Higher Education Whisperer

Greetings from the Knowledge Hub at University of Sydney, where I am helping shortlist entrants in the  Humanitarian Innovation Hackerthon ....

Solid Hackerthon Free Tickets Just been talking to  Jess Moore , who is organizing the Solid 2026 Hackatho n. This is a free event anyone ca...

Registrations are open for the 2026 Humanitarian Innovation Hackathon at the University of Sydney, 17 to 19 July. Teams of undergraduate st...

Rhys Kissell, at hackathon start Greetings from UNSW Canberra, where the Australian Defense Tech Hackathon just started. There is a room fu...

I am delighted to be mentoring teams in the Australian Defense Tech Hackathon , 6 to 8  February 2026, at UNSW Canberra. This is being held ...

Greetings from the Copeland Lecture Theatre at the Australian National University. The theatre has been repurposed as a pitch arena. Teams o...

GovHack AGM Online Could GovHack style hackerthons be used to quickly get the new federal government internal consultants up to speed? Greet...

This weekend teams across Australian and New Zealand have been participating in Govhack 2022 , looking at how free open access data provided...

 The Australian Public Service Commission has acknowledged the role of the Australian National University's TechLauncher program in ...

These are the notes for the third of four webinars on  " Engaging students in the online environment ", Wednesday, 3 February at 1...

Event canvas from NWIW 2020 by Paul Telling Greetings from the  Navy Warfare Innovation Workshop 2020 (NWIW), where I am facilitating one ...

Greeting from the Virtual Hackathon on Fighting Pandemics . This is organized by the Australian National University Humanitarian Innovati...

Canberra's ZeroCO2 Hackathon 2020 runs online over two-weeks, starting 18th August and is open for registrations. Teams will work on bu...

There are companies offering to provide a platform to reproduce face to face academic and trade conferences on line. But perhaps rethink wha...

Steve Nouri ran two recent online hackerthons for the Australian Computer Society. He has written some very useful " Lessons Learned ...

Greetings from the ANZDF Logistics joint hackathon awards. The judges thanked the 500 participants, 70 mentors (I was one of those), t...

At the moment I am in the post event meeting of Lead Mentors for the  joint hackathon to Secure Supply Chains for the Australian and...

A joint hackathon to Secure Supply Chains for the Australian and NZ Defence Forces starts at 7pm (Canberra Time). I have volunteered to he...

Senator Reynolds, Australian Minister for Defence Senator Linda Reynolds, the Australian Minister for Defence, announced today the A...