In a world moving towards automation at high speed, students must have exposure to concepts such as machine vision and machine learning as part of their STEM learning. Derek has been running the following workshops in machine vision and machine learning to give secondary students a taste of these technologies in an accessible way i.e. without having to code.

Derek has also been active in sharing his journey to agricultural research to school student at STEM conferences or National Science Week events, and was a Flying Scientist in 2020.