Non-Executive Director Arlene Tansey in conversation with Jason Betts of Herbert Smith Freehills on class actions, ESG, innovation and entrepreneurship. Their discussion covers how listed entities approach corporate governance, the changing risk environment from the re-emergence of royal commissions to continued growth in class actions, increasingly proactive corporate regulators, and corporate governance risk in an environment of increased shareholder activism.Watchhttps://youtu.be/WcqOp_d6jTw?t=3

The innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem gathered in person at ACS (Australian Computer Society) and online thanks to UTS Startups at Spark Festival for a conversation with the Hon. Ed Husic MP, Minister for Industry and Science....Broadcast > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oojEgXx04kg...Blog> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conversation-minister-industry-science-spark-festival-maria-macnamara/?trackingId=EVgnbvo0SHS2ZXLPb%2FlukQ%3D%3D

Tom Burton's piece in the AFR recently -  “Who will lead citizen-first government in Canberra? led me to share some ideas. ...About what's been done around the worldhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/mariamacnamara_who-will-lead-citizen-first-government-in-activity-6982327636463165440-95GL?...A digital transformation frameworkhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/mariamacnamara_activity-6982577880606142464-fARt?utm_sou

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has created a new platform - Beyond the Screen, to develop educational training regimens for people building social media tools. “We need a world where we have 10 million people who can have a meaningful conversation on how you design social media.”...READ THE ARTICLEhttps://bit.ly/3Cqoegj...HAUGEN'S TESTIMONYhttps://bit.ly/3LZ0hzS...ACCC PLATFORMS INQUIRYhttps://bit.ly/3dTl8Is

"Australia has some of the basic building blocks, including an “abundance of world class universities and an abundance of world class intellectual property. It also has an abundance of CROs (contract research organisations) to develop late stage assets. What we don’t have is the piece in the middle which is the preclinical experience to develop these early stage assets and the investors to fund it.”Proto Axiom is set to announce its first major investment with a second expected early next year....Read the articlehttps://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/backing-biotechs-with-usstyle-entrepreneurialism/news-story/4b5b76f83fcd2e1fa2ed00d5d84f0bd8...About Proto Axiom 

The Optus hack reminds us that we all need to be more cyber vigilant. David Thodey provides practical suggestions including:> adding to risk register> running exercises > inspect to make sure defences are there> references work done by the AICD Article > https://bit.ly/3UN1E8FDr Maria Milosavljevic suggests > IDCare > https://bit.ly/3ftkTnyKate Carruthers provides practical steps for individuals >https://bit.ly/3fsUNkx Collin Penman reminds me that  Kyndryl #CloudSecurityAssessment - Detects Open and Public Exposed API's of customers. There's also a Monthly Service Monitoring that picks up the anomaly of large amount of data going out the door.