InnovationAus Podcast

Welcome to the first episode of Resilience through Capability, an InnovationAus.com series exploring how Australia can build the industrial and technological capabilities needed to strengthen our economic and national resilience.

In this episode, we turn to one of the defining technologies of the next decade: artificial intelligence. ResetData co-founder and co-CEO Marcel Zalloua joins InnovationAus.com editor Justin Hendry to examine whether Australia will capture the economic value of the AI revolution, or simply provide the infrastructure that powers it. They explore the importance of sovereign AI capability, the ‘missing middle’ of Australian startups, businesses and research institutions, and what government and industry can do to build the capability needed to ensure Australia is not just hosting the AI revolution, but helping shape it.

Anyone at the Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR) summit in Adelaide last month will have recognised an increased sense of urgency attached to defence tech development efforts. Australia's Chief Defence Scientist Tanya Monro discusses Defence priorities, and emerging opportunities for Australian innovators.

In this episode of the Commercial Disco podcast, national intelligence community veteran Dr Miah Hammond-Errey discusses cognitive performance and resilience optimisation - and the technology platform her startup Strat Futures has built to get the best out of high-performing teams.

The Prime Minister relaxed energy rules for data centres in a compromise to get Queensland and the Northern Territory on board. But within days, miscommunication resulted in a good old-fashioned federal-versus-state stoush getting underway. Justin Hendry and James Riley discuss.

In this episode of Delivery: A GovTech Podcast, the Home Affairs department's Head of National Security Hamish Hansford discusses the importance of technology access and control in the age of AI, and how his department is building stronger relationships with US tech giants.

Australian universities play an outsized role in the local innovation system compared to international peer economies and should attract a larger portion of system funding, UNSW vice-chancellor Attila Brungs says. In this episode of the Commercial Disco podcast, Professor Brungs talks to InnovationAus publisher Corrie McLeod about funding, research translation and the use of AI.

In a speech that put meat on the bones of government ambitions for Australia to become AI makers rather than takers, Assistant Minister for the Digital Economy Dr Andrew Charlton last week outlined how investment in data centres can be leveraged to capture more of the value on offer in the AI stack. Justin Hendry takes us through it.

Welcome to the latest episode of Powering What’s Next, brought to you by GE Vernova, where we explore the technologies, infrastructure and partnerships shaping Australia’s energy transition and what it will take to build a more reliable, affordable and sustainable energy future.

In this episode, Corrie McLeod, publisher, InnovationAus.com is joined by Mark Benjamin, Aero global sales director at GE Vernova and Belinda Dennett, chief executive of Data Centres Australia.

Together, they explore the growing demand for electricity from data centres and AI, and what this means for Australia’s energy system. They discuss the scale of incoming demand, the importance of generation, firming and transmission, and how data centres can play a broader role in supporting grid stability and accelerating investment in new energy infrastructure.

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas' plan for a Royal Commission into AI puts him at the head of a national conversation about jobs, skills and social licence in Australia's response to artificial intelligence. InnovationAus editor Justin Hendry joins James Riley for a closer look.

In this episode of the Commercial Disco, ANU interim Chancellor Larry Marshall says entrepreneurial market vision can be a powerful force in aligning the resources of a national innovation ecosystem. He discusses the challenges of the Australian innovation system with InnovationAus publisher Corrie McLeod.