InnovationAus Podcast

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

Adrian Turner, Minderoo Foundation’s Wildfire and Disaster Resilience Program CEO

The average cost to Australia of natural disasters is currently estimated at $38 billion each year. It is time to shift our focus from spending on response and recovery, and to invest more into resilience and recovery. Adrian Turner is the CEO of the Fire and Flood Resilience program at the Minderoo Foundation. In this podcast, Adrian lays the argument for change.

The Hon Ed Husic MP, Federal Shadow Minister for Industry & Innovation

With just days remaining before Australians cast their ballots at the federal election, shadow industry and innovation minister Ed Husic joins the Commercial Disco podcast to talk policy. From the operation of the National Reconstruction Fund, the plans for an Office of Made in Australia, and the future of the Industry Growth Centres, Mr Husic details Labor plans for industry development if it wins next Saturday.

Sampath, global Chief Revenue Officer for Verizon Business

There is plenty of uncertainty in the global economy right now, from supply-chain concerns to the war in Ukraine to geo-political tensions and the complications of the ongoing pandemic. But Verizon Business chief revenue officer Sowmyanarayan Sampath – known universally as simply Sampath – the global business outlook has never looked stronger. In this episode of the Commercial Disco, Sampath talks about the megatrends of the telecommunications sector.

Counterpoint Conversations, Ep5: Diversity for success on the Battlefield

The final episode of the Counterpoint Conversations podcast series will focus on the challenges ahead in reshaping the cultural settings of the defence force, particularly in relation to the augmented reality and virtual reality technologies being adopted for learning and development.

As the demands of the AUKUS program evolve, engaging the widest range of people with the right mix of problem-solving skills is going to be essential. Diversity of thinking – including addressing gender balance and managing awareness of bias – will be a central plank for success.  

With the defence sector’s increasing move to gamification and augmented reality to innovate and adapt to the changing nature of warfare, this podcast will explore the importance of inclusivity at the design stage of technology to ensure diversity in thought, assessment, life experience and world view, to help address complexity in decision making.