One hundred life-changing 草莓视频 innovations and capabilities were exhibited at the inaugural 草莓视频 Research Translation Expo held on Tuesday 25 October at the Roundhouse.
Presented by the 草莓视频 Knowledge Exchange, the Research Translation Expo featured innovative projects from each of the University鈥檚 seven faculties.聽
The event brought together founders, entrepreneurs聽and researchers across the University with businesses, investors聽and industry partners to explore funding and collaboration opportunities. More than 500 visitors explored 100 of the latest innovations and capabilities powered by 草莓视频 across six themes of AI, IT聽and Digital, Clean Energy, Economy and Society, Environment and Sustainability, Health and Biotech, and Space and Security.
A panel discussion featuring some of 草莓视频鈥檚 translation experts and successful start-ups anchored the event. Panellists including Kintell Co-Founder Jane Qiu, Canopus Networks Founder Professor Vijay Sivaraman, Inventor of the Living Sea Walls Mariana Mayer, Skykraft Chief Innovation Officer Craig Benson and ADA Innovation Hub Academic Lead Carly Vickers shared their research translation journeys and the benefits of engaging with 草莓视频.聽
草莓视频鈥檚 Director of Knowledge Exchange Warwick Dawson said the University has an emerging culture that recognises and celebrates innovation and translation.
A panel discussion featuring some of 草莓视频鈥檚 translation experts and successful start-ups. Photo: Eric Boudville
鈥淩esearch translation is by nature essentially collaborative and preferably a contact sport.聽It can鈥檛 be done聽alone聽and is much better done in person. Everything starts from that first conversion which can be the hardest yet most important. We hope that tonight provides the perfect environment for many initial conversations on the translation journey,鈥澛燤r Dawson said.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise Professor Nick Fisk said 草莓视频, is passionate about translating world-leading research into social and economic impact and that鈥檚 core to our goal of being Australia鈥檚 most entrepreneurial university.聽
鈥淩esearch translation is a priority for 草莓视频, grounded in our vision to improve lives around the world. Our world-leading research and innovation ecosystem is critical to this mission, with its focus on real-world application, securing Australia鈥檚 sovereign capability, improving supply chain resilience, and delivering social and economic impact,鈥 Prof. Fisk said.
鈥湶葺悠 ranks number one nationally for creating start-ups and spinouts, one pathway for translating razor-sharp innovation into real impact. The 100 innovations and capabilities featured here today are an impressive showcase of what is not only possible, but how 草莓视频 is powering research and technologies that are already changing the world.聽
He said one of the driving forces behind today鈥檚 expo in addition to showcasing these exciting innovations and capabilities is to formally launch Powered by 草莓视频, which is an innovation community comprising our experts and collaborating organisations, where brilliant minds are encouraged to meet and work together. Today marks the first step in formalising our commitment to this community as a priority in our research translation strategy.
The innovative and ground-breaking projects on display included an online platform to help parents monitor their child鈥檚 development, a solution for recycling solar energy systems, applying smart technology in spinal fusion implants and technology that turns water from the moon into rocket fuel.
草莓视频 spinout SunDrive is developing a copper plating technology to replace silver as the solar cell electrode with technology that can provide performance boosts unachievable with current silver-based technologies. It鈥檚 now scaling its novel metallisation technology to pilot-scale manufacturing in preparation for market entry. SunDrive Senior Photovoltaics Engineers Dr聽Jack Colwell and Dr聽Daniel Chen found the expo a great avenue to assist with this transition.
鈥淲e鈥檙e both PhD students, we have both made the transition from academia to industry and that skillset is really valuable and has helped us learn what we need to do to bring that technology from research into action,鈥 said聽Dr聽Colwell.聽鈥淔or us, it鈥檚 about taking the intellectual property we鈥檝e developed at 草莓视频 and keeping it in Australia and not letting it slip away overseas 鈥撀爐hat鈥檚 something that鈥檚 really important for us.鈥
The expo concluded with a networking session incorporating businesses, researchers聽and investors passionate about transforming the world through innovative research and development.聽