Lee Hickin, Beth Worrall, and Dan Bowen work in the Microsoft Australia and New Zealand team, they talk about Artificial Intelligence in Education - what it is, how it works, and the different ways it is being used. It's not too serious, or too technical, and is intended to be a good conversation of background information.
Please note that we're having a chat fortnightly, not describing the official Microsoft position on anything!
69 Available Episodes (69 Total)Average duration: 00:36:18
Dec 21, 2022
Christmas, Infinite Monkeys and everything
00:53:30
Welcome to this week's episode of the podcast! We have a special guest – Ray Fleming, a podcast pioneer, educationalist, and improv master. Join Dan, Lee, Beth, and Ray as we discuss the events of 2022 and look forward to the future and the holidays.
We have some interesting resources to share with you:
ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue (openai.com)
This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Lee Hickin, Dan Bowen, and Beth Worrall. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.
Dec 12, 2022
Sustainability and the Future
00:38:49
Welcome to the AI podcast! In this episode, Beth, Dan, and Lee are joined by the Microsoft ANZ Sustainability lead, Brett Shoemaker. This episode discusses all things sustainability.
This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Lee Hickin, Dan Bowen, and Beth Worrall. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.
In this espisode Beth, Lee and Dan look at the mechanics of a creating hackathons based on our experiences on various projects around ethical and hackign for good. From CSIRO projects to the Imagine Academy we we look at what makes them a success and share tips on what works well.
Oct 04, 2022
Mastery and lifelong learning moving Beyond ATAR
00:50:46
In this episode Beth, Dan and Lee and joined by Jan Owen AO. We discuss growing leadership from toads, skills and policy changes to drive future assessment.
“This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Lee Hickin, Dan Bowen, and Beth Worrall. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.”
Sep 07, 2022
Diversity and Making Internships work
00:32:50
In this episode, Dan is joined by the amazing Emaan Gohar and Jannet Gohar, technical interns at Microsoft. We explore the pathways into tech and their learnings so far.
“This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Lee Hickin, Dan Bowen, and Beth Worrall. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.”
Aug 18, 2022
You have the power
00:41:56
In this episode Beth, Lee, and Dan are in the studio and talk about the skills and hiring trends that they see.
This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Lee Hickin, Dan Bowen, and Beth Worrall. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.
Jul 13, 2022
Shooting for the stars
00:48:02
In this episode, Beth is in the studio and joined by Lynn McDonald, Microsoft Azure Space Lead, Asia Pacific.
In this episode, Beth and Lee talk to Microsoft's Dave Andrews, Procurement Lead, about the issues around sustainability in the area of supply chains and procurement. From responsible air travel to diversity and inclusion in suppliers, we cover a lot!
In this episode, Beth, Dan, and Lee talk about the issues around sustainability in technology. From rare-earth metals to the human costs of technology we will examine the high-level points.
May 04, 2022
Girl Geeks and Computer Science
00:39:34
In the third episode of this series, Beth and Dan interview Lizzie Fuller (Azure Solution Specialist, Microsoft), Matt Furse (Practice Development Manager, MIcrosoft) and talk Girls and Tech with Sarah Moran from Girl Geek Academy.