This conference examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping the economics profession across policy, forecasting, data analysis and decision-making. As AI becomes embedded in day-to-day work, it is changing how economists approach modelling, communication and problem-solving, with implications for skills, career pathways and the future of the discipline. The program also considers the risks and limitations of AI, including issues of transparency, bias and over-reliance, and brings together perspectives from industry and policy to highlight where AI adds value and how it can be used alongside sound economic judgement.
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Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP is the Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury
Louise Stigwood is the Managing Director ANZ, Public Sector - Amazon Web Services
David Orsmond is the Director of Policy and Communications, Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence at Macquarie University, President ESA NSW and Professor of Economics at Macquarie Business School.
Professor Barney Glover AO is Commissioner of Jobs and Skills Australia and former Vice-Chancellor and President of Western Sydney University.
Michael Brennan is CEO of the e61 Institute and former Chair of the Australian Productivity Commission and Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury.
Dr Emmanuelle Walkowiak is a Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT and a research affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).
Dr Stephen P. King is a Commissioner at the Productivity Commission and Professor of Practice at Monash University.
Dr. Michael G. Kollo Chief AI Transformation of Qualitas and former CEO of Evolved.AI
Professor Niloufer Selvadurai is the Director of Research and Innovation, Macquarie Law School; Co-Director, Data Horizons Research Centre; Co-Chair, Australian Law Associate Deans Research Network.
Luci Ellis is Chief Economist for the Westpac Banking Group. She was previously Assistant Governor (Economic) at the Reserve Bank of Australia from December 2016 until October 2023.
Richard Holden is Scientia Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School, Director of the Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics, and President Emeritus of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.