# Elanor Huntington

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Women in Tech: Okay Ladies, Now Let's Get Information

Why do the tech and science industries remain a boys’ club after so many years? How are inroads finally being made? And who are the success stories bucking the trend? Join three inspiring speakers in conversation with Deb Verhoeven as they celebrate the incredible women of tech and science. Aminato…

From diversity STEMs brilliance

Want an innovative, dynamic workplace? Diversify! Imagination shapes experience – lack of diversity means that we’re not imagining, nor engineering, a future that includes everybody. And how can we, when engineering and computer science employees don’t reflect the diversity of the societies we liv…

Engineering education for the future

Who do you trust with the future? STEM students now will tackle some of the greatest challenges of our times. We need them to be well prepared. Flipped classrooms, role-playing games, micro-credentials. From engineering, computing, AI and cyber-security, our guests explain how they’re co-creating k…

In Conversation With Elanor Huntington - Big Science Leadership

Join Russell & Darryl alongside Professor Elanor Huntington, a celebrated quantum physicist and an executive director of Australia's leading research institution CSIRO to discuss high-impact leadership in big science.

Engineering Australia's STEM pipeline: Elanor Huntington, Executive Director, Digital, National Facilities & Collections, CSIRO

The guest for this episode is Professor Elanor Huntington, Executive Director for Digital, National Facilities & Collections at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - CSIRO, Australia's national science agency. We discuss the challenges of attracting a diverse cohort to …

Is it time for Australia to develop its own AI tools?

As the use of artificial intelligence tools created overseas like ChatGPT proliferates, so will the need for Australia to develop its own sovereign AI capabilities. Everything from small businesses to large parts of defence will have some stake in AI or processes enhanced by the advances in technol…

Change Makers: Securing your data in a world of quantum computers

The world is racing to develop full scale quantum computers that promise to bring huge leaps in science and medicine.  But the technology also means that swathes of previously encrypted data could be unlocked, from your personal health data to national secrets. And so there is another global securi…

Episode 43 - 'What got us here, won't get us there!': Reflections on NIPF24 with Jane O'Dwyer

In this episode, I had the opportunity to reflect on the 2024 National Innovation Policy Forum with Jane O'Dwyer, CEO of Cooperative Research Australia. Firstly, we reflect on the opportunity before the Australian innovation community to influence policy and bring innovation to the centre of econ…

Episode 55 - 2025 National Innovation Policy Forum Review: Coordination and Translation with Jane O'Dwyer

Following the National Innovation Policy Forum (NIPF) in November 2025, I had the opportunity to reflect on the event with Jane O'Dwyer from Cooperative Research Australia (CRA) in mid-December. We started with the raison d'être of the NIPF to increase the linkages between industry, the innovation…