The Tech23
AgriDigital
AgriDigital brings trade, finance and traceability into one global digital solution for supply chain from farmer to consumer.
AgriDigital’s cloud-based, blockchain enabled commodity management platform makes agricultural supply chains simple, easy and secure. Focussed on the grains and cotton sectors, AgriDigital enables its farmer, trader, buyer, processor and storage operator users to manage all of their contracts, deliveries, inventory, orders, invoices and payments in one place and in real time. We recently launched our first supply chain finance product for cotton growers and are now developing embedded supply chain finance and risk products for the grains industry.
AgriDigital is a leader in the application of blockchain technologies to global agricultural supply chains and in December 2016 facilitated the first sale and settlement of a physical agri-commodity between a farmer and a grain buyer on a blockchain. AgriDigital continues to develop whole of supply chain finance solutions for physical and digital assets.
Presented by: Bob McKay – Co-founder, AgriDigital
BindiMaps
BindiMaps is a mobile application which provides easy, safe indoor navigation: firstly for people living with some form vision impairment, and then for everyone else. We are committed to helping users find their way around our increasingly large and complex indoor spaces, such as shopping centres, transport hubs, educational institutions, hospitals, and other large complex buildings.
Presented by: Mladen Jovanovic – Co-founder & COO, BindiMaps
Civic Ledger
Founded in late September 2016, Civic Ledger is an Australian civic-focused blockchain company with a purpose to help governments globally solve complex business processes. We do this by assisting governments in digitalising their operations and services, using blockchain technologies where advantaged over traditional legacy systems. Our mission is to make people’s interactions with governments globally easier, faster, more secure and transparent. Civic Ledger’s vision is to have its blockchain infrastructure and applications used by some of the world’s largest governments; underpinning government transactions with citizens and organisations, and ultimately improving the customer experience in a digitalised society.
Presented by: Katrina Donaghy – Co-founder and Co-CEO, Civic Ledger
Daisee
Daisee enables companies to analyse every customer interaction in its call centers. The core issue is Quality Management and ensuring a consistent experience between all the calls that are received. We have developed AI-powered score cards that can replicate human-driven scoring with very high accuracy and repeatability.
Customers can monitor their compliance with regulatory requirements, and identify any issues as they arise. These issues include mis-selling, conduct risk and script adherence. This enables companies to correct issues in an expedient manner.
Customer experience can evaluated, and issues and complaints are easily flagged.
Agent performance can be compared, with training and other needs automatically identified, dramatically improving productivity.
Presented by: Richard Kimber – Co-founder & CEO, Daisee
EARTH AI
Minerals and Metals are getting more and more difficult and expensive to find, yet we are dependent on them to supply future industrial development.
EARTH AI invented new mineral targeting technology, capable of training on data-rich regions of Australia to find mineralisation in the most greenfield, remote areas, using Remote Sensing, Geophysical and Geochemical datasets.
Through feedback loop of industry trials and field testing, EARTH AI is now generating on-the-ground discoveries every fortnight for less than $15K, compared to traditional millions of dollars.
Since April we’ve discovered 9 brand new greenfield prospects with Copper, Zinc, Lead, and Vanadium mineralisation.
Presented by: Roman Teslyuk – CEO & Founder, Earth AI
Frontier Microscopy
Frontier Microscopy’s mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by equipping scientists with intuitive tools to simply automate any microscope analyses.
Scientists equipped with our inexpensive microscope hardware will use our cloud based automation software. This software allows scientists to configure how microscope samples are scanned and to control how the images from these scans are analysed by image processing and deep learning techniques.
Frontier Microscopy has also developed a simple management software to automate reporting and client management that will be integrated with the platform.
Presented by: Jordan Gruber – Founder & CEO, Frontier Microscopy
Fulcrum3D
Fulcrum3D produces and sells world-class technology for resource monitoring and forecasting in wind and solar energy projects.
We apply science and maths to stupidly hard problems. Then we build and execute secure end-to-end solutions.
Our four core products to date are:
- SodarF3D, which measures wind speed by emitting sound waves and measuring their reflections off the moving wind. It uses the doppler effect and serious maths to calculate wind speeds at multiple heights.
- CloudCAM for solar power forecasting.
- Solar monitoring.
- FlightDECK for secure data access, visualisation and interpretation from 150 resource and performance monitoring sites globally.
Presented by: Colin Bonner – Founder and Technical Director, Fulcrum3D
High Earth Orbit Robotics
Presented by: William Crowe – CEO, High Earth Orbit Robotics
Inventia Life Science
Presented by: Julio Ribeiro – CEO, Inventia Life Science
Livestock Labs
Presented by: Tim Cannon – CEO, Livestock Labs
loop+
loop+ is an activity tracker for wheelchair users that monitors health risks in everyday life. The platform is comprised of a sensor pad which remains in the wheelchair connected to a mobile app and dashboard for remote clinical monitoring. For the first time, wheelchair users who either can’t feel their lower limbs or are non-verbal and unable to communicate their discomfort, have a way to visualise what’s going on with their body. Remote monitoring supports early detection and intervention of pressure wounds, respiratory issues and scoliosis.
Presented by: Kath Hamilton – Founder, loop+
Microba
Microba is a microbial genomics company based at the Translational Research Institute in Brisbane. It specialises in gut microbiome sequencing using world-leading technology paired with expert data analysis. We provide services to individuals, healthcare professionals, clinical trials and researchers to investigate the gut microbiome and its links with health and disease. Taking a big data approach, we also combine our analysis potential with targeted investigations to create future diagnostics and therapeutics.
Presented by: Blake Wills – CEO, Microba
Moisture Planting Technologies
Presented by: David Finlay – Founder, Moisture Planting Technologies
Morse Micro
Morse Micro is an Australian startup reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things. We are building Wi-Fi chips that reach 10x further and lasts 200x longer than existing Wi-Fi solutions – on a single, tiny battery.
Presented by: Michael De Nil – Co-founder & Co-CEO, Morse Micro
Neighbourlytics
Powered by big data, Neighbourlytics’ proprietary technology gives citymakers real-time insights into the unique social life of the neighbourhoods they plan, create and manage. We have pioneered the use of social media and other unconventional information sources – such as reviews and ratings sites, travel wikis, mapping sites, and event promotion pages – to uncover what local people are doing, saying and loving in their neighbourhoods.
Since launching in 2017, Neighbourlytics has been identified as one of Australia’s most innovative ‘PropTech’ players. Used by property developers, government agencies, and facilities managers, Neighbourlytics is a fast, low cost, and scalable option for place measurement and monitoring.
NextAero
NextAero develops next-generation rocket engines that strive for high-efficiency and bring reusable vehicles to small satellite launchers. NextAero was co-founded by four PhD aerospace engineers and is based in Melbourne, Australia. NextAero’s mission is to enable transformative access to space; We want to create a world where any company, regardless of size, can make a business case in space.
Presented by: Graham Bell – Co-founder & CEO, NextAero
QuestaGame
QuestaGame creates fun, rewarding gaming technologies that help people discover, learn about, map and protect life on earth. With tens of thousand of players around the world, and the collective intelligence of thousands of experts, QuestaGame is a world leader in species identification and the largest provider of daily expert-verified biodiversity data in Australia.
Redback Technologies
Redback Technologies develop advanced, low cost smart energy solutions for residential and business customers. Redback’s market leading integrated hardware and software technologies captures, stores and manages solar energy, to deliver an accelerated return on investment.
Redback’s first product, the Smart Hybrid System has a streamlined design brings together power electronics, cloud control and integrated switchgear into one rapidly installed system, supported with best in class software for deployment and management of systems.
Presented by: Patrick Matweew – Managing Director, Redback
Slyp
Slyp instantly delivers an interactive smart receipt inside a customer’s banking app improving the post-purchase experience for customers and unlocking new value for retailers and banks. No more emailed or scanned receipts. With Slyp, customers pay as normal and can immediately view and interact with their receipt inside their banking app, anytime. Retailers gain insights on in-store shoppers, banks capture item-level purchase data, and customers stay organised. By re-imagining receipts, we’ve unlocked their missed potential and made them fit them into today's smart, eco-conscious world.
Presented by: Chris Wight – Head of Merchant services, Slyp
Split Payments
Split Payments seamlessly connects businesses and consumers directly with the Australian banking system - creating an entirely new approach to direct entry banking. We’ve created an Open Banking API that makes bank transfers faster, more visible and easier to manage than card payments - but with significantly lower transaction costs. When you combine this with sophisticated features including Direct Debit Consent Management and Instant Account Verification, the possibilities are endless. Our mission is to reimagine global banking infrastructures through deep tech innovation and create a new era of digital banking.
Presented by: Kristofer Rogers – CEO, Split Payments
Swoop Aero
Swoop Aero is an autonomous logistics business that provides airborne mobility as a service. Unlike road or sea transportation, airborne mobility reliably connects organisations to what they need, faster, on-demand, in a cost effective way.
We believe people everywhere should be able to access modern medicine, but the current methods of transporting samples and medicine do not enable provision of on demand healthcare for everyone. Swoop Aero is launching a fleet of drones to take medical couriers off the road, everywhere in the world.
Presented by: Eric Peck – CEO, Swoop Aero
The Big Crunch
The Big Crunch is the new home of data on the Internet. Videos have a home; photos have a home and maps have a home but data - numbers, charts, tables, infographics - are scattered throughout the web. The Big Crunch is the new destination platform that enables the collapsing of all the world’s information into a single place making it easy to find, use, share and embed. If you want a video to go viral, you put it on YouTube. If you want a pie chart to go viral, you place it among the rich data fields of The Crunch.
Presented by: Simon Raik-Allen – CTO, The Big Crunch
udrew
Udrew is a platform to allow homeowners and contractors without any technical skill to design, engineer and manage their own custom building project from start to finish. Udrew allows users to undertake this process for a fraction of the current costs and to receive instant council approval for small home improvements.
As projects are drawn 100% digitally, all materials, quantities and costs are calculated in real time. Materials are available to order at the click of a button, while all local and national regulations are checked in real time as the project is sketched.
With udrew, you can begin construction of your own project in minutes – not months – for a fraction of the cost and with 100% less headaches.
Udrew has recently had its pilot signed off with its first local government area and is scheduled to go live to the public in early 2019. It will stand as a world-first in instant structural engineering, government building and planning approvals.
Presented by: Tom Young – Founder & CEO, udrew
