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An innovation party!

December 22, 2015

Food for thought from ad exec, adventurer and Redesign My Brain star Todd Sampson: “We are at the foothills of what the brain can do; we are just beginning to understand this magnificent thing we have in our head.”
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Australia’s ambition is catching up with its ability

December 21, 2015
He has just been anointed as one of the nation’s key digital enablers in the Innovation 100 list. In this post for GEreports, Geoff Culbert, President and CEO of GE Australia, New Zealand and PNG, describes his optimism that the Antipodean attitude toward an ideas-based economy is turning around.
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Hackathon? It’s code for entrepreneurial thinking

December 04, 2015

As startup business development manager for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Australia and New Zealand, Ian Gardiner is an expert at leading technology companies to high-growth success. He recently facilitated the AWShine hackathon, in collaboration with Amazon Women Shine, which was designed to bring diversity to the development table and succeeded in achieving a 50:50 female:male participation. Young women graduates from GE joined the hack, and Mark Sheppard, CIO of GE Australia and New Zealand, was a judge at the event.

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Quenching a thirst for health in remote communities

December 04, 2015
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Put 26 innovators in an incubator and … apply pizza!

December 03, 2015
Breakfast croissants, all-day pizza and technical and commercial mentors on tap fuelled the thought processes of participants at GE’s first Industrial Hackathon in Sydney on the weekend of November 28-29. There were other hackathons running elsewhere in the city, but at GE four industrial-sized problems had been posed. Eight teams—most of them formed on Saturday morning—hunkered down to create solutions in unfamiliar territory: remote-worker safety, railway maintenance, tracking licensing data of healthcare engineers, and optimising the energy usage of industrial users.
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Community and renewables in concert

November 26, 2015
The lively community session held in late September at Ararat’s Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre was part information day, part jobs fair for the Ararat Wind Farm, where earthworks and road-making, fencing, and anemometric and geotechnical testing are already in full swing.
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Wind with benefits

November 26, 2015
Windfall: an unexpected good fortune, a piece of fruit blown down by the wind! The term suits the benefits that accrue around wind farms. As rural-based infrastructure projects, they confirm people’s investment and faith in their communities, and contribute to thriving towns and skills-based employment. As windfalls go, Ararat Wind Farm, the 75-turbine, $450 million venture due to start feeding more of Australia’s endless wind resource to the electricity grid from 2017, has hit the ground running.
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Science, get ready for your close-up

November 17, 2015
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer says that a curious mind is the secret to a bigger life. It’s also the secret to a thriving business, as GE can attest.
Grazer and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) recently teamed up with GE and National Geographic Channel to make Breakthrough, a six-part documentary series exploring scientific innovation.
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A shared vision: GE and Alstom continue a common vision

November 09, 2015
GE acquired the power and grid business of the engineering company Alstom last Monday, creating a new global industrial powerhouse. The ink on the deal is still fresh, but it isn’t the first time the two companies have met. In fact, they both sprung from the same roots.
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300th Hornet jet engine takes wing

November 09, 2015
“You could call it a ‘hole in-the-wall’ contract: When the RAAF needs a new Hornet engine to install on a jet, they put their hand through a hole in the wall, and they pull out an engine,” says Adam Watterson, sales director, GE Aviation Military Systems Operation.
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