This event brings together academics, professionals, students and members of the public to deeply engage in one questions: How can academic research become more useful, more used, and more grounded in preparing regional, rural and remote Australia for challenging and disruptive futures?

Cost:
Online: Free
Non Member In-person: $20
TAS Members, students, casual/unwaged In-person: $10 

Speakers:

John Blackburn AO
Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn AO (Retd)
MDefStud, MStratStud

John Blackburn is the Chair of the Institute for Integrated Economic Research – Australia.
He retired from the Royal Australian Air Force in 2008 as the Deputy Chief of the Air Force, following a career as an F/A-18 fighter pilot, test pilot, and strategic planner. Since 2008, John has consulted to Industry and Government Agencies and has undertaken a range of National Security and Resilience related studies, as a RAAF Reservist until 2019 , and also with the Institute for Integrated Economic Research - Australia, the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group, the Kokoda Foundation, and the Sir Richard Williams Foundation. For the past four years he has led a National Resilience Project that has highlighted a lack of resilience in Australia in addressing the pandemic, climate change impacts, the ongoing energy transition, and growing global and regional security threats.
He is an advisor to Canberra based AICoLab Alliance and is using developmental Agentic AI systems to further refine the recommendations of the IIER-A National Resilience Project. His current focus is on the lack of energy system resilience and the potential impacts of AI on National Security and Resilience.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-blackburn/