Monash Tech Talks
Monash Tech Talks
Deepen your knowledge. Join the conversation.
High-profile speakers. Cutting-edge topics. And important insights into how tech is impacting our world.
That’s what Monash Tech Talks are all about.
Always stimulating, they're the perfect way to deepen your knowledge – and join the most significant conversations of the tech industry today. We announce new Tech Talks regularly, so keep checking this page to see what’s coming up.
Attendance is free, but places are limited.
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Power in a pandemic: The importance of data
3 June 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
The COVID-19 crisis has made the world hungry for information.
Hearing from leading data scientist Professor Geoff Webb, delve into how advanced analytics is being applied in this novel situation – and the transformative outcomes that have emerged.
Creativity and AI: Companions or competitors?
15 Jun 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
AI is getting closer and closer to becoming ‘human’.
It can translate languages. It can recognise emotions. It can even create software.
But what about creativity? Will AI one day be able to master a skill that can’t be fully predicted, explored or controlled?
Relive past Tech Talks now
The changing role of home during crisis
In this fascinating Monash Tech Talks webinar, we’re gathering anthropologists, futurists and sociologists from the Emerging Technologies Research Lab to explore how the home, and our relationship to it, has changed.
Digital Health innovations and applications
From greater patient-centred practices and access to medical services to stronger data protection, ‘digital health’ innovations have advanced the sector in many ways – enhancing the quality of care for people around the globe.
Organisational resilience and technology: Beyond COVID-19
In the COVID-19 crisis, we’re witnessing mass disruptions to businesses which are having a severe impact on the global economy. This ultimately is taking a huge toll on people’s financial, emotional and physical wellbeing.
Emerging jobs and the future of work
As the world advances with technology, it's predicted that the demand for specialist IT skills will surge. Join the conversation on how work will continue to evolve – and how businesses can stay at the forefront of these advances.
Is AI Inclusive? The Great Debate
AI lacks measures for social, gender and cultural inclusion. And the machine learning, software and algorithms that underpin AI are widely critiqued for reinforcing harmful biases.
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence
Watch or listen to this thought-provoking discussion about the applications of AI and how it can be leveraged for business.
Leveraging Blockchain
Leading Monash researchers discussed user cases to explore how blockchain can bring about maximum impact.
AI fighting social injustice
Featuring world-leading AI experts, this eye-opening panel discussion explored how AI is improving society and changing our world for the better.
News from the Faculty of IT
Pandemic hits programmers’ productivity and wellbeing
Software developers are finding their productivity and wellbeing has been hit as a result of COVID-19. But employers shouldn’t make decisions, such as to promote or lay them off, based on productivity during the pandemic.
COVID-19, and the pandemic winds of change in healthcare
Our world has changed in recent months, and without doubt, COVID-19 has been a powerful disruptive force in many businesses. This is also true in the business of healthcare.
Digital health platform aids clinicians in COVID-19 treatment
A $4 million digital health project involving health services, clinicians and researchers will enable front line medical workers treating COVID-19 patients to use real-time data and analysis to improve health outcomes.