Agenda

Rita Arrigo
Chief Digital Advisor
Microsoft

Chris Arnold AM
Executive Director
Australia Skin & Cancer Foundation
Board Member
BioGrid Australia Ltd

• Disruption: Who’s Next?
• Data Privacy
• Personal Privacy
• Governance
• Superintelligence – The Next Frontier

• How 5G will drive AI and IoT
• Towards Singularity: Technological and Economic
• Jobs
• Automation
• Human-centric Design Experience
• Planning for the Next Scenario

Jonathan Chang
CEO
Silverpond

Michael Brand
Founder
Otzma Analytics

On visiting the primary school, the group will be welcome by the Principal (Ray Trotter) and Tech-Educator (Kieran Nolan). Their welcome provided the most ‘ordinary’ thing about this school, because as visitors stepped through the doors it was clear that the school was anything but ordinary. Very quickly they realised this school is unlike most others. Firstly, traditional classrooms don’t exist; instead, the learning spaces are rich and engaging in their own right. Instead of rows of desks, you’re presented with learning spaces offering a real difference.

Most of the spaces have been crafted to provide engaging and immersive environments designed to spark the imagination. In one area, you’re met with a giant spaceship, complete with a flight simulator. Walking into another, you’re met by an impressive red dragon boat, designed to provide students with sea-faring adventures using Google Earth to guide them across (actual) oceans.

The area where they started their journey was fully decked out with a green screen studio and supported a large array of technology and tools to provide students with a seemingly unlimited canvas of possibilities. Fun fact: This technological space – officially named the ‘Enigma Portal’ – was democratically voted upon by students using blockchain voting – that the students set up.

To date, the school has been likened to Disneyland rather than a typical learning space – a comparison that Ray is obviously proud of. From where they sit, they can see three large flat-screen TVs – one of which is connected 24/7 to schools located in both New Zealand and Korea. In one corner, the school is creating an Augmented Reality Sandbox (of particular interest to me as we’re undertaking a similar project); whilst in another, a CISCO network suite allows students to design and build their own computer networks. 

The technological toys didn’t stop there. We will experience 3D printing, Robotics, Minecraft Virtual Reality (VR) which they were programming, Google Earth experiences; and heard stories surrounding various Bitcoin endeavours and the success of their mentoring programme – in which it pairs students with industry experts (recently pairing a student interested in Black Holes with an expert at NASA). That said, not everything was driven by technology. For the non-technical, we received invitations to stroke a selection of Bearded Dragons housed within their impressive nature classroom.

Participants will be attending a presentation about the projects, current and completed, with which the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute has been involved.  This will be held within the Institute, allowing participants to see where they work.  At the completion of the visit, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of what the Institute is capable of achieving, in conjunction with Deakin’s research partners.