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WOW!
What a wonderful day we had at the Hyatt for our inaugural WiTWA [+] Conference and Tech [+] 20 Awards!
Thank you to everyone who made it possible: our sponsors, speakers, volunteers, nominees and attendees. It’s your enthusiasm, engagement and positivity that made the event such a success.
Our wonderful sponsors were: US State Government; Wrays; Amazon Web Services; Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation; Valrose; Optus; Metisphere; Kinetic IT; Department of Communities; Department of Industry, Innovation and Science; Sandpit Innovation; Appbot; Hexagon Mining; Multiplier Media; Business News and She Codes Australia.
Congratulations to our Award winners!
First Among Equals Winner: Suzanne Dodds
Outstanding Youth Role Model: Naomi Henn
Outstanding Regional Role Model: Nicola Waite
People’s Choice Winner: Dr Lakshini Herat
The 2019 Tech [+] 20:
- Suzanne Brown
- Pauline Charman
- Kaye Cheung
- Dr Helen Cripps
- Dr Liz Dallimore
- Suzanne Dodds
- Dr Rina Fu
- Dr Stacey Hamilton
- Naomi Henn
- Professor Eun-Jung Holden
- Professor Elaine Holmes
- Ming Johanson
- Jiaranai Keatnuxsuo
- Sarada Lee
- Rachael Lehr
- Bernadette Olivier
- Karen Riddette
- Shalini Saldanha
- Petra Trinke
- Nicola Waite
Featuring all 2019 Tech [+] Awards winners
Post Event Information
2020 Awards Waitlist
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Check out the Presentations
- Jenny Brockis: Thriving by Design
- Lucy Thomas: Australia’s Youth-Driven Movement against Bullying, Hate and Prejudice
- Dr Janine Bredehoeft: The State of Gender Equality in TECH [+]
Our Inspiring Speakers
Lyndsey Scott | Freelance iOS Developer & Actress
After graduating from Amherst College with dual majors in Theater and Computer Science, Lyndsey started acting and modelling in New York City and soon became the first African-American model to ever land an exclusive contract with Calvin Klein. Shows such as Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and The Victoria’s Secret Show soon followed; as did campaigns for clients such as DKNY, Baby Phat, Covergirl, and Sephora; and shoots for magazines such as W, Italian Vogue, and Glamour.
Lyndsey now splits her time between acting and freelance iOS Software Engineering. She currently builds apps for clients such as Susan G. Komen Foundation, AIDS Walk, and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in her role as Lead iOS Engineer for Rallybound. She’s also ranked in the top 2% of question answerers on Stack Overflow; is a member of the RayWenderlich.com iOS tutorial team; and has done video tutorials for kids co-starring the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg for Code.org.
Lyndsey has been featured by CNN, The BBC, NPR, Good Morning America, Forbes, Harper’s Bazaar, and many other news outlets for both her computer programming skills and her efforts to promote diversity in tech. She has recently been named one of the 100 Women of the Year for both UK Elle and AskMen.com and has received a “Lifetime of Inspiration” award from Harvard University’s Women in Business organization.
Anoushka Gungadin | Experienced CEO, Non Executive Director, International Speaker and Best-selling Author
Anoushka is the founder and CEO of GlobalCQ, an award winning organisation that helps employers build and benefit from Cultural Intelligence to grow in the modern economy and connect them to diverse talent.
She is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the Anglo African Investment Group.
Anoushka is the former CEO of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award and the outgoing Vice President of the Australia India Business Council in Victoria.
Anoushka speaks six languages, has lived and worked across Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. She has worked with global brands such as UNESCO and l’Oreal.
Anoushka combines her 20 years of work experience from across countries, cultures and industries, and her futurist insights on global trends to address topics such as Cultural Intelligence, Inclusive leadership and the future of the workplace.
Anoushka is currently working on her new book on Cultural Intelligence. Anoushka is a trained Economist, a finance professional in the legal industry, holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School and an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation.
Janin Bredehoeft | Research & Analytics Executive Manager
Janin Bredehoeft is the Research and Analytics Executive Manager at the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, leading a team responsible for data management, analysis and benchmarking as well as the research and education functions of the Agency. A key aspect of her role is unlocking the potential of the Agency’s world leading dataset through internal and external collaboration to enhance gender equality in Australian workplaces.
Janin has been with the Agency since 2015 and taken on a number of roles in research, data analysis and education. Janin has a strong background in research, having completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2019, analysing the developments of academic labour markets in Germany and Australia.
Jenny Brockis | Creating thriving teams and leaders
Dr. Jenny Brockis is a medical practitioner, Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, award-winning keynote speaker and best-selling author specialising in the creation of happy, healthy workplaces that empower us all to thrive.
She works to inspire others to become the best version of themselves by translating the findings of the neuroscience and positive psychology into simple practical tools to enable people to work smarter not harder.
With three decades of experience in working with people, she understands while intentions may be good, changing behaviours is not always easy! Which is why she works closely with business leaders and managers teaching the skillsets required for thrival; working with healthy levels of stress, solving problems quickly, making good decisions and treating ourselves as human not machine. Ever the lifelong learner she has undertaken post graduate studies in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, the Neuroscience of Leadership, Lifestyle Medicine and is trained to teach Mindfulness Meditation.
Jenny is frequently sought after as a commentator in local and national media and had many articles published in a variety of magazines and journals. She is a regular contributor to the CEO magazine and the Great Health Guide.
When not speaking, learning or writing, Jenny loves to spend time with her family, tramp and camp in far-away places and continues to challenge her long-standing fear of heights and blue cheese.
Joshua Letcher | Mechanical Engineering (Mining/Design/Space)
Joshua Letcher has experience working in various operational and technical roles within the African and Australian mining industry. He was the founder of Allotropes Diamonds and was responsible for its acquisition by Newfield Resources (ASX:NWF) and the Co-Founder of Mirrorplex Ltd, an exploration company exploring and developing lithium resources for battery production.
As chief executive of Allotropes and Mirrorplex, Mr Letcher was responsible for the development of the projects from exploration to trial mining. Mr Letcher also served in the Royal Australian Navy as a Submariner and trained as a mechanical engineer. Mr Letcher is the founder of Space Industries which is a space mining company developing Lunar mining vehicles, the company is based in Perth, Australia.
Katarina Miljkovic | Senior Planetary Scientist
Dr Miljkovic is a senior planetary scientist with expertise in impact physics. She is involved with data analysis from space missions. She leads the only Australian research group that is working on the InSight mission currently active on Mars. Katarina joined Curtin in 2015 as a research fellow. Prior to joining Curtin, Katarina was a postdoctoral research associate at MIT (2014-2015), IPGP in Paris (2012-2014), and Imperial College London (2011-2012).
She graduated in Astrophysics from the University of Belgrade in Serbia in 2006, and was awarded PhD from the Open University in UK in 2010. In 2018, Katarina was awarded ARC DECRA fellowship, the Australian L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science fellowship, and she was a finalist for the WA Premier's Science Awards in the early career scientist category.
Lexy McDonald | Creator of HerHelp
Dr Miljkovic is a senior planetary scientist with expertise in impact physics. She is involved with data analysis from space missions. She leads the only Australian research group that is working on the InSight mission currently active on Mars. Katarina joined Curtin in 2015 as a research fellow. Prior to joining Curtin, Katarina was a postdoctoral research associate at MIT (2014-2015), IPGP in Paris (2012-2014), and Imperial College London (2011-2012).
I decided instead of waiting for a platform to be made for me to share a positive message to help these girls I wanted to make my own instead! So I did! And I launched my app, HerHelp, on the 19th of July 2019!
Summary of HerHelp app:
HerHelp was created by seventeen-year-old, Lexy Mcdonald. It is an interactive platform which aims to advocate for supporting young women or others of all ages through daily struggles.
Jessica Strutt | Journalist and Presenter, ABC Radio Perth
Jessica Strutt is a journalist and presenter of ABC Perth’s Focus program. Jessica worked as a political reporter in WA for more than a decade and has experience across all media platforms including print, radio, television and online. She joined ABC News Perth more than six years ago, after two years out of journalism working as a senior media adviser in government. Prior to making the recent decision to switch to a full-time radio gig with ABC, she was ABC’s chief state political reporter.
Jessica started her journalism career as a print reporter, which included five and a half years with The West Australian. At WA’s daily newspaper she covered State politics for four and a half years before taking on the social and Aboriginal affairs round which had her travelling to many remote spots across the State. Before entering journalism, Jess completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in politics and history at the University of WA. Her first job was in Wheatbelt farming town of Merredin. She’s won numerous awards for her political, resources and indigenous and social affairs reporting.
Catherine Moolenschot | Author & TEDx speaker
Catherine Moolenschot is the author of Jim’s Book, the biography of the founder of the iconic Jim’s franchise. She interviewed over one hundred people for the book to piece together the surprising story of Jim’s tumultuous business journey and how he became Australia’s accidental backyard millionaire.
Catherine fell in love with reading and writing young, and at 13 a school project prompted her to write her first book about a refugee’s journey from Africa to Australia, entitled A Rough Road.
At 17 she gave a TEDx talk on the topic of Living Your Funnel of Greatness, and has given talks at schools around Australia, as well as at universities and corporates, including Melbourne University, Monash University, Insurance Australia Group (IAG) and National Australia Bank (NAB).
Today she ghostwrites books for CEOs and professionals.
Lucy Thomas | Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Project Rockit
Growing up, Lucy Thomas always figured that “someone should really do something about bullying.” Then she realised: I am that someone. Now, more than a decade after launching PROJECT ROCKIT, Lucy has dedicated her whole life to the cause. As a keynote speaker, facilitator and MC, Lucy has personally worked with hundreds of thousands of young people all over the world, from Wangaratta to Texas, Wollongong to Auckland, Atherton to Fremantle. Her work has been honoured by UNICEF, The University of Melbourne, The Foundation of Young Australians, the global Family Online Safety Institute and Lucy is recipient of an Order of Australia Medal for her service to youth and the issue of bullying.
Growing up, Lucy Thomas always figured that “someone should really do something about bullying.” Then she realised: I am that someone. Now, more than a decade after launching PROJECT ROCKIT, Lucy has dedicated her whole life to the cause. As a keynote speaker, facilitator and MC, Lucy has personally worked with hundreds of thousands of young people all over the world, from Wangaratta to Texas, Wollongong to Auckland, Atherton to Fremantle. Her work has been honoured by UNICEF, The University of Melbourne, The Foundation of Young Australians, the global Family Online Safety Institute and Lucy is recipient of an Order of Australia Medal for her service to youth and the issue of bullying.
But after building her career tackling bullying, Lucy’s life was fundamentally changed when she herself became the target of an extended pattern of homophobic bullying. Instead of hiding away, Lucy took this as an opportunity to connect with even young Aussies and launch herself into advocating for the LGBTI community. She first shared her story (here) with thousands of high school students at the National Young Leaders Day at Olympic Park in Sydney, leading to her representation as Australian delegate at Facebook’s Compassion Research Day in California the following year. In 2015, Lucy was named among 12 Digital Champions for Children’s Rights in the Digital Age around the world by UNICEF, and was announced as a Finalist for LGBTI Person of the Year in the GLOBE Australia Awards. She made global headlines in 2016 when she stood up to a homophobic Uber driver and it went viral (watch her interview with the The Project here).
Lucy is a graduate of the University of Melbourne with Graduate and Postgraduate Diplomas in Psychology, as well as a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Hons). Her creative background together with a solid grounding in psychology and youth development has equipped Lucy with the precious ability to engage young people to generate self-awareness, growth and positive social change.
Ali Burston | Organisational Psychologist & MD of Metisphere
Dr Ali Burston (MAPS, PSIOPA) is an AHPRA endorsed Organisational Psychologist and the Managing Director of Perth-based consulting firm, Metisphere, which is best known for developing world-first mentoring programs encouraging diversity and inclusion in industry. Dr Burston is committed to creating people-focused business growth and has extensive experience working with a variety of sectors enabling leadership capability, change effectiveness and sustainable transformations.
In 2016 Ali was a founding board member for not-for-profit group, Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology Australia (‘SIOPA’), creating a pathway and support network for others in her own industry and currently serves as Vice President.
Ali has been nominated and won numerous industry, research and professional awards throughout her career.
Amanda Isdale | Executive Producer for ABC Children’s Content
Amanda Isdale is an Executive Producer for ABC Children’s Content, where she oversees a multi-genre slate of Children’s commissioned shows that delivers to the ABC Kids and ABC ME channels. She has over 16-years of experience producing, writing and directing children’s live-action and animated series for broadcasters and independent production companies throughout Australia, Canada and the UK.
Amanda is enthusiastic about working in children’s and youth television, and is passionate about providing an empowered and genuine platform for them to share their real stories and experiences in interesting and engaging ways. She creates content children find relevant, genuine and entertaining, while ensuring all perspectives and stories have the same opportunity of being heard so they see a true reflection of their diverse experiences on screen. Amanda has created and produced a number of formats for ABC Children’s channels, including the Prix Jeunesse award-winning ‘What It’s Like’. Some of her recent EP credits include Teenage Boss, The Deep, Spongo, Fuzz & Jalapena, Project Planet, Kick, and the Hope Works initiative.
Heidi Pass | Chief Geochemist
Dr Heidi Pass has loved revealing the secrets of the earth using geochemistry for nearly 20 years. She is one of two women to achieve the role of Chief Geochemist at a major mining company globally. An active role model, Heidi passionately supports the progression of women leaders in STEM. Currently, she is a member of WA’s CME: Gender Diversity Reference Group and Homeward Bound’s 4th cohort.
Robert Pierce | Chief Executive Officer, Wrays
As CEO of one of Australia’s largest intellectual property specialists, I am lucky enough to spend my days surrounded by an impressive and diverse team of patent and trade mark attorneys, lawyers, corporate advisors and legal advisors.
Connecting with innovators and pioneers from across Australia and beyond, hearing about their own innovation journeys and business challenges, and bringing together the right combination of experts to protect, grow and defend their IP assets is what I am fortunate enough to call work.
For the four years prior to taking on the CEO position in 2017, I was Chief Financial Officer at Wrays. In both capacities I have played a key role in overseeing the firm’s transformation from a patent and trade mark attorney service to becoming the holistic, end-to-end IP solution Wrays is today. I have overseen the acquisitions and mergers which have helped the firm to grow from its Perth roots to have the truly national presence it does today. In addition to Perth, we now have offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
With that growth comes a vision for our future. Ensuring that we have the right balance in place to nurture the best fit between our people and our clients’ needs. Wrays remain committed to providing our teams with optimal workplace solutions to help them succeed. This includes shaping our team with varied skillsets, backgrounds and interests – innovative minds for innovative clients.
Sarah Bassett | Head of WA/SA and ANZ Natural Resources Leader, Amazon Web Services
Sarah is part of the ANZ executive team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) leading the Western Australia and South Australia region as well as the Resources vertical. Her team works with enterprises across all industries in Perth and Adelaide to help them realize the value of cloud technology from both an economic and business transformation perspective.
In order to best serve the market with relevant solutions, Sarah also leads an industry focused go-to-market strategy for key enterprises in Australia. She is passionate about technology innovation and providing education to enable customers to create a culture of change and modernize their organisations.
Prior to joining AWS in 2017, Sarah was in the oil & gas industry for 15 years holding various roles within software development, mergers and acquisitions, partner and alliances, marketing and business development. She has a breadth of experience in a wide array of environments with a fortunate track record of partnering with customers to deliver results. Over the years, Sarah has managed teams of varying sizes, both local and geographically dispersed, and with great diversity in education, skills, and experience.
Ian Martinus | Trade & Investment Specialist
Dr. Ian Martinus is a trade and investment specialist with experience in technology-related ventures across government and industry. With a strong background in entrepreneurship and innovation, he has founded start-ups in digital visualisation, e-commerce and online music. Cross-border economic empowerment projects for USAID, the World Bank an AusAID include countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Africa.
Ian has delivered successful projects in the urban and land development sectors and co-created the Railsmart project in WA which received a national Smart Cities award in 2019. As a founder of two digital start-ups and Tech Crunch DISRUPT pitch experience, Ian was also a founding board member and recent Chair of the Perth International Jazz Festival and lifetime musician. His current role is Director WA AustCyber Innovation Hub which is part of the Federal Government’s Industry Growth Centre Initiative supported by the WA Government New Industries Fund.
Kate Kirwin | Founder of SheCodes & Activator for SHEeo
Program Coordinator at Spacecubed, Founder of SheCodes, Activator for SHEeo. Kate is a passionate advocate for women in STEM and innovation. She is the founder of SheCodes (formerly known as Perth Web Girls), an organisation that seeks to create technology and entrepreneurial career pathways for women by helping them develop coding skills. Kate has worked to send Perth Web Girls into regional WA, allowing women in what is one of the world’s remotest regions access to up-skilling workshops, facilitated by mentors from the industry.
Kate has also partnered with Bankwest to create, find funding for, and facilitate a coding workshop for female staff members. With numbers of women in technical roles and as start-up founders at only around 25%, the importance of encouraging women to participate in up-skilling for these industries – and in the process making their career portfolio more future-proof – cannot be over-estimated. Kate is directly addressing this issue by making widespread change at a grassroots level in Western Australia
Mihi Doraliyagoda | Product Manager at Illuminance Solutions
Mihi works as the Product Manager for Aboriginal Trust Management System at Illuminance Solutions, a Perth-based ICT and consulting company. Having a master’s degree in Management Information Systems, Mihi boasts a solid foundation in ICT, project planning and project management. She has helped several organisations make use of technology in the most efficient way by translating their needs into functional requirements and ensuring successful service delivery.
One of the highlights of Mihi’s career is the growth of Aboriginal Trust Management System- a cloud-based solution that aims to help Indigenous corporations provide better member services through streamlining processes and improving member engagement, compliance etc. Mihi goes the extra mile to understand the sector by learning Aboriginal policies, participating in cultural events and workshops, and studying client profiles comprehensively — believing that by becoming culturally sensitive towards Indigenous needs, she can serve them better. Fostering diversity, Mihi mentors Indigenous and international students at the University of Western Australia through Illuminance Solutions’ Digital Literacy program by offering free Microsoft Office 365 training. Forging into new sectors of business including the growth of ATMS, establishing new collaborative partnerships with a unique sector, and creating solutions which have real social impact are achievements to be held in high esteem. So, too, are the beneficial impacts of Mihi’s training and mentoring, and nurturing of a workplace environment which fosters diversity.
Stephen Carroll | Partner, Research & Development Tax Services, RSM Australia
Stephen is a Director in the Tax Services Division with specialist skills in the R&D Tax Incentive and innovation consulting services. Since commencing his career in 1999, Stephen has been providing consulting services across Australia in a diverse range of industries and to businesses of varying size, from start-up innovators to large multi-national corporations.
Stephen is well connected to the Innovation Community at all levels and keeps well informed of contemporary developments in innovation and industry. His specialist expertise is leveraged by industry professionals, both local and international. Stephen’s commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship is clear and ongoing, as is demonstrated by his involvement in various committees and organisations. Steve accepted the role as WITWA Ambassador in
Bernadette Olivier | Digital Entrepreneur & Growth Hacker
In her role as CEO and Co-Founder of The Volte, Bernadette manages the overall strategic direction and technical evolution of the company. She identifies channels for growth by finding innovative ways to serve our growing client base. Bernadette undertook the prestigious Springboard Accelerator program as part of their 2018 cohort and was awarded the WA Start-Up Founder of the Year for WA in 2018.
Bernadette brings both legal and business knowledge to her role from her time as a part of the TPG-Axon Capital hedge fund team in London and New York. She also has spent time in both the finance and government sectors in Australia and is a parent to 3 small children.
Thank you to our sponsors!
We are lucky to amazing sponsors helping us bring this vision to life:
Gold Sponsors
The U.S. Consulate General Perth helps grow partnerships between WA and the United States across business, science, technology, education, arts, and defense sectors.
Our alliance with Australia dates back more than 100 years, and we’re focused on working with Western Australians to improve the future – not just for our own citizens, but for the world.
Thanks to our shared values of democracy, freedom and ‘a fair go,’ the U.S. and Australia’s economic, academic, and people-to-people ties are as vibrant and strong as ever. Stay up to date with the Consulate by following us on social media. #USwithAUS
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Whether you’re looking for compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability.
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Wrays is one of the largest independent IP specialist firms in Australia – bringing together the right combination of experts to protect, grow and defend your intellectual property assets locally and globally.
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Silver Sponsors
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The Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation is Western Australia’s lead agency for economic development, international trade and investment and tourism. The Department also leads the development of the defence, international education, science and innovation sectors in Western Australia.
Department is coordinating implementation of the State STEM skills strategy, which recognises that STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills are critical for future jobs and aims to ensure that all Western Australians have the opportunity to participate in a STEM future. The Department’s sponsorship is provided in recognition of the contributions the WITWA Awards will make to engaging students, teachers, business leaders and the broader community – particularly females – in STEM.
Bronze Sponsors
Valrose is a Technology Recruitment company. Our mission is simple; to add value to every company and person we work with. As recruitment experts, we truly understand the responsibility that comes with connecting the right employees with the right employers. We genuinely care about our candidates and clients. We listen, we understand, we solve.
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Kinetic IT has come a long way since opening its doors in 1995, emerging as one of Australia’s leading ICT managed services providers. A proud Australian-owned company, Kinetic IT’s operations spread across the country with offices located in Western Australian, the Northern Territory, Victoria, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory.
Our team of more than 1300 experienced staff deliver quality services to large and complex IT environments across a range of industries, including government, corporate, resources and utilities sectors. Website. LinkedIn. Facebook. Twitter.
Metisphere’s accredited and qualified organisational specialists create psychologically healthy workplaces for global businesses across the resource, renewable and construction sectors.
We have been reigniting businesses across Australia, Canada and South Africa to achieve better health, productivity, performance and team cohesion since 2010.
Australian business is experiencing unprecedented change through digital disruption. It’s why so many organisations are looking for someone who understands the full breadth of managed technology and services, from applications, security and cloud to collaboration and contact centres.
Today, thousands of Australian organisations entrust Optus Business to be that partner. We help our customers create experiences for their customers and employees across all the spaces in which they live, work and play.
Backed by the Singtel group, Optus Business brings together best of breed partners to create the solution that’s right for your business.
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Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
The Entrepreneurs’ Programme uses experienced Advisers and Facilitators, drawn from industry, to ensure businesses get the advice and support needed to improve their competiveness, productivity and to seek growth opportunities.
Practical support for businesses, researchers and entrepreneurs includes: advice from people with relevant private sector experience, co-funded grants to commercialise novel intellectual property in the form of new products, processes and services, funding to take advantage of growth opportunities, and connection and collaboration opportunities. The primary focus is on providing access to tailored advice, and connection and networking opportunities to grow and improve their business, access new domestic and international markets and capitalise on opportunities.
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Special Event Sponsors
Speakers Dinner Sponsor
Hexagon Mining are the only company to solve surface and underground challenges with proven technologies for planning, operations, and safety. We bring surveying, design, fleet management, production optimisation, and collision avoidance together in a life-of-mine solution that connects people and processes.
Our customers are safer, more productive, and can make sense of their data. As champions of smart change, we recognise that our customers; competitive edge depends on integrating, automating, and optimising critical workflows for a life-of-mine solution. Website. Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn.
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Aggregating and analyzing all your Voice of the Customer data in Appbot gives you a new perspective on your customer experience.
Appbot makes it easy to track how the changes you are making are being received, by analyzing customer feedback you already have. Website. Facebook. Twitter.
Morning Tea Sponsor
Sandpit is an Australian based innovation and engineering design company helping organisations to innovate.
Innovation is the answer to a simple question ‘Is there a better way?’. We believe that all organisations have the potential to be better, but that most fail to innovate in a commercially practical way. Sandpit are at the forefront of creating change through innovation. We incubate, aggregate and scale real solutions that deliver commercial value today while solving the challenges of tomorrow.
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Media Sponsors
Multiplier Media is an award-winning PR and content marketing company that specialises in the creation of multimedia, digital-ready content designed for online share-ability.
Our hybrid PR/content marketing/digital marketing business model delivers results. Website. LinkedIn. Facebook. Twitter.
For 25 years, Business News has been the trusted source, providing quality news and information in commerce and industry to the Western Australian business community.
Business News has empowered businesses across the whole state of WA with critical information, timely analysis and the ability to connect, enabling our subscribers, clients, readers and guests to make well informed commercial decisions.
Community Sponsors
She Codes, previously Perth{web}Girls is a movement devoted to helping women up their tech skills, and get into tech careers. We run a variety of programs from inspiring curiosity to getting job ready in tech.
These events have been hosted in metro areas, in corporate HQ’s, and in regional hubs including Port Hedland, Karratha, Bunbury, Geraldton and Newman. Our vision is to inspire 100,000 women to enter tech by 2025. Website.
Boffins Bookshop is an Australian owned, independent bookseller offering customers an eclectic range of technical, practical, special interest and fiction books. They first opened their doors in Perth’s CBD in 1989, and since then have grown to become the leading technical bookshop in Western Australia, winning the Australian Book Industry Association’s award for Best Specialist Bookseller six times running. Website.
Jacq Leigh offers you a large collection of beautiful leather laptop bags with varieties in leather colour, textures and metal fastenings. The interior of a JaqLeigh women’s laptop bag has been meticulously designed to carry your essentials; laptop, mouse, charger, USB stick, documents, phone, business cards, pen and lipstick. Website.