Scotty Allen 🚌

🚨 Are you treating AI like a tool or a risk? 📊 In regulated industries in Australia the difference between a win and a compliance problem comes down to governance and accountability. AI is not just about automation and efficiency It is about how you control it, explain it, and stand behind outcomes when it matters most. In regulated Australian sectors like healthcare, finance and insurance auditability, clear ownership and human oversight are not optional they are foundational to success. 👉 If you cannot answer what the AI did, when it did it, and why you are not ready to scale responsibly with AI. Read our practical guide on building AI governance that regulators respect and boards trust. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gRJGt6qF #AI #Governance #AustralianBusiness #Healthcare #Finance #Insurance #RegulatedIndustries #Automation #RiskManagement #Evolaition

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Intellectual assets sit at the heart of modern innovation, and having the capability to support clients in this area has never been more important. That makes this announcement particularly exciting, given the talented people and amazing clients at Pizzeys. It is a privilege to learn what another firm is doing to deliver an amazing experience for their people and great outcomes for their clients, and I'm looking forward to seeing how we can leverage this integration to take Griffith Hack to the next level. Welcome to the team Pizzeys Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys!

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Here's a free community for business leaders, founders & operators learning how to apply AI inside their teams and businesses. I'm opening up CodexLab Commons - a practical space for Australian SMBs to ask questions, compare notes, and work out what AI means for their business (if it even makes sense at all). 🔐 There's an application process because we're looking for people who are ready to learn AI, adopt it in practical ways, and are generous in sharing their learnings with the community. 👉 Apply: https://lnkd.in/gq8QQ7w3 Applications close 31 May. Inside, we’ll focus on practical questions like: - Where should I start with AI? - Where is my business wasting time on repetitive work? - How can AI help me grow my business? - Which tools are worth paying attention to? - What tasks or workflows could AI realistically improve? - How do I protect customer data and proprietary IP? - How are other businesses figuring this out in real time? Hope to see you there ☺️

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Microsoft recently hosted a handful of Aussie CEOs in Seattle to bring them up to speed on the ways AI will disrupt the workforce. The experience seems to have triggered some signficant and urgent changes in their world views. “I don’t know what our workforce looks like in five years, but what I do know is...jobs are going to look different...I’m also pretty confident that every job will need people to have some understanding of AI.” This was the word from Telstra CEO Vicki Brady told the summit. Matt Comyn (CEO of Commonwealth Bank) described the arrival of AI as a turning point that will underpin future economic development and prosperity. “I think it’s reasonable to say...there will be differences,” Comyn said of CBA’s workforce in five years. I'm working to address this issues by developing a training course that aims to be the simplest and most effective path to AI literacy. The last Beta cohort goes live tomorrow and I'll be opening up classes for July shortly. If you work with a computer, it's time to start thinking about re-training and deciding how you want to show up in tomorrow's workforce. The early bird will get the worm with this revolution. Let's go! 👊

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🔬 Funding Opportunity The CSIRO Kick-Start program supports innovative SMEs in undertaking early-stage research and development projects in collaboration with CSIRO, helping to explore new ideas, test concepts and advance technologies. 💰 Funding Matched funding of $10,000 to $50,000 for projects typically delivered over several months. ⏰ Deadline Applications are open year-round until funding is allocated. Australian Eastern Standard Time. 👥 Who can apply Eligible Australian SMEs with an innovative idea seeking to undertake R&D, working in partnership with CSIRO. 🧩 Support Access to CSIRO’s research expertise, facilities and capabilities to assist with feasibility studies, prototyping and testing. 🚀 How we can help At Acclivity Ventures, we work closely with organisations to identify suitable funding pathways and develop strong, competitive applications that maximise the likelihood of success. https://lnkd.in/eR6fJ8gJ #Innovation #ResearchAndDevelopment #SMEs #FundingOpportunity #Grants #StartupSupport #Technology #BusinessGrowth Eseroka Dafinone

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The Essential Eight is designed to reduce real cyber risk, not just satisfy compliance requirements. Yet many Australian businesses believe they are compliant while critical gaps still exist across access control, patching, backups, and user behaviour. We’ve published a practical guide explaining what Essential Eight compliance really involves, common mistakes SMBs make, and how to strengthen your security posture in a realistic and achievable way. If you want clarity on your Essential Eight maturity and practical guidance on how to improve it, Sentry Cyber can help. 👉 Get secured with Sentry Cyber and take the next step toward Essential Eight compliance: https://lnkd.in/gpKbU9Kb #EssentialEight #CyberSecurityAustralia #SMBCyberSecurity #CyberRisk #AustralianBusiness #CyberResilience #InformationSecurity

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SonderTech helps New Zealand small businesses make better use of Google Workspace AI, Gemini, and related Google tools to reduce admin, improve productivity, and streamline everyday workflows. Our practical, plain-English guide shows how businesses can save time, automate repetitive tasks, and get more value from the tools they may already be using. https://lnkd.in/ebgZzZUD

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This article considers the impact on cost management systems as machines and robots that currently require human engineers and programmers are replaced by autonomous AI agents. Will there be a return to a world in which most of the costs are ‘direct’, albeit in a non-human ‘digital labour’ form? Will there be no need to have allocations at all, if the cost of these agents can be captured at the granular transactional level? Are there any hiden costs associated with the wide-scale adoption of AI Agents across many industries? Read the full story : https://lnkd.in/gS967sZC

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🇦🇺 Thrilled to share this piece in the The Australian Financial Review by Tess Bennett about Sovereign Australia AI and the journey we're embarking on to build Australis - Australia's own foundational language model. I couldn’t be prouder to be building this alongside my mate and Co-Founder Simon Kriss This isn't just about building another AI model. It's about ensuring Australia maintains its digital sovereignty and voice in an increasingly AI-driven world. We shouldn't be dependent on decisions made in Washington, Silicon Valley, Beijing or Europe about how AI understands and represents our Australian culture, values, and way of life. Yet to achieve this isn’t easy and it takes scale to compete, so we’ve made a massive investment in compute and have acquired 256 NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs hosted in NEXTDC's secure Australian data centre in Melbourne, and managed by our colleagues at SHARON AI What makes me particularly proud of what we’ve done so far: ✅ Ethical from the ground up - We're committing $10M to compensate copyright owners, working WITH creators rather than against them ✅ Built for Australia, by Australians - From the ground up, built, trained and inferenced onshore, here in Australia, and compliant with our privacy and copyright laws ✅ Customers & Partnerships In Place - We partnering with some amazing Aussie organisations to help them solve some of Australia’s AI challenges. The partnerships we can speak about include ACS (Australian Computer Society), UNSW Canberra & GT Systems Australia, with more to follow! The path to digital sovereignty doesn't require billions, it requires vision, ethical principles, and the determination to ensure Australia's voice isn't lost in the global AI conversation. We're proving that sovereign AI can be built responsibly, affordably, and with respect for the creators whose work makes it possible. Australia's digital future should be in Australian hands. Let's build it together. 🚀 Special thanks to Craig Scroggie, Andrew Leece, Kieran Habojan, Dan Mons, Sudarshan Ramachandran, Rhod Brown, Brett Bonser, Melissa Hamilton, Josh Griggs, Rhett Sampson and so many more. #ai #sovereignai #llm #gpt #innovation #australia #australian https://lnkd.in/gnF8N3mR

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Introducing RFS #3: "Memory Layer for AI: context usable across various AI systems" by Jeremy Cabral, co-founder of Finder — Australia's largest comparison platform. We're partnering with elite Aussie founders to give hackers during FoundersHack direct themes and problem spaces they believe are important and under-explored. Why? To help you move beyond safe or incremental ideas. This is just a glimpse. We're releasing a new RFS video each day leading up to FoundersHack on March 19th. Register for FoundersHack via the link in the comments.

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Read my recent thought leadership piece on the need for APS to think differently on the challenges it faces in building the digital workforce … doing more of the same is not going to cut it!!! Chris Fechner

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SFIA Foundation Board - substantial changes: Chris Fechner has been elected SFIA Foundation Chair. Chris is the CEO of The Australian Digital Transformation Agency and Head of the Digital Profession. He has been a director of the SFIA Foundation for 3 years and has been the driving force in making SFIA easier to use. His position in industry ensures that SFIA maintains its focus on developing the skills and competencies for the professional digital workplace. Robert Deri, the past Chair, remains a director of the SFIA Foundation. We would like to thank Rob for his leadership over the last 3 years and his contribution to SFIA for 9 years. He has overseen the last 2 releases of the SFIA Framework and been instrumental in the internationalisation of the Board. We welcome the following new directors to the SFIA Foundation Board: Patricia Barlow, Head of Products, BCS, the British Computer Society Josh Griggs, CEO, ACS, the Australian Computer Society Sara Killingworth, PG Dip.M, FCIM, Portfolio and Product Management Director, IET, the Institute of Engineering and Technology Keith Reeves, Service Transition Lead, Digital Health and Care Wales and Director ITSMF(UK) The SFIA Foundation is a global not-for-profit foundation that develops and maintains the most widely adopted skills framework for the professional digital workplace. With a user base spanning over 180 countries, the the SFIA Foundation will further internationalise the board with additional directors who have an enduring interest and influence in developing the skills of the professional workplace. For further information visit https://sfia-online.org/en or contact ops@sfia-online.org. #SFIA, #digitalskills, #skills, #competencies, #professionalism

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We help Australian SMEs get measurable gains from targeted AI — not broad, unfunded overhauls. What does that look like in practice? Faster throughput, fewer errors, and staff time reclaimed for higher‑value work. How much? Typical outcomes we see: 20–40% throughput uplift, 30–60% reduction in routine errors, and dozens of hours per week returned to teams — numbers that matter when you’re regulated or short-staffed. Why this works: focused, risk-aware interventions, light-touch governance (CPS 230, ISO 42001), and hands-on optimisation that transfers skills back to your people. We bring big‑firm expertise with boutique agility, and we design for lasting impact. Curious whether a small, targeted AI project could move the needle for your finance, health, manufacturing or professional services team? Let’s talk. https://wix.to/qyuu1q2 🔍 #AIEmpowerment #SMEs #DigitalTransformation

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Fintech veterans Dominic Pym and Grant Bissett are on a mission to make Australian-built computers a reality with their hardware startup Caligra. The duo has opened pre-orders for their purpose-built workstations, designed for developers and designers frustrated by computers made for home entertainment. Most of the first production units are already spoken for, with Australian developers and tech enthusiasts driving early demand. The Australian-founded, London-headquartered startup quietly raised $1.9 million last year in a priced round led by Blackbird, and is now preparing for a seed round later this year. Read the full story by Bronwen Clune 👉 https://lnkd.in/gABrcsTs

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Have you ever found a product you want to use on-site — but you can’t find a reliable place to buy it in Australia, or you’re unsure if it’s compliant/suitable for the application? That’s one of the things we’re building at Rat Out. Alongside stocking core sealing and barrier products, we can help by: • researching options and suitable equivalents • checking available documentation (SDS/TDS, intended use, supply basics) • sourcing and supplying through a single point of contact If you’ve got something you’ve been chasing, comment or DM us a link/photo and we’ll take a look. #FacilitiesManagement #Electrical #Maintenance #TradeSupplies #Procurement #GetYaRatOut

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2026 is here, and AI web apps are the main character. 🤖✨ According to industry reports, the global AI market is projected to hit $1.8 trillion by 2030. Enterprises across New Zealand are already investing heavily in AI-powered chatbots, predictive analytics tools, and smart automation platforms. But here’s the real tea ☕ Launching an AI web app isn’t just “connect model → click deploy → done.” It’s strategy. It’s scalability. It’s security. It’s data governance. It’s user experience. It’s compliance. It’s performance under pressure. AI web applications are stealing the spotlight because they’re: ✔ Scalable ✔ Browser-based (no heavy installs) ✔ Real-time intelligent ✔ Accessible from anywhere But without the right roadmap? Even the smartest AI can flop. That’s why API Connects breaks down the 10 critical things you MUST figure out before launching your AI-powered web app in 2026 — from infrastructure planning to ethical AI frameworks. If you’re building in 2026, build smart. AI isn’t the future anymore. It’s the baseline. 🚀 https://lnkd.in/g9D8WEb9  #AIWebApp #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #AIDevelopment #WebAppDevelopment #AITechnology #PredictiveAnalytics

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Discover the latest IAM security trends in New Zealand. Learn how modern identity and access management services NZ help businesses comply with the NZ Privacy Act while enabling Zero Trust security. Read the full article 👇 https://lnkd.in/eMD56YKR #APIConnects #NZTech #NewZealand

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It is really important that we keep an eye on how the sectors that we regulate are currently using AI. We'd love to hear any reactions or feedback, this is obviously a fast evolving space so these reports will necessarily need to be updated regularly!

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