Speakers

6–7 July 2027 • Holme Building, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

SPEAKERS

Past speakers

The 2027 speaker lineup will be announced closer to the event. Below are speakers from past forums.

Aaron Snoswell

Senior Research Fellow, AI Accountability, Queensland University of Technology GenAI Lab

Alexander Saeri

Director, AI Risk Initiative, MIT FutureTech

Alistair Reid

Head of Research Engineering, Gradient Institute

Allan McCay

Co-director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology, Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School and President of the Centre for Neurotechnology and Law, University of Sydney

Amanda Tay

Banking Executive, ING

Andrew Charlton

Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy, Australian Government

Andrew Childs

Lecturer, Griffith University

Andrew McAlister

Public Officer, MapleTreeAI

Angelica Chowdhury

Research Fellow - The Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab, Independent

Anna Goldsworthy

Dean, Elder Conservatorium of Music and School of Performing Arts, Adelaide University

Anton Leicht

Fellow, Carnegie Endowment’s Technology & International Affairs

Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Austin Wyatt

Avinash Singh

Senior Lecturer and Director, Human Augmentation Lab, University Of Technology Sydney

Beba Cibralic

Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy

Benjamin Di Marco

Cyber and Technology Industry Leader, Willis Towers Watson

Bernadette Harkin

Founder & Principal, Lucentis Advisory

Bernadette Hyland-Wood

AI Researcher, Queensland University of Technology

Carie Vito

Strategic Account Leader, Public Sector - Federal Government, Datadog

Carl Bufe

Director, GxPVigilance

Chandra Thapa

Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO

Chelle Adamson

Director, AI Risk Advisory, AI Safety Institute

Dane Sherburn

Co-Founder and CEO, P-Zero Research

Daniel Murfet

Lecturer, University of Melbourne

Devon Whittle

Australia Director, Global Shield Australia

Emily Grundy

Senior Policy Analyst, Good Ancestors

Erica Mealy

Discipline Lead, Technology & Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of the Sunshine Coast

Eunice Sari

Adj. Assoc. Professor and Director, UNSW | Western Australian AI Hub

Gemma Killen

Executive Director, Working with Women Alliance

Greg Sadler

CEO, Good Ancestors

Guzyal Hill

Special Counsel | AI Governance Chair, HWLE Lawyers

Helen Toner

Executive Director, Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Helen Wilson

Deputy Secretary, Science and Technology, Commonwealth Department of Industry, Science and Resources

Henry Fraser

Lecturer, QUT School of Law

Hoda Heidari

Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Hugo O'Connor

R&D Software Engineer, Anuna Research

Hunter Jay

AI Risk Specialist, Australian AI Safety Institute, DISR

Jack He

AI Policy Fellow, Institute for AI Policy and Strategy

Jack Payne

Technical Staff, Lyptus Research

James Gauci

CEO & Founder, Cadent

Jamie Freestone

Independent researcher, Independent

Jason Schultz

Professor, NYU School of Law

Jay Bailey

AI Safety Engineer, AI Research and Evaluation, AI Safety Institute

Jenine Beekhuyzen

Dr, Adroit Research

Jisoo Kim

Director + Co-Founder, ClearAI

Joel Pearson

Neuroscientist & Neuro Futurist, UNSW

Johanna Weaver

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Tech Policy Design Institute

Johanna Weaver

Director, Tech Policy Design Centre

Karl Berzins

Co-founder & President, FAR.AI

Karla Perez Romero

Director, Sydney Knowledge Hub

Kate Chaney

Independent Member for Curtin, Australian Federal Parliament

Kate Conroy

General Manager, AI Safety Institute

Kimberlee Weatherall

Professor of Law, The University of Sydney

Lachlan S

Leah Mooney

AI Governance and Privacy Lead, Wotton Kearney

Liam Carroll

Researcher, Gradient Institute

Liming Zhu

Research Director, CSIRO

Lizzie O'Shea

Founder and chair, Digital Rights Watch

Luke Thorburn

Research Fellow, AI & Democracy Foundation

Maddison Reynolds

Student, La Trobe University

Marcus Hutter

Marina Yastreboff

President & Chair | General Counsel, AUSCL Australasian Society for Computers & Law | ServiceGen

Michael Bain

School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW

Michael Clark

Independent Researcher

Ming Ding

Group Leader, CSIRO

Mohan Baruwal Chhetri

Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO

Nitarshan Rajkumar

Researcher, UK AI Safety Institute

Paul Salmon

Manager, AI Research and Evaluation, AI Safety Institute

Peter Horniak

Director, PauseAI Australia

Peter Lewis

Host and provocateur, Burning Platforms

Qinghua Lu

Group Leader, CSIRO

Rajiv Shah

Rashina Hoda

Professor of Software Engineering, Director of HumanAISE Lab, Associate Dean Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Monash University

Ravi Nayyar

Lead Policy Analyst, AUSCL

Rebecca Johnson

Researcher, The University of Sydney

Rishabh Gupta

AI Safety Manager, Suncorp

Rohan Hitchcock

Research Scientist, Resolution

Rohan Sachdeva

Student, La Trobe University

Ryan Kidd

Co-Executive Director, MATS Research

Sean Peters

Founder & Researcher, Lyptus Research

Seth Lazar

Sharif Abuadbba

Team Lead, Distrubuted Systems Security, CSIRO

Slava Chalnev

Technical Staff, Lyptus Research

Soroush Pour

CEO & Co-founder, Harmony Intelligence

Stephen Elliott

Research Director, Gigascale Laboratories

Tiberio Caetano

Chief Scientist, Gradient Institute

Toby Walsh

Chief Scientist, UNSW's AI Institute

Tori Foster

Student, La Trobe University

William Smith

Project Assistant, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (ANU)

Zac Richardson

Special Projects Manager, AI Verification, Singapore AI Safety Hub

Zoe Jay Hawkins

Co-Founder & Deputy Executive Director, Tech Policy Design Institute

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