Mary-Anne Williams

Mary-Anne Williams is the Michael J Crouch Chair for Innovation at UNSW where she collaborates to grow entrepreneurship and accelerate innovative thinking in Australia. Prior to taking up this exciting role, she spent 18 years as founder and director of the Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab (The Magic Lab), Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute at UTS. The Magic Lab was a pioneer with unique transdisciplinary capabilities in key areas of innovation and enterprise. It specialised in technology-enabled innovation and builds solutions using AI, Design Thinking, Experimentation, and Analytics. Our industry and government partners included South Western Sydney Local Health District, IBM, Google, Disrupt, Linkedin, bigtincan, Willow Garage (now Savioke), Amazon, Visual Risk, CBA, Denmark’s National Bank, Samsung, Sony, and Softbank.