A monthly round-up of Australia’s tech news for September 2022.
This month’s Australian tech news round-up covers gig-economy advertising with ‘smart bags’ for deliveries, weather data-driven agricultural insurance, in-game advertising technology, AUKUS’ role in Australian technology and more.
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- Tech Council of Australia published ‘Turning Australia Into A Regional Tech Hub’ report, outlining aims to compete with Singapore, China and Japan as a hub for Asia-Pacific
- Australia: e-Safety Commissioner pursues big tech with Meta, Apple and Microsoft directed to share their strategies for stamping out ‘abuse material’ on their platforms
- Google News Initiative Startups Boot Camp in Australia and New Zealand applications are open, seeking entrepreneurs in the news sector
- Australia: Zipr fashion-tech startup takes SmartCompany pitch night win with sights on social commerce market, bringing video and e-commerce together for brands and individuals to sell clothing
- Australia: LUMOS brings advertising-enabled smart bags to life for gig economy delivery riders, raising $800K pre-seed funding to address the opportunity in out-of-home ads
Australia: National Plan to Combat Cyber Crime 2022 (pdf)
- Australia: Energy Queensland is building 3D digital twin of above & below-ground infrastructure in bid to better manage assets including 153K substations, 178K km of overhead lines and 1.7M power poles
- Australia: Startup OnRamp Pre-Accelerator applications for Cohort 2 close soon for September’s intake – apply now
- Insider cyber threats pose ‘significant’ risk to Australia’s defence force, brief warns
- Australia: Nutromics medtech firm raises additional $14M with wearable diagnostics platform using single pathc and DNA technology to enable tracking for multiple targets in the human body
- Australia: Hillridge insurance-tech raises $2.3M seed funding with agri-focused insurance, using weather data, machine learning and farms focus to provide insurance and self-executing blockchain contracts
- Australia: WA state gov’t launches Dealroom WA, a data-driven public dashboard to develop the State’s early-stage innovation ecosystem
Australia, UK & ASEAN cooperation: The cyber–maritime security nexus
- Australia: Nuroflux medical-tech startup takes overall excellence award at inaugural Fishburners Tech for Good Awards with device to monitor brain activity and blood flow following a stroke
- Australia: ANZ banking services head talks of metaverse-related services, smart contracts, blockchain-based services and more as part of banking’s future
- ICYMI: Digital Twin International Conference set for September 26th, an online event from Australia’s University of New South Wales
- Australia: ‘We can learn from the Optus Data Breach whether it was criminal or state actor, Fergus Hanson says. Australia should consider establishing an ‘Office of Future Threats’ to deal with national-level risks from stolen data, he writes.’
- Australia: Livewire raises $4.7M Series A with gaming-based marketing and advertising solutions, providing a single entry point with services including strategy, creative, content and media
- Australia: Reserve Bank and Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre release white paper seeking submissions on possible Australian central bank digital currency
- Australia: Gov’t opens consultations for Startup Year program for 2000 HECS-style loans for final-year undergrads and post-grads to enter a higher ed-based incubator or accelerator
- AUKUS is not a security alliance…AUKUS is a technology accelerator agreement…to allow three countries to work closely together to translate the promise of today’s maturing technologies…into tomorrow’s military edge.
AUKUS and Australia’s tech ecosystem / US Studies Centre
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