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Major Talks and interviews (since 2011)
- Invited talk at the John Monash Science School assembly, 2019
- Announcement on joining the Melbourne Business School and The University of Melbourne as an Enterprise Professor, 2019
- Australian Financial Review story on joining Rampersand as a Venture Partner, 2019
- Invited talk at Startup Victoria’s Growth Club, 2019
- Invited talk at the Melbourne Business Schools Alumni Reunion, 2019
- Invited talk at Domain, 2019
- Keynote at Fraser Property senior leadership conference, 2019
- Valedictory speech at Gippsland Grammar School, 2018
- Keynote at Message Media‘s leadership conference, 2018
- Talk at Exponent’s Leadership Conference, 2018
- Talks at Westpac’s Businesses of Tomorrow programme, 2018
- Keynote talk at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Business and Economics Future Leaders Forum, 2018
- Invited talk at Airtree Ventures, 2018
- Panel discussion at the Photobox Group for London Tech Week, 2018
- Keynote talk at CSL‘s Recombinant Product Development conference, 2018
- Invited talk at Liberty Financial, 2018
- Keynote talk at the NAB Analytics Community Showcase, 2018
- Panel discussion at the Leaders’ Edge Lunch: Big Issues for Boards and Directors, 2018
- Invited talk at the Melbourne Business Alumni Reunion, 2018
- Invited talk at the Talking Data Speaker Series, 2017
- Radio interview on Jon Faine’s morning show on ABC Melbourne in the “Known Unknowns” segment, 2017
- Phone radio interview on Jon Faine’s morning show on ABC Melbourne, 2017
- Telstra Unconference Keynote in Sydney and Melbourne, 2017
- Monash Business School Leaders Panel on Digital Disruption, 2017
- CNN interview in Indonesia on Google’s Maps strategy, 2016
- Keynote at Google for Indonesia. Jakarta, Indonesia, 2016
- Keynote at the CRC for Spatial Information Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2015
- Talk at Google, 2015
- Speaker at QCon 2015 in New York, NY
- Guest lecture in CS276 Information Retrieval and Web Search at Stanford University, CA, 2015.
- Speaker at the Innovation Theme Forum at ICNC 2015 in Anaheim, CA
- Guest lecture in the 2015 “Data Science and Analytics: Thought Leaders” course at UC Berkeley
- Talk at Stretch 2014 in Budapest, Hungary
- Talk about Search in the Discover Pinterest series
- Keynote at SpringOne 2014 in Dallas, TX
- Keynote at GE’s Developer Conference 2014
- Keynote talk at SIGIR2014 in Australia
- Fireside conversation as part of UC Berkeley’s DataEdge conference 2014
- Industry invited talk at WWW2014 in Korea
- Interview with RMIT’s Alumni Magazine about careers in the Valley, leadership, and more
- Keynote at Big Data Paris 2014
- Industry track talk on Challenges in Commerce Search at CIKM 2013
- Panel discussion on search for the Web @ 20 stream at C2SV 2013
- Talk and panel discussion at SMX East on October 2 on Leveraging Big Data in Search Marketing
- Power Retail story in 2013 on the eBay product and Australia
- Business Review Weekly story in 2013 on eBay in Australia
- Wired.com story in 2013 on eBay’s Cassini search engine
- Webinar in 2013 on “Search at eBay“
- Invited talk in 2013 in the “Data Science and Analytics: Thought Leaders” course at UC Berkeley
- Invited talk on big data in 2012 at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
- Keynote at Big Data 2012 in Sydney, Australia
- Keynote at the 2011 Hadoop World conference
- Watch my keynote at the 2012 PHP UK Conference
- Keynote at ZendCon 2011
- Here’s a 2011 interview with GigaOm and a 2012 interview with Computer World on eBay’s Hadoop and big data strategy
- Here’s a 2011 interview with The Register on eBay’s new search engine
