Plenary 1 – A Collective Future – The REAL Challenges and Opportunities
2 April 2019, 9:30 AM
Research Leader on Australia’s AI Roadmap and Ethics Framework Project, CSIRO’s Data61
Dr Stefan Hajkowicz is a senior principal scientist working in the field of strategic foresight at CSIRO’s Data61. Stefan leads the Data61 Insight Team which is a group of researchers and consultants helping organisations navigate digital disruption. Stefan’s research and consulting work helps companies, governments and communities explore plausible futures and make wise strategic choices. Stefan is a world leading scholar in the field of decision theory and has published seminal works on the use multi-objective decision support.
His research has contrasted structured versus intuitive approaches to decision making. His decision models have guided investments worth hundreds of millions of dollars and have been used by Australia’s State and Federal Governments to make critical policy choices. Stefan is widely published in the international research literature and his most recent book titled “Global Megatrends” is available through CSIRO Publishing. Stefan has a doctorate in geography from the University of Queensland and postgraduate qualifications in economics from the University of New England. He is a current and recent member of the OECD and World Economic Forum global strategic foresight communities.
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