Strengthening Australia’s quantum ecosystem, building an export focused biosecurity sector, AI investment, location-based data services and planning for data centre energy demands are key topics for The Industry Papers forum this week.
Opening the Industry Papers Canberra forum at Old Parliament House on Wednesday, Assistant Minister for a Future Made in Australia Senator Tim Ayres is expected to provide an update on the government’s FMiA agenda.
The forum arrives at an important time for FMiA, with the enabling legislation expected to be introduced to the Senate this week.
There is limited seating still available for The Industry Papers Canberra forum. You can get in the room by registering here. The forum includes a standup networking lunch immediately following – an intimate gathering of senior industry leaders over prosecco and canapes.
Australia’s chief scientist Dr Cathy Foley will present her paper on what it will take to build a quantum tech ecosystem in Australia and will then be joined for a panel by Quantum Brilliance CEO Mark Luo, Robotics Australia Group CEO Dr Sue Keay, and Syenta co-founder and COO Zach Dowse.
Geoscape CEO Dean Capobianco will present his policy paper on leveraging Australia’s excellent location data to drive new products and services, while ExoFlare CEO Adrian Turner and Reason Group director and co-founder Aleksandar Vranesevic will explore Australia’s advantages in building a global-facing biosecurity sector.
The forum includes a series of lightening talks – these are inspiring ten-minute snap presentations outlining challenges and opportunities for the nation and the policy ideas that address them.
These include AirTrunk senior director government relations Belinda Dennett on powering Australia’s data centre opportunity; ANU academic and startup adviser Dr Priya Dev on the high cost of unaccountable bureaucratic power; and Daylight Foundation CEO Angus Dixon on strategies for radically reducing healthcare-related infections
CSIRO director and UTS special innovation advisor Professor Roy Green will sit down for a fireside chat with Professor Marina Yue Zhang to discuss the geopolitics of current industrial policy trends, while QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute chair Professor Arun Sharma will present a paper on unlocking a boom in ground-breaking cancer treatment.
Wrapping up a full morning will be a fulsome discussion on investments and opportunities in artificial intelligence, as well as frontier industries like synthetic biology. The Australian Machine Learning Institute chief scientist Professor Anton van den Hengel will join Xaana.Ai CEO and co-founder Dan Saldi and Cortical Labs co-founder and CEO Dr Hon Weng Chong for the final discussion.
Immediately following the forum, attendees are invited to join the speakers and panelists for a stand-up networking lunch of canapes and prosecco.
All of our attendees will of course be given a copy of The Industry Papers and The Health Liftout – our curated collection of more than 30 issues papers, presented as a 65,000-word tabloid newspaper and a lift-out supplement focused on the BioTech, MedTech and Digital Health sectors.
There are a limited number of tickets available for this event. You can reserve your seat here.
The full list of speakers at The Innovation Papers Canberra forum are:
- Senator Tim Ayres, Assistant Minister for FMiA and Assistant Minister for Trade, Australian Government
- Dr Cathy Foley, Chief Scientist, Australian Government
- Dean Capobianco, CEO, Geoscape Australia
- Dr Hon Weng Chong, Founder and CEO, Cortical Labs
- Belinda Dennett, Senior Director, Government Relations, AirTrunk
- Dr Priya Dev, Academic Blockchain & Data Analytics, ANU
- Angus Dixon, Founder and CEO, Daylight Foundation
- Zach Dowse, COO and Co-Founder, Syenta
- Professor Roy Green, Director at CSIRO and Special Innovation Advisor, UTS
- Dr Sue Keay, Chair, Robotics Australia Group
- Mark Luo, CEO, Quantum Brilliance
- Corrie McLeod, Publisher, InnovationAus.com
- David McKeague, Co-founder, Curious Things AI
- Professor Arun Sharma, Chair, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
- Dan Saldi, CEO, Xaana.ai
- Rachel Slattery, Director, Silver Futures
- Adrian Turner, CEO, ExoFlare
- Professor Anton van den Hengel, Chief Scientist, AIML
- Aleksandar Vranesevic, Partner and Founder, Reason Group
- Professor Marina Zhang, Australia-China Relations Institute, UTS
The Industry Papers is a big undertaking and would not be possible without the assistance of our valued sponsors. InnovationAus.com would like to thank Geoscape Australia, The University of Sydney Faculty of Science, the Semiconductor Sector Service Bureau (S3B), AirTrunk, InnoFocus, ANDHealth, QIMR Berghofer, Advance Queensland and the Queensland Government.
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