Sydney’s Liverpool City Council has signed an agreement with Mastercard to collaborate on the company’s City Possible program, an initiative bringing the public and private sectors together to solve issues facing cities. With the area home to more than 215,000 residents and growing by 100 each week, the agreement will see Liverpool City Council… Read more »
By Andrew Spence South Australian company Life Whisperer entered into a collaboration with leading United States IVF laboratory Ovation Fertility to test its AI technology to evaluate thousands of 2D static images of embryos created through past IVF cycles. Life Whisperer is a non-invasive, scalable and secure web-based tool that can be utilized by IVF… Read more »
Charles Sturt University (CSU), coworking community Working Spaces HQ, and Wagga Wagga City Council have received a $300,000 grant to help boost innovation in the Riverina region. The funding is part of the NSW Government’s Local Innovation Network Program, a $2.1 million initiative looking to leverage the existing startup communities and infrastructure of seven regions… Read more »
IBM, the CSIRO’s Data61, and law firm Herbert Smith Freehills have teamed up to develop the Australian National Blockchain (ANB), a large-scale, publicly available blockchain solution designed for Australian legal compliance. The ANB will enable organisations to digitally manage the lifecycle of a contract, from negotiation to signing and onwards over the term of the… Read more »
Custom footwear startup Shoes of Prey has stopped taking orders as it looks to “actively assess” its options. With the Shoes of Prey website telling customers it will refund them if it is unable to produce standing orders, cofounder Jodie Fox wrote in a statement posted to her Instagram that the business is pausing to… Read more »
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On this episode, Gina and Tricia discuss online retail. We had a chat to Anna Lee, the chief operating officer at online fashion retailer, The Iconic. The business was launched in Australia in 2011 through Rocket Internet and is now a giant locally, with CEO Patrick Schmidt saying earlier this year that the company expects… Read more »
The Startup Grind Conference is coming down under for the first time, with Melbourne set to host a two day event headlined by Guy Kawasaki in early December. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2010, Startup Grind is now active in more than 400 cities across 120 countries, supporting 1.5 million entrepreneurs. The Australian event is… Read more »
Australian and New Zealand organisations are losing $60 million, on average, each year due to cybersecurity breaches or attacks, with one in five organisations having at least one breach per month and one in six known attacks successful. A new survey of more than 400 ICT professionals conducted by Telsyte on behalf of DXC Technology… Read more »
NBN Co, the company behind the rollout of the national broadband network, has appointed Stephen Rue, currently the company’s chief financial officer, as its new CEO. Rue will be taking over in the role from Bill Morrow on September 1. The company had in June brought on an executive search firm to look for Morrow’s… Read more »
The South Australian government has appointed former fighter pilot and Nova Group cofounder Jim Whalley as the state’s inaugural Chief Entrepreneur. Whalley will be supported in the role by the new Office of the Chief Entrepreneur and an Entrepreneurship Advisory Board. In creating the new office, the South Australian government will be wrapping up the… Read more »
On this episode, Gina and Tricia chat about startup investment. We had a chat to Hein Vogel, the managing director of the Emerging Companies division at Investec, an “entrepreneurial-focused” investment bank. The bank is global, founded and headquartered in South Africa, but its emerging companies division was founded in Australia two years ago to look… Read more »
By Andrew Spence Cofounders Greg Lindner and Adam Whittaker started the WorkSafe Guardian Smartphone app in 2015 and have signed up more than 100 companies with a user base heading into the thousands. The South Australian company already monitors the safety of workers in New Zealand and is looking for more global opportunities. Their… Read more »
A veteran of the tech industry, Ann Moffatt has long been ahead of her time, starting her career in IT in 1959 as a programmer for Kodak in the UK. After moving to Australia in 1974 Ann worked as an IT executive at AMP Society, and later as National Development Manager for the ASX, where she… Read more »
By Andrew Spence 3D-printed human body parts with lifelike bone, skin and muscle densities are being developed in South Australia as teaching aids for surgical training. The medical devices can also be designed with built-in pathogens such as tumours, bone fractures or defective hearts to allow surgeons and students to practise specific procedures. An experienced and… Read more »
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