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One of the most annoying phrases I've heard is "How long is a piece of string?" when I ask for an estimate that is not straightforward. I'd like to demonstrate how to answer "How long is a piece of string?" inspired by the concept of a Fermi estimate.

Cogent has an internal policy of financial transparency, which amongst other things means all employees know each others salary. To help make those salaries fair and value based, we put together a salary model to assess all staff against. This presentation describes how that model works.

Coworking is a style of work which involves a shared working environment, yet independent activity.

Listen to Craig Rees talk about how to beat google on relevancy.

Ross is immersed in the world of innovation and entrepreneurship. At Yammer, the enterprise social network used by 100,000 organisations, he works with customers across Asia Pacific to transform their internal communications. Ross is also one of the founders of the entrepreneurial event The Hive and a micro-trustee of Melbourne's Awesome Foundation.

I'll talk about how we can harness the power of positive psychology as a way to humanise technology; helping us to then engage, motivate and ultimately encourage behaviour change in end-users.

Understanding the past helps us predict the future. Banks, insurance companies and tax offices use past data to predict who'll default. NASA’s data helps detect dark matter. Kaggle’s global competitions take data modelling to the frontier of the humanly possible invariably far outstriping previous best efforts. It's only the beginning.

Listen to Toby Hede talk about the existential entrepreneur.

The story of life started with language, hundreds of millions of years ago – long before humans were around, and it will continue with language, long after humans are gone. The two concepts are inseparable, and one recursively gives rise to the other.

This presentation tells a true tale of the dangers of not questioning constraints, with some eye candy, random web site screen grabs, and some pages from old books and magazines. Feel free to freeze frame to read some of the background material, or just watch!

The history of LOLs: a factual, semi-factual, and semi-imagined journey to discover the first ever use of LOL, how LOLs have evolved, and what makes a good LOL. Features LOLcats, science, personal experience, and a whole bunch of web faux-pas.