Australia’s Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma is in the country for a couple weeks, in part to drum up business for Austrade’s new startup ‘Landing Pad’ in Tel Aviv....
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The Australian Information Industry Association has a new chair, elected at its annual general meeting in Brisbane on Thursday 3 November. He is John Paitaridis, universally known as JP,...
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Given the sheer size of the Chinese market and the pointed focus on innovation and technology in serial government announcements in recent years, it had to happen sometime. Now...
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Just over half the world’s banking customers now interacting directly with FinTech companies, according to a new report from consultancy Capgemini. The figure is a little lower in Australia,...
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InnovationAus.com is proud to announce Queensland Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy has joined a stellar line-up of keynote speakers at the Sydney instalment of Open Opportunity...
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GovHack 2016 ended on a high note last weekend as the winning project teams from across Australia and New Zealand soaked up all the glory and fame at GovHack...
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Updated: Angus Taylor has outlined new details of the Commonwealth’s overhaul of its $5.6 billion annual ICT spend and committed to publishing a discussion paper on the changes from the...
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Start thinking ‘innovation as usual’ as the norm rather than the exception, and expressing innovation in terms of the business rather than the system. That’s the mind-set Victoria’s Lead...
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Here’s a new phrase for you, from the jargon generation factory, otherwise known as research group Gartner. The firm’s latest predictions on the size and growth rate of the...
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This weekend marks the start of Spark Festival Sydney, which describes itself as “nine day celebration of Australian startup and entrepreneurship culture.” That’s if you come from New South...
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his McKinsey-trained mate Angus Taylor want to bring order and alacrity to the ever fraught world of government IT projects as the game shifts...
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The Federal Government should carve out a portion of its $23 million Incubator Support program to build incubators and accelerators targeted exclusively at indigenous businesses and entrepreneurs, according to...
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Having a proven entrepreneurial nose for making the right (serial) bets on the next big trends in all things digital – including changing customer behaviour – and then spinning...
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Martin Parkinson’s speech to CEDA’s State of the Nation conference dinner demonstrated how wise Malcolm Turnbull was to bring back to the public service someone capable of understanding so...