Transforming safety in heavy industry through AI and robotics
This session explores how artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, and robotics are transforming workplace safety in heavy industry and construction, focusing on the challenges and barriers to adoption. It will highlight the importance of utilsing existing technologies, such as automation, advanced analytics and cognitive AI, in new sectors and aligning futuristic solutions with the realities of this sector’s workforce.
Through real-world case studies of lead and lag indicators in construction, mining and engineering, the speaker will explore how AI and robotics work alongside workers to reduce risks and create safer environments. The webinar will dissect Australia's technological timeline, focusing on practical applications and overcoming implementation challenges to bridge the robotics and AI gap. Attendees will gain insight into the value of surveying and identifying potential risks before they occur using AI, rather than reacting after incidents.
This session is suited to engineering professionals, safety managers, engineering technologists, and business leaders in the heavy industry sectors looking to incorporate new technology into their engineering operations.
About the Speaker
Founder and Chief Evangelist, Presien
Dr Nathan G.E. Kirchner’s speciality is uncovering and imagining emerging real world opportunities & forging viable pathways to their realisation. He has over 25 years of industry and academia in Deep Tech / Robotics / AI / HeSaaS (Hardware enabled Software as a Service) endeavours, and has founded & served as a key executive, director/chair for several cutting edge robotics-AI-HRI startups (construction / mining / heavy-industries). He is the Founder and Chief Evangelist at Presien, the Founding Director of the Robotics Australia Group peak body, sits on the Advisory Committee for the ARC Research Hub for Human-Robot Teaming for Sustainable and Resilient Construction and the Industry Advisory Board for the Advanced Fabrication Research Lab, and has served in high ranking roles such as the Head of Robotics at one of the world’s larger private construction companies. He currently holds multiple academic appointments at Stanford University in California, the University of Technology Sydney and the Ohio State University in robotics, startups, & IP commercialisation.
