Accelerated Computing for Innovation Conference

This event was held on Friday 28 September 2018

Accelerated Computing

Join us to celebrate innovation driven by cutting-edge tech, big data, machine learning and AI.
Listen to fascinating talks from science and industry about data science and technology powering precision medicine, wildlife and crop conservation, virtual earth explorations, rock and shark spotting, education and language tech, crime prediction, and more!

Leave full of ideas, connected, and motivated.
Free registration.

Location
ABS Lecture Theatre 1130
Abercrombie Building (H70)
cnr Abercrombie St and Codrington St
University of Sydney

Program

Time

Session

8.45am

Registration

9.00am

Opening Address

Jeremy Hammond, USyd

9.15am

Life, Evolution and Health

Aidan O’Brien, CSIRO - Life science research at scale
Mark Pinese, Garvan - Computing the genomics of good health
Carolyn Hogg, USyd - The future is here - the benefits of genomic tools in translocations
John Sebastian Eden, WIMR, USyd - Revealing the hidden world of viruses
Emily Remnant, USyd - Using big data to find small things inside bees

11.15am

Morning tea (provided)

11.30am

National Collaborative Infrastructure

Andrew Lonie, UniMelb - Planning digital research infrastructure for biosciences
Christopher Harris, Pawsey - Enabling Petascale Science with the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Ben Evans, NCI - HPC and data science at NCI - enabling peak science and collaboration

12.30pm

Lunch (provided)

1.15pm

Earth, Environment and Space

Dietmar Muller, USyd - Understanding Earth System Evolution - connecting Deep to Surface Processes
Geraint Lewis, USyd - What’s happening in the dark-side of the universe?
Caroline Foster, USyd - Galaxy formation and evolution
Cormac Purcell, MQ - Sharks, tombs and cosmic bubbles: how machine-learning spans diverse scientific fields

3.15pm

Afternoon tea (provided)

3.30pm

Humans and Society

Kai Riemer and Sandra Peter, USyd - AI - History, hype and hysteria
Hanh Le, Appen - Understanding speech and text in low-resource languages
Sonya Corcoran, Digital Innovation - Who is making what and how?
Roman Marchant, USyd - Understanding and preventing crime using Data Science

5.30pm

Closing Remarks

Simon Ringer, USyd

More information
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