Mike Briers, an angel investor in agricultural IoT company, The Yield, and CEO of would-be agricultural co-operative research centre, Food Agility, has been made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the 2016 Queens Birthday Honours “For distinguished service to the finance and digital technology sectors, particularly in the area […]
Cisco launches Sydney IoT innovation centre
Cisco has formally launched the second of its two Australian IoT Innovation Centres, both of which were announced at Cisco Live! In Melbourne in March 2015. However it is a very different beast from what was foreshadowed in that announcement, with a much greater range of partners likely to make it much more effective. Cisco […]
What’s the Australian Government’s role in IoT?
Brian McCarson, Intel’s chief IoT architect ended his talk at the AIIA IoT conference in Canberra last month with some advice for Australia. “My simple observations for any geography, but especially Australia, is that there are three things that need to be done to help IoT become a major economic driving force for this country,” […]
KEI: part think tank, part social enterprise
Chris Vein, chairman of the recently-launched Knowledge Economy Institute, in an interview with IoTAustralia, has provided more details of the institute, which is backed by data analytics provider Sirca, Bosch, Cisco, Rozetta Technology (wholly-owned by Sirca), Curtin University and the University of Tasmania. “In some senses it is a think tank on the traditional model, […]
Knowledge Economy Institute formed to help Australia exploit IoT
Sydney-based data analytics provider Sirca, Bosch, Cisco, Rozetta Technology, Curtin University and the University of Tasmania have teamed up to create the Knowledge Economy Institute (KEi) to help business, government and researchers solve complex problems, increase competitiveness and create jobs. The founding chairperson of the KEi is Chris Vein, the former CIO of the World […]
Cisco to open $15m Internet of Everything Centre in Australia
Cisco has announced plans to open an Internet of Everything (IoE) Innovation centre in Australia. It will be Cisco’s eighth around the world, and will, says Cisco “serve as a hub for open innovation …. And accelerate innovation and the adoption of IoE in Australia.” Cisco distinguishes Io T from the Internet of Things by […]
