Thursday
Room 3
10:20 - 11:20
(UTC+11)
Talk (60 min)
The Wile E. Coyote approach to AI for backyard beast management
A funny, practical tour of AI + IoT for backyard beast management—humane deterrents, edge vision, and a Wile E. Coyote approach to iterating without (much) collateral damage.
Australia’s backyard fauna are nature’s ultimate chaos engineers. In this fast‑paced, demo heavy session, we’ll channel our inner Wile E. Coyote—optimistic, iterative, occasionally singed—and show how combining AI, IoT, and a bit of ACME‑grade creativity can turn your backyard, deck and shed into a humane, real‑time defence system.
Todd Whitehead
Todd is a passionate consultant, architect and application developer with a focus on AI applications, Cloud Native Architecture, Integration and developer productivity. Combining these solid foundations with an unhealthy number of late night "good ideas" he loves putting tech to the test in unusual ways that are quite likely to void more than one warranty.