Events

We host these monthly lunches to bring together the women residents of Cicada. Save the dates in your calendar, the first women's lunch of 2022 will be on International Women's Day. 

This first event will be 'Speed Friending', where along with a nice lunch you can build your network and connect with the hugely diverse women community of Cicada!

Women's Lunch

Space Elevate is a series of workshops for Australian researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs looking to develop a space-tech idea into a business.

The virtual floor will also be open for you to ask all your burning questions.

You'll hear from Cicada's head of space tech, Julie Autuly, space expert in residence, Tim Parsons, CEO Sally-Ann Williams, and a member of the newly launched National Space Industry Hub.

Space Elevate Info Session

Startups, makers, technologists, and engineers - join us for the Cicada's Rapid Prototyping Meetup with 

Born out of the University of Tasmania, Altium is a global leader in PCB design, with a history of empowering startups like Nuheara, Ellume Health, Gilmour Space Technologies, and Fleet Space to successfully develop electronics.

Altium will host a 1-hour session on electronic PCB design in the cloud age, covering topics including:

After the session, there will be an opportunity for audience Q&A as well as a chance to network amongst the hardware community.

) is a global software company headquartered in San Diego, California, who are accelerating the pace of innovation through electronics. For over 30 years, Altium has been delivering software that maximizes the productivity of PCB designers and electrical engineers. From individual inventors to multinational corporations, more PCB designers and engineers choose Altium software to design and realize electronics-based products.

James Harriman worked as a Technical Officer for the Navy, overhauling and certifying electronic systems, where he first created printed circuit boards with tape on film.

He worked for ABC Radio on broadcasting and studio equipment due to his interest in audio technologies and recordings. With a growing interest in software and databases meant he jumped at the chance of working for Altium. This was the ultimate combination of electronics and software, and why James is still working here over 25 years later and brings a great oversight on the advancements in technology, electronic design and best practices.

Now he is responsible for maintaining the technical relationships with companies globally, as well as various other jack of all trades jobs in Altium. 

Rapid Prototying Meetup with Altium

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The aim of the C-suite events is to create greater connectivity across leadership teams in the building. Your businesses are unique, but there are lots of common challenges you all face growing a company. We want this to be a forum to share those challenges, and hopefully find solutions through helping one another with advice, resources and contacts.

On occasions we'll invite guest experts to deep dive on specific topics. 

If you'd like to attend please RSVP to the calendar invite. We are ordering lunch so would like to know the numbers. 

C-Suite Lunch

If you are a start-up or scale-up working on innovative ideas the 

R&D Tax Incentive & Capital Access workshop

 The workshop will be presented in two parts, with KPMG providing an overview of the Federal Government’s R&D Tax Incentive (“RDTI”) program and Radium Capital providing insights on how companies can gain earlier access to their refunds through R&D financing.

R&D financing is increasingly gaining popularity in Australia, with many innovative businesses discovering that R&D finance can be a practical and efficient strategy to smooth cash flow, accelerate commercialisation and attract other sources of funding.

Radium Capital is Australia’s market leader in R&D financing. We were formed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. That’s why we don’t think like a bank!  

We believe businesses with R&D should have access to capital when they need it. So, we created Radium Advances to provide quick, easy and early access to up to 80% of your expected R&D tax incentive refund - in just a few business days. 

Radium Advances are available as one-off cash injections, or can be used strategically throughout the year. Find out how you can use non-dilutive R&D financing to boost your R&D budget by up to 50%, or reduce capital outlay by 33% at 

The Accelerated Business Growth (ABG) team is dedicated to developing integrated solutions aimed at supporting the growth ambitions of our clients. We work with our clients to understand their business needs and assist in delivering holistic solutions that enable them to reach their growth potential. Within this team are the Research & Development (R&D) Advisory, High Growth Ventures (HGV) and University engagement practices.

Our R&D team assist some of Australia’s most innovative companies gain access to government grants and incentives for research and development activities undertaken in Australia. 

We also assist companies in developing governance frameworks, policies and procedures to streamline their R&D processes and substantiate their R&D activities and look to provide opportunities for further government support through our local and global network and our connections within the federal and state government agencies and industry bodies. Through these initiatives, we work with our clients create long term value, and assist in providing a competitive advantage for Australian companies.

Pat Stewart, State Manager – NSW, Radium Capital

A seasoned finance professional, Pat holds an MBA and has 15 years’ banking, financial product and sales leadership experience with financial institutions across Australia. By working in a variety of roles during his career, Pat has gained a strong understanding of different businesses and their unique needs. As State Manager for New South Wales, his authentic approach and strong track record supports NSW clients to grow their businesses through R&D financing and thrive.

Joel DiBella, Associate Director – Accelerating Business Growth, KPMG 

Joel has extensive experience in assisting start-ups and SMEs to identify and access State and Federal Government support in the form of tax incentives and grants to support their growth strategies, R&D programs and investment projects. Joel has experience in providing advice for a wide range of industries, with a focus on software development and ‘Fintech’.

Innovation Funding: The R&D Tax Incentive & Capital Access

Join us for the June edition of Space Hub Connect, where we will be welcoming some new faces into the Space Hub community. 

Hear all about their amazing backgrounds founding and building space companies and technology, as well network with the best and brightest in the Australian space community.

THE EVENT IS SPONSORED BY TECH CENTRAL, AUSTRALIA’S PREMIER INNOVATION DISTRICT.

It brings together six neighbourhoods in Sydney which are already home to some of Australia’s most exciting startups and innovative institutions. The NSW Government is working collaboratively to catalyse this innovation ecosystem – Tech Central – connecting organisations to create a globally renowned community that pulses with inspiration and draws top tech talent from across the world to do their best work. Tech Central is on Gadigal country. 

Keep up to date with Tech Central, Australia’s Innovation Engine on 

Space Hub Connect - June 2022

An event for the Sydney hardware startup community hosted by hardware entrepreneurs.

Come and learn from expert viewpoints from the coal face, networking and drinks for a gathering of all those interested in the NSW startup community.

The last few years have seen huge changes even beyond those brought about by the global pandemic. All organisations are having to come to terms with a completely new business environment including supply chain disruption (or shock), skills shortages, China lockdowns and changing work patterns. Join the event and learn how startups faced challenges throughout the pandemic.

​Hear all about their amazing stories about founding and building their innovations, products, and businesses. At the end of the talk, get the chance to catch up with familiar faces and network with the brightest in the hardware community. 

Heba holds a PhD in Engineering, B (Software) Engineering and B Medical Science. She has applied her expertise in biosignal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning in complex biomedical problems including epilepsy, cardiac and autonomic diseases, malnutrition and human tactile physiology. Since 2014, she has been developing tactile sensors for robotic gripping that are inspired by the human sense of touch. She is the CEO and a co-founder of Contactile – a UNSW Sydney spin-out that is commercialising the PapillArray tactile sensor technology that is giving robots a human sense of touch and enabling robotic dexterity

Director of New Technologies at JetPack Aviation, an innovative Australian owned business which successfully developed and flew the world's first true jetpack around the Statue of Liberty in New York in 2015 and which is now developing the Speeder AUV. Managing Director and Co-founder of BitScope Designs, another innovative Australian company which designs and manufactures IoT and Cloud Computing solutions for Embedded, Industrial and Educational use around the world. Former chair of The Studio Limited, Australia's first Media-Tech Incubator in the Sydney Start-Up Hub, Steward at The Guild of Entrepreneurs in support of start-up founders and a keen advocate for improving STEM education in schools.

John has over 20 years’ experience in medical devices. He provides specialist expertise, operations management and leadership for global activities and teams. He has led the design and development of a number of active implantable investigational devices into first in human studies. He is an electrical engineer and holds a PhD from Sydney University

This event is hosted by Cicada Innovations 

Hardware Connect 

Save the date in your calendar, Women's Lunch is back!

We host these monthly lunches to bring together the women residents of Cicada. We want this to be an opportunity to connect with the hugely diverse women's community of Cicada, and build your network.

Occasionally, we'll invite guest experts to dive into specific topics.

If you'd like to attend, please RSVP. We are ordering lunch so would like to know the numbers. 

If you are a deep tech innovator, come and learn about three unique pathways into science entrepreneurship from three successful founders.

As part of the Australian National Science Week, we’ll explore three entrepreneurship journeys from: a researcher who founded a business, a corporate leader who became a founder, and a serial entrepreneur. Deep dive into each unique pathway and learn the key defining lesson they've learnt throughout their journey to entrepreneurship. 

, Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder of 

Adj/Professor Alison Todd co-founded SpeeDx in 2009 and is its Chief Scientific Officer. She is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering; and along with Dr Elisa Mokany, was the recipient of academy’s Clunies Ross Innovation Award in 2020 for “discovery, development, and adoption of a technology that has significantly improved societal or industry capabilities”.

Alison is a serial inventor with a portfolio of 18 patent families that comprises over 85 granted patents which protect SpeeDx ‘s IP including PlexZyme and PlexPrime. She is a pioneer in the field of personalised medicine, having pursued a career which has focused on developing  and commercialising diagnostic tests for the tailoring and monitoring of therapy for patients with cancer or infectious diseases.

Peter, CEO of Sustinent, is a seasoned senior-level leader with hands-on experience in a range of global corporate environments. His proven track record in leading numerous critical high value programs and building successful consulting practices for almost 20 years has led him to the startup realm.  His Accounting, Finance and IT background, combined with a very ‘growth-centric’ inclusive leadership style, brings clarity and focus to the Sustinent team. 

Sustinent is a biotechnology ecosystem that partners with industry to transform and upcycle green waste into bio commodities and materials that can be used to manufacture consumables and goods.  By unlocking the potential of green waste, we improve safety, reduce environmental impact, and increase economic sustainability.

Liesl Yearsley is the CEO of aKin, an AI company building assistive AI and robotic technology for the home. aKin delivers robotic technology to NASA, is expanding rapidly in the disability sector, and will ultimately take on the 25 hour a week task of running the home, with its empathic AI and a range of intelligent devices.

Prior to aKin, Yearsley was founder of Cognea, an AI platform which was acquired by IBM and now powers Watson. Prior to that, Yearsley was founder of a search engine company she took public. She has 4 patents in AI with over 600 citations.

Pathways to Science Entrepreneurship 

You'll hear from Cicada's Head of Space Tech, Julie Autuly, our Space Expert in Residence, Tim Parsons, our CEO Sally-Ann Williams, and a member of the National Space Industry Hub.

 as we discuss the current Space economic climate and what challenges and opportunities this presents for the sector.

Australia is shaping its future as a leading Space nation with record levels of public investment into the sector. To understand 

how this massive public funding boost is transforming the current landscape and impacting the private funding sector

, we are convening a panel of local investors to deep dive into the current funding landscape for Australian Space startups.  

Martin Duursma joined Main Sequence Ventures in June, 2017. Martin has over 25 years experience as a Senior Executive, Technologist, Business Founder, Angel Investor and Mentor both in Australia and the US. Prior to joining Main Sequence Martin was a senior executive with a range of global responsibilities at Citrix. 

Martin continues to be active as an angel investor as well as in various advisor and mentor roles at Macquarie University, Sydney University and ON, Australia’s national science technology accelerator and as board trustee at the Computer History Museum, CA USA. Martin holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Sydney University.

 (BSc, MBA), Commercialisation Facilitator at 

Tamara comes from a background of Quantum Physics and pursued business instead of a career in research. Whilst studying an MBA (Executive), she worked across academia (Sydney Nano Institute), Government (Ministry of Health) and Industry (Cochlear) and has found herself within the nexus between these tripartite capabilities. 

Tamara has grown networks across the Engineering, Science and Defence sectors in the role of Industry and Innovation Manager at the UNSW and has been committed to supporting startups from the academia space with offering consultancy and grant application support. She has recently completed a secondment with the Naval Shipbuilding College leading the Education and Training team. 

Ian is a senior executive with over 30 years’ experience and an excellent track record of results as a change agent. He has held senior executive roles in several large media organisations, recently as Managing Director, Telstra Television (35% owner of Foxtel).

Over the last seven years, Ian has been increasingly involved with tech start-ups – as mentor/advisor and angel investor. Ian is also a mentor in our 

and has a portfolio of 16 companies, of which he is on the Board of 5. Currently, Ian splits his time between his start-up activities, investing in and advising young tech companies, including his 5 NED roles.

i4 Connect is a startup and commercialisation practice providing advice and guidance to entrepreneurs via the Australian Government’s Entrepreneurs’ Programme. Empowering entrepreneurs to build the businesses of tomorrow, it delivers the Entrepreneurs’ Programme Accelerating Commercialisation service nationally.

Its team of 26 facilitators have real-world business and entrepreneurial knowledge along with the skills to help founders on their commercialisation journey through to first sales and beyond.

Leveraging their own start-up experiences, networks and contacts to help grantees, i4 Connect guides each applicant down the pathway to receive up to $1m in matched funding grant support. Over the past two years, i4 Connect has helped over 100 start-ups in a wide range of cutting-edge technologies with global market potential, helping them secure over $60m in grant funding. 

Space Hub Connect - September 2022

​Save the date in your calendar for a new Women's Lunch!

​We host these monthly lunches to bring together the women residents of Cicada. We want this to be an opportunity to connect with the hugely diverse women's community of Cicada, and build your network.

​Occasionally, we'll invite guest experts to dive into specific topics.

​If you'd like to attend, please RSVP. We are ordering lunch so would like to know the numbers.

Women's Lunch 

 is an opportunity to tour our world-class facilities, meet our dedicated team of experts, and connect with our community of deep tech innovators. 

If you are deep tech startup transforming lives and industries through new technology and you are looking for:

On Wednesday 19th October we are throwing open our doors to Australia's most ambitious deep tech startups who want to find out what Cicada has to offer. 

Register your interest and tell us about your deep tech venture. 

, where you will have the chance to meet our startup residents and connect with Cicada's deep tech community.

 is the home of deep tech in Australia with a 22 year track record supporting deep tech ventures including; Canceraid, Invertigro, Morse Micro, Propeller, Regrow, SpeeDx. 

Our specialist incubator is award winning and dedicated to the unique needs of deep tech ventures. We offer affordable and flexible office and lab space, specialised facilities, tailored support, and a community of brilliant minds to help you grow.

Cicada Open House

On Wednesday, 19th October we will be opening our doors to give new deep tech startups the opportunity to tour our facilities, meet our team and connect with our resident innovators building amazing technologies at Cicada.

As part of the Open House, we'll organise Cicada's Community Drinks to bring the community together as we network and reconnect with Sydney's deep tech startup ecosystem. ​

Cicada Open House Community Drinks

The hardware lunch brings together the Cicada hardware community. 

This is a place to discuss challenges and share advice around things like:

We'll be providing lunch, please click attending for catering numbers.

Hardware Lunch

We're bringing the community together for our first 'Health Tech Connect' event.

Join us for an evening with the Australian health tech ecosystem - to collaborate, reconnect, and share knowledge, and socialise with peers.

We'll kick off the Health Tech connect series, which aim to bring together Australia's health tech community, with a fireside chat with 

a Silicon Valley and Sydney-based company applying neuroscience into AI platforms and working on building assistive AI and robotic technology for the home. Right now, her assistive technology is being rolled out in Australia to some 10,000 people with disabilities – and their caregivers.

Join us as we discuss Liesl's journey as a serial entrepreneur creating technology breakthroughs with three past successes and deep dive into the U.S. and Australian entrepreneurial ecosystems.

After the fireside chat there will be an opportunity to reconnect and network with the health tech community.

Liesl Yearsley is the CEO of aKin, an AI company building assistive AI and robotic technology for the home.

aKin delivers robotic technology to NASA, is expanding rapidly in the disability sector, and will ultimately take on the 25 hour a week task of running the home, with its empathic AI and a range of intelligent devices. Prior to aKin, Yearsley was founder of Cognea, an AI platform which was acquired by IBM and now powers Watson. Prior to that, Yearsley was founder of a search engine company she took public. She has 4 patents in AI with over 600 citations. 

Cicada's Health Connect series aims to bring together Australia's health tech community to meet with key players in the ecosystem, share knowledge and opportunities, and listen to guest experts.

​It brings together six neighbourhoods in Sydney which are already home to some of Australia’s most exciting startups and innovative institutions. The NSW Government is working collaboratively to catalyse this innovation ecosystem – Tech Central – connecting organisations to create a globally renowned community that pulses with inspiration and draws top tech talent from across the world to do their best work. Tech Central is on Gadigal country. 

​Keep up to date with Tech Central, Australia’s Innovation Engine on 

Health Tech Connect - November 2022

We are excited to have you in our Space Elevate program. Here's what you need to know and complete to prepare for the workshops.

We are looking forward to having you with us, 

Space Elevate 

Join us for our last Space Hub Connect of the year at Cicada Innovations!

Moderated by our Space-Expert-in-Residence 

, and through the viewpoints and lessons of two successful space entrepreneurs and key players, we'll learn diverse pathways to building a space business, explore the rising career opportunities in the Australian Space industry, and discuss opportunities in the sector for future workforce in the startup world. 

Annie works in product management, policy and innovation for 

, an Australian space start up which does space-based imaging and on-orbit inspection.

She also works as an Associate Lecturer for the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Science, is on the Advisory Council for the Space Industry Association of Australia, and is a member of the Space Generation Advisory Council ‘Ethics and Human Rights in Space’ Project Group and the Space Law Council of Australia and New Zealand. In addition, Annie is a program consultant to the 

, and is also the host and creator of the Space Junk Podcast.

, developing advanced space robotics in Australia to help humans explore space. Prior to this, he led software product development as Head of Engineering & Product at Atlassian, Australia’s first tech unicorn, for 15 years. 

Space Hub Connect - November 2022

An event for the Sydney hardware startup community hosted by hardware entrepreneurs and engineers.

Hardware Connect of the year at Cicada Innovations

 as we discuss the keys to a successful process from prototype to production and listen to the viewpoints, challenges, and lessons learnt from entrepreneurs and industry experts.

Taking a hardware product from prototype to production is a long, challenging, and expensive process that impacts and requires a transformation in every startup area. To understand how to prepare for production and choose the right partners throughout the journey, we are convening a panel discussion with an entrepreneur that is scaling right now, a startup that has successfully crossed the chasm to join the world of full-scale production, and two industry experts.

Hebbat Manhy, Cicada's Head of Tech, will lead the conversation, joined by: 

Save the date in your calendar, last Women's Lunch of the year!

with a yoga teacher from Egg of the Universe! 

It's time to celebrate the beginning of the festive period and the end of another big year with the Cicada Community.

Let’s celebrate the end of 2022 and welcome the festive period with team trivia, cocktails, food, and music in the Atrium.

The festivities will kick off from 4:00pm.

SAVE THE DATE: Cicada Christmas Party

Join us for a unique online seminar on geospatial analytics at scale using powerful cloud capabilities. 

The session will provide use cases and real-world applications including a demo. It will be delivered by the 

We’ll follow up this session with a deep-dive masterclass on 14 February 2023 for those looking for specialist data and implementation details.

The seminar will be valuable to startups and businesses looking to utilise or commercialise geospatial data, project management and data roles, and anyone interested in space borne data analytics and extracting maximum insights.

Microsoft Online seminar: Geospatial Analytics at scale

 is a 2 day workshop and online course designed and delivered by experts at 

, to help deep tech startups take their business to the next level on the commercialisation journey.

You'll hear from Cicada's Head of Deep Tech, Hebbat Manhy, our Program Coordinator, Hela Zargouni, and a representative of the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer.

NSW Deep Tech Program - Info Session

Join us for this online masterclass on analysing geospatial datasets with cloud tooling delivered by Mahesh Kandhare, Data & AI Cloud Solution Architect at 

The masterclass will expand on the foundational overview covered in the online seminar hosted on the 31st of January: Building and scaling your geospatial analytics solution. You will deep dive into the architectures for storing, processing and visualising geospatial data. 

The masterclass will include hands-on lab sessions delivered as demos to demonstrate accessing and transforming geospatial datasets, use of tools and libraries such as geopandas and Power BI. It will be an opportunity for you to ask questions and get hands-on with data and the analytics tooling.

 Suitable for startups and organisations looking to utilise geospatial data, and deep dive on the technology tooling to access and transform data sets.

We look forward to seeing you in the masterclass.

Online Masterclass: Analysing geospatial datasets in a cloud analytics pipeline

Join us for an evening of celebrations to mark the first anniversary of the National Space Industry Hub.

Discover how space entrepreneurs are transforming their industry, learn about the new collaborations formed across the ecosystem, and hear from leaders on the opportunities for adjacent sectors to join the space race.

We'll also celebrate and learn more about the groundbreaking technologies of 

, and other space ventures at the National Space Industry Hub.

 will be joining us for this special occasion. Represented by the UK Government, the UK Space Agency, and executives from 29 UK space companies, this will be a unique opportunity to create international space relationships and facilitate collaboration between the UK and Australia.

National Space Industry Hub Expo 2023

Save the date, World Pride 2023 is coming to Cicada! 

Let's bring the Cicada community back together and celebrate Mardi Gras with Bingo, cocktails, food, music, and some surprises in the Atrium.

​The festivities will kick off from 4:00pm.

Mardi Gras Community Party

Hardware Lunch - 2023

We are excited to have you in our Space Elevate program in Brisbane. Here's what you need to know and complete to prepare for the workshops.

Space Elevate Brisbane

Engine Shop Induction

Are you working on a sensor technology and ready to take it to the next level? 

 workshop in the Engine Shop exclusive for Cicada residents

This is your chance to ask all your questions on the technical challenges you are facing while building your technology and get practical support to move forward.

Due to the Engine Shop capacity, spots are limited to 10 people. 

Workshop - Scaling your sensor technology

As a new employee and resident of Cicada's building, it’s very important you do a Building & Safety induction to get an overview of the important insights that you need to know. 

Building & Safety Induction

 - 'Lab Edition' - is an opportunity to tour our world-class facilities, meet our dedicated team of experts, and connect with a community of brilliant minds.

On Wednesday 29th March we are opening our doors to Australia's most ambitious deep-tech startups who want to find out 

life sciences, biotech, robotics, electronics, or clean energy, 

transforming lives through new technology and you are looking for:

discover what opportunities await you at 

Cicada's Open House will be followed by Hardware connect, where you will have the chance to meet Sydney’s hardware community and connect with Cicada residents.  

 is the home of deep tech in Australia with a 23 year track record supporting deep tech ventures including; Canceraid, Invertigro, Morse Micro, Propeller, Regrow, SpeeDx. 

Our specialist incubator is award winning and dedicated to the unique needs of deep tech ventures:

Cicada Open House: Lab Edition

 Cicada Innovations. Immerse yourself in Sydney's hardware startup community while listening to experts' viewpoints and connecting with key people across the sector.

While prototyping has become faster and more cost-effective for hardware companies, the process of scaling hardware products locally can be a costly and challenging task that is difficult to undo if not done correctly.

 Fortunately we've got you covered with the next 

, where you can gain firsthand insights from a panel of experts on the intricacies of scaling deep tech products in Australia.

Discover practical steps and opportunities to make local scaling a reality with 

i sharing their experiences in the midst of scaling, 

 providing the infrastructure to make it all happen.

Rob is an experienced marketer that recently made the switch from medtech to agtech to join regionally based connectivity company 

. Rob leads the marketing and business development functions for the business. In late 2022, Zetifi raised $12m to transition their products from proven prototypes to mass-market solutions for farmers and other rural residents that live and work in poor coverage areas.

Rob has qualifications in science, education and marketing from the University of New South Wales and over 13 years of experience in diverse marketing, communications and product development roles in the medical devices sector. He has a strong interest in communications and ensuring that a business’s resources and solutions are clearly aligned with customer needs. At Zetifi, this interest has been applied through his contributions to product development as the business has worked through the necessary experimentation and testing stages of their product and technology design process.

Jeka is a highly accomplished professional with a strong background in chemistry and printed electronics, having worked in both industry and academia. Her passion for using technology to solve real-world problems has been evident throughout her career. She earned her Master's degree from RWTH Aachen and gained valuable startup experience in printed electronics in Germany prior to pursuing a PhD at ANU. During her doctoral program, Jeka co-invented and led the development of an innovative additive manufacturing method using electrochemistry, which ultimately led to the creation of Syenta. 

As the CEO and Co-Founder of Syenta, Jeka is currently spearheading the company's mission to revolutionize the electronics manufacturing sector by delivering printers based on their groundbreaking technology to customers. Her expertise and leadership skills are invaluable assets to the company's success.

Navin is an established research commercialisation professional with background in research and manufacturing. During his Master of Biotechnology and PhD from the University of Queensland, in 2016 Navin demonstrated the world’s first evidence for transdermal magnesium absorption in human skin. This research outcome was translated into a commercially successful formulation for the swimming pool industry that enables bathers to topically supplement magnesium, thereby providing health benefits. Following which Navin was involved in onshoring projects that resulted in bringing back $12M per annum worth of manufacturing contract to Australia and developing novel intellectual property along the way. 

More recently, Navin played a leading role in manufacturing of P2 respirators as part of emergency response program and establishing sovereign capability. Additionally, Navin has also held business development roles where he was involved in securing grants for clients, early-stage technology transfer from universities and preparation of R&D projects for investment opportunities. 

In his current role with ANFF, Navin facilitates businesses to access cutting edge capabilities in micro- and nano- fabrication that underpins miniaturisation of next generation of technology hardware.

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