AI for health and social good
Hear from Professor Joanna Batstone FTSE and Professor Karin Verspoor as they explore how AI and data science support health policy, research, clinical practice and equality and equity outcomes.
Date
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Time
6:00 PM - 7:30 PMCost
Presentation — Free
Optional post event dinner – $36pp
Optional post event dinner – $36pp
Important information
> 6:00pm AEST pre-seminar drinks – Purchase at bar
> 6:30pm-7:30pm AEST Presentation – Free
> 7:30 Optional post-event dinner – $36pp
Open to all
AI for health and social good
Join us for an informative seminar addressing AI for health and social good. AI and data science are increasingly part of our everyday lives, but as we see in social media and other applications they can exaggerate society’s existing biases, prejudices and reinforce inequities. So how can AI used to impact the world positively?
Hear from Professor Joanna Batstone FTSE and Professor Karin Verspoor as they explore how AI and data science are being utilised to support insights into health policy, research and clinical practice and wider social equality and equity outcomes.
This event is open to all.
Speakers
Professor Joanna Batstone
FTSE
Director, Monash Data Futures Institue
Director, Monash Data Futures Institue
Professor Joanna Batstone PhD, DEng, FTSE is a leading global expert on AI, data analytics and technology. She has more than 20 years in top executive roles in the USA, Europe and Australia, helping universities, companies and government use leading technology to meet their goals.
Joanna is the inaugural Director of Monash Data Futures Institute at Monash University, supporting government, companies and organisations in using AI, data analytics and insights to help with COVID recovery and develop governance and policy for social good. She is building a global reputation for the institute’s ground breaking work, along with a digital ecosystem to foster collaborative research and build industry engagement. Responsible for data science and AI across the university, she is passionate about the benefits of AI driving major change for social good.
Prior, Joanna was Vice President Innovation IBM Corporate strategy based in New York. She held a range of technical and business leadership roles in IBM’s Research and development laboratories including work with IBM Watson Data & AI.
Joanna received a Ph.D., in Physics from The University of Bristol, UK, followed by postdoctoral work at AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ, and a Lectureship in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Liverpool, UK, before joining IBM.
Joanna is the inaugural Director of Monash Data Futures Institute at Monash University, supporting government, companies and organisations in using AI, data analytics and insights to help with COVID recovery and develop governance and policy for social good. She is building a global reputation for the institute’s ground breaking work, along with a digital ecosystem to foster collaborative research and build industry engagement. Responsible for data science and AI across the university, she is passionate about the benefits of AI driving major change for social good.
Prior, Joanna was Vice President Innovation IBM Corporate strategy based in New York. She held a range of technical and business leadership roles in IBM’s Research and development laboratories including work with IBM Watson Data & AI.
Joanna received a Ph.D., in Physics from The University of Bristol, UK, followed by postdoctoral work at AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ, and a Lectureship in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Liverpool, UK, before joining IBM.
Professor Karin Verspoor
Executive Dean, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT
Executive Dean, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT
Professor Karin Verspoor is Executive Dean of the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, a 2021 “Brilliant Woman in Digital Health” and is also a co-founder and the Victoria node lead of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, and a Director of BioGrid Australia. Karin is passionate about using artificial intelligence to enable biological discovery and clinical decision support from data. Her work has a specific emphasis on the use of natural language processing to transform unstructured data in biomedicine into actionable information.
