Pathways for Regeneration: Frontier Innovation meets Community Stewardship

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As technology reshapes our world at unprecedented speed and scale, how can communities harness these shifts to build resilient, regenerative futures? Drawing from a decade building frontier tech ventures across emerging markets and supporting grassroots initiatives throughout Asia-Pacific and beyond, Crystal Ma explores the transformative potential where cutting-edge innovation meets community and indigenous stewardship.


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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

RMIT University, Melbourne
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Journalist and critic Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist has invigorated both academic and journalistic critique of Spotify, while arming musicians with a powerful set of arguments for imagining alternative platforms and economic models for music.


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She Shapes History: Badass Women of Melbourne

RMIT University, Melbourne
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Journalist and critic Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist has invigorated both academic and journalistic critique of Spotify, while arming musicians with a powerful set of arguments for imagining alternative platforms and economic models for music.


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Beyond XAI: Explainable Data-driven Modelling for Human Reasoning and Decision Support

ADM+S Centre, RMIT University 106-108 Victoria Street, Carlton, VIC
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Join this session delivered by ADM+S Affiliate Kacper Sokol and Associate Investigator Danula Hetticachchi as they explore how we can reimagine XAI by drawing upon a broad range of relevant interdisciplinary findings.


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Practical Machine Learning Explainability: Surrogate Explainers and Fairwashing

ADM+S Centre, RMIT University 106-108 Victoria Street, Carlton, VIC
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Join this session delivered by ADM+S Affiliate Kacper Sokol and Associate Investigator Danula Hetticachchi as they introduce the three core components of surrogate explainers: data sampling, interpretable representation and explanation generation in view of text, image and tabular data.


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Public Service Media in the Platform Era – Public Event

State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston St, Melbourne, Victoria
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Public service media across the world are currently facing a series of challenges. Funding is under threat, trust in institutions is declining, and organisations have to compete in a media ecosystem dominated by platforms. In parallel, research and development of future technologies demands strong streams of innovation focused on the public good. How can public service media meet these challenges? What does this mean for democracy?


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