Dr Sarah Dods (she/her) is a technologist, maven, and intrapreneurial leader. Her passion is helping businesses realise commercial and social outcomes from technology advances; bridging the gap between technology inventions, market need, product thinking, and change management, to create sustainable value that makes a difference.
Sarah currently leads GHD’s Advanced Analytics and AI practice for the Southern Hemisphere. By background, she is a PhD qualified Physicist/Electrical Engineer with 20+ years of experience spanning Australia’s “deep-tech” innovation system. She has led corporate data science teams, deep-tech commercial initiatives, Silicon Valley startups, and national research programs across numerous industry sectors, always focussed on what Digital & Data is now making possible and practical.
As part of her contribution to the growing AI industry, Sarah is one of the Australian representatives on ISO technical committee SC42, developing international standards for AI and the systems that enable it. She is an advocate of life-long learning, a driver of diversity, and an incurable optimist.
What you’ll learn:
What is connected vehicle or vehicle-generated data?
How GHD is using vehicle data to pioneer road safety
What are some of the limitations or challenges in leveraging connected vehicle data effectively?
Lessons and the future: challenges and limitations
Quotes:
"Most people know somebody whose lives have been impacted either by a life-changing accident or somebody who they know who's unfortunately not made it through a car accident. And I'd really like to see that change."
"But, when we're looking at the bias in the data which is to newer vehicles, we do have to think from an ethics and trustworthiness perspective about whether we're falling into one of those spaces where we're going to be making unconsciously biased decisions."
"I get super excited by being able to compare incidents as measured by near misses with accident and fatality data...and not have to wait five years for enough people to die to be able to figure out where the places on our roads are that we could make things safer."
"Innovation happens at the edges and we are seeing world firsts."
Links:
GHD’s website (not the hair dryer brand)
A great road safety case study that GHD did for Main Roads WA using Compass data
Connect:
Connect with Sarah via Linkedin
Connect with Emily via email: emily@compassiot.com.au
Connect with Byte Size via LinkedIn
Connect with Compass IoT (the producer of this podcast) via our website
Innovating at the Edges: Saving Lives with Vehicle-Generated Data