Leadership
Dr Kameron R.
Christopher
I build companies and lead organisations.
AI, signal processing and mechatronics.
Creative practice
Integrated media artist, composer and saxophonist.
ILeadership
What is worth building?Where does the value lie?How do we organise people and investment to deliver it?
Often, the opportunity starts with recognising what people are already capable of and giving them the room and support to develop it.
- CompaniesI co-founded and led Intela AI and Farrago, machine-learning companies that were profitable on client revenue from government, energy, finance and elite sport. I was responsible for product, enterprise contracts, partnerships, people and the P&L.1,2
- National scienceAt NIWA I was the first Chief Scientist for High Performance Computing and Data Science, leading national supercomputing and building AI and deep learning capability.3,4 At AIMS I’m Executive Director, Research and Data Science, including marine robotics, and have been Acting Chief Executive several times.5
- Financial servicesAt Westpac New Zealand I led the bank’s data and analytics transformation strategy and designed the platform that replaced its legacy data systems.6 At NIWA I built the partnership that supplies climate risk data to New Zealand’s banks and insurers.7
- Primary industriesI’ve developed forecasting services for agriculture and horticulture, and AI for fisheries monitoring and assessment.8 The work connects environmental science with decisions about disease risk, nutrient use, crop quality and harvest timing.
IIIntelligence
How do we understand complex systems well enough to act within them?
Oceans and reefs.5 Weather and floods.9 Markets.6 The way music moves a person.10
I’ve worked in machine learning and AI since 2010:11 music recommendation,10 gesture recognition,12 volumetric 3D reconstruction,13 optimisation and planning,14 and NIWA’s AI and deep learning capability.4 Most of it rests on signal processing, which began with computer music and 3D graphics in integrated media arts, and on mechatronics.15
The opportunity has to make sense for the customer. The business needs an advantage that lasts beyond the first demonstration.
The Lorenz attractor: simple rules, complex behaviour.
IIICreative practice
My creative practice came first.
I was performing, composing and making things before studying at Berklee and CalArts. My work spans international performance,16 composition and music direction, alongside audiovisual art,17 instrument design and research into music and emotion.10
I’m interested in what becomes possible when sound, image, movement and intelligence interact. Through KRØS, I compose, perform and build what the music needs: networked audiovisual works,18 gestural instruments for music and dance,12 and machine learning on stage.19
My compositions range from the orchestral works Nebula, Invocations and Acheron to chamber, electroacoustic and electronic pieces.
Performance credits include Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Chaka Khan, Macy Gray, George Duke and Chucho Valdés, with more in the Record.
Degrees from Berklee and CalArts. Teachers
Studied saxophone with Greg Osby and Jeff Clayton; composition and conducting with Gregory Fritze, Vuk Kulenović, David Rosenboom and Tibor Pusztai; and music technology with Ajay Kapur, Owen Vallis and Jordan Hochenbaum.
Record
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I’m interested in what you’re building, and what it could become.
Executive and board roles, new ventures, performances and commissions.
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