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Super funds back space travel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... round of funding from Sequence Ventures, which manages the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) innovation fund and Blackbird Ventures. Gilmour Space has raised $87 million to date. HESTA chief investment officer Sonya ...

Government launches digital economy strategy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... $124.1 million is going to artificial intelligence initiatives, including a National Artificial Intelligence Centre led by CSIRO Data 61, supported by a network of AI and Digital Capability Centres. The government has planned a $200.1 million investment ...

Hostplus, HNWs back CSIRO fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
Main Sequence, a deep tech investment fund founded by CSIRO, has raised $250 million from investors such as Hostplus and Temasek to solve the world's problems in health, food, space and industrial productivity. Main Sequence's second fund aims to solve ...

Waste key to economic recovery: CSIRO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
The CSIRO has published a roadmap to economic recovery finding innovation in Australia's waste management space could triple job creation. The National Circular Economy Roadmap suggested the key strategy for creating jobs and reclaiming billions ...

Amazon Web Services expands Australian operations

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... latency and better fault tolerance for critical cloud workloads. Current AWS customers include Deloitte, CBA, NAB, Atlassian, CSIRO, Afterpay and Australia Post. The new AWS Region aims to accelerate innovation agility and cost savings by leveraging ...

Magellan adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... Sheridan and group general manager at David Jones and Pacific Brands. She also held directorial and advisory positions at CSIRO, Australian Government Innovation Council, Federal Trade and Investment Ministers, Australian Fashion Week and the Melbourne ...

CSIRO contractor in crypto scam

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
A CSIRO contractor has been sentenced over fraudulent behaviour after he used the organisation's servers and supercomputers to carry out cryptocurrency mining. He was caught out after the CSIRO noticed serious impairment of its computing infrastructure ...

AustralianSuper partners with greenhouse gas giants

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... nickel) and chemicals (explosives and fertiliser), which together generate around $160 billion in exports. Its chair, former CSIRO chair and Australian of the Year Simon McKeon said collaboration and experimentation would be at the heart of the new multi-industry ...

NAB hires to improve governance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... Macquarie, where he had a 30-year career. He also served non-executive director and chair of MYOB and AMP, chair of the CSIRO and the founding president of the Australia Takeovers Panel. McKeon was names Australian of the year in 2011 and Officer of ...

Regulation costly, time consuming: CSIRO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
The CSIRO has recommended a more lenient approach to regulation in the corporate world in a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology. The science body noted that Australia's strong regulatory environment ...