PEARCEY ORATION AND VICTORIAN ENTREPRENEUR AWARD GALA DINNER
Please join us at the 2024 Pearcey Oration 'Taking the Tiger by the Tail – a digital future for Australia that works for us all', presented by Dr Ian Oppermann.
The Pearcey Oration is an event not-to-be-missed, for so many reasons... it offers a vital window on our future, national thought leadership, networking with influential members of industry, academia, government and society - and some incredible insights and learnings.
Dr Trevor Pearcey put Australia at the very forefront of the digital computing age when he built CSIRAC in 1947-49.
During his Oration, Dr Ian Oppermann will explore the exciting future for Australia as we embrace the latest in digital technologies and services to improve our lives, strengthen our economy and bolster our competitive position globally. He will explore challenges, issues and opportunities for equity, AI, privacy, standards and collaboration.
A globally respected thought leader in the Data, AI and Digital Economy, Ian combines experiences as a senior executive for global technology companies (Nokia, Siemens, …) with running a start-up, leading a fintech and as an executive and research leader of major national and international research programs (CSIRO, University of Oulu, UTS). As NSW Chief Data Scientist, Ian facilitated the migration of government services and infrastructure into a digital future, drawing on his leadership roles in international standards for technology.
DATE
04/09/24
6.00PM - 10.30PM
TIME
WHERE
THE FORUM, MELBOURNE CONNECT
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Ian Oppermann MBA (Lon), PhD (Syd). FIEEE, FIEAust, FTSE, FACS, FRSN, GAICD
Dr. Ian Oppermann is co-founder of ServiceGen, helping Governments accelerate digital service delivery. He is also an Industry Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and member of the board for multiple deep technology start-ups. From 2015 to 2023, Ian was the NSW Government’s inaugural Chief Data Scientist (CDS) and was the founding CEO of the NSW Data Analytics Centre (DAC). Established in 2015, the NSW CDS was a strategic, whole-of-government role tasked to effectively bring world class data and analytics to bear on complex challenges, to develop and lead the DAC, and to affect cultural change towards the use of data within Government.
Ian is considered a thought leader in the area of the Data, AI and the Digital Economy. He is a regular speaker on data and digital, broadband enabled services and the impact of technology on society. He has contributed to 6 books and co-authored more than 130 papers which have been cited more than 4500 times. Ian has an MBA from the University of London and a PhD in Mobile Telecommunications from Sydney University. Ian is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), a Fellow of the Royal Society NSW (FRSN), Fellow and Past President of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). He is National Committee President of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the JTC-1 Strategic Advisory Committee, a joint activity with the IEC and the ISO (International Standards Organisation).
Prof. Eduard Hovy is the Executive Director of Melbourne Connect. Born in South Africa, Prof. Hovy completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Yale University in 1987 and was awarded honorary doctorates from the National Distance Education University (UNED) in Madrid in 2013 and the University of Antwerp in 2015.
Prior to commencing at Melbourne Connect in 2022, Prof. Hovy most recently served as Program Manager at the United States Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Information Innovation Office (I2O), and has previously worked as a research professor at the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Prof. Hovy holds adjunct professorships in CMU’s Machine Learning Department and at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles). He is one of the initial 17 Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and is also a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
