Hard to believe next week is March which means International Women's Day and Pause Festival, so grab a 2-for-1 Late Bird Business Deal and get ready to pause. This Inside the DIF we shine a spotlight on startup events and emerging tech, recognising the Victorian finalists in the Women in AI Awards.

Pause Flash Sale

Congratulations to all the Pause Awards 2020 winners including our own DIF Community Champions, Michelle Mannering from MishManners™/Raine Scooters and Dr Elena Kelareva [Below Left] from GippsTech/Binary Shift.

Event Spotlight: Startups

A few of the upcoming events for startups and entrepreneurs and there's always plemnty on from Startup Victoria, Launch Vic and more.

	Startup Essentials  Tue 9/16/23 Mar 4-5:30 PM 3-part workshops covers business essentials to start and scale your venture, created by One10 and facilitated by Social Entrepreneur and Impact Investor, Geoff Gourley.
	Startup Essentials  Tue 9/16/23 Mar 4-5:30 PM 3-part workshops covers business essentials to start and scale your venture, created by One10 and facilitated by Social Entrepreneur and Impact Investor, Geoff Gourley.

Emerging Tech Spotlight:

Recognising Victorian Women in AI

International Women's Day is fast approaching and we'd like to recognise women at the forefront of emerging technology. Women in AI (WAI) is a global network of female experts and professionals in the field of Artificial Intelligence working towards gender-inclusive AI that benefits a global society. The WAI Awards finalists have been announced with 9 Victorian women across 8 categories. The Victorian Government is proud to support the WAI awards and congratulates all the finalists, swishing them well for the finals on 26 March.

• AI in Mining - Angela Rodrigues, PhD Candidate, Monash University

  School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment

• AI in Law - Dr Kobi Leins, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne

• AI in Health - Dr Rahil Garnavi, Senior Technical Staff Member, Master Inventor, IBM Research

• AI in Finance - Dr Wen Chen (Monica), Research Scientist, CSIRO’s Data61 

• AI in Finance - Dr Catherine Lopes, Founder & Director, Opsdo Analytics and Head of Data Strategy & Analytics | ME Bank 

• AI in Agribusiness - Supriya Nair, Director, OutofBox Solutions

• AI in Cyber Security - Dr Sarah Erfani, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

• AI in Infrastructure - Bonnie Shaw, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Place Intelligence

• AI in Innovation - Yolande Strengers, Associate Professor Digital Technology and Society, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Faculty of IT, Monash University