Join ACS Labs Director, Pauline Fetaui, as she kicks off Something Tech. 2024!

Take a seat and get ready as we dive into how technology Empowers Every Human.

Pauline Fetaui is the Director of ACS Labs which is the home for Tech Innovators and passionate Entrepreneurs.  She oversees the strategy and delivery of the Labs including Innovation locations across Brisbane at River City Labs, Sydney at Harbour City Labs, Maroochydore Queensland at Ocean City Labs as well as the Virtual ecosystem of ACS Labs for Entrepreneurs and their communities solving global problems through technology.

Today Healthcare globally is still not accessible to everyone and the priority for preventative self-care seems still so far away every through our technology advancements.  In Dentistry Dr Padma Gadiyar and her team are on a mission to enable more affordable, preventative and accessible dental care globally through the Smilo.ai platform. 

Did you know that your personal data is bought and sold over 300 times a day?

In today’s digital age, our personal information is constantly tracked and sold, often without our consent. Major corporations exploit this data for profit, but emerging global policies are starting to challenge the status quo. Datalis empowers individuals to reclaim and monetise their data ethically. By educating consumers and promoting transparency, Datalis is transforming the data economy to be fairer and more beneficial for everyone.

Elli Hanson will share her journey leading the design and market launch of the world’s first patented electric flosser, Flaus. Elli drove product, brand, and strategy enabling Flaus to be listed in TIME Magazine Inventions of the Year, named one of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, and landing a deal on Shark Tank USA. But success did not happen without some bold ambition and vision. Now as a principal investor in Australia, her learnings as a founder in the American consumer market extend to all emerging founders looking to build the next high growth company expanding into global markets.

Coupling NASA validated research by world renowned Prof Carolyn Richardson with a growing focus on improving health, performance and longevity, tech driven wearables are set to tackle the previously unknown, unmeasurable and too expensive. GravityFit is on a mission to deliver core and deep muscle strength to all... from Astronauts to Athletes.

We know that tech is our future, but not all tech is being shaped to equally benefit all humans. The human experience is never static. The disability community is the largest global minority anyone can join at any moment (if you aren't already part of it). As we age, we experience disability. It is not to be feared, or "othered".  We can do better and make better products for every-body. 

We live in a world where there's "Something Tech" in EVERYTHING. Almost every startup sets out to 'make a difference' and empower the world with innovation using new technology. Kuppu represents one such tech-company that's set out to empower every human with affordable, scalable, and trustworthy tech--Zoho. Kuppu as an early employee of Zoho and now Leader is going to share key lessons from Zoho's 25+-years journey of starting up, how they reached the milestone of 100M users, making $1 billion annual revenue, while also being bootstrapped!

Leonardo AI as caught the headlines with their explosive global growth in a remarkably short period of time since starting up. With the 3rd largest discord community globally, a customer base across 189 countries including Antarctica, they have truly demonstrated Product Market Fit.  Jessie Huges Leonardo's Head Creative Technologist will share their journey, their deep domain expertise, growth in delivering results for their B2C and B2B Global Community and their next chapter as Leonardo AI.

From a national consumer product that gives convenience, credibility and efficiently with auto servicing, to multi-million-dollar fleet auto care services. This little big marketplace is heading directly into global markets with its FinTech B2B model that optimises and enables greater integration from  the road to  shop, all whilst staying online.

Siobhan O'Sullivan, COO of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), welcomes us to Day 2 of Something Tech. 2024, highlighting the importance of commercialisation for Australian Technology, and where the opportunities are for us to do more across Tech to build capability and innovation.

Over Siobhan's 25+ year career she has worked in fintech, mortgages, logistics and retail.  She is a passionate supporter of Australia's innovation ecosystem. Siobhan is also a Director/Advisory Board member for Wych (Banking as a Service), Director for Silicon Beach Australia, the oldest innovation community, Advisory Board Member and Mentor with Enterprise Ireland helping Irish businesses successfully scale into Australia, Innovation Mentor and Lecturer for Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Education Board Advisor to SP Jain Global School of Management and Board Advisor to BrainSTEM helping raise the next generation of STEM leaders. 

Nature-inspired innovations: how Earth Wisdom is shaping deeptech of the future 

Dr Megan Sebben shares with us nature-aligned innovation be done and is being done in a modern-day deep tech society.  

Discover some of Australia’s Deep Tech companies tapping into ancient wisdom of the planet to cultivate and design our future. From ending plastic waste, to regenerative AgTech, to the way we source and sustain plants for medicine. You will get a taste of some of the big impact companies working hand in hand with nature and innovation.

A Circular economy across our oceans and coast lines has been created through Phycohealth, where an incredible value chain exists reducing CO2 and Nitrogen waste whilst improving human health, through new food systems. Pia will share how Phycohealth has commercialised its research whilst on its mission to combat global warming.

As global economies mandate carbon reduction goals, industries must meet these objectives in a cost-effective and measurable way. Unleash live is at the forefront of this mission, using advanced data analytics and computer vision to optimise flow and movement, driving sustainable practices across a broad range of industries. Hanno Blankenstein will share how Unleash live's technology reduces carbon emissions and improves efficiencies across industries.  

After a successful career in Corporate with global companies such as Microsoft, Faith founded SixPivot, Cloud Ctrl and 6X Ventures.  Faith spends her days actively innovating not only her own businesses but those of others. Faith shares her insights on carving her path, on her own terms.

The valley of death is a common term used in the global innovation sector and has been felt unfortunately all too often. More so, when building deep tech, that valley can start at the inception point, as research concepts, models and computation are worked through to find their way to some form of feasibility even before prototype.  It cost time, science, funding, and believers. Professor Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, AO, FAA, FRSB, has achieved many firsts in Australia, at Something Tech. we will hear some of those and the work being paved to translate deep tech across the Valley of Death. A pathway that other innovators can also now take.

There are four primary elements real estate agents globally need to be successful in selling or leasing property. Blink Plus has serviced the market with a digital solution without the backend up to now. With traction before the tech, and a design on centred on customers actual needs, the opportunity to expedite how properties are taken to market has become very real.