Future Careers Forum Online - AI Revolution
Previously known as the STEAM Careers Online Forum, this is a careers forum with purpose. Each semester, Science Gallery Melbourne will introduce your students to inspiring people who work to solve some of our most pressing global and local challenges that we as a community face.
Students will hear not only about career journeys and industry connections, but how these professionals work across science, technology, engineering, arts and maths and use a range of transferable skills in the ways they work to make a difference in the world.
In this edition of the Future Careers Forum Online, during National Careers Week, the focus will be artificial intelligence and its use in industry. What will future industries look like as we explore the AI Revolution?
Science Gallery Melbourne is delighted to collaborate with Auckland University of Technology on this next iteration of the Future Careers Forum.
Register below for you and your students to watch live online on Monday 12 May 2025 at 1:30pm AEST or to receive the recorded session to view in class time. (Please note: the recording will be available approximately one month after the live event)
Panellists: See below (stay tuned, more coming soon!)
Maru Nihoniho is the founder of Metia Interactive, an Auckland-based game development company. She leads a team of developers, including artists and programmers, and produces third-party games across multiple platforms.
As a game designer and producer, her focus is on indigenous storytelling. Maru has published several Māori games, including Guardian Maia, an interactive fiction following a Māori woman's journey through a dystopian New Zealand. Maru's goal is to deliver meaningful games that feature strong cultural themes and unique stories.
Maru holds a Master's degree in Technological Futures, aiming to gain an understanding of converging and emerging technologies, the impact of disruption on current platforms, and preparation for future platforms.
Maru was awarded the Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to gaming and mental health in 2016. In 2018, she was named one of Forbes' Top 50 Women in Technology.
Dr Morley Muse, Co-founder of iSTEM Co. and DEIR.AI, is a Chemical, Environmental, and Renewable Energy Engineer with expertise in waste-to-energy, wastewater treatment and energy transition technologies. She holds multiple leadership roles, including Board Director at Women in STEMM Australia and Co-chair of Science & Technology Australia’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Executive Committee.
Dr Muse has advanced gender equity in STEM as a previous Elevate Advisory Panel member with the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and a past ambassador of CSIRO’s Innovation Catalyst Global, promoting women in STEM leadership. She also contributes to the RISE Expert Panel with Diversity Council Australia, mentors senior women in STEM through the Superstars of STEM Program and supports renewable energy transition strategies as an Energy Reference Group member with Jemena Energy.
iSTEM Co., under her leadership, has championed women in STEM through innovative programs, earning multiple awards. In 2024, she was inducted into the prestigious Victorian Multicultural Honour roll.
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Dr Jess Vovers (they/them) researches emerging and disruptive technologies for Defence Science and Technology Group, and is a maker, secret poet and doctor of biochemical engineering.
They seek to explore the plurality of queer, neurodiverse, regenerative futures and how we can enmesh art and science to cultivate them.
They are propelled by curiosity, awe and connection, and can often be found settling in with clay in soft coloured lighting.
