Our weekly appointments wrap includes Anka Burns, Shelley Gepp, Alex McGlue, Garth Tinsley, Clare Grieveson, Pip Close, Ken Edwards, Stephen Carroll, Srikrishnan Vaidyanathan, Harry Heng and Gary Credaro.
At yesterday's WA Innovation Summit, put together for new Innovation Minister Bill Marmion, 250 invited guests came up with plans on how best to spend the newly allocated $20 million of innovation funds.
A Perth-based fintech startup has been named one of the top finalists in Silicon Valley Forum's World Cup Tech Challenge, while the winners of a hackathon hosted by BHP Billiton and Unearthed have been revealed.
Australia was named the 13th most innovative country in Bloomberg's Innovation Index 2015, but what will it take for Australia to climb to the number one position in the next 15 years?