InnovationAus Podcast

Nick Gonios, co-founder and CEO at Circulist

Nick Gonios is a serial entrepreneur and investor and a long-time business leader. He has founded multiple startups and managed ASX-listed companies as CEO. His focus now is on the circular economy. In this episode of the Commercial Disco, Nick talks to James Riley about the priority imperatives of the circular economy, and opportunities for responsible product design.

Peter Bauer, Co-founder and CEO of Mimecast

Peter Bauer is the co-founder and CEO of global email security firm Mimecast. In this episode of the Commercial Disco, he talks with James Riley about cybersecurity as a ‘team game’, where governments can play an important economy-wide coordination role.

Natalie Chapman, co-founder and managing director, Gemaker

Natalie Chapman is co-founder and managing director at deep tech commercialisation agency Gemaker. In this episode of the Commercial Disco, she talks about global supply chains for critical minerals and rare earths, and opportunities for Australia to become a value-added player in this fast-growing market.

Senator Tim Ayres – Assistant Minister for Manufacturing, Assistant Minister for Trade

As the National Reconstruction Fund legislation works its way through the Parliament, Senator Tim Ayres, the Assistant Minister for Manufacturing and the Assistant Minister for Trade, talks to the Commercial Disco about the critical path to re-industrialising the nation.

Kai Macann and Daniel Mawston, founders of Terra Symposium

Kai Macann and Daniel Mawston only finished high school last year, but that hasn't stopped them from creating Terra Symposium - an interactive political ethics workshop for secondary education. In this episode of the Commercial Disco, the duo talks to James Riley about the importance of knowledge and resources around ethics and philosophy in a technological age.

Paul Barrett, CEO of Hysata

Paul Barrett is Chief Executive Officer at Hysata, a company commercialising breakthrough Australian hydrogen electrolyser technology. In this episode of the Commercial Disco, he talks to James Riley about the “disruptive improvements” in performance, and the promise of Green Hydrogen.

Vishal Salvi, Global Chief Information Security Officer, Infosys

Vishal Salvi is the global Chief Information Security Officer at the India headquartered tech services giant Infosys, and also serves as the worldwide head of the company’s Cyber Practice. In this episode of the Commercial Disco, James Riley talks to Mr Salvi about the foundational elements of a safe and trustworthy digital economy.

Bridging the Cyber Divide: Series 2 – Ep1: The proposed new CI Act and what it means

The Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2021 marks a step-change in the way the Australian Government defines critical infrastructure and has put significant requirements on a range of new industries to ensure they are compliant.

While critical infrastructure and cyber security are not new, the scopes for these areas are much broader and the very detailed draft legislation requires a solid understanding of what the impact will mean for various industries. There is currently a high level of ambiguity around how each industry will be affected and what level of compliance they’ll be held to.

Produced by InnovationAus in partnership with CyberArk, this podcast series discusses the next stage of conversations around what the critical infrastructure legislation means.

In this episode, Australian government assistant secretary, deputy group manager of cyber and infrastructure security centre, Sam Grunhard,  CyberArk ANZ regional director, Thomas Fikenstcher, and InnovationAus.com’s Editorial Director, James Riley discuss the key changes brought about by the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2021, as a precursor to the series’ more vertical focused discussions.

How has the Bill been designed for practicality, and what kinds of objections are being raised by the industry?

What does the rollout look like? How is the split determined across certain industries - will all health organisations have the same security obligations?

Mirjana Prica, Managing Director of Food Innovation Australia Limited (FIAL)

Dr Mirjana Prica is the managing director of Food Innovation Australia Limited (FIAL), one of six Industry Growth Centres established by the federal government to drive commercial growth in the food and agribusiness sector. In the episode of the Commercial Disco, Dr Prica outlines just how much value Australia is leaving on the table in the food business by not undertaking more value-added food processing and manufacturing.

ESG is a team sport | ESG ‘credentialers’: the emerging ecosystems

To respond to the current and future challenges around Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), every leading business is looking carefully at its specific environment to better understand the complexity of quantifying and managing ‘externalities’ while being able to verify and credential its response.

Sentiment analysis and other ‘soft metrics’ – which are relied on particularly by the emerging industry of advisory partners – are not acceptable to the rigour required of an organisation that has set itself high ESG standards.

InnovationAus.com and Verizon are pleased to present this discussion panel on the topic, with senior technology business leaders in Sydney and Singapore swapping notes across different continents, industry segments and technology environments.

Participants

SYDNEY PANEL

• Dr Priya Dev, Lecturer, Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies & Statistics, ANU College of Business and Economics

• Andy Lamrock, Managing Partner Global Solutions, Verizon

• Corrie McLeod, Moderator and Publisher, InnovationAus.com

SINGAPORE PANEL

• Rob Le Busque, Regional Vice President APAC, Verizon

• Grace Sai, Co-founder and CEO, Unravel Carbon

• Naomi Vowels, Director & Co-founder, givvable