Dr Catherine Ball
Dr Catherine Ball is an award-winning company director, bestselling author and futurist working across global projects where emerging technologies meet humanitarian, education and environmental needs. Catherine is proud to be an advisor to a broad range of enterprises and philanthropic organisations including being an XPRIZE visioneer and member of their Global Brains Trust. Catherine is also proud to be a member of Australia’s Robotics Advisory Council, and an advocate for xFoundry, supporting the NEXPLORE2040 series of global conferences.
Catherine holds a BSc Honours (Environmental Protection), a PhD (Spatial Ecology, Descriptive and Predictive Statistics) both from the University of Newcastle- upon-Tyne in the UK and recently was awarded a DSc (Doctor of Science Honoris Causa) from Worcester Polytechnic in Massachusetts, USA. Catherine operates globally with headquarters in Singapore, London and Sydney.
Presenting as part of Big Blue Ideas
Can AI Talk Whale?
Thursday 19 February | 6.30pm
From tracking sharks to scanning the ocean floor, artificial intelligence is already reshaping how we explore, protect and manage the sea—but could it go even further? Like... decoding whale language?
This talk gets into the wild world of ocean AI—where neural networks meet coral reefs.
Can it really help us restore ecosystems, outsmart overfishing and clean up pollution, or are we handing too much power to the algorithm?
