Australia’s technology news headlines in June 2024 touched on a range of items and developments, including: Australian biotech recycling plastic using enzymes; Australia’s global opportunities in critical minerals supply chains; Google Australia’s AI First Accelerator; quantum technologies developments; Monash University’s moves to establish Australian space industry credentials; and more.
And here’s New Zealand’s June 2024 tech snapshot >
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Australia: StartUp to ScaleUp Summit 2024 – September in Sydney
- Australia: Indigenous-led First Australians Capital hits first close on Catalytic Impact Fund with $20M in commitments / full item
- Australia: Samsara Eco raises $100M Series A with enzyme-based plastic recycling, with sights on a new commercial facility in SE Asia / full item
- Australia’s Space Machines Company inks Launch Service Agreement with NewSpace India, government company under Indian Space Research Organisation, for SMC’s next sat launch / full item
- Australia: Channel Seven YouTube page hacked to play looping video of AI-generated Elon Musk telling viewers to invest in cryptocurrency / full item
- Australia: National Australia Bank’s NAB Ventures backed Zodia Custody, an institution-grade crypto and digital assets safekeeping platform, joining Standard Chartered and others / full item
Deloitte: Generative AI in Australia
- Australia: Government considering options around ensuring Meta platforms continue to publish news content / full item
- Download: ‘Digital News Report – Australia 2024’ from the University of Canberra News & Media Research Centre (direct pdf link) / full item
- Australia: Guide Dogs Victoria adds BindiMaps to ‘gold standard for accessible buildings’ in development of Kew Campus, world-first sensory-accessible campus / full item
Australia: “Northern Territory has defined mineral resources for 17 globally recognised critical minerals…[and] has geological potential for a further 12 emerging critical minerals.” / full item
- Australia: Breakthrough Victoria, $2BN state gov’t tech fund, backs Liquid Instruments with $15M to bring wide-use test equipment manufacturer to Melbourne / full item
- Australia: The State of Open Banking 2024 report is online, a deep dive into the industry’s opportunities and challenges, from Frollo / full item
- Australian Startup to Scaleup Summit, S2S Summit, is set for September 26th / full item
University of Canberra: Digital News Report – Australia 2024
- Australian Internet Observatory launches with 6 universities investigating misinformation, consumer targeting, political messaging and social media-related issues / full item
- Australia: Medibank hack which exposed near 10M customers’ details believed to stem from absence of multi-factor authentication protecting access to IT systems / full item
- ‘Less than half of Australian children and teens think they can tell real news stories from fake. So how well are we preparing them for a new media world order?’ / full item
- Google Australia launches AI First Accelerator initiative to provide Australian startups with cutting-edge AI capabilities including guidance, mentorship and resources / full item
- Australia: A quick intro to 6 startups selected for the Venture Catalyst acceleration program from the University of South Australia Innovation & Collaboration Centre / full item
- Australian quantum tech firm, Diraq, to produce sample chip devices using GlobalFoundries plants, with chips featuring both quantum-focused and standard circuitry / full item
- AWS Generative AI Spotlight program applications are open to June 28 for seed and pre-seed GenAI startups in Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia / full item
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- Australia: Crypto ban in online gambling is now in place, with users no longer able to use credit cards or digital currency to place bets online / full item
- Australia hits milestone in cryptocurrency as third-largest host of Bitcoin ATMs globally, over 1000 / full item
- Blockchain Australia rebrands to Digital Economy Council of Australia ‘to extend its remit to be more inclusive in response to the rapidly evolving needs of the digital economy’ / full item
- Australia: Tech in Gov conference and expo is set for July 23-24 in Canberra, bringing together government, providers, IT services and professionals / full item
- Australia: Member of Parliament proposes use of blockchain tech as enabler to boost productivity growth by as much as $60BN / full item
- Australia: Costa Rica’s CRDC Global opens Melbourne plant, converting plastic waste into concrete additive / full item
- Australia: The Leaf Protein Company secures $850K funding with plant-based ingredients for the F&B industry, with backers including the University of Melbourne / full item
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- Australian singer, Iggy Azalea, to roll out ability to use recently-released MOTHER cryptocurrency to pay for phones and services from her planned telecom firm / full item
- Australian Cyber Security Summit is set for June 20th in Canberra / full item
- Australia: Blockchain Week 2024 is June 11-14 in Sydney / full item
- ‘Australia’s space race: From red dirt to the stars’ / full item
- A quick intro to 5 Australian startups that raised $54.4 million in the week to June 7th 2024, working in health-tech, logistics and more / full item
- Australia: Gov’t orders 5 China-linked firms to divest shares in Northern Minerals rare earths project, citing national interest concerns / full item
- Australia: The Monochrome Bitcoin ETF, Australia’s first spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund that holds the asset directly, launches for trading / full item
- Australia: Government’s $17M AI Adopt Program rolls out 4 new centres, aiming to help SMEs identify and adopt appropriate AI tools for growth and efficiency / full item
PwC Digital Trust Insights 2024 – Asia Pacific
- Australia: Monash University targets space industry credentials with appointment of Aus Space Agency and former CSIRO chief as chancellor, and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab exec hire / full item
- Australia: ‘Celebrating Indigenous Entrepreneurship’ online event is set for August 9th, hosted by Barayamal for International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples / full item
- India’s Tata Steel and Australia’s Monash University ink MoU to establish sustainability-focused innovation centre / full item
- ‘A growth agenda for India-Australia economic ties’, a short piece that touches also on blockchain, digital payments and, of course, geopolitics / full item
Panthur: Affordable web hosting services in Australia
New Zealand tech: June 2024
The Rugby DAO – immersive fan experiences & Web3 gaming
- New Zealand: AgriFutures growAG, Australian agri-tech innovation platform, to launch in New Zealand, seeing global opportunities in NZ’s agriculture-focused tech space / full item
- AWS Generative AI Spotlight program applications are open to June 28 for seed and pre-seed GenAI startups in Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia / full item
June 2024: Critical technologies, globally
Indo-Pacific tech news editions
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