Qut Institute For Future Environments

IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture, recorded 15 February 2019 at QUT Swinburne University of Technology is creating an Industry 4.0 Testlab for Carbon Fibre Composite Product Automation which will be embedded in the Factory of the Future as part of Swinburne’s Industry 4.0 Hub. The Testlab will bring a world-first, digital approach to the rapid manufacture of these engineered, lightweight, high-strength materials.

IFE Grand Challenge Lecture, recorded 1 March 2019 at QUT Let's talk about the economy of algorithms. What is this new world, where the confluence of the ‘Internet of Things’, algorithms as economic agents and new business models changes the way we live, work, and think? What new opportunities does it bring? What could go wrong? And what is our role - as academics, citizens, customers, humans - in this new world? In the first IFE Grand Challenge Lecture for 2019, Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz will challenge your thinking and inspire ideas for the next steps: whether it is a new business model (how do you advertise to a fridge?), a research question (who is liable if something goes wrong?), or just a life-changing decision (I need to hire an army of robots).

IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture, recorded 17 August 2017 at QUT

IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture, recorded 24 May 2018 at QUT

IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture, recorded 30 July 2018 at QUT

IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture, recorded 26 July 2018 at QUT

IFE Grand Challenge Lecture, recorded 27 October 2017 at QUT

IFE Transforming Innovation Systems Seminar

IFE Grand Challenge Lecture, recorded 21 September 2018 at QUT

IFE Grand Challenge Lecture, recorded 1 November 2018 at QUT

IFE Grand Challenge Lecture recorded on 27 July, 2018.

IFE Grand Challenge Lecture, recorded 1 November 2018 at QUT

IFE Visitor Lecture recorded on 24 August, 2018.

Working together to secure the future of our national icon - A special QUT Grand Challenge Lecture facilitated by Robyn Williams from ABC's The Science Show, recorded 10 August 2018 at QUT

IFE Growing the Global Bioeconomy Seminar, recorded 16 July 2018 at QUT

IFE Grand Challenge Lecture, recorded 4 May 2018 at QUT In today’s media landscape, there is much discussion of closing the gap for Indigenous Australians, but a decade on, only three of the seven targets set by the Council of Australian Governments are on track. The four targets not yet achieved directly affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth: reading and writing, school attendance, life expectancy and employment. With more than half the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population being 25 years or younger, and with no simple solutions in sight, it is time to prompt intergenerational change beginning with Indigenous youth. In his address, Wayne Denning explores such solutions as: positive self-identification, in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth need to see themselves as successful, strong, happy, confident human beings who are comfortable within their culture; the promotion of their Aboriginality; and the amplification of programs that encourage youth self-empowerment and le

IFE Grand Challenge Lecture, recorded 25 May 2018 at QUT. Through the 20th century, research laboratories at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge embodied two leading models of research, based on competing philosophies of how research is conducted and research teams are assembled and supported.The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, under the guidance of J.J. Thomson and his acolytes, focused on recruitment and environment, producing a stunning succession of discoveries that underpin modern physics and chemistry. Several decades later, Howard Florey’s team at Oxford took a problem-based approach, carefully assembling the team best equipped to solve the antibiotic challenge, resulting in the discovery that has arguably saved more lives than any other. Towards the end of the 20th century and on the other side of the world, policymakers and research administrators came together to develop a blended system that harnessed the best of each of these models. For more than a decade and supported by successive Austr

IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture, recorded 9 May 2018 at QUT. Unfortunately, warfare and conflict in their many forms seem destined to blight our world for the foreseeable future. While war continues to be fundamentally a human endeavour whose character remains largely unchanged, the nature of contemporary and future conflict is undergoing significant changes. Speaking from direct and extensive experience, Major General Jeff Sengelman (retired), as a former commander of Special Operations Australia, will reflect on high-performance special forces teams and the attributes that have made them so globally successful under the most extreme conditions and circumstances. From this, he will more widely discuss how autonomous and semi-autonomous systems, and the technologies that underpin them, are likely to impact fundamentally on current cultural, military, societal, ethical and legal approaches to conflict and warfare. Ronald C. Arkin is Regents' Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory in the Colleg

IFE Grand Challenge Lecture, recorded on April 6 2018 at QUT.

IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture, recorded 14 March 2018 at QUT