• Interviews
  • Disruptive Innovation 2009
  • Selected Invited Presentations 
  • FST Banking Summit at ICC Sydney May 2017
  • Disruptive Innovation Week (Advisory Board and Speaker) March 2017
  • Crowd Intelligence and IoT, Australian Joint Conference on Artifical Intelligence, Dec, 2016
  • CBA AMAZE, Sydney, November 2016: Talk on Social Robotics as a Disruptive Technology
  • Design Thinking Workshop on Social Robots, CBA, October 2016
  • Future Business, CBA, October 2016
  • Data Analytics and Robotics, CBA, August 2016
  • Executive Education and Training Leadership
  • Strategic and Disruptive Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Data Analytics, Mobile Development, Advanced and Connected Technologies.
  • Leadership Conferences, Symposiums, Workshops, Robot Demos, Public Science Experiment Organisation
  • IJCAI-17 Workshop:Human-Robot Engagement 2017, Chair
  • Robot Experiments with the Public, 2016 
  • Robot Experiments with the Public, 2015 at UTS Open Day
  • International Conference on Social Robotics 2014 , Conference Chair.
  • Design Thinking and Business Analytics Sydney Symposium 2014, Conference Co-Chair.
  • Magic Lab Robot Demo at UTS Open Day 2014
  • IJCAI-13 Robot Exhibition and Competition 2013, Conference Co-Chair.
  • Magic Lab Robot Demo at UTS Open Day 2013
  • International Conference on Social Robotics 2012, Program Chair.
  • Strategic Management Conference Theme: Strategy in Transition 2012, Chair of Innovation and Knowledge.
  • Magic Lab Robot Demo at UTS Open Day 2012
  • AAAI-11 Artificial Intelligence and Smarter Living: The Conquest of Complexity, San Francisco, Conference Co-Chair.
  • IJCAI-11: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Area Chair)
  • UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT Student Showcases: 2011, 2012 and 2013.
  • Pi-Day at UTS, 2011
  • Several Industry Forum including an Industry Breakfast with Sydney Water, Thales, and Cisco on Smart Futures: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds 2011.

  • Breakthrough Ideas Track, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 2011 (Co-Chair)

  • Magic Lab Robot Demo at UTS Open Day 2011

  • Digital Life, Melbourne. Sponsored by Samsung, 2010.

  • International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering & Management (KSEM 2010), Program Chair.
  • Intelligent Information Privacy Management Symposium, Stanford University (Privacy 2010), Conference Chair
  • Magic Lab Robot Demo at UTS Open Day 2010
  • International Symposium Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning 2009 Co-Chair with Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research
  • Magic Lab Robot Demo at UTS Open Day 2008
  • International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots 2008 (Co-chair)

  • Business 2020s: Navigating the Future @ the Australian Innovation Festival 2008!

  • Magic Lab Robot Demo at UTS Open Day 2008

  • Collaborative Challenges in Blue Sky Innovation @ the Australian Innovation Festival 2007! invited speakers include senior figures from Google Inc, IBM, Viocorp and KPMG.

  • China International Conference in Finance organized with Tsinghua University and Sloan School of Management, MIT.

  • International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change 2007

  • Robot Demo at UTS Open Day 2007

  • Innovation Splash 2006, Australian Innovation Festival (Highlighted on page 9)

  • Exhibition Robot Soccer Matches at China Science Week 2006. UTS Unleashed! was the first robot soccer team to be invited to China. We conducted a number of robot soccer matches at China Science Week in collaboration with the University of Science and Technology of China, Peking University, and TongJi University in Shanghai. China Science Week is organised by China's Ministry of Science and Technology. 
  • East meets West Robot Soccer Matches November 26, 2006 with the University of Western Australia and the University of Science and Technology of China.
  • International Symposium on Cognitive Agents and Robots (PCAR) 2006 (Co-Chair)
  • Exhibition Robot Soccer Matches at UTS Open Day 2006
  • Exhibition Robot Soccer Matches at UTS Open Day 2005
  • International Conference on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, 2004, Conference Chair.
  • Conventicle at the University of Technology, Sydney, 2004 Co-Chair.
  • Australian Open Robot Soccer Championship 2004
  • Exhibition Robot Soccer Matches at UTS Open Day 2004
  • Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2004), Program Chair.
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2003 Workshop Chair
  • Exhibition Robot Soccer Matches at UTS Open Day 2003
  • International Conference on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, 2002, Program Chair.
  • International Conference on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, 2000, Workshop Chair.
  • Selected Conference Program Committee Memberships
  • 2017
  • International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017)
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Mentor AAAI-17)
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2017)
  • International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2017)
  • Inconsistency Robustness, Stanford University, 2017
  • 2016
  • International Joint Conference on Artificical Intelligence (IJCAI-16) Senior PC
  • International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2016)
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive
    Communication (RO-MAN 2016)
  • European Conference On Logics In Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2016)
  • International Early Research Career Enhancement School on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (FIERCES ON BICA 2016)
  • International Conference on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KR2016)
  • Florida Artifical Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-16)
  • International Symposium on Foundations of Information & Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2016)
  • 2015
  • International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2015)
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive
    Communication (RO-MAN 2015)
  • 2014
  • IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive
    Communication (RO-MAN 2014)
  • International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2014)
  • European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2014)
  • International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2014)
  • AAAI-14 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRob-2014)
  • International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR)
  • AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics
  • International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2014)
  • Inconsistency Robustness, Stanford University.
  • Globalisation of Innovation Strategies: Novel Moves for a Global Game, Strategic management Society.
  • IEEE/ASE International Conference on Cyber Security, Stanford University.
  • 2013
  • International Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR-13)
  • International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

  • 2012
  • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 
  • ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT 2012), Review Board and Program Committee.
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Track Chair, Social Networks and Innovation (PACIS 2012)
  • International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2012)
  • Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2012) Program Committee and Publicity Chair.
  • International Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Autonomous Robots

  • International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

  • Singapore Strategic Management Conference on Globalisation of Innovation Strategies: Novel Moves for a Global Game

  • ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012) reviewer

  • Strategic Management Conference Theme: Strategy in Transition (Chair of Innovation and Knowledge)

  • International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

  • IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (Review Board)

  • 2011
  • ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011)
  • IJCAI-11: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Area Chair)
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • RoboCup International Symposium 2011 
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)
  • International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA)
  • International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA)
  • Extended Semantic Web Conference - Social Web Track
  • Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, at the Googleplex (AGI)
  • European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU)
  • Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS@AAMAS2011)
  • Inconsistency Robustness, Stanford University
  • Strategic Management Society Conference, (Chair for Knowledge and Innovation)
  • International Symposium on Logical Formalization on Commonsense Reasoning, Stanford University
  • IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (Review Board) 

  • International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

  • Breakthrough Ideas Track Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 2011 (Co-Chair)

  • IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust

  • International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

  • 2010
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
  • International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-10)
  • International Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR)
  • Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS2010)
  • International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Best Paper Award Selection Committee
  • IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
  • Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
  • Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots 
  • RoboCup International Symposium 
  • International Conference on Electrical Engineering & Informatics 2010 (International Advisory Board) 

  • International Symposium on Foundations of Information & Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2010)

  • Conference on Artificial General Intelligence

  • International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence 

  • International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management

  • Extended Semantic Web Conference 

  • Strategic Management Society Conference (Associate Chair for Knowledge and Innovation)

  • IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (Review Board and Program Committee

  • National Robotics Week: Stanford Robot Block Party

  • 2009
  • International Symposium on Logical Formalization on Commonsense Reasoning
  • IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
  • International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems
  • RoboCup International Symposium
  • IJCAI-09 Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change
  • European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU)
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
  • International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management
  • Strategic Management Society Conference Strategies in an Uncertain World (Representative for Knowledge and Innovation)
  • IP Scholar Conference New York City (Speaker)
  • IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT09) (Speaker)
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (Speaker)
  • JURIX 2009 The 22nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
  • Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09) USA, March 6-9, 2009 (Program Committee).
  • Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0 2009 Stanford University USA (Speaker)
  • European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty 
  • International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence 
  • IJCAI-09 Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change
  • Robot Soccer World Cup International Symposium 2009
  • Panhellenic Logic Symposium Patras, Greece (Program Committee)
  • IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (Program Committee Vice Chair)
  • International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Enhanced Quality of Life
  • IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
  • 2008
  • International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)
  • Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08)
  • European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2008)
  • European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-08)
  • AAAI Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI-08)
  • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'08) Senior Program Committee
  • International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
  • Panhellenic Logic Symposium
  • Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop
  • Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School, USA

  • International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management

  • Knowledge Management for Service Innovation

  • Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems

  • International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR)

  • World Cup Robot Soccer International Symposium

  • State of the Net, Santa Clara Law School, USA.

  • 2007
  • International Symposium on Logical Formalization on Commonsense Reasoning
  • IJCAI-07 Nonmontonic Reasoning Action and Change International Workshop
  • Australasian Ontology Workshop
  • Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Twenty Sixth International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
  • RoboCup International Symposium 

  • International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

  • Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

  • European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU)

  • Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems 2007 Stanford University

  • AAAI Artificial Intelligence Conference

  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2007 (Senior Program Committee)

  • 2006
  • International Conference Principles of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KR)
  • AAAI Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI) 
  • European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
  • European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA)
  • International Conference on Knowledge Science, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
  • International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots
  • International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
  • European Starting Artificial intelligence Researcher Symposium (STAIRS)
  • International Robot Soccer Symposium (RoboCup)

  • Joint International Conference on CyberGames and Interactive Entertainment (IE2006) 

  • Digital Interactive Media Entertainment & Arts (DIME 2006)

  • 2005
  • International Symposium on Logical Formalization on Commonsense Reasoning
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

  • International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV)

  • European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Appraoches to Reasoning (ECSQARU) 

  • International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)

  • 2004
  • Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference
  • Multi-disciplinary solutions to industry & government's E-business challenges, 

    Australian Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 

  • Seventeenth Bled eCommerce Conference Panelist with Peter Keen & Margaret Tan.

  • International Robot Soccer World Cup RoboCup 2004 

  • Multi-disciplinary solutions to industry & government's E-business challenges

  • Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference.

  • 2003
  • International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning. Program Co-Chair with John McCarthy from Stanford University. and Patrick Doherty from Linkoping University, Sweden.
  • RoboCup 2003 Padova, Italy RoboCup World Championship July 2003
  • International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment.
  • International Conference e-Society 
  • IEEE Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Finance Industry
  • Workshop on Grounding Robot Sensory Information and Symbolic Knowledge
  • 2002
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS. Theme: Information Systems and the Future of the Digital Economy.

  • European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA)

  • European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilitie

  • Conference on Electronic Commerce (CollECTeR (Europe) 2002), April 20 2002.

  • Formal Ontology, Knowledge Representation and Intelligent Systems for the World Wide Web Workshop

  • Australian Knowledge Representation Conventicle  

  • Changing and Integrating Information: From Theory to Practice Session at the International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR2002)

  • Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

  • IFIP Second Conference on E-business: Multidisciplinary Research and Practice, Copenhagen Business School

  • IFIP Conference on eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment

How You Can Engage

  • Australian Research Council Linkage Projects: you can gain access to the unique world-leading expertise of Australia's leading social robotics team in the Magic Lab, undertake leading-edge collaborative research and create new opportunities for your business and Australia with a minumim of $120K/year for 3 years. Your investment is typically matched by Australian Research Council (ARC) funding and creates the opportunity for exceptionally gifted students to work with your team on solving your challenging problem in a focused directed manner.
  • High Impact Research with Business and Government: we also work with our research partners on one-off projects. We are keen to apply our insights and know-how to your challenging problems. We enjoy working on problems that leverage our unique skills and know-how to create massive impact. We do not undertake low value consulting work. We typically organise a design thinking session/bootcamp enabling a deep and collaborative approach to framing your problem in a way that uncovers powerful new insights.
  • Student Internships and Scholarships: provide collaborative research opportunities around a student placement in your organisation or business allowing you to engage fresh amazing talent to your team to unleash new or latent value, while at the same time providing an exciting opportunity for a student to work on a real world problem that your business wants to solve.
  • Undergraduate and Final Year Student Internships: typically funded by a one-off support of $25-$40K for a student to focus on your problem for several months.
  • Research and PhD Student Scholarships: typically funded at $40K/year for 3-4 years.

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