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Back in late 2024, after a decade as Chief Data and Insights Officer at UNSW Sydney, and more than a decade working at UNSW, I decided it was time to leave. It was a big step. It was scary to leave the comfort of a role and place I'
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As is my tradition I do my annual bingo card at the start of the new year to deal with my existential dread. Herewith my 2026 bingo card. I’ll be doing a wrap up on my 2025 BingoCard shortly.
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Was on the Technology & Security Podcast with the smart and lovely Miah Hammond-Errey just before Christmas 2024 - have been meaning to share the link. Miah and I had a great chat where we traced my path from defending shopping centre digital systems against cyber threats to building higher
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The future of AI will be smaller and not bigger. My take on where AI’s headed? Forget bigger, flashier, more bloated models. The future’s going to be smaller, smarter, and way more focused. This is especially with the advent of agentic AI, since this will be driving business
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By Kate Carruthers & Kobi Leins "What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." - Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of the first chatbot, 1964 What is AI? ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is a term
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I’m excited to share that I’ve been named one of the 2024 Global Top 100 Innovators in Data and Analytics by Corinium! A heartfelt thank you to my amazing Data Platform team at UNSW and peers for their support. Check out the list here: https://www.coriniumintelligence.com/
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New course I recently facilitated a new Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) short course called Data Governance for Leaders, for the first time. I developed this course based on my lessons learned as a data governance leader for UNSW and from key resources around the world. I designed this
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Was happy to join an AI panel at the inaugural UNSW Cyber Security Summit today. I was lucky enough join an amazing group of panellists - AI guru Prof. Toby Walsh; UNSW CISO Derek Winter; legal, cyber and privacy expert Laura Newton of Freehills; and ably moderated by Robert Buhrke.
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I have been thinking about how we manage data for a long time. And now with the rise of AI in people's imaginations it is becoming an imperative for organisations to rethink their old model of storing data in siloes. Now data is not merely a thing to
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Well I’m about to launch a new podcast. It’s going to be all about the intersections between business intelligence, data analytics, AI, privacy, data protection, cyber and information security. As I keep saying data and cyber are the two biggest growth industries that we have now. I have
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Last night was surprising. I was at the Women Leading Tech awards in Sydney at the lovely new International Convention Centre. And I got an award. A lifetime achievement award. Which proves that if you hang around doing stuff long enough in the one industry eventually folks get to know
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Late last year I participated in some research that was undertaken by the Pew Research Center. Was looking back on my comments now, and it is interesting to review them from the distance of a year.