Innovation

Emergency management needs real-time data to effectively communicate among the people involved, says Evacovation CEO Rashid Khan.

Together, we can make a louder noise and bring more people on the journey. The ecosystem we have created is open and easy. A small business can see what is relevant to them for their industry and size to help run the business so it looks after itself from an operational perspective and they can focus on the customer.

At 23, Hailey Brown has founded an assistive technology app that makes tourism more accessible for blind and low-vision travellers

DeFi is an umbrella term for a variety of financial applications in cryptocurrency, or blockchain, geared toward disrupting financial intermediaries. 

KOBA launched in November 2021 and is the first pay-per-kilometre car insurer in Australia to use a small monitoring device that plugs into a user’s vehicle. 

Paytime CEO Steven Furman is providing solutions for a growing movement in Australia that is wanting earned wage access. But don’t confuse it with pay in advance apps.

Whether eCommerce businesses are B2C, B2B, DTC, or a combination of all three, they will need to prioritise a cloud-native approach in order to stay ahead of the competition.   

For Australian B2B companies to survive and thrive in an increasingly digital world, digital must become part of the organisation’s core focus.

Today, virtually all new drug discovery and early-stage drug development happens in small biotech firms, with Big Pharma hungrily waiting for the new drugs to boost their shrinking sales as the patents on their existing drugs inevitably expire.

Health, medical and wellness businesses who aren’t already thinking about digitisation, need to start making this a priority.