Talks

I regularly speak at international business & tech conferences, meet ups, university seminars and career events. Get in touch if you'd like me to speak at your event on any of the topics below.

• Thematic story and demo, Sydney NLP Mini Conference, July 2018, Sydney, Australia

• Thematic story and demo, Artificial Intelligence Meetup, June 2018, Auckland, New Zealand

• Insights into Customer Journeys using Feedback Analysis, Sentiment Analysis Symposium, 2017, New York, US

• Artificial Intelligence and Customer Engagement, Techweek, 2017, Auckland

• Making the most of customer feedback, SmarterData 2017, Auckland

• STEMPreneurs talk at AUT, 2017, Auckland.

• Predictive Analytics Workshop at Customer Experience Asia 2016, Singapore

• 7 NLP Must-Haves of Customer Feedback Analysis, Sentiment Analysis Symposium 2016, New York, US

• Applications of Natural Language Understanding: Tools & Technologies, Strata & Hadoop World 2016, London, UK

• Make Predictive Analytics your secret weapon, Customer 3.1, 2016, Auckland, NZ

• Languages & Computers, Refactor 2015, Auckland, NZ

• Visualising text, Data Visualising Meetup, 2015, GridAKL, Auckland, NZ

• Understanding Human Language with Python (video) - KiwiPyCon 2014, Wellington, NZ

• NLP with Python Tutorial - KiwiPyCon 2014, Wellington, NZ

• Boy Geeks vs Girl Geeks. Some Real-World Data - Girl Geeks Coffees at Unitech 2014, Auckland, NZ

• Keywords, Concepts and Categories - NLP in NZ Meetup 2014, Auckland NZ

• Making Sense of Unstructured Data with Text Analytics - Analytics Seminars, Auckland Uni, 2013

• Fast-forward Several Years. The Lives of NZ CS PostGraduates - NZCSRSC 2013, Hamilton, NZ

• Text Analytics on 2 Million Documents: A Case Study - Text Analytics World 2012, Boston, MA

• Mining Unstructured Data: Practical Applications - O'Reilly Strata Conference, 2012, Santa Clara, CA

• Innovation for the Enterprise. Unstructured Data Management - Think Forward at Buddle and Findlay 2012, Auckland, NZ

• Text Analytics with Pingar - Semantic Garage MeetUp, San Francisco, 2011

• The Next-Generation SharePoint: Powered by Text Analytics - Hong Kong and Singapore SharePoint Conferences, 2011

• Advice to high school students wanting to study Computer Science - Enginuity Day at Auckland Uni, 2011

• Introduction into Natural Language Processing - Girl Geek Dinner, Tauranga, 2010

• Automatic Topic Indexing - Seminars at NEJM, 2008, Boston, MA

• Key Phrase Indexing with Controlled Vocabularies - Google New York, 2006, New York, NY