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What are we made of? Finding our pioneering spirit to drive growth

December 23, 2016
Presented to Melbourne Business School, October 24th, 2016
I was lucky enough to be in Rio for the Olympic Games this year.

Like many Australians, I love my sport. Rio was my fourth Olympics and it was a really great experience – I saw Usain Bolt win the hundred metres, I watched the final of the beach volleyball on Copacabana, which was one of the more unique sporting experiences – the game started at midnight.
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Don’t let the lights go out in Australia

December 09, 2016
Energy runs your life. Most commonly transmitted as electricity, it runs your home, your workplace, your city and our nation. Without it everything stops and the lights go out.
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879. Almost instantly it became indispensable to modern life. He went on to create General Electric, sometimes better known as GE.
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How to make Australia a science-mad nation

August 16, 2016
In the midst of the Olympic Games, it's a plea that might be hard to hear above the chants of "Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!", but it's a message that Australia needs to tune into.
"Australia is a sports-mad nation, but we also need to be a science-mad nation," says Geoff Culbert, chief executive and president of GE Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Culbert is not suggesting that we turn our backs on the wonder of physical prowess; his argument is that we must make sure that we celebrate and encourage building up our intellectual muscle, too.
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Exploring our digital industrial future

July 14, 2016
As the middle of another year raced up on us all, CSIRO and GE created a travelling innovation show to bring together a wide array of Australia’s greatest thinkers and disruptors to discuss how we compete and collaborate in the innovation marathon.
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Australia’s competitive advantage: a global perspective

June 29, 2016
Karan Bhatia (far right), vice president and senior counsel of global government affairs and policy for GE, at the Crawford Australian Leadership Forum in Canberra.
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Ambition on the agenda at D61+LIVE

April 07, 2016
It had all the wonder of the Royal Easter Show, but with science and technology taking the place of animals and rides. There were robots, drones, models, modelling, a mammoth mobile emergency-services integrated-communications truck and, on the main stage, a grand parade of inspiring minds and ambitious ideas. (Oh, and there were food stations serving pulled-pork tacos, steamed dumplings, noodle boxes and mini Wagyu beef burgers—streets ahead of the usual sideshow fare.)
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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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Can Australia be the next Silicon Valley?

March 30, 2015
Where do you think Australia sits in the OECD rankings of collaboration on innovation between industry and universities? Hint: it’s not last. Answer: it’s second-last. Australia must move swiftly to get government, industry and universities collaborating more closely than ever to build an innovation economy—our most reliable and sustainable solution to transition from the commodities boom to a new high-value, high-wages economy.
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Can Australia be the next Silicon Valley?

November 19, 2014
This post was written by Geoff Culbert, President and CEO, GE Australia and New Zealand.
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