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TechTuesdays – September Monthly Event – Canterbury Tech
September 3 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Canterbury Tech September 2024 – TechTuesdays – IRL*In Real Life
Embracing the Future: Innovating 125 Years of Meat Inspection with AI and Machine Vision
Join Matt Scott as he shares ground-breaking results and insights from AsureQuality’s world-first AI project to enhance the inspection of New Zealand’s second-largest export. By using unsupervised learning on images of beef carcasses, AI produced unexpected results. However, the technical solution is just one piece of the puzzle in this complex political and regulatory landscape – discover how Futures Thinking tools were used to unlock stakeholder engagement and position New Zealand at the leading edge of global change.
About Matt:
Matt Scott is Innovation Lead at AsureQuality, where he facilitates collaborative innovation internally and with customers to iteratively test and validate new business ideas. Matt has a background in recording studios, education, and business innovation – including tech startups and Internet of Things product development. In 2023 Matt presented to the 9th UNESCO Asia Pacific Futures Network conference in Kuala Lumpur about how AQ has been using Futures Thinking to start experimenting with the integration of Artificial Intelligence in meat inspection.
When: Tuesday 3rd September 2024
Where: Christchurch City Council Function Space (entrance from Worcester St)
Event Outline:
5.30pm – Registration opens, networking, drinks and nibbles
6.00pm – Canterbury Tech updates
6.10pm – Quick Pitch – TBC
6.15pm – Guest speaker
7.00pm – More networking
7.30pm – Close of event
Click the link below to register!
