Accomplishments
Patents / Inventions
SECURE COMMUNICATION WITH INDIVIDUAL EDGE DEVICES OF REMOTE NETWORKS THAT USE LOCAL SECURITY CREDENTIALS
US Patent No. 11,582,027
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Presentations
2025
Canberra Symposium – Building Secure and Sovereign Capabilities
Led/facilitated panel on sovereign AI and secure cloud transformation for public sector, Canberra.
Tropical Innovation Festival 2025, Cairns
I'll delve into "Artificial Intelligence and Data - First Nations Respect and Empowerment" and "Trajectory and Accessibility of Artificial Intelligence from Now to the Future".
23rd Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC)
Keynote
Delivered the keynote address "Cloud Computing and Smart Infrastructure" at Australasian Computer Science Week plenary.
Program Details – see 11 February 2025, "Keynote Address – Cloud Computing and Smart Infrastructure".
Facilities Management National Summit Series
Speaker at Australia's first FM National Summit Series event, Sydney (Feb 27). Facility Management Association of Australia highlighted engagement on technology topics within facilities management.
2024
NSW & Victoria Future of Government Summit
Keynote
Showcased innovation and digital transformation for future-ready government teams.
AFAC Sydney
Presented and networked at AFAC24, Sydney – Australia's largest emergency management conference. Podcast feature: AFAC role discussed on Smart Firefighting.
Police Technology Forum
Presented opening remarks, facilitated panels, emceed sessions with C-level and Commissioner participants.
Smart Cities Council Event, New Zealand
Key collaborator and speaker at Smart Cities Week Aotearoa 2024, generating 200+ leads.
2023 & Earlier
Digital Transformation 101 - Business Advantage Papua New Guinea
Keynote
AWS re:Invent 2022 - Equity in smart cities and transport (DEI301)
By sharing the unique Amazon culture of innovation, a dedicated AWS Partner community, and the depth and breadth of AWS service offerings, AWS is helping cities innovate faster, build smarter, and solve citizen challenges. In this session, learn how the University of Melbourne has built its smart campus using a combination of technologies including IoT, machine learning, open datasets, and edge computing to improve accessibility and inclusion on its campus. Hear about other use cases including a smart bus shelter that improved access to information and an open data solution that helps city planners and entrepreneurs understand residents' needs and adapt to better serve them.
World Cities Summit 2022, Singapore - What does the Future hold for Cities?
ITS Australia - Mobility 2022
AWS Summit ANZ 2022 - Traffic signal optimisation with Machine Learning on AWS (ENTH7)
As cities grow, congestion and traffic safety contribute to city liveability. While traffic signal control is essential for transportation efficiency in road networks, globally optimal solutions are challenging to come by due to the complex nature of traffic dynamics. In this session, we use IoT and ML to deep dive on a dynamic traffic signal optimisation approach, using live transport data processed using computer vision at the edge with AWS Panorama as input to a reinforcement learning model deployed at the edge with AWS IoT Greengrass.
PTC WEBINAR SERIES: FRICTIONLESS BUSINESS – SMART CITIES – ECOSYSTEMS AND MONETIZATION OPPORTUNITIES
CNBC Nanjing Tech Week Panel, 2021
World Smart Cities Expo, South Korea, 2021
AWS Initiate Online ANZ 2021 - Fireside Chat with University of Melbourne AIMES | AWS Public Sector
Dive deep into University of Melbourne's AIMES program innovation goals with Majid Sarvi and Peter Sweatman from University of Melbourne, and Craig Lawton, Principal Domain Solutions Architect for Smart Nations at AWS, to learn how cloud technology has been used to securely advance on their mission, and how citizens fit into the centre of their solutions.
AWS re:Invent 2020: Building resilient cities with AWS IoT and data services
In response to COVID-19, city planners more than ever need situational awareness of what is happening in their cities. This session brings together cross-domain skills in IoT, connectivity, and data analytics. Learn how to integrate IoT networks (such as LoRaWAN) with AWS Lake Formation data lakes and present geospatial analytics using Amazon QuickSight. Additionally, you learn how this reference architecture can be extended with AWS Marketplace solutions. Finally, the session includes a demonstration incorporating simulated city data.
Smart Cities Summit 2019 - Keynote
Craig Lawton, IoT & Smart Cities Specialist, A/NZ Public Sector at Amazon Web Services, discussed the IoT implications for smart cities.
AWS re:Invent 2017: Customer Stories of Things, Cloud, and Analytics on AWS (IOT311)
In this session, AWS IoT customers talk about the nuances, successes, and challenges of running large-scale IoT deployments on AWS. Hear from customers who have been operating on AWS IoT. Learn from their war stories of development and their architectural recommendations on technical best practices on IoT.
AWS Canberra Summit 2019 - Using Visual Intelligence and IoT to solve Real World Problems
Learn how AWS customers and partners are building unique solutions using image recognition and video intelligence. Learn about different architectural models and see sample code and demonstrations using AWS IoT Greengrass and Amazon Sagemaker. Hear from AWS customer ParKam about the largest Smart Parking deployment in the world that has been initiated by Curtin University with 6000 carparks, using AWS specifically around artificial intelligence and machine learning.
AWS Canberra Summit 2018 - Image Recognition: Real World Applications
Articles / Press
Enabling More Resilient, Livable, and Sustainable Smart Cities in Southeast Asia through the Cloud
The future of Australia's smart cities
Innovation Intelligence sat down with Craig Lawton, IoT & Smart Cities Specialist for ANZ Public Sector, Amazon Web Services, for a five minute Q&A on how Australia can embrace the possibilities of interconnected cities.