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Data61’s nuclear robot challenge

Nuclear facility inspectors wary of getting a bit of glow on after dark have help on the way as researchers delve into using AI-assisted robots to do the radiation...

No room for women in cities?

The Australian Smart Communities Association (ASCA) may have good intentions in trying to promote and facilitate the need to build smart cities infrastructure, but it might need to look...

StartCon ramps national game

There is one week to go before the curtain goes up on StartCon, Australia’s largest and most important conference and expo aimed at the ecosystem of entrepreneurs and investors,...

Identity is the new perimeter

The rise of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and bring-your-own-app (BYOA) is causing a fundamental shift in the way we think about corporate security, said Gil Kirkpatrick, chief technical officer at identity...

Smart cities: The case for IoT

Fifty-two city councils across the country have been handed a cut of $28.5 million for new projects under round one of the federal government’s $50 million Smart Cities and...

Reskilling our future workforce

There’s no argument that the world is in the middle of a major inflection point, as digital disruption changes industries, government and the way people work. However, as author...

Celebrity taskforce without an SME

Celebrity businessman Mark Bouris has been tapped by the Feds to chair a new Small Business Digital Taskforce, joining a star-studded corporate line-up of advisers to come up with...

Clover Moore on startup Sydney

The development of a tech and innovation strategy for a city cannot be taken in isolation, according to Clover Moore, Sydney’s longest-serving Lord Mayor and a champion of the...

Westacott on our sleepy future

After 26 years of uninterrupted economic growth, Australian business is asleep at the wheel warns Jennifer Westacott, chief executive of the Business Council of Australia. Unlike other nations which...

Beijing’s Catch-22 for Aust unis

The independence of Australian and other western universities with fully-fledged sister universities, joint ventures, campuses and research institutes in China is under attack from Beijing after Xi Jinping’s regime...

Aust AI policy is badly adrift

Artificial intelligence turbocharged by machine learning techniques gets smarter every second of the day and the Australian government is being prodded to stir its own grey matter on the...

Are you on the DTA marketplace?

Is your company a supplier of products or services to the Australian government, and is it listed on the DTA’s Digital Marketplace? We want to hear from you! InnovationAus.com...

ACCC’s crack new data unit

The ACCC has established a new data analytics unit to help crack down on the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in price-fixing. In a speech delivered to...

HTA Global takes to the air

There’s a long-standing narrative in this country that local manufacturing is dying. The demise of Ford, Toyota and most recently, Holden would seem to bear this out. Yet the...