The Tech23
Axis Energy
Renewable energy solutions for a better world
Axis Energy Group is a Queensland-based renewable energy company developing a novel type of ducted vertical axis turbine that has application in both wind energy and marine energy. The company’s technology addresses the shortcomings of other turbines and provides customers with a cost-effective solution to generate power in previously uneconomical low flow sites. Its modular design is an industry first and allows for minimal costs from manufacturing to installation, operation and maintenance. The company has received government grants and international investment. Axis is currently establishing proof of concept sites and will commence manufacturing and sales in 2018.
Presented by: Peter Kittel – Founder, Axis Energy
Bombora Wave Power
Wave energy conversion to electrical energy
Bombora has developed a membrane wave energy converter called the mWave for the global renewable energy market. Resting on the sea floor similar to a fully submerged reef, it is invisible from the shoreline. As ocean waves pass over the mWave the membrane deflects pumping air through a turbine to generate electricity. The mWave is unique among wave energy converters as it simultaneously addresses the cost of energy and ocean wave survivability challenges. The mWave is protected by international patents.
Presented by: Sam Leighton – Founder, CEO, Bombora Wave Power
Ecospectral
Balancing human needs and energy constraints
Ecospectral’s BRIM system, developed in the ACT and manufactured in Australia, is a powerful scalable IoT sensing and control platform for buildings and city infrastructure. BRIM shrink-wraps energy use around building occupancy patterns while also delivering functions to benefit safety, comfort, building use intelligence and valuable demand management, maximising the ROI and value of PV, battery and grid supplied energy investments. It is not just a box that reports energy use – we measure occupancy patterns and control energy use according to those patterns in a room-by-room, space-by-space manner giving adaptive fine-grained real-time demand management.
Presented by: David Keightley – CEO, Ecospectral
Elula
Revolutionising how organisations operate
Elula is a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI), advanced analytics and data visualisation products and services. Our tools empower leaders to make data driven decisions, focus their team on the highest value work, and optimise their workforce, inventory, supply chain, IT infrastructure, and transport networks. This delivers enhanced customer experience, cost savings, and revenue uplift. We are passionate about revolutionising how businesses operate by pioneering the AI revolution at work and delivering game-changing business outcomes. We are focused on solving complex problems, delivering actionable insights, driving exceptional commercial value and embedding cultural change.
Presented by: Josh Shipman – Co-founder, Elula
Episoft
Improving today’s treatment, informing tomorrow’s cures
EpiSoft is an innovative digital health company that is punching well above its weight. EpiSoft has developed a platform technology that supports any chronic disease and is proven in cancer, mental health, hepatitis, Crohn’s disease, eye disease and addiction disorders. It provides care coordination and treatment planning in line with best practice evidence in these massive chronic disease markets. EpiSoft has developed a highly scalable and configurable application that will deliver economies of scale to areas of medicine that until now had limited – if any – software that could meet their needs. EpiSoft bridges the information divide between everyday care and cutting-edge clinical research.
Presented by: Jenny O’Neill – CEO, Episoft
Factoryone
Factories that think
Today factories consume half of the world’s energy, a quarter of the world’s water and produce three quarters of all solid waste. Our vision is a world where factories can think: identifying opportunities to become more efficient, selecting how to source and use energy dynamically, and can self-regulate. Tomorrow’s factories will produce benefits for the world, without the waste.
Presented by: Bernard Kornfeld – Chief Scientist, Factoryone
Fleet
Using space technology to connect everything
Fleet is building the global digital nervous system to power the next industrial revolution. When launched, it will provide free, global connectivity to the more than 75 billion connected devices that will transform industries around the world. Fleet was founded in South Australia in 2015 by aerospace engineers who wanted to solve the issue facing businesses globally over the next decade: how to connect billions of sensors and devices, simply and cheaply. Fleet will launch the first of more than 100 planned nanosatellites in 2018, creating a global, free connectivity network that will plug directly into the millions of digital sensors already beginning to transform industries like agriculture, logistics, and mining and gas.
Presented by: Flavia Tata Nardini – CEO, Fleet
Flurosat
We grow. Food. Planet. Profit.
$10 billion of fertiliser is wasted annually. FluroSat saves a family farmer AUD$100,000 or 20% in wasted fertiliser every year. The product is best thought of as “satellite guided fertiliser”. FluroSat supplies a farmer with a precise nutrient prescription they feed into a smart tractor. The company uses computer vision and Machine Learning to process hyperspectral imaging data from satellite and drones, to identify nutrient deficiencies at a very granular level. Greater value to the industry is provided by these AI-driven yield prediction models. FluroSat is currently monitoring farms in five states in Australia and California, USA.
Presented by: Anastasia Volkova – Founder, Flurosat
Future Grid
Converting real-time data into actionable, operational intelligence
Future Grid is a software company that has developed a platform to convert vast amounts of real-time operational data into mission critical decisions. For example, one client in the electricity sector uses the platform to orchestrate 3 billion data points every day to mitigate the impact of distributed energy resources (e.g. solar) in real-time for 650,000 customers. Using the platform, customers have improved network reliability, improved customer safety and reduced infrastructure cost. Today, cloud solutions centralise data processing. Future Grid’s highly efficient software provides unique server-scale performance at the edge of networks enabling future decentralised data models.
Presented by: Chris Law – Founder, Future Grid
GardenSpace
Smart camera for home food production
GardenSpace is the world’s first visual garden sensor. Our GardenSpace unit makes growing food at home easy by monitoring, guiding, and automating growing. Home food growing is not a sustainable production method because of modern life styles. Home crops fail because of a lack of time, knowledge, and external threats. We have taken agtech solutions and made them low-cost and applicable to home food growers.
Presented by: James Deamer – CEO, GardenSpace
Hind Technology
Making robotics and advanced manufacturing simpler
At Hind Technology we design and manufacture robotics control systems that are simple and affordable to operate. Our vision is to provide advanced robotics controllers for current and future advanced manufacturing industries with clear focus on simplicity and reliability of the design. There is a huge international market and demand for our products with over 95% of sales towards exports. Our controllers have been shipped to over 28 countries.
Presented by: Jatinder Grewal – CEO, Hind Technology
littlepay
The smart tech behind little payments
Littlepay is a fast-growing fintech with a ground-breaking product that’s transforming the way businesses process little payments. Littlepay has created a versatile open loop payments platform which can be adapted to suit a range of industry verticals. With an initial focus on the transit industry, littlepay have deployed their contactless payment solution with several of the UK’s major transport operators – allowing travellers to use their mobile wallet, payment card or wearable device to travel without a second thought.
Presented by: Michael Walters – Founder & CEO, littlepay
Modular Photonics
Helping the Internet to grow
Modular Photonics, a spin out from the laser and photonics research group at Macquarie University, is manufacturing a series of glass chip micro devices that significantly and cost effectively increase data transmission rates and ranges, across multi building campuses. The devices can achieve a 100 times increase in data transfer speeds over 10 times the distance, at approximately one tenth the cost of current fibre upgrade options.
Presented by: Michael Withford – CEO, Modular Photonics
Nucleotrace
Product-integrated supply chain monitoring technology
Nucleotrace has developed the first product-integrated supply chain monitoring and anti-counterfeiting technology for consumable products. Information such as the batch number, expiry date and manufacturing facility are encoded into fragments of DNA which are incorporated into the product as a non-toxic molecular fingerprint. Nucleotrace technology has the capacity to significantly reduce drug counterfeiting which is responsible for one million deaths and costs the pharmaceuticals industry $100 billion each year.
Presented by: Nick Owen – Founder, Nucleotrace
Pedestal
Web learning platform for 3D objects
Pedestal exists to improve online education in object based disciplines. Pedestal does this by making it easy for teachers and students to use 3D representations of objects online. Our 3D media platform helps educators improve and enhance object based learning by reducing issues of access and limited handling and adding advanced tools for analysis through a simple web interface.
Presented by: Michael Rampe – CEO, Pedestal
Platfarm
Mobile navman to enable smarter farming
Current precision agriculture technology is unaffordable and inappropriate for most farmers in the world. Platfarm turns the smart device the farmer already owns into a mobile navman, enabling them to carry out smarter work on their land in order to maximise yields, whilst optimising the use of inputs. The app has simple tools to create an informed prescription map of where work needs to be carried out. Platfarm earns money through recurring premium subscriptions, and transactional revenue share when farmers purchase inputs through the platform.
Presented by: Oli Madgett – Founder, Platfarm
Presagen
AI-Driven Human Automation and Medical Diagnostics
Presagen has a unique AI platform that allows rapid development and delivery of cloud-based products in two areas: automation of human behaviour and medical diagnostics. Presagen’s automation platform uses Defence technology, leveraging behavioural science and psychology, to automate complex human centric tasks that require human-like reasoning and decision-making, which are difficult to automate using machine or deep learning. Presagen’s medical diagnostics platform uses a range of deep learning and computer vision techniques to analyse medical images, create validated diagnostic models, and deliver the models to end users via a cloud-based delivery tool.
Presented by: Michelle Perugini – Co-founder, Presagen
Sofihub
Smarter care alerts and notifications
Sofihub is a voice based hub that learns normal behaviours of residents and manages alerts and notifications based on “abnormal” behaviours. It is unique because it doesn’t require residents to wear any pendants or charge any devices and the primary interface is via voice. SofiHub is located with the Telstra backed accelerator Muru-D and is expanding its clinical base to include USA, UK, Singapore and New Zealand.
Presented by: Mr. Ian R. Aitken – CEO, Sofihub
Syntropy
Train your own personal AI Assistant
Computers are good at doing what they’re told, but telling them what to do is tedious. With Syntropy, you train your own personal AI simply by using your computer. It watches you while you work, and without any explicit programming, learns to automate your common tasks and processes, saving you time and increasing your productivity.
Presented by: Matt Way – Founder, Syntropy
Thinxtra
Connecting and empowering the Internet of Things
Thinxtra is rolling out the first nationwide Internet of Things (IoT) network in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, based on Sigfox technology. This is the missing link – connectivity – between things and platforms. The network will cover 95% of the population by the end of 2017. Beyond managing these IoT networks, Thinxtra is building an ecosystem of partners (IoT platforms, device makers, system integrators, consultants, and researchers) to enable mass deployment of Industrial IoT, to make IoT a reality.
Presented by: Renald Gallis – Co-founder, Thinxtra
Utillix
Less Obstruction. More Construction
Utillix has created a mapping application for underground utilities and services. The applications concept is based around a real-time visual presentation of underground infrastructure. Utillix can quickly convert outdated black and white drawings into a user friendly colour-coded, real-time format to mobile phones and tablets. Users can also do their own 2D drawings, upload photos and videos, provide geolocation, upload project documentation and make utilities live in real-time.
Presented by: Connor Hughes – Chief Technology Officer, Utillix
Xplor
Transform the ways we approach learning
When used purposefully, technology enhances the education experience. By streamlining certain tasks, teachers can spend more time with children, classrooms can run more efficiently and parents can quickly and easily communicate with teachers. We believe technology can never replace human relationships or experiential, in-person learning. Instead, it is a tool to support the growth of each individual child. Xplor is an end-to-end operating system that allows childcare centres to communicate in real time with the children’s parents by sharing photos, messages and videos while also accepting payments, monitoring data and managing reporting obligations.
Presented by: Mark Woodland – CEO, Xplor
Zeppelin Bend
Understanding energy
Zeppelin Bend is building a platform to support the development of next generation operational technologies for electricity distribution networks. Our technology is needed for electricity networks to adapt to distributed energy resources and variable renewable energy.
Presented by: William Tarlinton – Managing Director, Zeppelin Bend
