Dr Catherine Ball

Scientific futurist, tech influencer, author, champion of diversity, drone expert, associate professor

Associate Professor, Dr Catherine Ball is a scientific futurist, speaker, advisor, author, founder, executive producer, executive director, company and director working across global projects where emerging technologies meet humanitarian, education and environmental needs. Catherine also likes to create businesses and champion movements, collaborate with peers, and advise game-changers.

A sought-after voice across the start-up, futurist and tech world, Catherine works globally across a wide range of projects from creating documentaries and world leading conferences and events, to advising on the use of novel approaches (e.g. drones) across environmental and humanitarian projects. Catherine is a proponent of community engagement with STEM and likes to demystify emerging tech.

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Key Points for Dr Catherine Ball

Dr Catherine Ball is an Associate Professor at the Australian National University and an Honorary Associate Professor at the 3AI Institute.
She is the only Australian on the International Advisory Board of the Schmidt Ocean Institute
Judge for the Ocean Discovery XPrize.
#SheFlies Ambassador for Girl Geek Academy and mentor and Advisor to the CEO of Women Who Drone.
2020 Lord Mayor’s Business Awards for Outstanding Micro Business Winner , 2020 Analytics Insight World’s 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics Award.
2018 Drone World UAV Congress 2018: Global UAV Award and 2017 AFR’s BOSS Magazine True Leaders Game Changers.
2017 Women in Leadership Awards Finalist Innovation Category.

Topics for Dr Catherine Ball

Business
- Industry 5.0
- The new director
- Sustainability
- Future of work
Innovation
- Creativity
- Future technology
- Science & engineering
- Robotics
- Cyber security
- Artificial intelligence
- Drones & robotics
Motivation
- Goal kicking
- Resilience
- Recovery from failure
Politics & Advocacy
- Environment & climate change
- Communication & new media
- STEM economics
- Governance

Testimonials for Dr Catherine Ball

Catherine was amazing, spot on with what we were hoping to achieve by bringing her in, and so well received by everyone!
Bendelta

Catherine is fantastic. So pleased we had her involved in the event. Her energy lifted the room and her thoughts and perspectives were referred to again and again throughout the rest of the conference.
Criterion Conferences

Dr Catherine Ball challenged us to consider the impact that technology can have in a humanitarian and social context and to consider why we wait to action when so much good can occur from the interface with technology.
IBM

The feedback on Catherine was excellent. She was a very engaging and interesting speaker who was a key part of the success of our event.
Westpac