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Inside the DIF: 16 Nov 2021

16 November 2021 - The DIF Team
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It's time to reconnect and open up to new possibilities

 
Events continue to roll out with online conferences for data analysts at IAPA's Festival of Analytics Goodness and info security professionals at AISA's Cybercon virtual edition. Join the Monash Prato Dialogue on Doing good with AI [18 Nov] and celebrate Women's Entrepreneurship Day [19 Nov]. Then it's time to prepare to pivot your career with Stone & Chalk and LaunchVic hosting in-person events [22-26 Nov] or reunite with your peers at AgileAus20-1 [6-7 Dec]. 

Awards season continues with the newly announced Governor of Victoria Startup Awards seeking nominations for the People's Choice Award [28 Nov] plus TechDiversity [2 Dec] and Women in AI Awards [17 Dec] entries closing soon. Congratulations to this year's winners in the IoT Awards. Not to be missed is the fourth Annual Pause Awards [2 Dec] in the CBD with a five-piece band to entertain you LIVE. It’ll be great to reconnect and celebrate.

The DIF Online Event Hub is still humming with new events added daily making dif.vic.gov.au the place to find out what's on and catch up on the best of the fest with DIF on Demand. There are lots of upcoming events in November from emerging tech to online business. 

Have your say via the DIF Feedback Loop and let us know how being part of the DIF community made a difference to you this year. Complete the DIF2021 Festival survey by 30 November and help shape future digital economy initiatives.
 
Visit the DIF Online Event Hub for more

DIF LATEST NEWS

> Binary Shift Regional Innovation Summit is back for 2021
> Building tech skills & supporting Victoria’s AI capabiility

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Governor of Victoria Startup Awards

Nominations for the People's Choice close online 28 Nov 2021

A new awards ceremony is set to shine a light on entrepreneurs, leaders and investors across the startup ecosystem. Initiated by the Victorian Government, the awards celebrate the outstanding contribution to the fast-growing sector. Nominations for the Investor of the Year and Ecosystem Hero of the Year categories are being sought from the startup community, which will then be put to a public vote. The winners will be announced at an invite-only awards ceremony at Government House in 2022. 
Nominate Now
 

Pause Fest Australia presents

Pause Awards 2021

Wed 1 Dec / 6-10 PM @ Bobby McGee's, Exhibition Street, Melbourne

Fourth Annual Pause Awards 2021, are not far away at all and we can host a good old-style event, in the flesh. Tickets are limited to regulation capacity and we only have 110 on offer on the first come first serve basis. Now don't be the person that misses out on this major awards event in the innovation calendar, will you? Grab your tickets before they sell out!
 
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TechDiversity presents

TechDiversity Awards 2021

Nominations open until 2 Dec 2021
Gala Dinner 24 Feb 2022  

The #TechDiversity Awards recognise individuals and groups that have demonstrated leadership and embraced inclusion by raising awareness and promoting diversity initiatives and programs. We will be celebrating and saluting these individuals and groups at the Gala Dinner next year.
 
Nominate Now
 

Women in AI presents

Are you a female innovator in the AI field?

Nominations open until 17 Dec 2021
Awards Dinner 23 March, Melbourne


Women in AI Awards 2022 will honour the top Australian and New Zealand women in AI: the pioneers who are taking the road less travelled. Women in AI empower women and minorities to become AI & Data experts, innovators and leaders.  Nominate inspiring women who are working, leading, creating or demonstrating innovation in AI across sectors. 
 
Nominate Now
 
 

Monash The Monash Prato Dialogue University presents

Doing Good with AI: Fairly and Equitably

Thu 18 Nov / 12:00 - 1:00 PM

 Can AI, ML and Data Science help prevent children from getting lead poisoning? Can they help reduce police violence and misconduct? Increase vaccination rates? In this lecture, Professor Rayid Ghani will highlight opportunities as well as challenges that need to be tackled in order to have AI's social and policy impact in a fair and equitable manner.
 
Register Free
 

Women in Tech Australia presents

Women in Tech + WEDO Pitch Night

Fri 19 Nov / 5 - 7:30 PM

This Women's Entrepreneurs Day we are calling all female founders to connect and share their ideas with investors and pitch their tech ventures live!
Register Free
 

Stone and Chalk + Launchvic presents

Prepare to Pivott your career

22 - 26 Nov / Melbourne Innovation Hub, Goodshed, Docklands


We're almost there Victoria - out of lockdown and meeting in person! Stone & Chalk is super-excited to invite you to a series of in person events at the Prepare to Pivott Week at the Melbourne Innovation Hub later this month. Pivot is a free program designed to empower your startup career journey. With a supportive learning academy, curated workshops and events, and access to endless jobs, we're here to help. Pivott your career into the startup world.

 
Register Free
 

Codifying online safety

Mon 22nd Nov / 2 - 3:30 PM
Join the IIC Australian Chapter, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, and an industry panel for a discussion about the development of new industry codes under the Online Safety Act 2021. 
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RMIT + StarRez presents

Hackvision

Sat 20 - Sun 21 Nov 

There are three simple steps to complete within 24 hours at HackVision...

🚀   Innovate a hack for the future

🚀   Compete in games at the crack of dawn

🚀   Lose sleep and have fun!
Find out more
 

Agile Australia presents

AgileAus20-1

Workshops 3 Dec / Conference 6-7 Dec / Dinner 6 Dec

Reunite with your peers and make new connections at AgileAus20-1 to explore better ways of working to build resilience and value in our organisations. It’s time to reimagine our Agile values. Join us to share lessons on how best to respond to change over following a plan; explore new paradigms for collaboration; and put people over process to build products with users at their heart! 
 
Book Tickets
 
GippsTech’s own Dr Elena Kelareva continues to be at the forefront of Gippsland’s regional development and innovation and is back with the Binary Shift team for their fifth conference.

This week's DIF Flashback looks back to 2017 when a chance meeting of entrepreneurial Gippslanders resulted in the creation of Binary Shift – the region’s first startup and tech conference. They met at the DIF Regional Roadshow briefing in Traralgon that year and set themselves the challenge to launch a new conference in eight weeks Binary Shift was born and has been a feature of the Digital Innovation Festival ever since. Returning reimagined for 2021, the fifth Binary Shift takes place on 16 November. Read more #DIF Flashback Gippsland's Binary Shift.
 
 

Let us know how being part of the DIF community made a difference to you this year. We invite your thoughts, insights, and suggestions. Have your say via the DIF2021 Festival survey by 30 November  and help shape future digital economy initiatives.
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TAGS: #BinaryShift #OnlineBusiness #Startups #Entrepreneurs #FutureJobs #EmergingTech #TechAwards #DIFvic

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