Nick Draper

Talks & teaching

From OLAP research in Prato to platform engineering in Orlando, plus Defence and industry forums at home.

Video

A short interview from IBM TechXchange 2025 in Orlando, where I presented our air-gapped platform. The talk itself is written up here.

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Talks

Slides from internal Defence events are not published.

  1. Turning Observability into Operational ConfidenceDefence Success DayCanberra
    Defence
  2. IBM Fusion for Bare Metal OpenShift within an Air-Gapped Data CentreIBM TechXchange 2025The talk, written upOrlando
    International
  3. Integrating user commentary within Cognos reports, and real life experience with Agile development in a Public sector environmentBusiness Analytics User Group, with Peter AbadearCanberra
    Australia
  4. Helping enable Information Governance within the Australian Defence Materiel OrganisationIBM Information On DemandLas Vegas
    International
  5. The road to data quality in DefenceBusiness Analytics User GroupCanberra
    Australia
  6. Data quality governance in the project performance world: information reliability concerns?ProjectChat, with Peter McManusSydney
    Australia
  7. An experimental evaluation of an alternative to the pivot table for ad hoc access to OLAP dataIFIP International Conference on Decision Support Systems (DSS2004), with Peter O'DonnellPrato
    International

Teaching

Masters units at Monash University, alongside consulting work.

  1. 2004–2007Dimensional ModellingMonash University
    Masters, tutor
  2. 2004–2007Data Warehouse Development MethodologiesMonash University
    Masters, tutor

Let’s connect

Building data or AI capability in a high-security environment? I’m always glad to compare notes.

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