 So much for that wonderful introduction. How is everyone here in Singapore? Yay, come on, it's early morning. Get excited. It's been amazing. So Marissa just put up my Twitter, sorry, my GitHub handle. So on the slides is my Twitter handle. So feel free to tweet, not just me, but all the speakers today. And I think our overall constellation, hashtag is GH constellation. So hashtag that. So again, thanks for that awesome introduction. I'm super excited to talk to you all today. Now the title of my presentation is Technology Doesn't Equal Software. But I kind of just as easily called this presentation technology doesn't only equal software or technology isn't just software. Now who was here yesterday at the other GitHub conference? There's a few people in the room. Okay, so this is a very, very similar talk. I'm going to just throw a bit more into this one about how companies and corporates can get involved in working within the community as well. So if you have listened to my talk yesterday, apologies and hopefully you find it just as exciting. So as Marissa said, I am known as a hackathon queen in Melbourne or in Australia. And that's because to date I've done over 53 hackathons now. And that's everything from running them to participating in them, judging and mentoring. And what I've done a lot more recently is work on corporate innovation and corporate hackathons. And that can be either when corporates run them internally or when corporates actually run them externally and get information back from the public. And I'll talk a little bit about that a little bit more in the presentation as well. As Marissa said, I'm a founder, so I've founded a few different companies. But what I'm going to be talking a lot more today, a little bit about is the Baja board, the Offroad Electric Skateboard, which we will get to in a little bit when I'm a brand ambassador for them. But to my talk first. So if you're here yesterday, you don't answer this because you know the answers. But when I say technology, what do you all think about? And I want you to yell it out. I don't have amazing things to throw at you, but it's the morning, let's get excited. So if I say technology, what do you think about? Yep. Enabler. What else? Hardware. Mobile phones. What was that? What else? The rest of you don't think anything? What do you want to say about it? Rocket. Amazing. So when I talk about or give this presentation, lots of people say yeah, mobile phones and smart watches and AI and all those kind of things. I like how you guys are thinking a little bit more outside the square about enabling and rockets and things like that. Because the definition of technology isn't what people always think it is. Now when we say mobile phones and AI and those sort of things, they're talking about information technology. But technology isn't just that. So technology is actually the application of knowledge, taking something and applying it, which is really, I like your answer. And it can be not just science, but also the arts. And it can just be a process, invention, or a method. So if you come up with a new way for designing tablecloths, that is technically speaking technology. You've come up with something new. You've changed the process of how something was done. Now an example of this is back in the day this was considered technology, a pen and paper. Because this was new from what they had previously. Previously you had stone tablets and you wrote on pirates and things like that. Whereas this was considered technology. Now the premise for this talk came from one of my good friends. His name is Kettle, or as you pronounce it in, in Norwich is Chetul. So that's an interesting one. But he makes this. Does anyone know what it is? Bacon seasoning, you're at my talk yesterday, weren't you? So it is a vegetarian bacon seasoning. Now this guy loves bacon. So he thought, you know, bacon's pretty bad for you. I'm gonna come up with a, you know, a flavoring or a seasoning that makes everything taste like bacon without all the bad things that bacon can give you. Now this guy presented at some startup pitch competitions in Australia. And the panel of judges said to him, I really like your idea, I think it's great. But I don't think you'll make any money from it. And you won't get any money from us as investors because you don't use technology and you're not a startup. And he went, well actually the amount of food technology that goes into creating a product like this is astronomical. Not only that, this guy has one of the number one e-commerce websites in Australia. His conversion rate of people going onto the website and buying something is ridiculously high. So you can't tell me that that's not technology. And I thought, all right, I'm gonna do a really quick brainstorm and I looked at the startups in Melbourne. So this is just in Melbourne and in about 20 or 30 seconds I wrote down a list of startups that do physical products. So there's companies on here, so Quadlock. I don't know if you guys have Quadlock here. I know they're about five or six different countries around the world, but it's a phone case and you can clip it onto your arm or your bike or your car, which is pretty awesome. Mimitec do robot chickens for helping chicks while they're growing. Brosa does furniture, we've got Relactrify who do batteries. We've got Pallet there, which is this little cube in your scan and it gives you every color combination of that color that you scan. Who's out of zero latency? People in my talk would have yesterday, who else? Anyone else? Now this is really cool. I was walking around the shops yesterday in Singapore and I saw a sign for zero latency. So zero latency is a company in Melbourne that are now all over the world and you have one here in Singapore. So they use virtual reality and you go into a real building, put on the virtual reality headset and you run around in the building shooting zombies with your teammates. If you haven't done it, highly recommend and if you don't like zombies, I have a couple other games you can do as well. So all these companies here, while they make physical products, they're all underpinned by software and technology. Either technology because it's a hardware type technology. You know how many times have you bought like clothing and they're like, oh, it's microfiber wicking technology. You're like, ooh, I'm gonna buy that because it's got the word technology in it. And if they're not underpinned by a specific type of IT technology, they all use software to drive their systems. Either they have an e-commerce website or they use software to talk to their hardware. So saying that, coding and software is everywhere around us. Who's got a mobile phone? Everyone? Every single person's hand should be up. Who's got a smartwatch? A few people got smartwatches? Yeah, so again, we understand this but physical hardware uses software to talk to us and tell us things. This happens in a lot of other areas as well. So who's heard of Tesla? Again, everyone's hand should be pretty much up. So even on Tesla's website, they call this car a computer. Now a few years ago, we probably wouldn't have called cars technology or we wouldn't view them as the type of technology that we view them as today. But cars that use electrical technology are all underpinned by some sort of software that drives them. Now who's been in a Tesla? I actually want to see hands up for this one. I'm right up. Got two people in the room who have been and says, have you done the insane mode on it? No? Have you done insane mode? You've seen it, you haven't done it. So when you go on insane mode, you jump in the car and it literally launches you off and you're like, sit back in the chair and it's pretty nuts. That is controlled by software that drives that. If software didn't control this car, it would be way too powerful. So the battery technology in these types of cars is so powerful that if you let the motor do what it wants to do, it will literally just take off on you. The software has to reduce the amount of power output from the batteries that go into the motor so you can safely either drive or sit in the car or somebody drives it for you. Now this is very similar to what I worked on a little bit with a company. So I'm an ambassador with them at the moment but I used to work full time with these guys and they make off-road electric skateboards. So when I was walking around Singapore yesterday, I saw some electric skateboards. I saw a lot of electric scooters. These ones are sort of similar but they're like an off-road version. I'm really glad Singaporeans work in kilometers per hour because I don't know the miles on this thing but it's 60 kilometers per hour is the top speed on this. So it's pretty high. It can go from zero to 30 in about two seconds and this thing has enough power to tow a car and this is all driven by software. Now, we've got a cool little video just to show you what it does and what it can do. The guys put this together, we have a little bit of sound, that would be great. So Baja 1000 is an extreme off-road rally over in California. It can go up a 60% gradient if you get a standing start so it can tackle pretty much any hill or mountain that you set your mind to. There it is going 56, it went up high. This is the guys that went over to China and did a tour around China. Riding in the outback in Australia is easy and fun. We even decided to do on the snow. So put some snow tires on there and go off and ride in the snow. These are the guys down at the BMX track so you can do like drift mode and burnout mode. Again, towing a car, so it's a small car but it's still a car. That's me on a boogie board, that's me riding again. I don't know why they put videos of me doing this. There's me again just riding along the beach. So as the guys say, it's not necessarily a skateboard because it's so high-powered compared to all the skateboards that are out there at the moment. But it's a lot of fun. A few people yesterday said, oh, where can I ride one of these things? And I said, you know, if you come to Melbourne or Sydney, I can totally get you a ride. So come to Australia, hit me up. So as I mentioned, it has a drift mode on it so you can put it into drift and then you can go around doing like donuts in the sand. It's got a burnout mode on it so you can throw up heaps of sand and impress all your mates. But one of the coolest things about the board is the control system. So that thing hanging off my arm there is the remote hand controller. And this controller does a range of different things that we've programmed into it. So you can change the power. So if you get on it for the first time, you don't want to go 60Ks an hour, you can cap off the speed. So you can go five, 10, 20, as much as you like. You can also change the launch on it. So if you're not so confident of standing on a board and getting launched off, you know, zero to 30 in about two seconds, you can change that. And you can also change attraction control and braking. This is all done through the programming of the board and the controllers that we've done. So every single board that we make has to be programmed and spec'd. So we spec all the batteries ourselves and then inside our boards is a little PCB. Now that PCB is programmed to work with the controller. So when you use a controller and you tell the controller to do something, it sends a remote signal to the PCB inside our board. That PCB then sends a signal to the battery to tell the battery how much power to output from the battery to the motor controllers to the wheels. So you can then drive the board. Now one of the cool, who's an engineer in the room? Any engineers? Couple. So when I say this has got electronic differentiation in it, that is pretty cool. So because we've got four independent wheels, when you talk to the PCB, it can tell the battery to output as much power as you want to each particular motor, which is how we can do the burnout mode and the drift mode on the board. Now as I mentioned, the boards are programmed, so that's one part of software. But say if this board didn't have any software inside it, it was just a normal skateboard that didn't have any power. Software is highly critical to actually making the board parts itself. So every single part on our board needs to be made exactly to the right specifications. Every single little hole there has to have the exact tolerance so that the screws can go through it without breaking the part. Now the only way this is possible is by getting a machine to print these parts for us. And when I say print, I'm talking about CNC milling, so not 3D printing and CNC routing. And all the software that we send to the machines prints the parts or routes the parts out so that every single piece is exactly the same. It's all driven by software. And this is, if we didn't have anything else again, we need a website to sell our product. So this is where GitHub comes in for us. So I was able to do a bunch of really cool things in our website with GitHub. I created this cool little, I don't have a little gif of it, but I created this cool little 360 degree model so you could pick up the board with your mouse and swing it around. That was pretty exciting. And from this little collaboration that we had with GitHub, Sam, who's not in the room, who's the director of APAC, he's a semi-pro skateboarder and he saw what we're doing with GitHub and he saw the board and he had to go and he's like, okay, we need to get one of these. So we decided to work with Sam and the team and we created this really cool little GitHub branded board. I don't usually ride around in a Santa Claus costume. This was our Christmas Eastgate ride last year. Now, what I really liked about this project was we're taking something that was very digital, GitHub's very digital and putting it in like a physical product to say, this is our board that we created that we're able to drive because our software is hosted on places like GitHub so it was really, really exciting to work with the team there. Now this brings me to the second part of my presentation and that's working together. So by us as Bar Hub board, working with some amazing companies like GitHub, we can achieve some really awesome things. And I think it's really important to think about the communities that we live in. We don't live in a place or a community where it's just our own company or our own industry. Therefore, for us to get things done and for us to move forward as an industry, as a company, as a community, as a country, we need to work together to do those. Now again, as Marisa mentioned, I'm from Australia so I'm taking a lot of these learnings from Australia. So I'm not too sure exactly what the landscape is like here in Singapore but this is what I've identified in Australia. So through the different work that I do as a founder, as a ambassador with different companies and also working within university in the corporate environment, I've identified three main sectors within our community. And that is the startups and not-for-profit organizations, the universities and government and the industry and corporates. And what I've really noticed is that these three different key areas all operate almost exclusively on their own. It's becoming a lot better now. I mean, if a couple of years ago that I could talk to one, they wouldn't even know what the other ones are doing but they all play in a separate area. And what's really important to note about these sectors is that they all have different things that they can offer one another. For example, your startups and community groups are small teams, so they're very agile. They often bring new ways of thinking. The university groups are massive hubs of research through their PhD projects and their research projects. They also are big wealth of knowledge and future resources as they're training the next generation of workers. Governments are able to make real changes and driven through policy and reviews. And on the other hand, you've got your industry and your corporates who more often than not have the resources, the money and the expertise and also the corporate partnerships to be able to execute big products and big projects. So what I sort of do in the work that I do in a day to day work is I kind of sit in this kind of middle bit here. And so I've seen each one working almost exclusively but I kind of sit in the middle and I go, hang on, you guys are doing something over here that those guys over there are doing. Why don't you talk together? And a lot of people always ask me, like, oh, you know, it's great, you know, we're an industry or corporate and we have these fantastic things that we're working on and some of our processes or our policies for the year going forward to be more innovative and work with startups. And the one question I get asked all the time is how do we actually do that? So there's a few different things you can do. As I mentioned, I run a lot of hackathons and that's probably one of the easiest ways to start innovation, start working within these groups. So big companies in Australia, like it's Telstra and the big energy companies, universities, they run hackathons and they get in people from all the sectors. They get in students, they get in university teachers and workers, they get in people working in the industry, they get in startups, entrepreneurs, founders, tech people, business people, they get them all in one room working together. So that's the first thing, getting people in a room working together. Another way these companies and groups can work together is working together on projects. Projects are a great way to bring in different aspects and different people to do something. I'll talk about a few of these projects as well. So one of the things we were able to do was Baja Board is really excited. Singapore has a Grand Prix as well. I'm gonna go check out the track later. But in Australia, we have the Melbourne Grand Prix at Albert Park and this was us last year. So as Baja Board, we were able to go to the Grand Prix because the University of, or RMIT University hosted this innovation precinct. University of Melbourne supported us in going and the Grand Prix actually got on board and helped us to do workshops and helped us to showcase our product and our company to a bunch of students and people who came through throughout the week. This guy who's sitting in the middle runs his own tech journal in the UK. So by us all working together, we're able to bring him out to Australia. It's kind of already coming anyway, but we were able to get in touch with him and get him on a panel talking with some of our engineers and teaching students. So that was a really, really good collaboration that was only possible because each people from the different sectors came together and worked together. Another example of this was Subaru in Melbourne. I went to them and said, hey guys, you kind of have a very similar kind of company vision as us. So Subaru is very off-roading, extreme. You get the young generation go out on an adventure, very much what our boards do. So I approached them and I said, since we have this very similar vision, why don't we work together on something? They said, oh, that's a great idea. We've got a new car coming out soon. So why don't we have a launch day for the car and you can bring your boards out. And I was like, that's pretty cool. So in Melbourne they have an off-road track. So we bought in our boards and we had the cars there and you could ride our board around the off-road track. Then half an hour later you could jump in a car and go for a drive in the car. So this was a really good collaboration that people could come from the community and see what we're doing. So if we are able to bring these three sectors together and they work together in harmony, we get what happens in the middle. Real changes are able to be made. I was talking to some guys yesterday and we'll talk about one of the benefits of hackathons being not just focused on tech people. So if you run a hackathon and you bring 50 tech people or 50 developers and you put them all in one room like this and all those developers came from the same company or same type of company. They had a very similar company culture. They all grew up in the same place. They went to a very similar type of school and they had the same sort of upbringing. They're probably gonna come up with if you pose a challenge to them, they're probably gonna come up with 50 very similar ideas, right? Because they all have the same experience and expertise. So what we wanna do is we wanna bring in different mixes of people into the room. And that video that you saw at the very start talking about women of color and women and different people working in the tech industry, it's all about bringing diversity into the play, right? So by bringing in people with diverse opinions and experiences, you get real change happening. Now I spoke about this one yesterday, so I'm a little bit low on time. So I'll leave this example. You can come and chat to me a little bit later about this. This was a startup in Melbourne who worked with the city of Melbourne to do some amazing things around Christmas time. So I wanted to end on a couple of little quotes and this is one of my favorites in Helen Keller. And that's that only by working together can we actually get things done. We can create some amazing things and we all work together. Now bringing it back to the start of my talk, I talked about technology, not just being about software or not just being about the type of IT tech that we see today, but being about something much more. And the final quote I wanted to end on was by one of my favorite authors. And he talks about that making the process better, easier and cheaper is an important aspiration and something we continually work on and we should all work on this together. But he said it is not the goal. Making something great is the goal and making something great together is what our goal should be. Now that was Ed Katmille from the founder of Pixar and he wrote this in amazing book Creativity Inc. in which I highly encourage you to all go see. So today, I don't have time for questions but if you want to come and chat to me, I'm around all day. Today I want you to go back to your companies, your groups, organizations and think about how you want to work together with people in your community because only then can you actually make a big change. Thanks very much for listening to me and I'll be around all afternoon.