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AIIA WA Sundowner “Public Sector Digital Innovation – parallels between UK and Australia and where are the opportunities”
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
DELOITTE, WOODSIDE PLAZA, LEVEL 14, 240 ST GEORGES TERRACE, PERTH
AIIA member price: $0.00 (Incl. GST)
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Australia’s innovation scene has been building momentum in recent years and is not nearly at its peak. Through innovation centres, hackathons and collaborative spaces, businesses are embracing innovation like never before.
The government’s innovation agenda was announced in November 2015 which spotlight’s the importance of innovation to the Australian economy. The burning question is how we take a collaborative approach to innovation between industry, government and academia to position Australia as #1 in innovation.
Steve Andreazza and John Grohovaz will reflect on the Federal government’s Innovation Agenda initiative in conjunction with existing programs such as the R&D tax incentive which was implemented to encourage innovation in industry.
John Kat will provide an overview of UK Trade & Investment and how UKTI can help your company navigate the UK market. John will provide insights into the UK tech ecosystem, provide a broad look at the Innovate UK agency, and highlight opportunities for Australian SME’s to work with the UK Government including through initiatives like the G-Cloud network.
Join us for this networking event!
Guest Speakers
Steven Andreazza, Partner, R&D and Tax Incentives, Deloitte
Steven Andreazza is a Partner at Deloitte. Steve is specialised in delivering R&D Tax Incentive services to the Energy & Resources sector.
Steve has Bachelor qualifications in extractive metallurgy and professional accounting from Murdoch University Perth. Steve’s professional career began in gold mining, and since moving to professional practice has worked on some of the largest technology implementations in the state.
Steve’s focus is now on lowering the cost of innovation in the mining industry. He is passionate about seeing new mining projects develop and the latest technology on the ground.
John Grohovaz, Partner, R&D and Government Incentives, Deloitte
John Grohovaz (GCMA) is a Deloitte partner specializing in R&D and government incentives. John has broad industry experience across construction, engineering services, technology, motor manufacturing, financial services and advertising. John has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Cape Town, Advanced Tax certificate from the University of South Africa and is registered with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
John Kat, ICT Sector Specialist, UK Trade & Investment
Manager with comprehensive business and technology experience in SME and global companies: ranging across IT strategy, enterprise architecture, design, development, delivery, operations and support.
Business/IT Strategy & Transformations: Board level experience in technology strategy development and delivery. Led the delivery of business and IT transformation programmes (£150M+) and engaged with the senior executive as key stakeholders for corporate mergers and acquisitions.
John KatTechnology Innovation & Architecture: Established technology innovation and enterprise architecture departments within a variety of fortune 500 businesses. This has included the managing and delivery of IT strategy, governance, enterprise and solution architecture using industry accepted standards and best practices.
Other Specialist Skills: Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Architecture & integration, E-commerce, Open Source Technologies.
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