Defence AI Symposium 2023

When: 27 November 2023
Time: 9am
Location: Sir Llew Edwards Building, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
DAIRNet banner in the foreground with conference attendees talking to each other in the background.

Building AI capabilities in Australia is critical for the Defence sector. Decision superiority, the ability to make decisions faster and with higher degrees of accuracy, will increasingly benefit from advancements in sovereign AI capabilities and enable Defence to process large quantities of data in complex operating environments. These advancements in AI will provide data-driven performance advantages to the Australian Defence Force.

DAIRNet is pleased to be hosting the first Defence AI Symposium, as part of the 36th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI). The Symposium is a forum for the exchange between the Australian Defence and AI communities. 

GPCAPT David Clyde (Joint Capability Group), will be delivering the keynote address “Assurance of AI systems to enable trusted decision support”. Speakers from academia and Defence will also present their most recent research in responsible AI, contextual awareness, machine learning and Large Language Models (LLM).

Registrations are now open for the Symposium and AJCAI

The Defence AI Symposium is an exciting opportunity for Defence and AI researchers to come together and explore priorities, opportunities and commonalities.

Defence AI Symposium presenters and panel

GPCAPT David Clyde

Joint Capability Group

Assurance of AI systems to enable trusted decision support

Biography

Dr Kate Devitt

University of Queensland

Bad, mad and cooked: Moral responsibility for civilian harms in human-AI military teams

Biography and LinkedIn

Dr Zena Assaad

Australian National University

Navigating trust in AI-enabled systems

Biography and LinkedIn

Prof Tim Miller

University of Queensland

Explainable AI is dead! Long live Explainable AI

Biography and Twitter X

Dr/Prof Liming Zhu

DATA61 CSIRO

Frontier AI in Defence: From AI Governance to AI Safety

Biography

Professor Hussein Abbass

UNSW Canberra

Contexts of a Context in Human-Swarm Teaming

Biography

Professor Flora Salim

UNSW Sydney

Generative AI and Large Language Models for Generalisable and Robust Situational Awareness

Biography

Dr Glennn Moy

DSTG

The use of Large Language Models in Defence

Biography

Dr Sebastien Wong

DSTG

Advanced ML Techniques

WGCDR Rob Seabrook

Joint Capability Group

WGCDR Michael Moroney

Jericho (Air Force)

Biography

LTCOL Adam Hepworth

RICO (Army)

Biography

CMDR Leigh Jackson

WIN (Navy)

Biography

The Defence AI Symposium 2023 is an initiative of DAIRNet and is proudly presented alongside the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

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