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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