❓ The Minister for Finance provides an update on the Unearthed Perth Hackathon, highlighting its importance for start-ups and innovation in the resources sector, and government support for the event.
AnsweredQoN 221Legislative Assembly
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UNEARTHED PERTH HACKATHON
221. Mr M.H. TAYLOR to the Minister for
Finance:
Can the minister please update the
house on the Unearthed Perth Hackathon that will run from this Friday over the
coming weekend?
221. Mr M.H. TAYLOR to the Minister for
Finance:
Can the minister please update the
house on the Unearthed Perth Hackathon that will run from this Friday over the
coming weekend?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Bateman, who
is also the new parliamentary secretary —
Mr
P. Papalia interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Warnbro!
Mr
W.R. MARMION : I will start again, Mr Speaker. I thank the member for
Bateman, who is the new Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Premier, for his
question. I think the member for Bateman has to be the strongest advocate of
start-ups of any member of Parliament, possibly in Australia, so I congratulate
him. It will be my great pleasure this Friday —
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, thank you.
Mr W.R. MARMION : It will be my great pleasure this Friday to open the Unearthed Perth
Hackathon, which is the third one to be held in Perth. It started in 2014. This
is the third of the six hackathons that will be held throughout Australia and
South Africa. Cape Town has already had one, Brisbane has had one and ours is
the third one this year, to be followed by Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. It
is an event that is run by the organisation Resources Innovation through
Information Technology and I congratulate it for running such a wonderful
event. I would like to point out that the event is supported by not only
industry but also government. Industry supporters are Woodside, the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Cisco, acQuire
Technology Solutions, Austmine, Amazon Web Services, CRCMining, the University
of Western Australia, the City of Perth and, of course, Brodie McCulloch's Spacecubed
and team. The departments involved in supporting this event are the Department
of Mines and Petroleum—so I thank the Minister for Mines and Petroleum
for his staff's attendance—the Minister for Lands and Landgate,
which are also strong supporters, and of course the Government Chief Information
Officer who works through my Department of Finance.
The winner of the first event in
2014 was an organisation called Newton Labs, which has an innovative solution
that is being developed that can support mine site efficiencies of up to $100 million
per site. Newton Labs was last year awarded the WA Innovator of the Year in the
emerging category. That is a really good start-up that came out of the 2014
event. Last year, about 80 individuals took part. They developed 15 innovative
prototype solutions that can benefit the resources sector, and eight teams were
allowed to present their prototypes to mining companies. I am looking forward
to this year being even bigger. I know that the member for Bateman will be
there on Friday.
I have some data on start-ups that
was reported last year. In Western Australia we have hosted 335 active start‑ups
employing nearly 3 000 people across 12 co-working spaces. These start-ups have
collectively raised over $100 million in funding since 2010. This is an
important area that the state government is supporting, and I look forward to
another successful event this Friday.
is also the new parliamentary secretary —
Mr
P. Papalia interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Warnbro!
Mr
W.R. MARMION : I will start again, Mr Speaker. I thank the member for
Bateman, who is the new Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Premier, for his
question. I think the member for Bateman has to be the strongest advocate of
start-ups of any member of Parliament, possibly in Australia, so I congratulate
him. It will be my great pleasure this Friday —
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, thank you.
Mr W.R. MARMION : It will be my great pleasure this Friday to open the Unearthed Perth
Hackathon, which is the third one to be held in Perth. It started in 2014. This
is the third of the six hackathons that will be held throughout Australia and
South Africa. Cape Town has already had one, Brisbane has had one and ours is
the third one this year, to be followed by Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. It
is an event that is run by the organisation Resources Innovation through
Information Technology and I congratulate it for running such a wonderful
event. I would like to point out that the event is supported by not only
industry but also government. Industry supporters are Woodside, the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Cisco, acQuire
Technology Solutions, Austmine, Amazon Web Services, CRCMining, the University
of Western Australia, the City of Perth and, of course, Brodie McCulloch's Spacecubed
and team. The departments involved in supporting this event are the Department
of Mines and Petroleum—so I thank the Minister for Mines and Petroleum
for his staff's attendance—the Minister for Lands and Landgate,
which are also strong supporters, and of course the Government Chief Information
Officer who works through my Department of Finance.
The winner of the first event in
2014 was an organisation called Newton Labs, which has an innovative solution
that is being developed that can support mine site efficiencies of up to $100 million
per site. Newton Labs was last year awarded the WA Innovator of the Year in the
emerging category. That is a really good start-up that came out of the 2014
event. Last year, about 80 individuals took part. They developed 15 innovative
prototype solutions that can benefit the resources sector, and eight teams were
allowed to present their prototypes to mining companies. I am looking forward
to this year being even bigger. I know that the member for Bateman will be
there on Friday.
I have some data on start-ups that
was reported last year. In Western Australia we have hosted 335 active start‑ups
employing nearly 3 000 people across 12 co-working spaces. These start-ups have
collectively raised over $100 million in funding since 2010. This is an
important area that the state government is supporting, and I look forward to
another successful event this Friday.
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