We chatted to Darren Kane, the Chief Security Officer at NBN - The National Broadband Network and picked his brain about all things security and defense.Darren has been the CSO at NBN since 2015. Prior to NBN, Darren served in Federal Government Law Enforcement Agencies for over 19 years in the Australian Federal Police and financial markets regulator the Australian Securities & Investment Commission. In 2020, Darren was appointed to the Federal Government’s Cyber Security Industry Adviso...
Sep 11, 2024
34 min
Home solar, batteries and Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) are emerging as some of the most popular energy innovations in recent years. Some listeners will be very unfamiliar with the concept of a virtual power plant so we want to go through how they will potentially change our energy situation in the future.This is the final installment in a micro series tackling different parts of the energy transition.In this Episode we delve into - what is a Virtual Power Plant, how do they work, why are...
Aug 29, 2024
29 min
Learn the story of a young 21 year old starting a business straight out of university, growing and scaling it over a 10 year journey, to most recently being acquired by the business he aspired to when he started it all.Hursh Dodhia-Shah was the Founder and Director of Aligned Agency, a digital agency based out of Perth, WA, servicing clients around Australia and the globe. They work right across the digital marketing value chain - building websites and online presence, doing google/facebook a...
Aug 13, 2024
40 min
We take electricity for granted, even though it is such a fundamental aspect of our lives. Society and our economies depend on electricity.We are chat with Dylan Pathirana, a Renewable Energy Engineer and Energy Market Enthusiast, to break down what actually happens behind the scenes when we turn on a switch at home. How does the industry and the energy market facilitate the use of electricity in our lives?This will be the third installment in a micro series tackling different parts of the en...
Jul 31, 2024
34 min
Harrison Lingard, the Founder and CEO of Fieldd started a growth and automation software for home and automotive service, built to make the lives of Service Based businesses streamlined, easy and more scalable.Since starting Fieldd, the journey has been nothing short of incredible. Building his own software solution took him to 25,000 customers and 50 staff in just 2 years, and he was even featured on Shark Tank Australia. Since then, Harry has moved Fieldd to the United States, basing out of...
Jul 16, 2024
37 min
Why is nuclear energy such a big part of so many global economies’ plans to get to net zero? We investigate nuclear energy’s role in a net zero future, how it works, why it’s advantageous, and bust some of the questions and myths around its safety. We also talk about its cost relative to other energy, its role in the energy mix and its growth into the future. #Business, #Investing, #Technology, #Curiosity, #Entrepreneurship, #STEM, #Science, #Engineering, #Mathematics, #Innovation
Jul 3, 2024
28 min
Elizabeth Knight is the Founder and CEO of Purposeful, an organisation aimed at helping people find their place in the world and careers they are passionate about. We love and resonate with that mission, as it aligns with our core theme of ‘Curiosity’. Liz has worked with thousands of young people, and has an incredible story herself, starting her first business at 19! She started a company called No Code Odyssey and currently runs a company called Purposeful. They have partnered w...
Jun 17, 2024
39 min
If you’re passionate about sustainability and our journey to lowering emissions, you’ve probably heard about batteries.In this episode we breakdown the dilemma facing our energy grids worldwide, as we try to move to 100% renewable energy, and why energy storage is critical to fixing the problem.Between us as co-hosts we have almost a decade of experience in one of the most unstable energy markets in the world. There are so many questions around how we are going to get from where we are, to wh...
Jun 3, 2024
28 min
Cam hikes, travels and inspires others for a living. He has hiked some of world’s most amazing treks, including the Te Aroha in New Zealand, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Lebuche East and Island Peak in the Himalayas. He has amassed a following of over a quarter million on Instagram and has become a fulltime content creator and hiker.He lives a unique life that sounds wild to most, yet Cam is one of the most down to Earth guys we know, and is a friend of the show. We couldn’t pass up th...
May 19, 2024
35 min
Dylan is a renewable energy engineer who left the Energy Industry to pursue entrepreneurship. He went to the Ignite Program at Stanford Graduate school of Business and has founded a sustainable equipment lending company called Lendecon. We unpack this journey into the unknown with Dylan and discover the key takeaways gained from his couple of months at Stanford. Dylan is a friend of the show and someone we've been patiently waiting to have on the show when he returned to Australia from S...
May 1, 2024
32 min
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