Ada Lovelace Day Celebration 2025

Ada Lovelace Day Celebration 2025

Online Face-to-face conference
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
11 am - 12:30 pm (AEDT)
Free

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Artificial intelligence is changing the world of work at lightning speed – but what does this shift mean for women in technology and beyond?

Currently, women make up only about 30 per cent of Australia’s ICT workforce. As AI begins to shape processes like recruitment, promotions and salaries, there’s a real concern that hidden biases within algorithms could reinforce existing inequalities, including widening the gender pay gap.
This Ada Lovelace Day, hear from top voices in AI research and industry as they unpack how emerging technologies are reshaping women’s roles in the workplace. The discussion will also be open for audience questions – your chance to join the conversation on this critical issue.

About Ada Lovelace Day

Ada Lovelace Day is an international event recognising women’s contributions to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It honours Ada Lovelace, a 19th-century mathematician widely regarded as the first computer programmer, who envisioned the potential of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine long before modern computing existed.
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Host

Professor Judithe Sheard

Group Lead, EF/ TF

Speakers

Professor Ann Nicholson

Professor

Professor Monica Whitty

Professor

Bhagya Maheshi

PhD candidate

Dr Carolyn Huston

Principal Research Consultant, CSIRO

Barbara Ainsworth

Curator, Monash Museum of Computing History

Event contact

Faculty of IT Events Team

E: fit-marketing@monash.edu

Location

Online and G03 Wominjeka Event Space, 25 Exhibition Walk,
Monash University Clayton Campus,
Clayton VIC 3168 Australia

About Ada Lovelace

Ada King née Byron, Countess of Lovelace born in 1815 in England, was the daughter of Lord George and Lady Anne Byron. A brilliant mathematician, she was introduced to Charles Babbage in 1833.

Published in 1843, Ada translated a French paper on Babbage’s work to build an Analytical Engine with his early ideas on modern computing concepts and discussed the potential of a general purpose computer given the right data and instructions.

Most notably, she wrote a computer program which would take 100 years for digital computing to be able to execute.

Ada was ahead of her time in an era where few women could join computing. What’s changed for women in IT – and where to next?

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