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entX Principal Scientist (nuclear), Dr Massey de los Reyes. Pictured at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide.
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Will QuantX be SA's first unicorn?
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CEO Spotlight
The best decision I made in business
How BAE Systems is investing in inclusive technology
How Saber Astronautics is flying spacecraft from its Mission Control in Adelaide’s CBD
How entX is turning waste into life-saving cancer therapies
Taking on Temu: How Clevertar is revolutionising e-commerce
Volatile times call for innovative measures and collaborative futures
From too hard basket to game changing partnership
How incorporating product design at an early stage could change your growth trajectory
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Welcome to Boundless_04!
Diane Dixon Department of the Premier and Cabinet
Did you know, South Australia is leading the way in innovation, with 22 dynamic innovation places, including innovation districts, business parks and manufacturing precincts, accelerating growth and making significant global impact.
The Premier launched the nation leading SA Innovation Places Leadership Framework in late 2024, setting a strong policy position to support and grow sustainable economic outcomes from a range of locations.
To celebrate, we’ve expanded the remit of Boundless to tell the stories from across SA’s innovation places, shining a light on the talent and groundbreaking work happening across our state every day.
From quantum photonics to spacecraft manoeuvres, humanoid robots to medical isotopes, we’ve got cutting-edge innovations that will inspire.
Our front cover star is entX principal scientist Dr Massey de los Reyes whose team is revolutionising the sourcing of medical isotopes for cancer treatment on page 38. Representing Adelaide BioMed City, the company’s innovations are driving life-saving and real-world impact.
Boundless_04 is more of the good; celebrating bolder ideas, brighter collaborations, and the people making it happen.
I hope you enjoy the read and don’t forget to reach out to collaborate with the experts covered in this edition.
To find out more about SA’s innovation places go to innovationplaces.sa.gov.au
Professor Andre Luiten, Managing Director, QuantX Labs.
Will QuantX be SA's FIRST UNICORN?
From a flagship Cryoclock to sensors that can detect enemy submarines, this Lot Fourteen company is pushing the boundaries in its field.
Professor Andre Luiten knows that timing is everything – it’s what has driven his company QuantX Labs to become a world leader in precision timing and quantum sensing.
From a flagship Cryoclock that can deliver the world’s purest output signals for military radar, to sensors that can detect enemy submarines, the Lot Fourteen company is pushing the boundaries in its field.
Its groundbreaking technology developed in partnership with defence industry and researchers at the University of Adelaide has seen QuantX Labs’ combined annual revenue and workforce grow 50 per cent year-on-year since it was founded in 2017, with 40 employees operating at Lot Fourteen’s SpaceLab.
And 2025 is shaping up to be the launchpad for another defining period for the company which will test its optical atomic clock technology in space and launch its first ever capital raise to develop off-theshelf technologies for the commercial market.
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Professor Andre Luiten, Managing Director, QuantX Labs.
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We will do $10.5 million in business this year but it’s my ambition for QuantX Labs to be a billion-dollar company developing new technologies for critical civilian infrastructure.
Professor Andre Luiten, QuantX Labs Managing Director and Co-founder
Supercharge growth
Luiten, QuantX Labs managing director and co-founder, says the company is seeking up to $25 million to double the workforce by the end of the year, expand production in Adelaide and support a sovereign supply chain capability in Australia.
“We will do $10.5 million in business this year but it’s my ambition for QuantX Labs to be a billiondollar company developing new technologies for critical civilian infrastructure,” he says.
“We will go from a company that’s working with customers to deliver solutions to challenges they have identified, to a company that will take our suite of technologies and mature them to be products that are suitable for both civilian and defence needs.
“We will need to drop the cost of our products significantly and the way we can do that is to bring more manufacturing in-house instead of relying on long international supply chains – that will mean more people and a greater production capacity so we can produce at scale.
“Embarking on this capital raise is an exciting period for this business; it’s been quite unusual that we’ve managed to get where we are today without taking external capital.”
At the heart of the company’s innovation are ultra-accurate clocks to synchronise complex computing tasks and enhance radar tracking of military threats, and sensors to detect enemy submarines, find buried munitions or map minerals deep underground.
A world without GPS
A growing focus of QuantX Labs’ capabilities is the development of its portable next-generation optical atomic clock technology, named Tempo.
More than a new way of measuring time and locations with unparalleled precision, QuantX Labs’ network of these land-based optical atomic clocks could mitigate the vulnerability of GPS to jamming and spoofing attacks or loss of signal due to environmental conditions.
Last year, the company secured a landmark deal to sell its first TEMPO technology to the Australian Department of Defence for testing and evaluating of timing in critical defence hardware such as communication and navigation systems in a GPS degraded environment.
Everyone is walking around with a GPS receiver in their phone and so many facets of our modern society are all dependent on the availability of it.
Professor Andre Luiten, QuantX Labs Managing Director and Co-Founder
Initial testing of these first edition optical atomic clocks is showing significant performance improvement over the current microwave atomic clocks used in today’s Global Navigation Satellite System.
Optical clocks, which use light oscillating at higher frequency than microwaves, offer greater accuracy and stability than microwave atomic clocks.
Luiten says the vulnerability of GPS signals is a growing concern globally with many recent incidents, for example, of civilian aircraft having GPS signals jammed.
“Everyone is walking around with a GPS receiver in their phone and so many facets of our modern society are all dependent on the availability of it,” he says.
“Solving the problem should a GPS signal disappear is a focus of our company. It’s a challenge that the military is acutely aware of because they have people and assets in danger if GPS systems were to fail or be hijacked.
“The military sector understands the need to solve this issue of GPS denial, but actually it could be a much broader problem for civilian society as well.”
To the moon and beyond
A sub-system of their Tempo clock technology has undergone rigorous space-environment testing, and will be launched into orbit this year under the Australian Space Agency’s Moon to Mars program ahead of an expected full launch in 2026 in a major step towards Australian sovereign capability in space timing.
Future applications of the next-generation space timing could be the beating heart of a future timing network to provide sovereign GPS and navigation timing solutions for Australia, or enhanced autonomy and navigation in deep space.
The precise timing and security advantages that optical atomic clocks can offer will also be of increasing value in synchronising operations and data integrity of critical infrastructure such as data centres, Luiten says.
An eye on the sky
The company’s centrepiece, Cryoclock technology, has been developed for integration into Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN), which detects threats approaching Australia from the north.
At the heart of the clock is a 1400-carat man-made, cryogenically cooled sapphire crystal with a frequency instability that is equivalent to losing or gaining only one second every 40 million years.
The signal purity can deliver increased range and sensitivity of the JORN system enabling detection of the smallest targets.
The company has a long relationship with the Institute of Photonics and Advanced Sensing at the University of Adelaide, working together to develop a unique translation pathway to commercialise research outputs.
QuantX Labs is also home to RavensNest, an invention incubator for interdisciplinary research between academia, industry and DST Group at Lot Fourteen that will fasttrack transformative defence technologies from research to sovereign capabilities.
Professor Ariella Helfgott, Foresight Director, SA Futures Agency at The Studio: Frida Las Vegas, The Art Gallery of South Australia.
Volatile times call for innovative measures and collaborative futures.
An increasingly fractured global landscape – marked by geopolitical rifts, environmental stress, social fragmentation and rapid technological change, now threatens stability and progress.
That is the stark assessment of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025, which distils the views of more than 900 experts on the threats set to define the next decade.
Recent trade and tariff shocks have further thickened the fog, rupturing alliances that have underpinned growth and innovation.
Professor Ariella Helfgott might not have a crystal ball, yet for more than 20 years the South Australian futurist has helped organisations, governments and communities navigate turbulence through strategic foresight.
Innovating through uncertainty
Uncertain times present great opportunities to innovate and can foster new ecosystems fit for new futures and new ways of thinking, Professor Helfgott says.
“The danger,” Helfgott notes, “is that volatility scares people into clinging to the familiar. Yet the status quo is already dissolving; the safest bet is to prototype the future before it arrives.”
Professor Ariella Helfgott, Foresight Director, SA Futures Agency.
A globally recognised practitioner of strategic foresight and scenario planning, Professor Helfgott is global Director of Foresight and Strategic Learning in the World Energy Council (WEC), Director of Foresight and Decision-Making for the One Basin CRC.
She has also recently established the SA Futures Agency based at Lot Fourteen, aimed at helping organisations embed strategic foresight into strategy, and policy, and to create positive futures in her home state.
“Being based at Lot Fourteen we sit next to innovators like Convergen, who can help us turn participatory foresight into data rich visuals and immersive VR so people can walk through the futures they design.
Lot Fourteen is a living lab where deep tech startups, researchers, creatives and government collide to prototype tomorrow.”
What is Strategic Foresight?
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development describes strategic foresight as a “structured and systematic approach of exploring plausible futures to anticipate and better prepare for change.”
Over 90 per cent of major US and European companies had foresight in their operations,
with a third of those companies having a dedicated unit, according to the World Economic Forum.
Shell, World Energy Council, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Economic Forum, United Nations Development Program and global firms such as Deloitte regularly release publicly available scenario reports covering everything from climate and energy to technology, society, and geopolitics - whatever matters for making better decisions in the present.
For example, the WEC’s report Rocks and Rivers helps countries and companies navigate a fragmented global status quo while continuing to work towards clean, reliable, affordable energy for everyone in the world.
While, closer to home, the One Basin CRC is using foresight to foster new innovation ecosystems across the Murray Darling Basin with regional innovation hubs to promote thriving, resilient, prosperous communities in the face of changing climate, technological and workforce conditions.
For Professor Helfgott, the work of strategic foresight is about building future focused cultures and capabilities - not just for leaders and experts, but for everyone.
“My passion is making foresight accessible because the future belongs to everyone,” she says.
The future will be shaped not just by what happens to usbut by what we do about it, what we can imagine, and how we collaborate.
Professor Ariella Helfgott, Foresight Director, SA Futures Agency
Upskilling SA for success
“Anything could happen over the next few years,” Helfgott stresses - geopolitical shocks, economic swings, climate extremes. “Our collective capacity to navigate that uncertainty is now mission critical and there is no ready-made playbook.”
“Navigating deep uncertainty means innovating our way through it together, iteratively, catching the learnings as we go - and everyone at Lot Fourteen is part of that learning engine.”
Foresight, she adds, is action in the present.
“Scan early, surface weak signals, rehearse bold scenarios, and let them stretch what we think is possible - to inform both our aspirations and our strategies to achieve them.”
“It’s actually a change in culture: you’re changing from paying a consultant to give you the right answer - because no one can give you the right answer - and you need to engage with deep uncertainty, have difficult conversations, figure out what you want and navigate a future where everything is changing and you’re innovating as you go.”
She highlights that this is also why the practice of foresight, and the communities and cultures it requires, is not something that can just be outsourced to AI, though she does work closely with AI to augment collective human intelligence.
Her invitation is simple: every South Australian has a stake - and a role - in shaping the state’s next chapter.
Strategic foresight puts the pen in all of our hands.
Strategic foresight hinges on four fundamental questions of any organisation:
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WHAT DO WE THINK IS PROBABLY GOING TO HAPPEN?
Drawing from data, trends and mathematical models.
2. WHAT DO WE WANT OR NOT WANT TO HAPPEN?
Creating a safe space for people to articulate an aspirational vision of the future they want to live in.
3. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY OR PLAUSIBLY HAPPEN?
Exploring scenarios that map out the plausible future landscape decisionmakers are facing.
4. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
This is where insights are translated into action.
Professor Ariella Helfgott, Foresight Director, SA Futures Agency.
The best decision I made in business.
If you want a crash course in decision-making, start a business.
Navigating market fluctuations, managing cash flow, building standout products all while hiring, training and retaining talent are just a few areas founders and CEOs are getting gains when it comes to building their decision-making muscle.
Boundless spoke to seven business leaders from across SA’s innovation places to get the lowdown on the best decision they’ve made in their businesses so far.
Anton
Andreacchio
Co-founder
Convergen
The best decision we've ever made was to follow the paths that are right for us, instead of trying to be something we're not.
This seems obvious, but it's terrifically difficult given all the signals from markets and government programs, opinions from colleagues and friends, the expectations on startups, and the rapid pace of change in everything from technology to culture.
Add to that the unique challenges and opportunities of being based in South Australia.
Eventually we realised that we needed to think about things from first principles to come to our own conclusions. Ones we could truly stand by, especially when things got challenging.
That doesn't mean we stop listening, but rather that we balance the wisdom we can learn from others with our own hard-earned insights, which are shaped by our successes, and more importantly, our failures.
Julie Lawrie CEO & Cheerleader-in-ChiefAmplifyo
In our early-stage startup, we’ve built a strong network of experts ahead of key activities and new market entry. As software development rolls along, it’s meant that we can ride the momentum to release and launch, instead of waiting to activate strategic and channel partners at a designated release date in the future.
The side benefit is that we’re also learning from the market earlier, connecting into potential investor relationships, and accessing broader introductions to others.
The approach is inspired by thinking from the three-horizon model, but we’re also maintaining flexibility as we’re a startup that is quickly evolving to find market fit.
Dr Matthew Tetlow
Founder and CEO
Inovor Technologies
Kelly Yeoh CEO and Founder BlueDwarf
One of the most defining inflection points in Inovor’s journey was when we began to scale rapidly — and I knew the most critical decision would be choosing the right people to grow with us.
We focused on hiring people who are curious, resilient, and collaborative. We looked for those who didn’t just want a job in space — they wanted to shape the future of Australia’s space industry.
Building a trusted, high-performing team has been central to our growth and long-term sustainability. Attracting the right people starts with authenticity. When you’re clear about your purpose and culture, the right people find you — and together, we build world class technology that help improve and protect our way of life here on earth!
The best decision I’ve made in business was choosing to build with the right people. This isn’t just about strategy or innovation; it’s about surrounding yourself with those who contribute, collaborate, and move the company forward. Early on, I learned that not every partnership is the right fit, and the willingness to make tough decisions, such as walking away from those who hinder progress, can be just as important as the vision itself.
A company’s integrity is only as strong as the integrity of its team, because the team is the company. When the team is aligned in purpose, accountable in action, and committed to shared success, that's where magic happens. Protecting that foundation means holding high standards for who we build with and ensuring that trust, respect, and real contribution are at the core of everything we do.
Denham
D’Silva CEO and Co-founder
Deep Liquid
I find the best decisions often come from lessons learned through failure — and I’ve made plenty.
As founder of Barossa Valley Brewing, I saw the rise of social media but failed to fully leverage it. So, while we raked in awards and industry acclaim, this misstep impacted commercial success.
Determined not to repeat that mistake in the AI era, I partnered with the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, prior to ChatGPT, to launch the world’s first machine-learning-generated beer.
That step sparked the creation of Deep Liquid, a company pioneering AI-driven personalisation in food and beverage. We're building the flavour data infrastructure that could transform how products are developed, marketed, and enjoyed.
Schumann Rafizadeh
Director
One World LED
I decided to move our hi-tech businesses from the United States for design and innovation to Australia and for manufacturing to China after the last Global Financial Crisis.
This was the best decision I have made in business. We have been able to innovate, research and develop at higher efficiency in South Australia and manufacture at higher productivity while building new hi-tech industries of the future in Sports, Health and Digital Commerce. By migrating to Adelaide, we now live and work in the best places in the world, contributing to building our community, advancing our economy and enjoying the best family life!
Kingsley Hall Chief Executive Officer Micro-X
The best decision I make in business is to let great people do their jobs.
Never negotiate on the quality of your team. Surround yourself with great people — people who are much better at what they do than you could be. Then create an environment which allows them to perform at their highest level. And you never lose a great person — ever.
Line Zero: Factory of the Future, Tonsley Innovation Centre.
Photo supplied by BAE Systems.
BAE Systems is investing in inclusive technology
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The power of South Australia’s innovation places in realising economic prosperity for all is being showcased in an Australian ‘firstof-its-kind’ defence partnership at Tonsley Innovation District.
BAE Systems Australia, which will be a cornerstone tenant in Lot Fourteen’s Innovation Centre, has partnered with Adelaide-based cable supplier, MyModular, to trial a mobile micro factory to advance employment opportunities in South Australia’s ship building industry, and beyond.
The MyModular Inclusive Micro Factory aims to deliver efficiencies through just-in-time cable preparation for the program to build Hunter anti-submarine warfare frigates using an automated manufacturing solution specifically designed to be operated by people living with a disability.
The micro factory technology was successfully designed and tested with employees from disability provider, Bedford Group and Autism SA earlier this year, supporting BAE Systems’ ambitions to be the leading inclusive manufacturing provider for under-represented people in the defence sector.
The design and build of the six Hunter class frigates at South Australia’s Osborne Naval Shipyard constitutes the largest surface ship project in Australia’s defence history, creating thousands of jobs and supporting scores of local suppliers.
MyModular is the only sovereign manufacturing company providing modular and prefabricated electrical solutions to the construction industry, and they are located here in South Australia, and is a Partner on the Partnering4Success Program.
MyModular CEO, Mark Fahey, said the micro factory project aligns with his personal and professional passion for streamlining construction, and furthermore creating more inclusive workplaces and career opportunities to support people of all abilities.
Line Zero: Factory of the Future, Tonsley Innovation Centre. Photo supplied by BAE Systems.
The MyModular Inclusive Micro Factory.
(L-R) Mark Fahey, Managing Director and Bashir Derakhshanian, National Innovation Manager, MyModular.
“When we look at the cable cutting in shipbuilding it’s a pretty clunky operation and working with BAE Systems, we identified a real opportunity to innovate that process,” he says.
“With the micro factory, cables are put into a machine, they are cut to the length as needed, operators RFID tag them and they are ready to go for their intended purpose.
“There’s more than 700,000 metres of cable on each Hunter class frigate and there’s about 30,000 different cable cuts per ship.
“We have a significant resource pool of people living with a disability (approximately 19.6%); we can now offer purposeful, sustainable jobs through our micro factory, while freeing up resources at the shipyard and building capacity.
“I have a nine-year-old son who happens to have Down Syndrome which also opened my eyes to this opportunity and providing a career path and true independence for people like him into adulthood.”
Flinders University researchers supervised integration of the micro factory technology to ensure it could be used by people who are neurodivergent, or who have learning, cognitive, sensory or physical challenges.
Fahey says Flinders and Bedford were integral to the success of the project, adding that Bedford Group were doing an amazing job in helping to “change the
narrative” of what meaningful employment represents for people living with a disability.
“At the moment we’re using our micro factory technology for cutting cables but there’s so many potential applications; the software can be adopted for any type of manufacturing,” Fahey says.
“The technology is not only proven to be able to be used by people with all abilities, but it can also manage inventory, it has safety checks and quality checks to provide comfort to the end user.
“Now we want to take it from a great idea to a commercial outcome and we’re working with BAE Systems on that process.”
The micro factory has been trialled at Line Zero: Factory of The Future – developed by BAE Systems Maritime Australia in partnership with Flinders University, the Commonwealth Government and Government of South Australia.
Line Zero is a facility for industrial scale testing of new technologies and processes ahead of their use in the advanced manufacturing or shipbuilding industry.
A spokesman for BAE Systems Australia said the Company is working with its trusted industry partners to increase the resilience, capability, and capacity of the nation’s defence industry by partnering with small and medium enterprises like MyModular.
Winning your first enterprise customer can be a champagne-popping milestone for any small business. However, for founders who have traversed the wilds of jumping through all the hoops, while dotting Is and crossing Ts, it can be a gruelling process.
Whether you’re contemplating entering the defence prime supply chain to preparing for a competitive tender process, sometimes the customer acquisition process can be firmly placed in the ‘too hard basket’, especially if you’re early stage or a resource-strapped startup.
Outhire co-founder, Matt Bauer, however, has a different view after a chance encounter landed a meeting with dynamic AnglicareSA executive general manager for social enterprise, Dominic Gagliardi. Their meeting discussed key pain points when it came to recruitment for the social enterprise, but it didn’t end there.
(L-R)
Outhire Co-Founders, Matt Bauer and Will Russell.
Outhire
From too hard basket to game changing partnership
How Outhire recruited a customer with a surprising outcome.
The challenge
AnglicareSA employs over 2,000 staff and 300 volunteers to support more than 50,000 South Australians each year through a multitude of social service programs.
“The challenge for not-for-profits is finding the right people for roles like aged care or childcare, who may not be on LinkedIn or Seek. The People & Culture Team has a big focus on staff retention and growth within Anglicare,” says Gagliardi.
“In the post COVID environment, turnover was at an all-time high, and coupled with restrictions on visa regulations, it became clear that a fresh approach was needed to attract and retain talent,” says Gagliardi.
“With bulk recruitment, an efficient process that moves quickly from screening to reference and medical checks was required,” says Gagliardi.
“Since candidates often apply to multiple organisations offering similar pay and benefits, speed — from application to first shift is the real challenge.”
The solution
Based at Stone & Chalk’s Startup Hub for a year, Outhire started out with a simple offering, providing job descriptions powered by AI.
Through its strategic collaboration with AnglicareSA, the company uncovered additional opportunities to address customer pain points and create even more impactful solutions.
Over the eighteen months of supporting AnglicareSA’s recruitment and retention, Outhire has completely transformed its recruitment platform and is gearing up for growth both in Australia, Europe and the US.
Outhire has added increased functionality and features, all the time learning and gaining invaluable insights from AnglicareSA, building out their tech to directly solve the organisation’s needs in real time.
Now Outhire’s platform can help similar large organisations to showcase their unique culture and attract top talent. Combining AI-powered job description creation, dynamic social media job ads, and authentic employee storytelling, its AI Recruitment Assistant makes hiring smarter, faster, and more human.
Outhire now provides a service to customers facing similar challenges in the market.
An iterative approach
“Our journey with Outhire has been a rewarding process of growth and collaboration over an extended period of time,” says Gagliardi.
“By offering valuable feedback to startups, we drive their growth and innovation, while simultaneously enhancing their ability to succeed in tenders. This partnership not only accelerates their success but strengthens our position, creating a mutually beneficial pathway to sustained competitive advantage.”
Key learning points
When it comes to enterprise-level companies working with startups, Gagliardi says, “be persistent, ensure your procurement policy is flexible, get support from your CEO and Board and understand your role in supporting the communities you serve.”
“My advice for startups is to be flexible in who you approach in an organisation and don’t be put off by long delays, honest feedback or non-action.”
Gagliardi encourages startups to, "stay openminded about how you evolve your business, while focusing on building something simple and impactful from the start."
Bauer says, “working with large organisations presents great opportunities, as we navigate key processes like procurement, ISO standards, security, and waiver requirements to ensure long-term success and compliance.”
He suggests that startups, "launch a pilot, be patient, and leverage networking to gain exposure to other organisations by travelling, seeking introductions, and focus on creating meaningful solutions rather than just features."
By supporting startups, we can create lasting social impact.
Dominic Gagliardi, AnglicareSA Executive General Manager for Social Enterprise
Alex McConville, Stone & Chalk startup success manager says this customer story is exactly the type of working relationship that can be a win-win for startups and enterprises.
“The partnership highlights how agile startups can be, injecting innovation where its most needed. We look forward to seeing how Outhire continue to grow and scale.”
Outhire is a recent recipient of Seed-Start funding receiving $90,000 from the Department of State Development which will support its US market entry and achieve industry compliance for data protection and privacy.
AnglicareSA continues to be a proud supporter of Adelaide's thriving startup scene, “we’re excited to connect with innovative minds, drive meaningful change. We’re looking into exploring more opportunities to work with companies at Lot Fourteen.”
“By supporting startups, we can create lasting social impact,” says Gagliardi.
How Saber Astronautics is flying spacecraft from its Mission Control in Adelaide’s CBD
Streaking overhead is a rapidly growing constellation of satellites whose planetary orbit silently influences our daily life.
Whether it’s helping us navigate unfamiliar roads, helping us decide if we should pack an umbrella or yielding more insights about the natural world around us – there’s a satellite for that.
And with more than 10,000 satellites operating and nearly 80,000 new satellites predicted to be launched by 2032 – how do you safely launch your spacecraft and keep it airborne?
Meet global space operations provider, Saber Astronautics, who are flying and monitoring spacecraft from Lot Fourteen and supporting mission development from concept to execution.
Founded in 2008, Saber established its Adelaide operations in 2020 and describes its mission as the democratisation of space.
Central to Saber’s capabilities is the operation of the Responsive Space Operations Centre (RSOC) within the Australian Space Discovery Centre at Lot Fourteen.
Opened in 2021, this mission control centre combines space domain awareness, command and control, and space weather into a single operational solution for private and public customers.
With the RSOC program, Australian companies can design and fly their missions from one place providing them access to the program’s advanced operational capabilities.
Saber’s RSOC supports satellites from CubeSats through to the world’s largest commercial low-orbit communication satellites.
The number of objects in the sky is increasing rapidly, both space junk and active satellites. We need to monitor every object and predict their movements far into the future.
Dr Alexander Green, National Director, Saber Astronautics Australia
Dr Alexander Green, National Director, Saber Astronautics Australia.
Satellites the size of tennis courts
Measuring about the size of a tennis court, each of the five satellites, launched in September 2024, will deliver the first and only spacebased cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones.
There’s a good chance you’ll see them in the night sky as their 60sqm antennae when deployed shine brighter than most of the brightest stars in the solar system.
“These satellites will act as cell phone towers in space and transmit 4G and 5G to your phone without any upgrade to your hardware, that is revolutionary,” Dr Alexander Green, National Director - Saber Astronautics Australia said.
“Effectively you’ll have cell phone coverage around the world, even in the middle of the ocean, once the full constellation is in operation.”
With an RSOC also located in Boulder, Colorado, and a satellite dish network of more than 200 in its network, Saber provides a global “follow-the-sun” service for satellites.
"We use our spacecraft operations centre for two main purposes: supporting our customers as we plan and operate their space missions, and monitoring the entire catalogue of space objects orbiting earth to protect our customers assets, which is known as Space Traffic Management," Dr Green says.
Video-game-like
interface
Saber’s mission is the democratisation of space, reducing barriers to flight and “making space as easy as driving a car.”
Key to that mission is their space operation software PIGI, or the Predictive Interactive Ground-station Interface, which uses a videogame-like interface, that is easy to learn but powerful enough to provide operators with all the real-time data to run a mission.
It represents a fusion of the latest techniques in human factors, artificial intelligence and dynamic 3D data visualisation, making it easy for spacecraft operators to monitor, fly and rapidly diagnose faults in spacecraft systems.
“It drastically reduces the months long process of training an operator to command a spacecraft, using similar principles as you would have when learning to play a video game,” Dr Green says.
“The software has drastically reduced barriers to entry for operating spacecraft; operators can open up the browser and use the same tool that is also used by the US Space Force.”
Dr Alexander Green, National Director, Saber Astronautics Australia.
Designing missions and spacecraft
In addition to its focus on Satellite Operations and Space Traffic Management, Saber also supports its customers in designing their missions and spacecraft using Saber’s Mission Forge program.
“This is about taking complex design ideas and testing them in a simulated space environment where users can create constellations and mission paraments and we can produce a report sent straight to the clients’ inbox,” Dr Green says.
Clients and government agencies can access Saber’s software development and spacecraft design facilities at their Adelaide HQ at Lot Fourteen.
Taking the ‘night shift’
Saber has been a long-term partner of the US Space Force with the Adelaide team providing ‘night shift’ space traffic management and mission assurance services when their northern hemisphere counterparts in Boulder, Colorado are asleep.
With the rapid growth of the space industry and space flight, Saber secured a $1.25 million grant from US Space Force in January 2025 to develop tools to automate space operations and enhance risk-mitigation of objects in orbit.
Codenamed ‘Windu’, this ‘Digital Guardian’ will use automation and machine learning to automate the processes of gathering evidence of important events that can affect flight safety, greatly increasing the output of individual human operators through the press of a button.
“The number of objects in the sky is increasing rapidly, both space junk and active satellites. We need to monitor every object and predict their movements far into the future. We also need to automatically detect and then report bad actors, of which Saber is at the forefront with both Windu and existing tools,” Dr Green says.
“This year is a year for growth for Saber, we’ve been bootstrapped, and we’re looking to change that this year and grow the business,” Dr Green says.
“We need a lot more staff to service a fast-growing sector and to build all the cool things we have been dreaming about for years.
“Being based at Lot Fourteen is great as we have direct access to the Australian Space Agency, the Bureau of Meteorology and the facilities are top notch and easy to get to.”
Dr Green acknowledged the work of outgoing national director, and predecessor Andreas Antoniades, and well-known and regarded face around Lot Fourteen, stating that, “he has been integral in helping establish and grow Saber Astronautics’ Australian operations.”
CTaking on Temu
How Clevertar is revolutionising e-commerce.
If Clevertar was an animal, it would be a dolphin.
This is the response Boundless gets when entering frivolous prompts into Clevertar’s AI powered virtual assistant, Eva, prior to meeting with the startup’s human CEO, Marshall Cowan.
The reason, Eva explains, is that “with their intelligence, friendliness, and ability to communicate effectively, dolphins beautifully embody the essence of Clevertar’s innovative and conversational AI solutions.”
What an answer. I’m impressed with her corporate communications nous.
Clevertar, a new resident of the Stone & Chalk Startup Hub, has achieved significant milestones. Through a partnership with MATE telecom, its AI agents are now available in over 160 Officeworks stores nationwide. Additionally, Clevertar recently secured a contract with the Australian Bureau of Statistics to support Australians via the 2026 Census website.
A spin-out of Flinders University, Clevertar is the brainchild of its chief technology officer Martin
Luerssen in 2012, who has a PhD in Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning.
Ten years and some significant pivots later, the company has moved from healthcare avatars to e-commerce chatbots and AI agents.
Eva, Luerssen, Cowan and the growing team are onto something.
Experts predict the global e-commerce market will surpass $6.86 trillion in 2025, and AI is expected to be worth $22.17 trillion to the global economy by 2030.
AI agents are the basis of Clevertar’s product for e-commerce, Conversagent. Its agentic AI is designed to autonomously perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with its environment to achieve specific goals.
Marshall Cowan, CEO, Clevertar.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, at least 15 per cent of day-today work decisions will be made autonomously through agentic AI, up from 0 per cent in 2024.
The intersection between these global economic shifts is where Conversagent is kicking goals.
Conversagent is an AI-powered shop assistant that boosts Shopify stores’ conversions, while reducing the need for support.
The proactive tool engages with customers with personalised, in-store-like experiences that guide them to purchase while learning their preferences — all with smart, reliable AI.
“Our technology helps customers make more informed purchase decisions,” says Cowan, explaining that buyers are four times more likely to purchase products when engaging with their agentic AI.
“We have an average of 15 per cent conversion rate for customers engaging with the agent, compared to the industry standard of approximately 3 to 5 per cent.”
One of Clevertar’s customers, Video Guys Australia, has a conversion rate of 26% and an average order value increase of 150% for AI shop assistant users.
Early adoption of generative AI, Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Processing and early access to GPT-3 have helped Clevertar’s first mover advantage business strategy, winning large contracts as they’ve continued to expand.
Marshall Cowan, CEO Clevertar.
For every $92 sellers spend at topof-funnel marketing, i.e. driving web traffic, only $1 is spent on converting them.
Marshall Cowan, CEO, Clevertar
In 2021, they developed the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census chatbot and implemented agent AI for the Government of South Australia’s COVID Response Hotline.
Shopify is a key target for the startup, with its recent acquisition of the highly sought after ‘Built for Shopify’ badge. The accreditation is the highest level of recognition for apps and reflects commitment to delivering an outstanding user experience, exceptional performance, and thoughtful design meeting customers' needs.
“Our tool is embeddable and can sit directly on e-commerce product pages,” says Cowan.
“It engages with customers, asks questions and helps locate the right product fit for the customer.
Conversagent offers an exceptional customer experience throughout the buyer journey, through awareness, consideration, purchase and post-purchase.”
Clevertar has recently pivoted its business model after some research with client, Bupa, determined, it made little difference whether prompts were inputted via a text box or an animated avatar.
“Animated characters can impact engagement and stifle conversational flow.
Anchor visualization is an important component helping users connect, but it doesn’t need to be a character.
Conversational flow is powered by large language models (LLM), offering a superior customer experience.
Clevertar is LLM-agnostic, integrating with varying models while providing more surety around speed and responsiveness.
There’s plenty of opportunity here, with over 28 million e-commerce stores globally, with varying marketing budgets.
For every $92 sellers spend at top-of-funnel marketing, i.e. driving web traffic, only $1 is spent on converting them,” says Cowan.
“Major shopping events like Black Friday attract customers, but sellers often forget to optimize as customers land on their product pages. When I talk about optimisation, I include customer engagement, personalisation, and opportunities for retailers to build better customer experiences and brand loyalty.”
Clevertar are a smart bunch and are at the forefront of providing cutting-edge tech to national organisations to e-retailers competing against the likes of Temu and Shein.
But Boundless needs to get a little deeper… what if Clevertar were to be a food?
Eva, her ever professional self, states, “it would be a vibrant fruit salad! Full of diverse, fresh, and colourful ingredients, it perfectly represents the variety and creativity that Clevertar brings to the world of conversational AI. ”
And she couldn’t be more right. Welcome to Lot Fourteen, Clevertar!
How entX
is turning waste into life-saving cancer therapies
Dr Massey de los Reyes, Principal Scientist, entX at SAHMRI.
South Australian researchers are spearheading ground-breaking research in cancer treatment by producing the critical ingredients needed to deliver potentially lifesaving therapies.
Adelaide clean technology company entX Limited, through its nuclear medicine business IsoMedica, is developing technologies to feed the booming demand for medical isotopes amid ongoing geopolitical disruption to global supply chains.
At the core of their research is production of radioactive isotope lead-212 for use in targeted alpha therapy (TAT) of cancers such as prostate and neuroendocrine tumours, and the supply of ytterbium-176, a critical precursor for tumour-seeking isotope lutetium-177.
Lead-212 is a promising alpha-emitting radioisotope for TAT, which aims to selectively destroy cancer cells while minimising damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
Due to political tensions increasing the risk for major supply of lead-212, entX is using a novel approach to extract the isotope from precursor thorium-228, from mineral and resource waste streams to feed the growing lead-212 demand.
“By using a unique chemical process to extract materials from waste streams in Australia, we can help meet the global demand for cancer treatments,” entX principal scientist Dr Massey de los Reyes says.
Dr de los Reyes heads a team of seven scientists and engineers conducting IsoMedica’s lab research at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) at innovation place: Adelaide BioMed City.
She says IsoMedica’s innovative approach of sourcing thorium-228 from industrial waste materials, is helping revolutionise production of lead-212.
Unlike traditional methods that rely on reactor-derived thorium, the company’s process isolates the isotope more purely, offering a reliable solution to meet the growing demand for cancer treatments.
entX.
Why IsoMedica’s work is unique
“This project is exciting mainly because of our unique approach to purifying thorium-228,” says Dr de los Reyes.
“Presently, the main source of thorium-228 is obtained via reactor irradiation, with the US Department of Energy being a key supplier. However, access is limited.
“Our process isolates thorium-228 from naturally occurring radioactive materials found in soil and rocks, providing non-reactorbased thorium-228 that only a handful of specialised reactors can otherwise produce.”
Dr Massey de los Reyes, Principal Scientist,
IsoMedica collaborates with partners such as Tellus Holdings, which operates Australia’s only licensed low-level radioactive waste repository in outback Western Australia, that supports isotope access.
As TAT clinical trials advance toward regulatory approval and market entry over the coming years, demand for lead-212 and thorium-228 will soar, meaning a safe and consistent supply is critical for patient accessibility and future TAT adoption.
With most of the current global supply of ytterbium-176 accessed from Russia, securing an independent and reliable supply chain is critical for maintaining the stability of the larger lutetium-177 market.
The demand for lutetium-177, used to treat neuroendocrine tumours and prostate cancers, is driven by a strong pipeline of approved and pending radio-immunotherapy drugs including over 100 clinical trials globally with supply chains struggling to meet demand, entX says.
Ytterbium-176 is found in several rare earth minerals, such as monazite, euxenite and xenotime, which are abundant in Australia.
“By refining our isotopic purification process and building strong relationships within the global supply chain, IsoMedica is positioning itself to ensure a reliable and independent source of isotopes,” Dr de los Reyes says.
This project is exciting mainly because of our unique approach to purifying thorium-228.
Dr Massey de los Reyes, Principal Scientist, entX
Dr Massey de los Reyes, Principal Scientist, entX.
A personal battle with cancer
For Dr de los Reyes there is a more personal motivation behind her company’s cuttingedge research and ensuring patients can have consistent, reliable and affordable access to the very best cancer treatment.
“My mother had both breast and ovarian cancer; watching her go through that was incredibly difficult, but I’m grateful that she’s been in remission for some time now,” she says.
“Everyone is touched by cancer in some way, whether personally, through a family member, or a friend. Giving people the chance to have their loved ones around longer is truly a powerful motivator for our team.”
entX research focuses purely on production of the isotopes. The company is not undertaking clinical radiopharmaceutical trials.
Company growth
In June 2024, entX was awarded a $1.9 million Economic Recovery Fund grant by the South Australian Government to be matched by entX to build a medical isotope production facility.
The company has secured a warehouse north of Adelaide and is in the process of obtaining the necessary permits for the facility.
entX also received a $2.9 million grant by the Federal Government to advance its ‘Mines to Medicines’ project, creating a sustainable sovereign supply chain for lead-212.
The company estimates the addressable market for lead-212 is projected to reach $300 million by 2030, driven by the expansion of clinical trials and expectations that supply constraints will ease.
Ytterbium-176 is estimated to represent a $1 billion addressable market by 2032.
Dr de los Reyes says access to a thriving ecosystem has been crucial to their development through MTPConnect's Adelaide Intermediary Program (AIP).
"The commercialisation expertise and industry connections we've made with MTPConnect's AIP team will have a significant impact on a successful market entry.
“Their guidance has accelerated our ability to develop a critical sovereign supply capability that will support the burgeoning radiopharmaceuticals sector in the region and attract investment, highlighting the importance of such collaborative networks in driving innovation forward."
Beyond cancer treatment, entX is also collaborating with NASA to develop radiation heat units to protect electronics during lunar exploration, helping to keep them operational in the extreme cold of space.
Dr Massey de los Reyes, Principal Scientist, entX.
Jim Hannon-Tan Designer and Victoria Aceiro, Industrial Designer, Jim Hannon-Tan.
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How incorporating product design at an early stage could change your growth trajectory.
Jim Hannon-Tan
Jim Hannon-Tan’s industrial design career spans nearly three decades and he has shaped the products of some of the largest brands.
Working with leading European design houses, his diverse client list has included Louis Vuitton, LG Electronics, Unilever, EPSON, Tefal and KLM Airlines.
From a whimsical crocodile-shaped nutcracker designed for Italian homeware company Alessi to award-winning lighting solutions for Schneider Electric, his creations blend innovation with craftmanship.
Educated in Adelaide and Melbourne and honing his craft in Europe, it was the desire to swap the grey London skies with the blue skies of Australia that compelled Hannon-Tan to return home to Adelaide. Five years ago, he established his design studio at Flinders University’s New Venture Institute in the Tonsley Innovation District at the centre of South Australia’s advanced manufacturing industry.
Design isn’t just about decoration; it’s the glue that holds a vision together.
Jim Hannon-Tan Designer, Jim Hannon-Tan
Design as a gut feeling
There he is applying his expertise to a field far removed from luxury furniture or consumer electronics – medical technology – and quietly advocating for design to have a greater role in South Australia’s innovation sector.
Hannon-Tan is the design force behind Alimetry, a New Zealand startup pioneering non-invasive body surface gastric mapping to provide insights on gastric function.
It’s his experience with Alimetry which Hannon -Tan believes is a case-study in the power and value of founders embracing design as a core component in their innovation product journey.
At the heart of Alimetry’s innovation is the Gastric Alimetry – a sleek, lightweight wearable sensor that attaches like a waistband recording gut activity and providing faster, more comfortable diagnoses for patients.
“It was a new experience for me,” Hannon-Tan says of working with a medical device startup.
“Usually, an established company will come to you with ideas around the brief; but as I had some equity in the project, I was empowered to really shape the solution.
“There’s a real case for design in the C-suite – not as an afterthought, but as a strategic driver that can lift a company from good to game-changing.”
Since Hannon-Tan joined Alimetry’s two founders in 2019, the fast-growing medical startup has expanded to 65 employees across four continents, secured an oversubscribed $28 million Series A-2 funding round, achieved four US Food and Drug Administration clearances for the Gastric Alimetry device and completed more than 30 clinical studies to validate its technology.
Award-winning collaboration
Hannon-Tan earned a Gold Award in the medical devices category of the Australian Good Design Awards for Gastric Alimetry highlighting the advantage of integrating a design team within an organisation’s leadership structure.
Initially, Alimetry’s concept, though technically sound, was bulky and impractical with the Printed Circuit Board resembling a “brick” when Hannon -Tan was called upon to help on the design.
Through a deeply collaborative process, Hannon-Tan and his team worked with Alimetry’s engineers and business leaders to refine the device into a sleek, user-friendly solution.
His input extended to branding, digital design, packaging, and even company culture, ensuring a cohesive vision across all touchpoints.
“I feel the success of my contribution to this company stems from the value the founders placed on good design,” Hannon-Tan says.
“Successful outcomes hinge on close collaboration and a deep understanding of both the users’ needs – in Alimetry’s case the patients and clinicians –and the product’s technical requirements.
“As for aesthetics, which is what most people assume design is, when the puzzle of human needs, technology and business strategy fit together well, the result is a beautiful product.
“Design isn’t just about decoration; it’s the glue that holds a vision together and amplifies its potential and if you want to compete on a global level, it certainly helps if the product is beautiful.”
As well as his work with Alimetry, Hannon-Tan’s team has also designed the hardware for a remote foetal monitoring device for Melbourne medical startup Kali Healthcare.
Jim Hannon-Tan
The power of design to transform lives and economies is something that has occupied Hannon-Tan’s thinking particularly in the context of South Australia’s shift from traditional to advanced manufacturing.
“Global innovation hubs, from Silicon Valley to London, have well-established, design-centric entities like IDEO, Fuseproject, and Layer Design,” he says.
Designing the future of our state
In 2018, the State Government enlisted Hannon-Tan and creative industries consultant Joe Hay to advise on the value of design and its role in supporting diversification of the former auto supply chain in South Australia.
In their report they said a design-led process would be key to translating the “raw science and technology of the state’s innovation programs into competitive, human-centred products able to be manufactured locally."
Good product design they said, “improves products and brands by asking questions such as why a product is being made, who is going to use it and what makes it more attractive to the consumer than competing products."
“These organisations underscore the importance of design in technological and business innovation, further evidenced by the UK’s explicit four-year design strategy.” Jim Hannon-Tan Designer and Victoria Aceiro, Industrial Designer, Jim Hannon-Tan.
Seven years since that report, Hannon-Tan says while he was inspired by the growth of SA’s innovation framework there remained a gap in how design is incorporated into the state’s strategic focus.
“Design in Australia doesn’t carry the same deep-rooted identity it does in a place like Italy,” he says.
“As a frontier nation, we lean pragmatic — focused on inventing and solving problems. Italians, with millennia of craftsmanship behind them, have honed making into an art form.
“But here’s the rub: to marry our innovative spirit with global markets, Australian design needs to be world-class.”
The collab bridging the robot — human language gap
(L-R) Jonathon Wotton Leader –Centre for Information Integrity & Defence MITRE Australia, and Dr Feras Dayoub, Head of Embodied AI and Robotic Vision Research Group, Australian Institute for Machine Learning.
The sophistication and application of autonomous systems is accelerating at an exponential rate transforming how we move, work, and interact with the world and people around us.
Even this article has been brought to you with the help of a speech-to-transcription service that uses machine learning technology to transcribe spoken words into text in real-time.
And while it’s not pitch-perfect in accurately interpreting language, it does a more than admirable job in documenting discussions and summarising key points.
As humans become more reliant on autonomous systems and artificial intelligence – whether consciously or not – how do we make machines more reliable and their interactions more human-centric?
How do we ensure that an autonomous car or plane will respond to our instructions and get us to our destination safely?
Or that an assistive robot for the elderly and disabled can communicate with its clients in a more human-like way?
Human-machine collaboration
Enhancing this human-machine collaboration is the focus of research at Lot Fourteen between MITRE, a not-for-profit research and development organisation in the US, and the University of Adelaide’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML). AIML operates at the cutting-edge of AI research and has developed several avenues to facilitate the transfer of that knowledge between Australia and the US.
The research builds on a partnership signed in 2022 by MITRE with the University of Adelaide focussed on building Australia’s AI capabilities for future security and prosperity.
“By developing and enhancing the ability of autonomous systems, such as robots, drones, and self-driving cars, to interpret their environment using sensory data, we can help them interact with the world in a more human-like way,” says Jonathon Wotton, Leader of Mitre Australia's Centre for Information Integrity and Defence.
“This will help systems become more intuitive, safe, and capable of working alongside humans, improving both the efficiency of their operations and the quality of their interactions with people.
“We’re not there in some ways and this research will hopefully help to solve that challenge.”
The 18-month research project will be conducted at AIML in Adelaide.
The outcome of the research with MITRE is to get a robot to explain what it does, what it did or didn’t do, or what it is going to do and provide that information in a more natural way that the user understands.
Dr Feras Dayoub, Senior Lecturer, Australian Institute for Machine Learning
Embedded AI and robotics
Leading the research is embedded AI and robotics expert Dr Feras Dayoub. Dr Dayoub’s work is dedicated to advancing the reliable deployment of computer vision and machine learning on mobile robots in realworld environments, allowing them to understand situations and interact with them appropriately.
“The outcome of the research with MITRE is to get a robot to explain what it does, what it did or didn’t do, or what it is going to do and provide that information in a more natural way that the user understands,” said Dr Dayoub, a senior lecturer at AIML.
“When a robot is deployed in real conditions sometimes things don’t go as planned. There will be lots of variations [and] sometimes a task might fail because of obstacles in the way of sensors, or the environment might change."
AIML will run the experiments on a robot, DART, or dual armed robot, (pictured), at its lab. The partnership between AIML and MITRE includes knowledge and data transfer and will allow AIML’s research to be trialled on sophisticated autonomous systems in MITRE’s extensive lab and research facilities in the US.
(L-R)
Jonathon Wotton MITRE Australia, and Dr Feras Dayoub, Australian Institute for Machine Learning.
State-of-the-art test facilities
The MITRE MASE (Multidisciplinary Autonomous Systems Evaluation) Lab in Virginia, US, has a Jeep fitted with sensors, analytic and data recorders, and powerful computer processors to test and document new autonomous technologies. The facilities have also been designed to test for real-world challenges such as sensor malfunctions or unexpected obstacles.
MITRE also has a state-of-the-art, indoor maritime test facility called the MITRE BlueTech Lab in Massachusetts while the MITRE National Range in Virginia is dedicated to testing uncrewed aircraft systems.
“We get the value of taking the software and putting it into the hardware and doing some really cool stuff,” Wotton says.
By testing AIML’s framework in these labs, MITRE can identify vulnerabilities and finetune the system’s performance before it is deployed in the field, ensuring that the autonomous system performs reliably, safely, and predictably under diverse conditions.
“The outcomes of the research will grow the AI capabilities for both organisations and their government partners,” Wotton says.
“Our research advances novel and cost-effective solutions to government challenges — from national security and transportation safety to cyber defence,” he says. “We share what we discover. It’s part of our public interest mission.”
The company’s technology transfer program puts innovative solutions in the hands of government and industry, as well as the global security community and academia. This knowledge-sharing commitment expedites impact in the public and private sectors.
The AIMLMITRE partnership allows us to jointly transition technology solutions and prototypes, which can translate into safety improvements – and ultimately save lives.
Jonathon Wotton, Leader, Centre for Information Integrity & Defence MITRE Australia
“The AIML-MITRE partnership allows us to jointly transition technology solutions and prototypes, which can translate into safety improvementsand ultimately save lives,” Wotton adds.
“If the research unveils potential vulnerabilities, they can be incorporated into MITRE's various publicly available, open-sourced frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK® and MITRE ATLAS, which provide tools and methodologies to help organisations, particularly governments, respond in a more proactive and comprehensive way,” Wotton says.
“By partnering with organisations like AIML, we’re able to transfer some of our leading research to Australia and grow a sort of sovereign capability whilst bringing the learnings MITRE has developed over 65 years,” Wotton says.
“Our goal is to ensure AI-enabled systems are secure, safe, trustworthy, and benefit endusers around the globe. This collaboration is key to advancing and sharing AI’s promise.”
Future applications for research
ADVANCED AVIATION AND TRANSPORT: fully autonomous vehicles, intelligent AI co-pilots, route planning and optimisation.
SPACE: autonomous navigation and exploration, robotic mining.
HEALTH: surgical robotics, assistive robots for elderly and disabled, medical triage, logistics and delivery, precision medicine.
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING: workforce empowerment, process optimisation, high precision automation, smart warehousing.
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