The UK's Department for International Trade (DIT) are proud to be the Lead Partner Country at CEBIT Australia 2019 in Sydney from 29 - 31 October 2019. Visit the UK Pavilion at stand F45 to find out more about UK's capability in technology or to meet with innovative British technology companies. DIT are running a series of activities throughout the week. More details to be announced shortly. DIT will be bringing 10 innovative UK tech companies to showcase on the UK pavilion.

Kriti Sharma is currently working on an AI system to help report domestic abuse. What do you do when you're a 14-year-old who wants a computer but doesn't have one? Kriti Sharma did what seemed obvious: she devoured tech tomes and built herself one. The 30-year-old is a problem solver. Problem No. 1 on her list right now is sexism in tech.

What do you do when you're a 14-year-old who wants a computer but doesn't have one? Most of us would beg and plead with parents, the more industrious among us may attempt to save up money, but Kriti Sharma did what seemed obvious to her: she devoured tech tomes and built herself one. The 30-year-old is essentially a problem solver. Problem No 1 on her list right now is sexism in tech. Frustrated by the reinforcement of sexist ideas by bots, she created Pegg, a gender-neutral personal finance assistant.

"Conversation is the new interface." The tech community's use of this expression does not mean that we are going to start talking to each other more on a human-to-human, face-to-face level. It means rather that we will be talking more to robots, specifically those artificial intelligence programs that pop up on the likes of Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Slack and so on, to help you with tasks from scheduling to shopping. Rather than going to a website to find information or downloading yet another app, we will summon these artificial intelligence assistants to do our bidding. Bark "find me a flight to Chicago on Saturday" into your phone and a "bot", which understands your location and the fact that you mean this Saturday, will return with some choices.