Collisions & Smash Repairs
My brief keynote to the ICT Roundtable of the TAFE Sydney Institute. Recorded on Wednesday, 13 August 2008. Many thanks to Trish James and Stephan Ridgway for arranging the audio recording!
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Here’s my AISWA keynote. The text is here. Enjoy! And here’s the Question & Answer session that followed:
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