Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
With over 30 years of experience in technology, media, travel, and data, I am a visionary entrepreneur and a seasoned technology executive who invents, builds, and grows digital transformation platforms. I have a multifunctional background and a passion for developing new technologies that expand our perspectives, defend climate change, improve wellness, and urban lifestyle. Currently, I am the Founder/CEO of Greenspace, a company that makes cities sustainable with integrated hyperlocal community vertical farm networks. We deliver a managed service model of fresh food that disrupts the old food supply chain and creates carbon-neutral circular food production "farmhoods". We use data-driven technology and highly efficient land usage to grow sustainable living crops, reducing CO2 emissions and enhancing community wellness. Greenspace is committed to integrating edible biophilia into the built environment and changing the way we produce and consume food. I want to have impact and I want to have impact that can actually be seen around the world, not just here in Australia
The pandemic has accelerated demand for food quality and consistent availability. Innovative community vertical farm networks can be designed to position fresh food production of the future for everyone. This means eliminating the complex and hugely inefficient produce supply chain, and replacing this with a scalable solution that is superior in every way. Developing the right partnerships and combining benefits of vertical farming to create self-sufficient buildings will help build a more sustainable food system with no supply chain. Society expects fully traceable nutrient dense fresh produce sustainably 365 days a year to improve community wellness. Greenspace has developed Australia’s first commercial scale Community Vertical Farm Managed Service of living micro salads, microgreens, edible flowers, natives and herbs for the local market. Our innovative controlled environment grows the best quality crops year-round, and we’re resilient to climate change and its impacts on farming. We grow restaurant quality fresh products. As farm operators we run actual farms tackling issues in the supply chain with consistent fresh produce delivery and price. We are a tech company focused on delivering a scalable network of smart farms delivering traceable sustainable food. Our passion is to change the way food is grown in cities and delivered to improve our health and our planet. No supply chain.
The Studio is a new global creative and media tech innovation hub for the next generation of media and arts-based tech entrepreneurs - Find out more: www.thestudio.org.au
Aura is a location based data-driven mobile technology platform mapping the world of visual art and creating a data hub for augmented experiences. We are applying state of the art social, sensor and big data technology connecting everyone's digital and physical lives to the meaningful objects they encounter adding a new dimension of interaction between digital devices and the real world. Aura is building a platform of location aware contextual knowledge about art objects for the device ready society. We enable real-time IRL and VR/AR data distribution that drives personalized art learning, social conversations and geo-contextual commerce. Aura gathers location and contextual intelligence to build meaningful consumer experiences and data-driven insights into art behaviors, the visual arts marketplace, and the history of art objects. No matter how novice or expert you are, Aura provides everyone with the ultimate engaging art collection experience by combining the immersiveness of a personal art notebook with the ease of organization of a smartphone and the breadth of information on the internet. Aura will quickly evolve to be smart and social as we map the art world and accumulate rich art memories from around the globe. Aura is a free location-aware mobile art companion backed by the Aura Art Universe, a graph of art knowledge, reactions and connections. Aura makes all art experiences more fun increasing confidence and nurtures the merely art curious into new art buyers and aims to grow the art market at almost all price points.
I registered Visionbytes in 1999, commenced trading in April 2000 and was CEO untill November 2008 then becoming Executive Chairman untill January 2012. Visionbytes has two strategic areas of focus with respect to its product and service offerings: Media Administration Systems – management of best-of-breed solutions for the capture, storage, annotation, and distribution of media assets and Metadata Creation Technologies – development and implementation of innovative technologies for the automated creation, management and utilisation of industry standard video metadata. The complete vbpsPlatform, provided categorisation, indexation and annotation of video content, smart storage and retrieval of analysed content, a combined digital rights management (DRM) and e-commerce functionality, MPEG 7 compliant. The vbps architecture enabled the creation of semantic meta data which adds a higher level of meaning to the content. The compliant architecture and standards driven API, provided smart Metadata that is ultimately easy to search and provide a richer interface to the media. This converts potentially large amounts of isolated Metadata features into a richer meaning. Importantly, Visionbytes’ extended the functionality and usability of media management applications by providing the vbps management system that develops filtering schemas based on users’ rights and requirements.
Viator offers consumers the ability to book travel tours, attractions and activities online. Viator is the market leading destination tours and activities provider, featuring thousands of in destination travel activities in more than 2,000 destinations worldwide via our award-winning websites and mobile apps. Originally named Fox Interactive Media Pty Limited untill 1997 Viator is the world's leading resource for researching, finding and booking the best travel experiences worldwide. https://www.linkedin.com/company/viator