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Phil Laufenberg is a seasoned AI leader with experience across academia and industry. As Head of AI at Macquarie University, he oversees strategic initiatives that drive innovation in education, research, health and enterprise applications. He has a track record of leading successful AI-driven projects, including scaling an education SaaS platform to 200,000 service students across 80% of Australian Universities and holding a patent in artificial intelligence.
Phil’s leadership in AI spans developing ethical AI frameworks, championing automation in business processes, and fostering industry-academic collaborations. He contributes to research in AI and machine learning, and consistently emphasises responsible, impactful AI solutions that bridge academic insight with real-world enterprise needs.
Phil is also an author and keynote speaker on AI innovation, advising enterprises on how to harness AI responsibly for competitive advantage. 
He is an Adjunct Professor at Torrens University Australia. He is the Principal Supervisor for DBL703 at the Australian Graduate School of Leadership at Torrens University Australia, where he teaches Critical Reasoning and Ethics. He lectures in Competition & Consumer law at the University of Sydney Dpt of Law LEC.
He has over two decades of experience in the provision of leadership, guidance, and professional advice at senior levels in both the public and private sector. He is legally qualified, and is a practising Barrister, who was called to the NSW Bar in 2000. He practises in commercial (business/corporate), administrative and criminal law. As part of his doctorate, which he undertook through Torrens University Australia (AGSL), he developed an issue diagnosis and problem-solving model known as the ‘Strategic Objective Analysis and Implementation Model’ (SOAIM). This tool has been successfully applied in project oriented real-world environments in both the public and private sectors.
He provides advice and guidance to such entities as PwC Australia in asset realisation, insolvency, and litigation.
He has also provided advice and guidance to the private sector in fields as diverse as manufacturing, trade, services, product development, mining, and medical research.
He provides advice and guidance to local government in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Such advice and guidance has included governance, development of procedures and policy, realisation of property, government imposts, dispute management, mediation, government policy, legislation, administrative law and recommended reforms.
Dr Moschoudis is on the board of the ACNR Foundation, a not-for-profit research facilitator which funds and brings together leading global clinicians and researchers, with the objective of developing treatments for children and adults who suffer from CASK genetic disorders.
Prior to practising law, he was a member of the NSW Police Force, undertaking duties as a covert operative, and was seconded to the Major Crime Squad (Sth) and later the Drug Enforcement Agency (Special Forces). Following this, he took up a full-time position with the Special Operations Group (SOG’s – Suth). As an operational officer, he has worked jointly with ADF (UCO), whilst also providing operational support to ASIO operatives and Special Branch (NSWPF) as it was then known. Following his time undertaking operational duties, he was later designated a prosecutor.
He has worked with SRACLS.
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