Edtalk Australia

In this episode, we interviewed Hugh Williams, the Co-Founder of CS in Schools, an Australian charity that is creating sustainable change in digital technology education. In 2022, CS in Schools worked with 72 schools and 250 teachers to deliver world-class coding classes to over 30,000 students in Australia. They have some lofty ambitions to give every secondary school student in Australia the opportunity to learn digital technology. And all that is provided at zero cost to schools.  Hugh is also a Professor at the Melbourne Business School, an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, and a board member of the State Library Victoria and Janet Clarke Hall. He is a company advisor and investor, and was formerly a vice president at Google and has also held senior roles at eBay and Microsoft. Through his advisory practice, he has worked with many companies including Doordash, Moonpig, ASOS, and Ocado. Hugh will touch on topics such as:  How choosing Computer Science in university totally changed his life