246 28 24 July 2017 - Steve Baxter set to be the next Queensland's chief entrepreneur (SmartCompany article)

4 July 2017 - US Award for Bill Caelli AO. Bill Caeli AO was awarded the Founders' Medal by the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE). (ACS article) ]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/246/undraw_Book_lover_re_rwjy.png page https://www.pearcey.org.au/blog/2017/2017-industry-news/ 2017-12-19 07:56:00 92 13 Emeritus Professor Mike Miller AO, Senator (retired) Kate Lundy and Helen Meredith were inducted into the Pearcey Hall of Fame.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/92/Kate-Lundy.png page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/national/pearcey-hall-of-fame/2017-pearcey-hall-of-fame/ 2017-11-02 12:15:00 98 12 Emeritus Professor Mike Miller AO was presented the 2017 Pearcey Medal by Dr Tim Wark, Director of Product, Programs & Marketing of Data61 at CSIRO.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/98/Mike-Miller.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/national/pearcey-medal/2017-pearcey-medal/ 2017-11-02 12:00:00 443 48
Sydney, Australia - 2 November 2017 - The Pearcey Foundation today announced its National Entrepreneur of the Year, Hall of Fame inductees and Pearcey Medal winner. The winners were presented as part of the ACS National Digital Disruptor Awards and Reimagination event held in Sydney on Thursday, 2 November 2017.

]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/443/2017-awards.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/blog/2017/australian-entrepreneurs-recognised-at-2017-pearcey-awards/ 2017-11-02 11:00:00 441 48 Pearcey Medal, Hall of Fame and National Entrepreneur of the Year Awards was held on Thursday 2 November in Sydney as part of the ACS 2017 National Digital Disruptor Awards GALA dinner program and REIMAGINATION Conference held at Sydney's Star, Pyrmont. ]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/441/2017-acs.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/blog/2017/congratulations-2017-awardees/ 2017-11-02 03:45:00 132 15 Airtasker co-founders Tim Fung and Jonathan Lui. Several other Awards were presented in a packed PowerHouse Museum on Tuesday October 24. The Pearcey award was presented by Chairman of Jobs for NSW and Chair of CSIRO David Thodey.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/132/Airtasker-boys.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/nsw/2017-nsw-award/ 2017-10-24 12:00:00 344 66 The Lucky Country Disrupted: Innovation, Collaboration and Competition in a 21^st Century Australia". The event was part of the Vic Government Digital Innovation Festival and was held at the Hub in Melbourne.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/344/dif-2017.png page https://www.pearcey.org.au/events/forums-and-roundtables/2017-a30-roundtable-innovation/ 2017-08-28 13:45:00 243 27 pioneering leader at the University of Melbourne and elevated to the Pearcey Hall of Fame in 2010. Prof. Poole's legacy will continue to influence the ongoing activities of the School of Computing and Information Systems, and the University of Melbourne as a whole.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/243/poole-peter-c1985.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/blog/2017/emeritus-professor-peter-poole-passes-away-august-2017/ 2017-08-19 08:48:00 121 10 presented by the Chief Minister, the Hon. Andrew Barr MLA. to joint winners as the judges could not distinguish between two highly qualified contributors to ACT's burgeoning ICT industry. The 2017 ACT winners were Phillip Williamson co-founder and Chief Innovator at Intelledox and Mark Riley, co-founder and CTO of ContentKeeper.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/121/ACT-2017-Winners.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2017-act-award/ 2017-08-15 13:15:00 244 7 Sandy Plunkett is perplexed by how entrenched Australia's "waiting for government" mindset is

When economists Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster released a study in 2015arguing Australia was a plutocracy where our richest amass their wealth by political connections rather than innovative endeavour, the struggling tech startup community should have been all over the data. ]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/244/Sandy-Plunkett-2017.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/blog/2017/innovation-in-a-handout-culture/ 2017-07-12 08:52:00 245 28 Sandy Plunkett shares her perspective on recent industry events and calls out how money, fame, power and hubris inevitably brings with it bad behaviour]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/245/gender-balance.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/blog/2017/beware-the-wolves-of-silicon-valley/ 2017-07-06 08:54:00 248 27 https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/248/Frank-Hirst.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/blog/2017/passing-of-frank-hirst/ 2017-07-02 09:11:00 205 19 https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/205/Matthew-Macfarlane.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/wa/2017-wa-award/ 2017-06-16 09:15:00 442 48 https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/442/2017-au.png page https://www.pearcey.org.au/blog/2017/2017-australia-day-honours/ 2017-01-26 03:59:00