Defence AI Seminar Series

2026 upcoming seminar:

• Title: Operationalising a Responsible by Design approach to Military AI
• Presenter: Dr Damian Copeland, Article 36 Legal
• When: Thursday, 9 April 2026

2026 previous seminars:

• Dr Syed Shahzad, presentation title From Cyber Security to Cyber Resilience, Lessons from Space-Based Critical Infrastructure
• Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor, presentation title Between Promise and Practice: The Challenges of AI in Military Command

2025 previous seminars:

• Dr Sanat Bista, presentation title Defence AI Centre
• Prof Hanna Kurniawati, presentation title Sequential Decision-making for Robots Operating in Non-Deterministic and Partially Observable Worlds
• Dr Joshua Krook, presentation title Anthropomorphic AI’s Risk to Cybersecurity and Defence
• WGCDR Mike Moroney, presentation title Artificial Intelligence Integration (AI2) for RAAF
• Anna Knack, presentation title Applying AI to Strategic Warning
• Prof Paul Salmon, presentation title Managing the risks associated with artificial intelligence: a sociotechnical systems perspective
• Dr Bill Murari, presentation title What if AI could help us discover next-generation materials not in decades, but in months
• Dr Sharif Abuadbba, presentation title Emerging Technologies and AI Risks: Understanding the Threat of Deepfakes and How to Respond
• Dr Sara Webb, presentation title AI use bridging astronomy and space domain awareness
• LTCOL Adam J Hepworth, presentation title Accelerating Army’s Adoption of AI and Autonomy  
• Ross Farrelly, presentation title Unlocking the Promise of AI with Governance
• Dr Claire Mason, presentation title Generative AI upskilling 
• Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO, presentation title AI Safety with Histories

2024 previous seminars:

• Dr Ralph Gailis, presentation title Defence AI Research Network
• Dr Liming Zhu, presentation title A System-level Approach to AI Safety and Guardrails: Ensuring Testing, Transparency, and Accountability Through Standards
• Prof Tim Miller, presentation title Why your AI tool probably doesn’t work and why it is so *#$# hard to get it to do so
• Prof Antonio Robles-Kelly, presentation title AI for Structured Data: Gathering Information and Acquiring Knowledge at Scale
• Claire Ripley and Will Giacometti, presentation title Understanding the AI Management System Standard
• Dr Kathryn Kasmarik, presentation title Designing Collective Motion Behaviours for Swarming Robots Solving Coverage Problems
• Prof Siobhan Banks and Dr Zygmunt Szpak, presentation title Advanced Algorithms for Early Infection Detection: Transforming Wearable Data through Functional Data Analysis
• Dr Kate Conroy and Any Plant, presentation title Measuring human-centred military use of AI
• Prof Rain Liivoja & Dr Lauren Sanders, presentation title What is Responsible AI in the Military: a read out from the Seoul REAIM Summit

2023 previous seminars:

• Prof Saeid Nahavandi, presentation title Autonomous Leader Follower Convoy and LTCOL Marcus Doherty, presentation title Army Quantum Technology Roadmap
• Kyla Quinn, presentation title ML and AI in Production: Are a cloud and some data scientists enough?
• Dr Liming Zhu, presentation title Responsible/Trustworthy AI in the Era of Foundation Models
• Simon Ng and Katherine Head, presentation title Engineering Autonomous Systems – Standards, Certification and Assurance
• Dr Damian Copeland, presentation title Article 36 Weapons Review of Autonomous Weapons Systems
• Dr Truyen Tran, presentation title Generative AI: Shifting the AI Landscape