Category: Talk
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GenAI in Data Platforms
I was part of a panel on the Impact of GenAI on Modern Data Platforms recently, hosted by the Data Engineering Melbourne meetup. It was great to chat with MC Ryan Collingwood and fellow panellists Rahul Trikha, Peter Barnes and Tony Nicol in front of a large and curious crowd. Like the crowd, I felt…
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Waste not Programmable
Programmable 2025 Melbourne featured a fantastic program, heavy on practical data & AI in an apt reflection of the times. It was also a great chance to catch up with many in the Melbourne tech community. I presented my 7 Wastes of Data Production talk. In the spirit of continuous improvement, I made some minor…
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Effective topologies for Data and ML teams
I presented this talk at the Melbourne Data Engineering meetup, on a wild and wet Friday night. Having your cake and eating it too – Effective topologies for Data and ML teams (slides) In the talk I explore how Team Topologies provides patterns for reconciling fast flow of value with (multiple) specialisations in data and…
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Demistifying ML product teams
Along with Ana Kelk, Head of Product (ecosystem) at Canva, David Tan, Ada Leung and I participated in a panel for Product Tank Melbourne, discussing the particular needs of ML product development (and the common product development needs too!) It was a great way to share and get feedback on one of the key themes…
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7 wastes of data production – when pipelines become sewers
I recently had the chance to present an updated version of my 7 wastes of data production talk at DataEngBytes Melbourne 2023. I think the talk was stronger this time around and I really appreciated all the great feedback from the audience. Check out the video below and the slides. Thanks to Peter Hanssens and…
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A gentle introduction to embeddings at the inaugural GenAI Network Melbourne meetup
I was thrilled to help kick-off the GenAI Network Melbourne meetup at their first meeting recently. I presented a talk titled Semantic hide and seek – a gentle introduction to embeddings, based on my experiments with Semantle, other representation learning, and some discussion of what it means to use Generative AI in developing new products…
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Maths Whimsy with Python
At PyCon AU 2023 in Adelaide I delivered a talk titled Maths Whimsy with Python. It was a great chance to review a range of projects small and large I’ve already shared here. Check out the slides and video. In three years of the maths whimsy repo, I’ve covered a lot of ground, and got…
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Data mesh: a lean perspective
Data mesh can be understood as a response to lean wastes identified in data organisations. I paired with Ned Letcher to present this perspective at the LAST Conference 2021, which was much delayed due to COVID restrictions. Lean wastes including overproduction, inventory, etc, may be concealed and made more difficult to address by centralised data…
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Data mesh at Data Engineering Melbourne Meetup
Here’s the recording of my presentation on data mesh at the Data Engineering Melbourne Meetup, on 26 August 2021. We covered architecture, building blocks and more. Lots of great questions and discussion. Thanks as always to organisers Harmeet Sokhi, Timothy Findlay, and Andrew Jones!
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Guiding the Evolution of Data Mesh with Fitness Functions
I presented this webinar with Zhamak Dehghani – see the recording Guiding the Evolution of Data Mesh with Fitness Functions. There was great engagement with the topic and we captured some questions and further thoughts on this mini-blog post, published a little later. This presentation brought together the idea of architectural fitness functions from the…