EXPERIENCE
ESAFETY YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL
June 2022
Tamara has been appointed as a member of Australia’s eSafety Commissioner's new council. In this position, she will help to give young Australians a voice in shaping online safety policy for the future and designing youth-centred initiatives. Announced by the Australian Government in December 2021, the council will advise the government about issues young people experience online and explore ways of supporting them to have positive online experiences.
GICSA
September 2019, May 2020
Tamara is a participant in the Girls on Cyber Security Advancing program. This program includes intensive workshops and competitions. Tamara has also qualified for illuminate: nextgen Challenge as an extension from the GICSA challenge.
PITCHFEST WITH LISA MESSENGER AND LANA WILKINSON
September 2020
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
DRAGON'S DEN - YOU BE THE JUDGE
September 2021
As a part of AustCyber week, 2021 ten innovative companies were able to deliver a three-minute pitch, with a panel of expert judges, including Tamara Baker. As a part of this event audience members received CR$100,000 (fake ‘Cyber roo dollars’) to invest in their favourite companies, with the winning pitch crowned ‘Australian Cyber Week 2021 Pitch Day Champion’.
ASD WORK EXPERIENCE
July 2021
Tamara was specifically chosen to participate in this select
entry program which included education and activities around threat emulation; cyberspace operations planning; incident response; data collection and analysis; and incident mitigation strategy development.
INTERNATIONAL GIRLS IN ICT DAY
April 2021
Tamara joined Dr Muneera Bano and Corien Vermaak to present a variety of schools all over Australia about the latest trends and opportunities in technology to celebrate International Girls in ICT day.
KIDS SECURIDAY PANELIST AND KEYNOTE
February 2020
Pitchfest is an online production that gives young adults the opportunity to pitch their charity and business ideas to a panel of leading entrepreneurs and business people from around the world. Tamara was able to participate in this program and pitch her idea to get more kids involved in technology at a younger age to Lisa Messenger, the founder and CEO of Collective Hub, an international speaker and a best-selling author and Lana Wilkinson, a highly regarded Stylist and Australian Fashion icon.
SPILL THE BEANS BOARD MEMBER
August 2020
Tamara is a member of the Spill the Beans Advisory Board and was interviewed as an inspirational kid for the month of August. Spill the Beans runs online and in-person events, enabling kids to voice their ideas, stories and inspiration. Each month, incredible kids get to unleash their inner voice on this global platform.
GICSA
September 2019, May 2020
Tamara was a participant in the Girls in Cyber Security Advancing program. This program included intensive workshops and competitions. Tamara has also completed the illuminate: nextgen Challenge as an extension from the GICSA challenge.
SCIENCE INDUSTRY SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP
February 2020
Tamara was a keynote speaker at the SISP (Science Industry schools partnership) program in Griffith, NSW including presenting to 1,200 students.
KIDS SECURIDAY PANELIST AND KEYNOTE
SecuriDay is an event aimed at children (aged 6 to 16) and their parents/guardians. This was an event for people from all areas of the community who want to expand their knowledge, be inspired by the sector, and have fun while doing it
Tamara spoke as the main keynote in Melbourne and Canberra for the 200 attendees.
February 2020
CSO AND AWSN SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD
September 2019
Tamara was presented with a Special Recognition Award at the Inaugural Women in Security Awards. This was in recognition of her innovation and excellence in inspiring the next generation in IT excellence. This included being interviewed for the CSO website.
AUSCYBER 2019 CYBER WEEK CHAMPION.
October 2019
The Australian Cyber Conference was attended by over 3,600 people. As part of her participation, Tamara wrote an article and was interviewed for AustCyber promotion.
2019 MELBOURNE KNOWLEDGE WEEK AMBASSADOR
May 2019
Tamara represented technology as the only Ambassador under 18. In that capacity, Tamara was interviewed live on ABC 774 Radio, appeared live on ABC TV show "The Packdown" and gave several speeches including at the launch of Melbourne Knowledge Week and on the Sunset Talk hosted by Madeleine Dore. She also taught a Generative Patterns Coding Workshop as a part of her Ambassadorship.
CODE LIKE A GIRL AMBASSADOR
Tamara is an Ambassador for Code Like a Girl, a social enterprise providing girls and women with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter and flourish in the world of coding. The ambassadorship included being interviewed with Code Like A Girl's co-founder Vanessa Doake on ABC radio show "Life Matters". Tamara has also attended over 20 days of Code Like A Girl workshops.
October 2018 - Present
NASA
Other accomplishments
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Code camps ignite, leap and blast.
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UNSW Global ICAS Science
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Monash Year 8 engineering challenge
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Deakin University Artificial Intelligence conference (Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training)
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Ignite + Swinburne Space Tech conference
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Over 20 day of various Code like a girl workshops
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Girls Do Cyber, Joint Cyber Security Centre Australian Signals Directorate
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Power of Engineering workshop at Deakin University
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ASD Cyber experience
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NCSS coding challenge intermediate level in python
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Spoke at kids securiday Canberra
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Pitched an idea at pitchfest for spill the beans
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Cybercon 2021
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Microsoft Monday’s presented by code like a girl