Featured speakers

Keynote speaker

Dr Lenka Ucnik

Lenka Ucnik is the acting Director of TEQSA’s Higher Education Integrity Unit, which is tasked with identifying and analysing sector-wide risks that impact all higher education providers and undertaking a range of activities to support and uplift the sector. Lenka has over 15 years of experience in the higher education sector working in Government, and for both public and private providers.

Featured speakers

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Professor Nicole Gillespie

Chair of Trust and Professor of Management at Melbourne Business School and the Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne

Trained as an organisational psychologist, Nicole's research focuses on trust development and repair, particularly in contexts where trust is challenged. Current projects focus on trust in artificial intelligence and the responsible adoption and governance of AI, stakeholder trust and evaluations of organisations, organisational trust repair, and leading trustworthy organisations. She also previously served on the National AI Centre Thinktank on Responsible AI.

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Professor Jeannie Paterson

Professor of Law and the Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, The University of Melbourne

Jeannie’s teaching and research focuses on consumer and data protection law in the context of emerging digital technologies, including issues of fairness, privacy, transparency, security and existential risk in the emergence of AI. Her current projects centre on digital mental health, generative AI in legal decision-making, and legal responses to deep fake fraud, under the theme of misleading AI.

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Cory Dal Ponte

Learning Experience Designer and PhD student, The University of Melbourne

Cory Dal Ponte is a learning experience designer at the Office of the Provost and a PhD student at the Melbourne Medical School. Cory's research topic focuses on personalising interdisciplinary health professions education with generative AI.

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Dr Sarah Yang Spencer

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne

Dr Sarah Yang Spencer is one of the teaching specialists working in the Department of Accounting. Her research focus and areas of expertise include the scholarship of teaching and learning, curriculum internationalisation, business strategy, strategic management accounting, organisational learning, management control system, and corporate governance.