A panel of political players at NSW Parliament last week discussed the difficulty of changing your mind in a world where consisten

Elisity, a US based startup in identity and behavior-based enterprise cybersecurity, closed a USD$26M Series A funding round. It is one of many cyber startups benefiting from the increased need in zero trust architecture and security management approach.Using combination of configuration and techniques, access is monitored by AI algorithms that track, monitor, and analyze flows and user behavior to make recommendations and discover an organisation’s assets to build an encrypted mesh overlay between a cloud services panel and network probes.https://blog.elisity.com/news/elisity-closes-26-million-funding-roundimage credit: bleepingcomputer.com

Lululemon's retail strategy took an advanced tech step with the acquisition of Mirror (at-home-fitness mirror - voice activated 'smart mirror') mid last year.  And their latest patents point to a strategy of embedding biosensors into their fitness clothing to determine stress and other wellness indicators. With data driven AI models and more its clearly early days but the possibilities for retail are significant particularly in post COVID times - is this a brand reputation play or a bigger product-market opportunity?https://www.retaildive.com/news/whats-next-for-lululemons-tech-ambitions/601500/image credit: lululemon

Countries including US, China, India, France, Germany to name a few recognise that investments in science and technology are the fuel for future prosperity and economic development. They continue to invest (with medium and long-term lenses) accordingly.ASPI's latest report into quantum technology shows Australians are highly influential in this scientific research & commercialisation opportunity, despite our size and geographic location. But that leadership (and ability to take other Australians along for that success) is threatened. Is it too late? Can we course correct in time?https://www.aspi.org.au/report/australian-strategy-quantum-revolutionImage credit: Wired Magazine (March 2020)

Accenture has patented what they call an automatic ticket resolver, which essentially uses AI to help guide the resolution of tick

Prof Thomas Picketty's work on voter alignment demonstrates the continued fragmentation and movement of voter support between Australian political parties. (Report by Troy Bramston, The Australian 19/6/21)   This unravelling of the bases of the 2 main parties, Labor and LNP, was all too predictable as they have both become so inward focused and have lost touch with their primary role in implementing ‘common good’ outcomes that the broad community can support.   A great opportunity exists for the party who re-connects across the electorate through broad-scale active listening, evidence-based policy formulation and communication, and then action,  focused on faultless implementation.