Home from #WOWCairns with a busy mind and plenty to think about. Over a few extraordinary days, I met people whose experiences were vastly different, but who shared a determination to make things better. Some conversations were confronting. Others were … Continued
The one positive to come from COVID is that many of the events that I would have been unable to attend (unless i wanted to spend my life travelling) are being held virtually this year. One I was excited to … Continued
Today I gave my first university guest lecture hosting in AltspaceVR. Since my first experience at the Microsoft MVP Mixed Reality Mixer back in March, I’ve been to a lot more events finding them the closest thing to interacting with … Continued
This week I’m at the Microsoft MVP Summit. Due to COVID-19 this year’s event is online only. The absolute highlight of me week (and probably one of the few things I can talk about without breaking NDA) was the Mixed … Continued
Image by Alan Levine [CC BY 2.0] You’ve spent a good 40+ hours building and preparing for your conference talk, you’ve practiced, you’ve got past a lot of fears and you get up in front of a room full of … Continued
On Saturday I was one of the organisers and mentors for Brisbane’s Global Diversity CFP Day. This is a global event held on the same day worldwide. This year there were 82 workshops run across 35 countries. This was my … Continued
Final VR Days – and I found the session block on AI & Virtual Beings fascinating. If you’ve heard my recent round of talks you’ll know I wasn’t a massive fan of how Google Duplex seemed to purposely add human … Continued
It’s the 2nd day of the VR Days conference and we’ve changed venue to this funky warehouse location. I spent the morning listening to sessions on VR training but it’s the set of afternoon sessions on “Use Your Brain 4.0” … Continued
Continuing on Day 1 of the Vision and Impact Conference of VR Days Europe and I’m listening to Brandon Harper talk about ambient experience. In his session he mentions a game the team plays called Judgment Call to look at … Continued
It’s Day 1 – Vision and Impact Conference of VR Days Europe and I really loved the session by Dominic Eskofier addressing the problems with enterprise VR (or really all the devices). The part that resonated was getting people to … Continued
Photo Credit Muses JS Muses run JavaScript and Node.js workshops for women, non-binary and trans folk around Australia. I’d mentored a bunch of different events, but I hadn’t made it to this one yet. Today that changed – and I … Continued
Back in March last year, my friend James challenged me to the AI Ethics challenge. While I intended to write a blog post and had lots of ideas I decided I’d fulfil the challenge with a talk instead. 50 Shades … Continued
Let’s talk about rubbish! We’ve been running DDD Brisbane for a few years now (this is our 8th!) and did a few things here and there to be friendly to the environment. At the end of the 2017 event we … Continued
Over my career, I’ve tried to engage, share and help the community. Originally, it was more in the technical community or the upcoming technical community. More recently I’ve tried to broaden that as I’ve been involved with wildlife care and … Continued
Last year I tried something a bit different and was the “Agile Coach” for the 3rd year university students for their industry project. Throughout the year, I coached (I prefer mentored as coach makes me think of PE at school … Continued
Saturday 1st December we kicked off our 8th DDD Brisbane. We arrived bright and early for the 3rd year at the beautiful University Campus in the Advanced Engineering Building. The coffee team arrived early to caffeinate our volunteers and early … Continued
Yesterday I took part in judging the year 7-8 students for the Brisbane entrants of Young ICT Explorers. I’ve been involved in this event for quite a few years now and it always brings a smile to my face what … Continued
Last week I had the pleasure to present at Ignite Australia. I’ve missed the last few as it’s coincided with overseas trips so moving to February worked out well. I presented Lessons from Hollywood: Building the interactions of tomorrow today. … Continued
DDD Brisbane is done and dusted for another year. After 5 years at QUT this year we grew yet again and took on a new venue. The lovely Advanced Engineering Building at UQ. At 6:30 this crew started arriving to … Continued
Another event near and dear to my heart – Imagine Cup. I’ve been involved with the competition since 2010 and I can truly say it never ceases to put a smile on my face. This year I was one of … Continued
I can’t believe it’s already a year since the launch of the Tech Girls are Superheroes book! To mark the anniversary and International Womens’ Day I headed off to QUT with Jewella and Cybele with a bunch of Year 11 … Continued
Today I had the privilege of working with a bunch of high school IT teachers around the state for the day. The goal of the day was to show them some Java Script to get them inspired. We started with … Continued
Saturday the 6th of December we held our 4th DDDBrisbane event. Each year we have grown the number of attendees and this year we had to step up to bigger rooms. The morning started early getting everything in place, ready … Continued