Mik is a professional multihyphenate at the convergence of cultural knowledge, environmental biology, and tech, weaving Indigenous wisdom into the fabric of the digital and physical worlds to create a future that’s smarter, more inclusive, and deeply connected.🛠️ About My Professional Odyssey 🚀Armed with a $75,000 business loan and boundless determination, I forged my path. Mastery in accountability, responsibility, and reciprocity became my pillars. With a keen eye on the future, I augmented my skills with a Masters of Applied Cybernetics and honed social entrepreneurship, power and leadership at Harvard. 💡 Meet Indigital - Shaping Tomorrow 🌐Amidst the twists and turns, Indigital emerged, initially as an augmented reality education technology company. Over 4 transformative years, we evolved into enablers for technology infrastructure teams and communities on traditional lands to achieve trust. Our focus is to guide projects like hyper-scale data centres, and renewable energy initiatives, aligning them with the values of Traditional Custodians while sharing future technology skills with the whole community. We navigate the fine line of progress while ensuring social impact resonates with the community. We are a debt-free, bootstrapped First Nations company.🌐 Our Expertise: Connecting with Country and Social Reciprocity 🤝Indigital thrives on Connecting with Country and social reciprocity, harnessing the power of First Nations cultures, technologies, and relationships. Counting Microsoft, Meta, and Accenture among our long-term clients, we pride ourselves on making a lasting positive relationship in the spaces where it matters most.🏆 Accolades and Awards 🌟Named on The Australian’s 100 Top Innovators List and recognised as the 2021 Indigenous Leader of the Year at the Women in Digital awards, and being awarded the Indigenous ALUMNI of the year for both UTS, Sydney and the ANU, I have been widely acknowledged as a leader in the technology space. I was honoured to be one of the first Indigenous people to present at the WEF Annual Meeting 2022. I am a WEF Global Futures Council member, a recipient of the Schwab Foundation 2022 Social Innovator of the Year award. I became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2023.Let's connect and explore the intersection of passion, purpose, and progress! 🚀 #ConnectingWithCountry #SocialReciprocity #TechForGood