Engagement
Media
- The Mandarin, “What China’s AI advances mean for Australia’s technology choices”
- European Policy Centre, “What happens to the time released by AI?”
- Pearls and Irritations, “The US$1.2 trillion bet that AI pays on time”
- The Mandarin, “Who will build the prime minister’s AI vision?”
- Innovation Australia, “How Australia can add value to its AI build-out”
- Australian Financial Review, “History tells us a golden age can come after the AI apocalypse”
- The Guardian, “Neoliberalism-lite is no solution to Australia’s cost-of-living and productivity crises”
- Innovation Australia, “AI is hungry for power. Australia’s renewables can feed it — and slash energy bills in the process”
- Innovation Australia, “Data Centres as grid partners in Australia’s digital future”
- The Policymaker, “Can national time banks strengthen wellbeing economies?”
Selected engagements and workshops
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2026, August
Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) Lugano Summer School: co-facilitator of “Strategic health policy and planning in a complex world. Leveraging systems thinking and modelling to optimise investments and impact”, leading the teaching on discrete-event simulation and agent-based modelling. Lugano, Switzerland.
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2025, August
Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) Lugano Summer School: co-facilitator of “Strategic public health policy and planning: an introduction to systems thinking and modelling for evidence-based decision making”. Lugano, Switzerland.
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2023, August
Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) Lugano Summer School: co-facilitator of “Strategic public health policy and planning in times of uncertainty: using systems modelling for evidence-based decision making”. Lugano, Switzerland.
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2022, August
Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) Lugano Summer School: co-facilitator of “Strategic public health policy and planning in times of uncertainty: using systems modelling for evidence-based decision making”. Lugano, Switzerland.
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2021, August
Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) Lugano Summer School: co-facilitator of “Harnessing systems modelling and simulation to guide strategic health investments and actions”. Lugano, Switzerland.
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2020, August
Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) Lugano Summer School: co-facilitator of “System analytics: data-driven decision making made easy”. Lugano, Switzerland.
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2017, February
Workshop leader, University of Colombo: simulation modelling for academics and postgraduate students. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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2016–2017
Billings Clinic: simulation modelling of carotid-artery-surgery patient flow with Dr Curt Lindberg and Dr Robert Marchant; findings led to institutional scheduling reforms. Montana, USA.
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2014–2017
University of Saskatchewan: co-facilitation of Dynamic Modelling for Health masterclasses with Professor Nate Osgood. Saskatoon, Canada.
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2014–2016
Dynamic health-modelling masterclasses across Australia. Adelaide, Sydney, and Deakin University.
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2008
Foundational software contribution to AirJaldi, providing OpenWRT adaptations enabling long-distance directional wireless links to remote Himalayan villages; AirJaldi now operates across nine Indian states. Dharamsala, India.
Teaching and supervision
Ante taught at Western Sydney University for sixteen years, most recently as Senior Lecturer in Computational Epidemiology, with units spanning network technologies, programming and simulation fundamentals, and systems and network management. As Director of Online Programs he developed and managed postgraduate online programmes across systems thinking, mathematics, computing, and advanced networking. He has supervised higher-degree research students across suicide-prevention surveillance and simulation, lean implementation in emergency departments, and the relationship between wellbeing and social networks, including a University Medal-winning honours project.