Brisbane Who are you? event SOLD OUT
This event on Friday 30 August is now SOLD OUT.
Please look for more information coming soon on our 8 September event with Professor Ian Frazer AC.
This event on Friday 30 August is now SOLD OUT.
Please look for more information coming soon on our 8 September event with Professor Ian Frazer AC.
We are pleased to announce this event is going ahead in person on Friday 20 August.
This event will be presented under the BCEC COVID safe plan and we look forward to welcoming you there.
You can purchase your tickets here.
Thank you to our COVID safe Venue Partner and Event Sponsor:
This event has been moved from 5 August to Thursday 16 September 2021 due to last week’s lockdown.
All corporate members will receive an updated invitation to purchase a ticket.
Today Romilly Madew, CEO Infrastructure Australia, along with a panel of experts launched the Committee’s second Liveability Issues and Opportunities Policy paper on SEQ as a Smart Region.
The Vision, outcomes and five clear goals for the SEQ region were debated. You can read the full Policy Paper here:
South East Queensland – Australia’s First Data Community – Paper 02-2021
You can read Romilly’s full speech here.
Bevan Slattery, Founder of HyperOne will join the panel next Wednesday at the SEQ’s Data and Digital Blueprint for the Future event at BCEC.
Bevan Slattery, one of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs, has founded some of the nation’s biggest technology success stories. Starting as a co-founder of PIPE Networks, Australia’s largest Internet Exchange and third largest metropolitan fibre network provider, Slattery sold the company to TPG in 2010.
Subsequently, he founded NEXTDC, Australia’s largest data centre operator; Megaport, the global leading elastic interconnection provider; Cloudscene, the world’s largest platform for searching cloud and connectivity services; HyperOne, Australia’s first hyperscale national fibre network; Biopixel, Australia’s leading production service provider for natural history and animal behavioural sequences; Superloop, a Pan-Asian infrastructure-based telecommunications provider; SubPartners, a submarine cable operator and Indigo Cable investor; and SUB.CO, an Independent specialist submarine cable development group constructing the new Oman Australia Cable (OAC).
Slattery’s entrepreneurial success is highlighted in having listed a record five companies on the Australian Stock Exchange and received many industry awards including EY Champion of Entrepreneurs Award in 2016, National Charles Todd Medal, and the Pearcy Foundations Benson Award as well as being recently inducted into the Commsday Hall Of Fame. In 2019, Slattery was appointed a member of the Cyber Security Industry Advisory Committee.
Don’t miss this event – Register here.
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The Committee for Brisbane is looking for a person with the right skills, drive and commitment to help us achieve this ambitious Vision.
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This is a full time role.
Please email admin@committeeofrbrisbane.org.au for a full Position Description. Applications close on Monday 31 May 2021.
Save the date: 16 June for this Lunch event – South East Queensland: Australia’s First Data Community.
More to come.
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Dominque Lamb – CEO, National Retail Association joins our expert panel for our upcoming event.
On Friday 19 March John Coates AC, President of the Australian Olympic Committee launched the Taskforce’s first legacy paper.
For the past year, the Committee’s Brisbane 2033: Olympics and Paralympics Taskforce has been developing a suite of proposed legacies for south east Queensland that speak to long-term and permanent benefits to the community from hosting the Games.
Download the full Legacy Policy Paper here:
Brisbane 2033 – Our Olympics and Paralympics Legacies_ Paper 01-2021
Today the Committee for Brisbane released the Annual Inner City Vitality Report which measures the economic heart of greater Brisbane across five key indicators:
Read the full 2020 Vitality Report here – 2020 Vitality Report_Final
Find the Dashboard Summary here – 2020 Vitality Dashboard_Final
For Media:
Please read the Release here – Brisbane Inner City Vitality Report 2020_embargoed to noon AEST, 19 November 2020
For media enquiries pls email barton@committeeforbrisbane.org.au or call 0499 977 023.
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