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Delivering the 18th Ithaka Lecture at Sydney Grammar School

Alan Duffy

It truly was an honour to deliver the 18th Ithaka lecture at Sydney Grammar School to a packed theatre of students, parents, and alumni. The concept of the Ithaka lectures follows that of the poem - that the journey and learnings along the way matter more than the destination (or at least the reaching of it!). To that end I took the audience on a journey from the moon landing of Apoll to the explorations and scientific discoveries of space 2.0 today with Artemis. That the current space race is no longer between superpowers alone but also startups. I couldn’t help but raise the amazing efforts of Australian universities, reasearch organisations, and companies in supporting this new era of space - and shared the efforts from CSIRO to Fleet to our own national lunar rover. Somehow I managed to also pack in some breaking cosmological discoveries with the astonishingly powerful James Webb Space Telescope - including how it might be used to detect alien life.

The journey is far from over in the exploration (and perhaps yes exploitation!) of space, and these brilliant young people will play a role in that I have no doubt. My thanks to the teachers at Sydney Grammar School for this chance to speak to hundreds of people and also to Becky Lovelock for the photos from the night!

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Serving the Australian Space Agency

Alan Duffy

I don’t want this to sound like an Oscar acceptance speech but this is truly an incredible (and humbling!) honour to serve on the Australian Space Agency’s inaugural Space Industry Leader’s Forum. It’s even more humbling when you see my fellow exceptionally experienced and talented colleagues on this Forum…!

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Appointed SpaceTech Applications Program Lead

Alan Duffy

It’s fair to say I love all things space, but I have a particular fascination with developing novel uses of space to help us back on Earth. At Swinburne’s Data Science Research Institute we try to bridge the divide between discoveries in academia and their potential commercial uses in Industry. Working across the university and our data science experts to find solutions to current industry needs that can make Australia a healthier, wealthier and safer country? The next few years will be fun!

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