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Henrik is the head of ​B​ain & Company’s Asia-Pacific (APAC) Financial Services practice. Dr. Naujoks has more than three decades of management consulting expertise, specialising in addressing complex challenges in the financial services sector. In recent years, his work has concentrated on driving digital and customer-centric transformations, with a particular emphasis on the re-imagination of the insurance industry.

Enforcing international laws on countries contributing to global warming is challenging because compliance relies on voluntary participation and there are no overarching authorities with the power to impose penalties.

Engineers at UNSW Sydney have developed FSA FIRECOAT, a fire-retardant paint that became the first to pass Australia’s stringent Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) 40 standard test. This standard evaluates materials for their ability to withstand radiant heat up to 40kW/m² and ember attacks, offering enhanced protection in bushfire-prone areas as Professor GUAN HENG YEOH explains. [wp_ulike for="movie" id="21347" style="wpulike-heart"]

Securing R&D funding can be challenging but a new non-dilutive strategic approach is enabling innovative companies to manage critical timing gaps. As Managing Director of Advanced ALEX KNIGHT explains, his company provides “capital as a service” – tailored funding solutions made available when entrepreneurs need them most.

You’ll also probably have rapid testing kits at home, with the little strips you’d drop a few bits of mucus on to see if you’d been struck down. A new test devised by a team led by Professor Ewa Goldys, from UNSW’s Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, promises the best of both worlds and much more. The new technology aims to be better than PCR. Anybody will be able to use it, just like a rapid antigen test, and they’ll spot many more illnesses than just covid.

Andrew is the creator and CEO of SwarmFarm Robotics. He is the chief visionary, leveraging his experience as a successful grain farmer to lead up to the 2015 launch of SwarmFarm Robotics. He grew up on a cropping and cattle farm south of Emerald in Queensland and studied Agronomy at the University of Queensland. He spent his earlier life as an agronomist in the grain and cotton industries, before returning to grain and cattle farming, and then co-founding SwarmFarm Robotics with his wife Jocie.

With a mission to be a force for good, Kanopi is a modular full-stack insurance platform enabling insurers, MGAs and brokers to rapidly launch and scale new products at speed and at significantly lower-cost. As CEO NIGEL FELLOWES-FREEMAN explains, tech-powered flexible coverage alleviates worries and uncertainties, enabling “businesses to succeed and individuals to live with a sense of safety and security”.

As technology continues to penetrate deeper into most sectors streamlining efficiency, the largely paper-based food management compliance systems globally are also being revolutionised. As Founder and CEO DANIEL McDOUALL explains, “Squizify” is used by venues worldwide as an all-in-one solution for managing food safety reporting and covering tasks like temperature monitoring, food labelling, auditing, training and freight tracking.

I’ve always been insatiably curious and must have driven my family crazy with my millions of “why” questions growing up. As I became more concerned about not just environmental issues, but other social problems driven by offshoring jobs to far-flung places I became interested in how humans make decisions. This led me to behavioral economics and systems thinking (my other passions besides building a circular economy) and one of the key elements in making decisions is information feedback loops.

In an Australian first, South Australian owned and manufactured satellite Kanyini has successfully launched onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States. Kanyini is the first State Government-funded satellite in the nation and was built by a local team of South Australian-based companies – SmartSat CRC, Inovor and Myriota. The $6.5 million mission is helping to create hi tech jobs in the state’s space sector and develop vital space capabilities in the State.