especially the ones from the BSD devroom if you could not attend the conference. We would like to thank everyone who attended the FreeBSD devsummit, who helped out at the FreeBSD table and organized the BSD devroom. Also, thanks to all the speakers, organizers, and helping hands making FOSDEM another success this year. *** NetBSD kernel wscons IOCTL vulnerable bug class (http://blog.infosectcbr.com.au/2018/01/netbsd-kernel-wscons-ioctl-vulnerable.html) I discovered this bug class during the InfoSect public code review session we ran looking specifically at the NetBSD kernel. I found a couple of these bugs and then after the session was complete, I went back and realised the same bug was scattered in other drivers. In total, 17 instances of this vulnerability and its variants were discovered. In all fairness, I came across this bug class during my kernel audits in 2002 and most instances were patched. It just seems there are more bugs now in NetBSD while OpenBSD and FreeBSD have practically eliminated them. See slide 41 in http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh-us-03-cesare.pdf (http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh-us-03-cesare.pdf) for exactly the same bug (class) 16 years ago. The format of the this blog post is as follows: Introduction Example of the Bug Class How to Fix How to Detect Automatically with Coccinelle More Bugs Conclusion These source files had bugs ./dev/tc/tfb.c ./dev/ic/bt485.c ./dev/pci/radeonfb.c ./dev/ic/sti.c ./dev/sbus/tcx.c ./dev/tc/mfb.c ./dev/tc/sfb.c ./dev/tc/stic.c ./dev/tc/cfb.c ./dev/tc/xcfb.c ./dev/tc/sfbplus.c ./arch/arm/allwinner/awin_debe.c ./arch/arm/iomd/vidcvideo.c ./arch/pmax/ibus/pm.c ./dev/ic/igfsb.c ./dev/ic/bt463.c ./arch/luna68k/dev/lunafb.c Reporting of the bugs was easy. In less than a week from reporting the specific instances of each bug, patches were committed into the mainline kernel. Thanks to Luke Mewburn from NetBSD for coming to the code review session at InfoSect and coordinating with the NetBSD security team. The patches to fix these issues are in NetBSD: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2018/01/24/msg091428.html (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2018/01/24/msg091428.html) "Permissive licensing is wrong!” – Is it? (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/permissive-licensing-is-wrong-is-it-1-2/) A few weeks ago I've been attacked by some GNU zealots on a German tech site after speaking in favor of permissive licenses. Unfortunately a discussion was not possible there because that would require the will to actually communicate instead of simply accusing the other side of vile motives. Since I actually do care about this topic and a reader asked for a post about it in comments a while ago, here we go. This first part tries to sum up the most important things around the topic. I deliberately aim for an objective overview that tries not to be one-sided. The second part will then contain my points in defence of permissive licensing. Why license software at all? Licenses exist for reasons of protection. If you're the author/inventor of some software, a story or whatever product, you get to decide what to do with it. You can keep it for yourself or you can give it away. If you decide for the latter, you have to decide who may use it and in which way(s). In case you intend to give it to a (potentially) large group of people, you may not want to be asked for permission to xyz by everybody. That's when you decide to write a license which states what you are allowing and explicitly disallowing. Most of the well-known commercial licenses focus on what you're not allowed to do (usually things like copying, disassembling, etc.). Open source licenses on the other hand are meant to grant the user rights (e.g. the right to distribute) while reserving some rights or only giving permission under certain conditions – and they usually make you claim responsibility for using the software. For these reasons licenses can actually be a good thing! If you got an unlicensed piece of code, you're not legally allowed to do anything with it without getting the author's permission first. And even if you got that permission, your project would be risky, since the author can withdraw it later. A proper license protects both parties. The author doesn't get his mail account full of email asking for permission, he's save from legal trouble if his code breaks anything for you and at the same time you have legal certainty when you decide to put the code to long-term use. Permissive vs. Copyleft (in a nutshell) In short terms, permissive licensing usually goes like this: “Here you are, have fun. Oh, and don't sue me if it does something else than what you expect!” Yes, it's that easy and there's little to dispute over. Copyleft on the other side sounds like this (if you ask somebody in favor of Copyleft): “Sure, you can use it, it's free. Just keep it free, ok?”. Also quite simple. And not too bad, eh? Other people however read the same thing like this: “Yes, you're free to use it. Just read these ten pages of legalese and be dead certain that you comply. If you got something wrong, we will absolutely make you regret it.” The GNU Public license (GPL) The most popular copyleft license in use is the GPL (in various versions) (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). It got more and more complex with each version – and to be fair, it had to, because it was necessary to react to new threats and loop holes that were found later. The GNU project states that they are committed to protect what they call the four freedoms of free software: the freedom to use the software for any purpose the freedom to change the software to suit your needs the freedom to share the software with your friends and neighbors the freedom to share the changes you make These are freedoms that every supporter of open source software should be able to agree with. So what's the deal with all the hostility and fighting between the two camps? Let's take a look at a permissive license, too. The BSD license Unlike the GPL, the BSD family of licenses begun with a rather simple license that span four rules (“original BSD license”). It was later revised and reduced to three (“modified BSD license”). And the modern BSD license that e.g. FreeBSD uses is even just two (“simplified BSD license”). Did you read the GPLv3 that I linked to above? If you are using GPL'd code you really should. In case you don't feel like reading all of it, at least take a look and grasp how long that text is. Now compare it to the complete modern BSD license (https://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php). What's the problem? There are essentially two problems that cause all the trouble. The first one is the question of what should be subject to the freedom that we're talking about. And closely related, the second one is where that freedom needs to end. Ironically both camps claim that freedom is the one important thing and it must not be restricted. The GPL is meant to protect the freedom of the software and enforces the availability of the source code, hence limiting the freedom of actual persons. BSD on the other hand is meant to protect the freedom of human beings who should be able to use the software as they see fit – even if that means closing down former open source code! The GNU camp taunts permissive licenses as being “lax” for not providing the protection that they want. The other camp points out that the GPL is a complex monster and that it is virulent in nature: Since it's very strict in a lot of areas, it's incompatible with many other licenses. This makes it complicated to mix GPL and non-GPL code and in the cases where it's legally possible, the GPL's terms will take precedence and necessarily be in effect for the whole combined work. Who's right? That totally depends on what you want to achieve. There are pros and cons to both – and in fact we're only looking at the big picture here. There's also e.g. the Apache license which is often deemed as kind of middle ground. Then you may want to consider the difference between weak (e.g. LGPL) as well as strong copyleft (GPL). Licensing is a potentially huge topic. But let's keep it simple here because the exact details are actually not necessary to understand the essence of our topic. In the next post I'll present my stance on why permissive licensing is a good thing and copyleft is more problematic than many people may think. “Permissive licensing is wrong?” – No it's not! (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/permissive-licensing-is-wrong-no-its-not-2-2/) The previous post gave a short introduction into the topic of software licenses, focusing on the GPL vs. BSD discussion. This one is basically my response to some typical arguments I've seen from people who seem to loathe permissive licensing. I'll write this in dialog style, hoping that this makes it a little lighter to read. Roundup Install OpenBSD on dedibox with full-disk encryption (https://poolp.org/posts/2018-01-29/install-openbsd-on-dedibox-with-full-disk-encryption/) TL;DR: I run several "dedibox" servers at online.net, all powered by OpenBSD. OpenBSD is not officially supported so you have to work-around. Running full-disk encrypted OpenBSD there is a piece of cake. As a bonus, my first steps within a brand new booted machine ;-) Step #0: choosing your server OpenBSD is not officially supported, I can't guarantee that this will work for you on any kind of server online.net provides, however I've been running https://poolp.org on OpenBSD there since 2008, only switching machines as they were getting a bit old and new offers came up. Currently, I'm running two SC 2016 (SATA) and one XC 2016 (SSD) boxes, all three running OpenBSD reliably ever since I installed them. Recently I've been willing to reinstall the XC one after I did some experiments that turned it into a FrankenBSD, so this was the right occasion to document how I do it for future references. I wrote an article similar to this a few years ago relying on qemu to install to the disk, since then online.net provided access to a virtual serial console accessed within the browser, making it much more convenient to install without the qemu indirection which hid the NIC devices and disks duid and required tricks. The method I currently use is a mix and adaptation from the techniques described in https://www.2f30.org/guides/openbsd-dedibox.html to boot the installer, and the technique described in https://geekyschmidt.com/2011/01/19/configuring-openbsd-softraid-fo-encryption.html to setup the crypto slice. Step #1: boot to rescue mode Step #2: boot to the installer Step #3: prepare softraid Step #4: reboot to encrypted OpenBSD system Bonus: further tightening your system enable doas disable the root account update system with syspatch add my ssh public key to my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys disable password authentication within ssh reboot so you boot on a brand new up-to-date system with latest stable kernel VOILA ! January 2018 Development Projects Update (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/january-2018-development-projects-update/) Spectre and Meltdown in FreeBSD Issues affecting most CPUs used in servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices are in the news. These hardware vulnerabilities, known by the code-names “Meltdown” and “Spectre”, allow malicious programs to read data to which they should not have access. This potentially includes credentials, cryptographic material, or other secrets. They were originally identified by a researcher from Google's Project Zero, and were also independently discovered by researchers and academics from Cyberus Technology, Graz University of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, Rambus, the University of Adelaide and Data61. These vulnerabilities affect many CPU architectures supported by FreeBSD, but the 64-bit x86 family of processors from Intel and AMD are the most widely used, and are a high priority for software changes to mitigate the effects of Meltdown and Spectre. In particular, the Meltdown issue affects Intel CPUs and may be used to extract secret data from the running kernel, and therefore, is the most important issue to address. The FreeBSD Foundation collaborates with Intel, and under this relationship participated in a briefing to understand the details of these issues and plan the mitigations to be applied to the x86 architectures supported by FreeBSD. We also made arrangements to have FreeBSD's security officer join me in the briefing. It is through the generous support of the Foundation's donors that we are able to dedicate resources to focus on these issues on demand as they arise. Foundation staff member Konstantin (Kostik) Belousov is an expert on FreeBSD's Virtual Memory (VM) system as well as low-level x86 details, and is developing the x86 kernel mitigations for FreeBSD. The mitigation for Meltdown is known as Page Table Isolation (PTI). Kostik created a PTI implementation which was initially committed in mid-January and is available in the FreeBSD-CURRENT development repository. This is the same approach used by the Linux kernel to mitigate Meltdown. One of the drawbacks of the PTI mitigation is that it incurs a performance regression. Kostik recently reworked FreeBSD's use of Process-Context Identifiers (PCID) in order to regain some of the performance loss incurred by PTI. This change is also now available in FreeBSD-CURRENT. The issue known as Spectre comes in two variants, and variant 2 is the more troubling and pressing one. It may be mitigated in one of two ways: by using a technique called “retpoline” in the compiler, or by making use of a CPU feature introduced in a processor microcode update. Both options are under active development. Kostik's change to implement the CPU-based mitigation is currently in review. Unfortunately, it introduces a significant performance penalty and alternatives are preferred, if available. For most cases, the compiler-based retpoline mitigation is likely to be the chosen mitigation. Having switched to the Clang compiler for the base system and most of the ports collection some years ago, FreeBSD is well-positioned to deploy Clang-based mitigations. FreeBSD developer Dimitry Andric is spearheading the update of Clang/LLVM in FreeBSD to version 6.0 in anticipation of its official release; FreeBSD-CURRENT now includes an interim snapshot. I have been assisting with the import, particularly with respect to LLVM's lld linker, and will support the integration of retpoline. This support is expected to be merged into FreeBSD in the coming weeks. The Foundation's co-op students have also participated in the response to these vulnerabilities. Mitchell Horne developed the patch to control the PTI mitigation default setting, while Arshan Khanifar benchmarked the performance impact of the in-progress mitigation patches. In addition, Arshan and Mitchell each developed changes to FreeBSD's tool chain to support the full set of mitigations that will be applied. These mitigations will continue be tested, benchmarked, and refined in FreeBSD-CURRENT before being merged into stable branches and then being made available as updates to FreeBSD releases. Details on the timing of these merges and releases will be shared as they become available. I would like to acknowledge all of those in the FreeBSD community who have participated in FreeBSD's response to Meltdown and Spectre, for testing, reviewing, and coordinating x86 mitigations, for developing mitigations for other processor architectures and for the Bhyve hypervisor, and for working on the toolchain-based mitigations. Guides: Getting Started & Lumina Theme Submissions (https://lumina-desktop.org/guides-getting-started-lumina-themes/) I am pleased to announce the beginning of a new sub-series of blog posts for the Lumina project: Guides! The TrueOS/Lumina projects want to support our users as they use Lumina or experiment with TrueOS. To that end, we've recently set up a central repository for our users to share instructions or other “how-to” guides with each other! Project developers and contributors will also submit guides to the repository on occasion, but the overall goal is to provide a simple hub for instructions written by any Lumina or TrueOS user. This will make it easier for users to not only find a “how-to” for some procedure, but also a very easy way to “give back” to the community by writing simple instructions or more detailed guides. Guides Repository Our first guide to get the whole thing started was created by the TrueOS Linebacker (https://discourse.trueos.org/t/introducing-the-trueos-linebacker/991) (with technical assistance from our own q5sys). In this guide, Terry Tate will walk you through the steps necessary to submit new wallpaper images to the Lumina Themes collection. This procedure is fully documented with screenshots every step of the way, walking you through a simple procedure that only requires a web browser and a Github account! Guide: Lumina Themes Submissions (https://github.com/trueos/guides/blob/master/lumina-themes-submissions/readme.md) The end result of this guide was that Terry Tate was able to submit this cool new “Lunar-4K” wallpaper to the “lumina-nature” collection. TrueOS Community Guides (https://github.com/trueos/guides/tree/master) ZFS vs. OpenZFS (by Michael Dexter) (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/zfs-vs-openzfs/) You've probably heard us say a mix of “ZFS” and “OpenZFS” and an explanation is long-overdue. Our Senior Analyst clears up what ZFS and OpenZFS refer to and how they differ. I admit that we geeks tend to get caught up in the nuts and bolts of enterprise storage and overlook the more obvious questions that users might have. You've probably noticed that this blog and the FreeNAS blog refer to “ZFS” and “OpenZFS” seemingly at random when talking about the amazing file system at the heart of FreeNAS and every storage product that iXsystems sells. I will do my best to clarify what exactly these two terms refer to. From its inception, “ZFS” has referred to the “Zettabyte File System” developed at Sun Microsystems and published under the CDDL Open Source license in 2005 as part of the OpenSolaris operating system. ZFS was revolutionary for completely decoupling the file system from specialized storage hardware and even a specific computer platform. The portable nature and advanced features of ZFS led FreeBSD, Linux, and even Apple developers to start porting ZFS to their operating systems and by 2008, FreeBSD shipped with ZFS in the 7.0 release. For the first time, ZFS empowered users of any budget with enterprise-class scalability and data integrity and management features like checksumming, compression and snapshotting, and those features remain unrivaled at any price to this day. On any ZFS platform, administrators use the zpool and zfs utilities to configure and manage their storage devices and file systems respectively. Both commands employ a user-friendly syntax such as‘zfs create mypool/mydataset' and I welcome you to watch the appropriately-titled webinar “Why we love ZFS & you should too” or try a completely-graphical ZFS experience with FreeNAS. Yes, ZFS is really as good as people say it is. After enjoying nearly a decade of refinement by a growing group of developers around the world, ZFS became the property of database vendor Oracle, which ceased public development of both ZFS and OpenSolaris in 2010. Disappointed but undeterred, a group of OpenSolaris users and developers forked the last public release of OpenSolaris as the Illumos project. To this day, Illumos represents the official upstream home of the Open Source OpenSolaris technologies, including ZFS. The Illumos project enjoys healthy vendor and user participation but the portable nature and compelling features of ZFS soon produced far more ZFS users than Illumos users around the world. While most if not all users of Illumos and its derivatives are ZFS users, the majority of ZFS users are not Illumos users, thanks significantly in part to FreeNAS which uses the FreeBSD operating system. This imbalance plus several successful ZFS Day events led ZFS co-founder Matt Ahrens and a group of ZFS developers to announce the OpenZFS project, which would remain a part of the Illumos code base but would be free to coordinate development efforts and events around their favorite file system. ZFS Day has grown into the two-day OpenZFS Developer Summit and is stronger than ever, a testament to the passion and dedication of the OpenZFS community. Oracle has steadily continued to develop its own proprietary branch of ZFS and Matt Ahrens points out that over 50% of the original OpenSolaris ZFS code has been replaced in OpenZFS with community contributions. This means that there are, sadly, two politically and technologically-incompatible branches of “ZFS” but fortunately, OpenZFS is orders of magnitude more popular thanks to its open nature. The two projects should be referred to as “Oracle ZFS” and “OpenZFS” to distinguish them as development efforts, but the user still types the ‘zfs' command, which on FreeBSD relies on the ‘zfs.ko' kernel module. My impression is that the terms of the CDDL license under which the OpenZFS branch of ZFS is published protects its users from any patent and trademark risks. Hopefully, this all helps you distinguish the OpenZFS project from the ZFS technology. Beastie Bits Explaining Shell (https://explainshell.com/) OPNsense® 18.1 Released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-18-1-released/) “SSH Mastery 2/e” copyedits back (https://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/3104) Sponsoring a Scam (https://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/3106) Thursday, February 8, 2018 - Come to Netflix to talk about FreeBSD (https://www.meetup.com/BAFUG-Bay-Area-FreeBSD-User-Group/events/246623825/) BSD User Group meeting in Stockholm: March 22, 17:30 - 21:00 (https://www.meetup.com/BSD-Users-Stockholm/events/247552279/) FreeBSD Flavoured talks from Linux.conf.au: You can't unit test C, right? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-uWt5wVVkU) and A Brief History of I/O (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAhZEI_6lbc) EuroBSDcon 2018 website is up (https://2018.eurobsdcon.org/) Full day bhyvecon Tokyo, Japan, March 9, 2018 (http://bhyvecon.org/) *** Feedback/Questions Thomas - freebsd installer improvements (http://dpaste.com/3G2F7RC#wrap) Mohammad - FreeBSD 11 installation from a read only rescue disk (http://dpaste.com/0HGK3FQ#wrap) Stan - Follow up on guide you covered (http://dpaste.com/2S169SH#wrap) Jalal - couple questions (http://dpaste.com/35N8QXP#wrap)

Speaker Prof. Toby Walsh Type Live Conversation About this conversation As AI is starting to make real progress, there is a large appetite to understand where it might be taking us. Toby Walsh, a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence, will help us understand why AI is making headlines today and why we appear to be making such significant progress. He will also discuss where AI might take us and what AI is not yet capable of, and probably won’t be capable of for some time to come. Finally, he will provide a panorama of what the associated societal risks are, and how AI is both part of the problem and most likely part of the cure. Conversation notes - Why are we making more progress with AI now than ever before? - What are the current limitations of AI? - It will take a long time before machines get as intelligent as us, let alone more intelligent than us. Machines are very slow learners. - What can we do with AI now? - We will spend more and more time interacting with machines. AI is the operating system of the future. We will all benefit greatly. - One thing we should worry about very soon is the impact that AI will have on employment. - What’s left for humans if machines are also doing the cognitive tasks? - We are going to have to change our society in radical ways to deal with the change. - The future is not fixed. The future is the product of decisions we as a society make We get to choose the future we want to live in. More about Toby Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in Artificial Intelligence. He is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales and leads a research group at Data61, Australia’s Centre of Excellence for ICT Research. He has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI for his contributions to AI research, and has won the prestigious Humboldt research award. He has previously held research positions in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland and Sweden. Toby's Linkedin: Toby Walsh Toby's Twitter: @tobywalsh UNSW: cse.unsw.edu.au/~tw/ Toby's Book: It's Alive! Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots Quote “Life-long education is going to be the only way we keep ahead of machines. We have to ensure we have a society that ensures that everyone has the ability and freedom to keep on re-skilling themselves so that they keep themselves employable.” Join Us Did you enjoy the conversation? If so, make sure to subscribe! To join us at Work Club Sydney or Melbourne for our speaker conversations, email us at events@workclubglobal.com. For more information on Work Club, visit workclubglobal.com

Peter Runcie provides a crash course on Australia's big data capability and explains why Data61 is amongst the top five data science institutions in the world using case studies of how Data61 is protecting the Sydney Harbour Bridge, helping firefighters see through smoke , gluing sensors onto honey bees and helping HK achieve its Smart City aspirations. For more information about Data61, please visit https://data61.csiro.au/

contentgroup's CEO David Pembroke calls her "one of the smartest young people in Australia" and he sure isn't wrong. Our podcast guest this week is Renee Noble, a 25-year-old computer scientist who is responsible for the algorithm behind Data61's Ribit student-employer matchmaking platform. A self-confessed lifelong "nerd" and lover of all things mathematics, Renee shares some fascinating insights into the power of data, its huge potential to do good in this world and the importance of knowing your target audience - this week on InTransition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

contentgroup's CEO David Pembroke calls her "one of the smartest young people in Australia" and he sure isn't wrong. Our podcast guest this week is Renee Noble, a 25-year-old computer scientist who is responsible for the algorithm behind Data61's Ribit student-employer matchmaking platform. A self-confessed lifelong "nerd" and lover of all things mathematics, Renee shares some fascinating insights into the power of data, its huge potential to do good in this world and the importance of knowing your target audience - this week on InTransition.

Join Jesse and Sophie as they cast their net overboard to snag last fortnight's science news before heaving it aboard with their gelatinous biceps for us all to sort through. Here's the catch: they talk about how it is that we're able to remember (tens of) thousands of faces with relative ease, a new CSIRO algorithm that can model blood vessel growth to pre-empt tumours, the ancient origins of Homo sapiens (100 000 years older than expected), and, they speak with Robert Whyte, co-author of A Field Guide to  Spiders of Australia — the latest and most comprehensive guide to those wonderful eight-legged friends.Find the show notes at our blog: blog.csiro.au/interronauts-episode-9-where-brains-store-faces-ancient-origins-of-humans-blood-vessel-algorithm-and-aus-spider-guide-magic | Send us a message or follow us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/CSIROnews/ | Follow us on Twitter @CSIROnews | Instagram @CSIROgram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

In the second and final installment of our chat with Liz Jakubowski, digital maestro and director of Ribit in the Data61 team at CSIRO, we discuss the foundations of and history behind Ribit. A free online matchmaking platform that connects digital and STEM students with SMEs looking to grow and compete, Ribit is helping to address skills shortages and students' employment concerns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second and final installment of our chat with Liz Jakubowski, digital maestro and director of Ribit in the Data61 team at CSIRO, we discuss the foundations of and history behind Ribit. A free online matchmaking platform that connects digital and STEM students with SMEs looking to grow and compete, Ribit is helping to address skills shortages and students' employment concerns.

In the first of a two-part series, digital maestro and director of CSIRO's Data61 team Liz Jakubowski and our CEO David Pembroke discuss how to be an effective and innovative leader. From affecting change by influencing the right people at the right ​time to empowering diverse teams so that they believe in themselves and their message, the conversation is a refreshing one.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first of a two-part series, digital maestro and director of CSIRO's Data61 team Liz Jakubowski and our CEO David Pembroke discuss how to be an effective and innovative leader. From affecting change by influencing the right people at the right ​time to empowering diverse teams so that they believe in themselves and their message, the conversation is a refreshing one.