2024 Speaking Engagements

August 24, 2023 Author: Michael

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2024

7-9 February, Keynote Speaker, International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Association conference, UNSW, Sydney.

22 February, exhibiting at CADR-RAS showcase, Adelaide Zoo Conference room, Adelaide.

24 February, Keynote Speaker, Gala Opening of the Brisbane Grammar School STEAM precinct, BGS, Brisbane

28 Feb, Keynote Speaker, QUT Business Leaders’ Forum Sponsors’ Lunch, QUT

[dates shifted to September, can no longer attend] 18-19 March, invited speaker at the FAIR- Festival of AI + Robotics, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

27 March, Bridging Bio-Inspired and Introspective Positioning Systems, National Science Foundation Accelerating Research Collaboration between Artificial and Natural Intelligences (ARCANI) Meeting, Macquarie University, Sydney.

3 April, Tobias Fischer, “Rapid Brain-Inspired Robot Positioning & Robust Control for Autonomy”, AUSMURI Neuro-autonomy review meeting (US and Australia, online)

10 April, Using AI in your research: a panel discussion, Graduate Research Education + Development.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024 Workshops

13-17 May IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024 (ICRA2024) team member / collaborator paper presentations (planned presenters in bold font):

  • “VPRTempo: A Fast Temporally Encoded Spiking Neural Network for Visual Place Recognition”, Adam D. Hines, Peter Stratton, Michael J Milford, Tobias Fischer, ICRA2024 paper
  • Payam Nourizadeh, Michael J Milford, Tobias Fischer, “Teach and Repeat Navigation: A Robust Control Approach”, ICRA2024 paper
  • Alejandro Fontan, Javier Civera, Michael J Milford, “Adaptive Outlier Thresholding for Bundle Adjustment in Visual SLAM”, ICRA2024 paper
  • Stefan Schubert, Peer Neubert, Sourav Garg, Michael J Milford, Tobias Fischer, “Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial”, Robotics and Automation Systems magazine

24 May, “How to Navigate a Path Through Exciting and Confronting Developments in Artificial Intelligence”, Queensland Country Press Association, Mooloolaba, Queensland.

24 May, AWS Imagine: Education, Stage and Local Leaders, Brisbane, Australia.

28-29 May, “High Performance Bio-Inspired Positioning and Navigation Systems for Robots and Autonomous Systems”, with Tobias Fischer, AUSMURI Neuro-Autonomy Review Meeting with Defence Science Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

2-5 June, invited speaker at Workshop on Off-Road Autonomy at 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Jeju Shinhwa, Korea [online]

[tentative] 6 June, invited speaker at FORSATEK 2024 (Emirates Group), Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

~17 June, “Insights from a Yearlong Deep Dive into the Use of AI in an Academic Career”, invited keynote speaker at QUT HDR Careers Week, online

17 – 21 June, Invited speaker at proposed workshop on “Visual Perception for Navigation in Human Environments” at IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024, Seattle

15/19 July, Invited speaker at Workshop on “Semantics for Robotics: From Environment Understanding and Reasoning to Safe Interaction” at Robotics: Science and Systems 2024 (RSS2024), Delft, Netherlands.

14-18 October, 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)

  • [tentative] Invited talk at the proposed Long-term Perception and Autonomy in Human-shared Environments Workshop, organized by MIT / Stanford / KTH / ETH Amazon

Nov 27 – 29, Keynote Speaker at Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2024, Perth, Australia