Professor Girish Dwivedi received the 2026 WA Pearcey Entrepreneur Award for AI-driven cardiac diagnostics and advancing Western Australia’s medtech ecosystem. The Award was presented at the 35th Incite Awards in Perth on 17th July 2026.
The Pearcey Foundation announced Jordan Green AM as its new chair, succeeding Wayne Fitzsimmons OAM, who led the Foundation from 1999. Helen McHugh, the immediate past president of the ACS (Australian Computer Society), has been appointed as a director.
Guest blog by Barbara Ainsworth
Trevor Robinson contributed to the development of computing in Australia for more than 60 years in many different areas
combining good technical knowledge with an understanding of the needs of the computer customers in a rapidly evolving computer industry.
After three years of national conversations, discussions, and debates it is very clear that Australia (and the rest of the world) needs to rethink the regulatory model and structures for our electricity system. What we have is not fit-for-purpose for the Consumers' Grid. It is not clear that our current regulators can reinvent themselves within their bureaucratic mandates to deliver an efficient and optimal future.
