SPOTLIGHT
CHALLENGING CURRENT AND FUTURE THINKING International and Local Quantity Surveyors and Cost Engineers to Attend ICEC-PAQS Conference 2018 in Sydney
The theme, ‘Grassroots To Concrete Jungle: Dynamics in the Built Environment’ is sure to challenge current and future thinking. Attendees will meet over three days in November, at the International Convention Centre Sydney, to hear onpoint presentations from industry experts and discuss with industry colleagues, the latest construction and cost management techniques and technology, standards and issues facing the industry today and in the future. In this article, we feature two keynote speakers:
PROFESSOR GENEVIEVE BELL
ANU in February 2017.
A cultural anthropologist, technologist and futurist, Professor Bell is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development. Professor Bell completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University, California in 1998. After having spent 18 years in Silicon Valley, helping guide Intel’s product development by developing the company’s social science and design research capabilities, Prof Bell joined
Professor Bell is now focused on building a new applied science around the management of artificial intelligence, data, technology and their impact on humanity at the 3A (Autonomy, Agency and Assurance) Institute, launched by the Australian National University (ANU) in collaboration with CSIRO’s Data61 Australia’s leading data innovation group. Professor Bell is the inaugural appointee to The Florence McKenzie Chair at ANU, named in honour of Australia’s first female electrical engineer. Florence McKenzie
THE BUILDING ECONOMIST - JUNE 2018 - 15
