Date: Wednesday 16 October 2024
Time: 8:30am – 4.30pm

Venue: Union House Function Room #1, Level 5 Union House, North Terrace, University of Adelaide 

Join Australia's Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley AO and Chair of the Safeguarding Australia through Biotechnology Response and Engagement (SABRE) Alliance Professor Mark Hutchinson for the SABRE Alliance Futures Summit: Crafting resilience through innovation. 

Why You Can't Miss This:

• Shape the future: Immerse yourself in a high-stakes scenario exercise where your expertise could redefine national security, CBRN and biosecurity strategies.
• Connect with visionaries: Engage directly with national leaders steering Australia's scientific and innovation landscape.
• Unlock opportunities: Discover how the new National Science and Research Priorities and the Future Made in Australia Act can catapult your ideas from the lab bench to the boardrooms of global markets.
• Forge powerful alliances: Network with a diverse array of experts from academia, industry, and government, creating collaborations that could change the world.
• Be the catalyst: Your insights could spark the next breakthrough in Australia's journey to become a global innovation powerhouse.

This event is designed to be a catalyst for transformative ideas and partnerships that will contribute to Australia's economic growth, national security, and global competitiveness. By participating, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of Australian science and innovation.

The scenario

The SABRE Futures summit team have crafted a scenario using journalistic style to encourage and facilitate discussion of all potential information streams that might be useful in the rapid detection, identification, mitigation of and response to an unidentified coloured vapour, which is quickly  suspected to contain either a Biological or Chemical agent.  It is anticipated that multiple technology options and information streams will need to be used as a system to provide the information required to identify the threat. It is therefore highly appropriate to consider a number of different direct and indirect information sources; which may include a range of different  sensor outputs which could work together  to provide data to inform decision makers; coordinate  emergency response and render the area safe. 

This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate  with experts across a range of different disciplines; and across both academic, industrial and government agencies. Expertise and those from various fields including  biotechnology, chemistry, physics, medicine, psychology, human data,  bioinformatics and big data, AI, predictive modelling, communications are encouraged to attend. The aim is to harness the state-of-the-art technologies and expertise across these disciplines  and provide novel innovative solutions. This workshop is not just a learning experience; it's a journey through the front lines of real-world problems, where your skills and knowledge can make a difference.

This isn't just another workshop, it's your chance to actively shape Australia's future. We're bringing together the brightest minds to tackle our most pressing challenges, from biosecurity to economic resilience. We are looking for input and expertise from a wide range of areas including but not limited to:

• chemical and biological detection
• human centred data and wearables
• clinicians
• psychologists and behavioural experts
• bio informatics
• predictive modelling
• physics / optics
• remote sensing
• communications
• AI
• big data
• meta data

and more to come together to tackle this problem.

Agenda - speakers TBC

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