Anton de Weger Digital and Technology Lead at The Australian Epilepsy Project, The Florey

About Anton de Weger

Anton de Weger is a seasoned leader, Founder, and technical director with a strong focus on machine learning strategy and application. He has successfully established and sold a multinational enterprise systems consulting company, guided a global enterprise software company towards a “Machine Learning First” approach, and architected other machine learning based applications.

His passion lies in machine learning product design and methodology, AI ethics, integrating machine learning with human decision-making, and harnessing the power of technology through high-performance multinational teams. This aligns perfectly with the opportunities at the Australian Epilepsy Project (AEP), where he contributes to encoding and distributing world-leading brain analysis expertise and data collection practices for epilepsy.

The Australian Epilepsy Project at the Florey has used Agile in the development of a brain research-as-care platform. This brought together world leading researchers, a small local technology team and an off-shore development partner to build their plane while flying it, in an environment where innovation and delivery speed is generally difficult.

Key elements included a loose adherence to methodology, lots of pivoting, an 80% right target (in an environment where 99.5% is frowned upon), recorded daily stand-ups, transparent processes, a strong privacy, ethics and regulatory environment, complex knowledge processing pipeline with many machine learning components.

The result was an on-time, significantly under budget delivery of a scalable, secure and functional system that learns as it processes and has supported impactful results for individuals and a potential vision of the future of healthcare.