Australia 4.0 Masterclass

Transition to Net Zero: The data story   &

The Opportunity for Australian ICT Innovation and Export

Dr Ian Oppermann, ACCC Commissioner will give a keynote address then join a panel of Australian and international industry and regulatory leaders discussing their perspectives and insights on the Digital & Data Lens, and how Australian ICT innovators can realise sovereign technology solutions with global application.

In 2023, Australia 4.0 Committee member, Tim Ryan, coined the term ‘The Consumers’ Grid’ to emphasise the unavoidable shift in architecture, logic, and technology to recognise the centrality of the energy consumer. Driving this transformation are the rapid adoption of renewable energy generation and the escalating penetration of Consumer Energy Resources (CER) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER) that include generation, storage, and a fundamental restructuring of the commercial model.

The Pearcey Foundation Australia 4.0 program has led many national discussions, roundtables, and debates using the digital and data lens to ensure the energy consumer has agency in this complex transformation. The diverse stakeholders involved, and the commonality of the need for technology to drive adaptation, saw the focus concentrate on digital and data innovation.

A key tenet that emerged from imagining the Consumers’ Grid is the agency afforded consumers in the design and operation of the transformed energy system. Australia continues to be at the global forefront of the grid transformation. Australia 4.0 identified the opportunity for Australian ICT innovation to solve our own challenges, then become the basis of sustained exports to help other countries in their transformations.

The panel will engage with audience questions submitted via the Q&A channel in Zoom.

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