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16 February, The Radical Potential and Complex Challenges of Robotics, Keynote at the CADR-RAS Showcase, Adelaide, Australia.
17 February, DSTG Briefings, QUT, Adelaide, Australia
16 March, “New and Emerging Technologies in Transport”, Guest Lecture BSB105 The Future Enterprise, QUT, Brisbane, Australia.
22 March, Bio-Inspired Robotics and AI, Gentle Thinkers event, Brisbane Square Library
25 March: MC for the Game Changers, World Science Festival Brisbane
31 March, keynote speaker, Maths in the Brain workshop, Melbourne.
7 May: “Mentoring Researchers”, Mentors Connect workshop run by South Western Sydney University and Western Sydney University (online).
9 May, What’s the Deal with AI? Symptoms to Surgery – The GP Guide to Brain & Spine event, Briz Brain & Spine team, Sofitel Brisbane.
1 – 5 June, IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA2026), Vienna:
- [tentative] Invited speaker at proposed workshop on Representations for Robot Reasoning
- [tentative] Invited speaker / co-organizer for proposed workshop on Physical AI
- [tentative] Invited speaker for proposed workshop on “Robot Perception in Challenging Environments (RECON): Toward Robust Sensing in the Open World”
9-11 June, Invited Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Smart Mechatronics (ICSMech 2026), Bandung, Indonesia.
23 June, opening keynote at Research Bazaar Queensland, QUT KG campus, Brisbane.
6 – 10 July, invited speaker, iNAV Symposium, Banff, Canada
12 July, [declined, travel conflict] invited senior speaker/mentor and panelist, RSS Pioneers, RSS2026, Sydney
October 13-15, Invited talk at the Nature Conference on Autonomous Robotics, organized by Nature Electronics, Nature Sensors, and Nature Communications in partnership with Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea.