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Industry Keynotes

Hear from Australia’s leading policy makers, innovation ecosystem builders, investment funds, and technology entrepreneurs

Sector Showcase

Presentations from Australia’s leading semiconductor, quantum, and photonics pioneers

Expert Roundtables

A Quantum Future

Australia’s role in the
quantum revolution

Australia’s
semiconductor
moonshot

Shaping policy and investment to drive in a new manufacturing era

 

Going global

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Funding and commercialising Australian innovation on the world-stage

The Scale-Up Lab

Semi-scale-ups pitch to leading VC funds and angel investors

Media Room

Interview room with Australia’s innovation and investment journalists

Post-event Networking Drinks

Raise a glass to Australia’s sovereign manufacturing future

VIP Dinner

VIP, sponsor and presenter dinner

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PROGRAM

8.00 am

registration

8.30 am

Welcome and introduction
- Stefanie Winwood, BluGlass
- Nadia Court, S3B
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10 mins

8.40 am

OPENING KEYNOTE: Peter Barrett, Playground Global​

20 mins

9.00 am

FEATURE PANEL: Australia's Semiconductor Moonshot - shaping policy & investment to drive in a sovereign manufacturing era

- Moderator: Corrie McLeod, Publisher, InnovationAUS.com
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Innes Willox, CEO, AI Group and Australian Super
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Damian Kassabgi, CEO, Tech Council of Australia
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Donna Looney, Head of International, Trade and National Security Division, Department of Industry Science & Resources

- Ken Morrison, CEO, NSW Government - Bradfield Development Authority
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Coby Hanoch, CEO, Weebit Nano

45 mins

9.45 am

Global impact company presentations

9.55 am

Morse Micro, Andrew Terry

15 mins

10.10 am

Weebit Nano, Coby Hanoch

15 mins

10.25 am

Electro Optical Systems

15 mins

10.40 am

Silex Limited, Michael Goldsworthy

15 mins

10.40 - 11.00 am

Interactive Q&A Panel with: Morse, Weebit, EOS, Silex

20 mins

11.00 - 11.30 am

Morning Tea

25 mins

SESSION TWO: Semiconductors power the universe

11.30 - 11.45 am

Sector opportunities, challenges and key trends - Jonathan Belz, BFA Global

15 mins

11.45 am

4DS, Peter Himes and Ting P Yen

15 mins

12.00 pm

BluGlass, Jim Haden

15 mins

12.15 pm

2D Generation

15 mins

12.30 pm

Archer, Simon Ruffell

15 mins

12.45 pm

Interactive Q&A Panel with 4DS, BluGlass, 2D Generation and Archer
Moderated by Ben Kitcher, Bradfield Development Authority

20 mins

1.05 pm

LUNCH

50 mins

2.00 pm

KEYNOTE: Australia's Chief Scientist, Dr Cathy Foley

20 mins

Session Three: Lightening rounds - Building strategic and sovereign capability

2.20 pm

Millibeam, Venkata Gutta

7 mins

2.27 pm

Syenta, Jekaterina Viktorova

7 mins

2.34 pm

Calumino

7 mins

2.41 pm

DeteQt, James Rabeau

7 mins

2.48 pm

Winner of the VC Pitch Lab

7 mins

3.00 pm

EXPERT ROUNDTABLE – Going Global. Funding and commercialising Australian innovation on the world-wide stage
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Marc Kennis, Managing Director, Pitt Street Research
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James Berman, Director, Corporate Finance, Bell Potter
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Nathan Simiana, Director, Smart Manufacturing, Deloitte

- Paula Adamson, CEO, Wrays
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James Walker, Chair, BluGlass
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Mike Nicholls, Partner, Main Sequence Ventures
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Pat Stewart, State Manager, Radium Capital

30 mins

3.30 pm

afternoon tea

30 mins

4.00 pm

Silicon Quantum Computing, Michelle Simmons

4.15 pm

Diraq, Andrew Dzurak

4.30 pm

Quantum Brilliance, Mark Luo

4.45 pm

break

4.55 pm

FEATURE PANEL: A quantum future - Australia's role in the quantum revolution
- Moderator:
Michael Falk, Chief Economist, IP Australia
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Michelle Simmons, CEO & Founder, Silicon Quantum Computing
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Mark Luo, CEO, Quantum Brilliance
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Rita Gatt, Partner, Deloitte
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Andrew Dzurak, CEO, Diraq
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Biliana Rajevic, Co-Chair, Australian Quantum Alliance, and Founder, Quantum Women
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Susan Travis, Head of Research, Tech Council of Australia

45 mins

5.40 pm

Closing remarks - Australia's semiconductor sector is a key economic building block with Nadia Court, S3B

10 mins

5.50 pm

Networking drinks
Welcome from Ken Morrison, Bradfield Development Authority

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