KEYNOTE & INVITED PRESENTATIONS

KEYNOTE & INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Selected keynote and speaker addresses at national and international events, spanning academic and industry contexts.

–     2023 Keynote Address ‘Creating Places for Public Purpose’ at the ULI India Place Innovation Forum, India Habitat Centre, Delhi

–     2023 Invited Address ‘Enchanting Places: Navigating and creating digital media ecologies through place-based storytelling’. Presented at the Transformative Climate Media for Urban Futures, Potsdam, Germany.

–     2023 Invited Presentation ‘Platform Thinking for Connected Cities’. University of Sydney Festival of Urbanism Event Platform urbanism? From ‘smart’ to autonomous city futures. Sydney, Australia.

–     2023 Invited Address ‘From Enlightenment to Enlivenment: Creative Technologies, Digital Storytelling and Curious Interfaces’. State Library of Victoria Creative Quarter, Melbourne Australia.

–     2023 Invited Presentation ‘Remediating the Archive’. Future of Arts, Culture and Technology Symposium, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne Australia.

–     2022 ‘Strategic Interventions: Steering ICT Towards Sustainability’ Invited address to ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S) Plovdiv, Bulgaria

–     2022 Invited Presentation ‘Purpose-driven design for digital public spaces.’ Grimshaw Architecture, Sydney, Australia.

–     2021 Invited Presentation ‘Consciously designing Platform Technology for Better Places’. Conscious Cities Festival, Brisbane, Queensland.

–     2021 Invited Presentation ‘STORYBOX: Learnings from the field of digital culture partnerships.’ Learning by doing session, Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Digital Transformation Annual Conference. Virtual event.

–     2021 Invited Presentation ‘Encounters with Digital Public Spaces: Retrieving, Reassembling, Intervening’. Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria.

–     2019 Keynote Presentation ‘What Kind of Smart City Do You Want to Build?’. National Smart Cities Conference, Pullman Hotel Melbourne (attended by over 250 representatives of from federal, state and local government and industry).

–     2019 Invited Presentation ‘Platform Urbanism and the Future of Cities’. Urban Platforms and the Future City Symposium, University of Manchester, Manchester UK.

–     2019 Invited Presentation ‘Rethinking the Smart City in an age of data-smart citizen’. City of Newcastle Public Forum on Future Cities, Newcastle, Australia.

–     2016 Invited Presentation ‘Smart Cities: The Future, but not evenly distributed’. University of Sydney Seminar Rebooting Smart Cities for Social Justice & Digital Inclusion, Sydney Australia.

–     2016 Keynote Address ‘Cities Plus Data: New Vocabularies for Living Cities’. Urban Growth NSW Half-Yearly Review. Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia.

–     2016 Keynote Presentation ‘Cities Plus Data’. SGS Economics and Planning Annual Conference, February 2017, Museum of Sydney, Sydney Australia. SGS is one of Australia’s leading planning and economics consultancies.

–     2016 Keynote Presentation ‘Cities in the Age of the Platform’. Media Architecture Biennale Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Symposium, UNSW, Sydney Australia.

–     2015 Invited Presentation ‘Platform Urbanism: Building effective platforms for smarter urban governance’. NYU Centre for Urban Science and Progress and Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, New York, US. October 2015. 

–     2015. Invited Presentation ‘Platform Cities: The politics and practices of data-driven urbanism’. Urban Studies Foundation Research Forum, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

–     2015 Invited Presentation. ‘Making Sense of a City in Transition’. Arup Shaping Sydney forum, Carriageworks, Sydney Australia.

–     2012 Keynote Presentation ‘Past Forward: Speculative Adventures in the City’s Archive’. National Digital Forum, Te Papa Museum, Wellington, NZ.

–     2011 Keynote Presentation. ‘Intangible presences: Re-locating archives for heritage interpretation using mobile media’. Museum and Gallery Services Queensland State Conference. Mackay, Queensland.

–     2010 Keynote Presentation ‘Dial History: Homing in on the Street’s Archive’. Sydney Design Week New Ideas Design Forum, Government House. Sydney.