The National Space IndustryHub offers a physical space, resources, mentoring, and connections for emerging space ventures and researchers in Australia within the larger Cicada Innovations complex. My role has been to coach individual entrepreneurs, product developers and researchers. The hub also offers commercialisation training programs nationally to share essential knowledge for anyone on the path of creating a space tech venture. Since 2020, within the Fast Start program I’ve coached the following companies, in alphabetical order: Amentum Scientific, ANT61, Apogee Shield, Aquila, Astrosite, Crest Robotics, Delta-V Industries, Deneb Space, Euroka Power, Extraterrestrial Power, FuturifAI, Lumi Quantum, MP Space, Ocean Intelligence, Omnitanker, Omniaris, RapidBeam, Sitle.space, Spiral Blue, Starbound Space Solutions, and VXB Aerospace. I’ve coached another 100+ folks nationwide as part of the Space Elevate program. I'm super-excited to be working with the Cicada team helping deep tech-focused space startup founders at an incredible moment in history, a time of major sector transformation and growth in services for Earth, systems for space, and possibilities for humanity to to live sustainably on our home planet, and beyond 🚀 Checkout the programs on offer via the Cicada Innovations website 🌏

Proud to have been re-elected to this position, to assist the new chair and board to continue our mission - successful so far! - to dramatically grow our impact in line with the growth of the Australian space sector, and leverage our hosting of the IAC2025 to lift the understanding of the Australian public, and our international partners, of all the opportunities and impact space can deliver to the nation, our planet, and for future generations! Particularly focused on building relationships within our dynamic region at this critical time in both space and geopolitics.

Advocating for, bringing together, and growing Australia's commercial space sector, the Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA) is the peak body for our sector. Proud to be standing on the shoulders of giants, helping the SIAA to professionalise and become financially sustainable, and helping to democratise access to this incredibly exciting domain as Australia resumes its role as a pioneering global space leader and innovator. Signature achievement: we won our bid for #IAC2025 in Sydney!

Helped to develop the strategy, which transitioned the SIAA to a professionally-led peak body for the Australian Space Industry.

The iLAuNCH Trailblazer is part of the Australian Government’s Trailblazer Universities Program delivered by the Department of Education. It is a $180 million consortium led by the University of Southern Queensland, in partnership with the Australian National University, University of South Australia, CSIRO and 20+ industry organisations, designed to build Australia’s sovereign space capabilities by identifying critical gaps and accelerating several key technology areas.As background, iLAuNCH’s core pillars comprise:• Industry-led Research Commercialisation Projects,• Fast Track Commercialisation Funding,• Educational Pathways supporting the workforce of the future, and• Cultural Reforms to improve industry-academia collaboration for commercialisation successThe purpose of the iLAuNCH Industry Advisory Panel is to provide strategic-level advice to the iLAuNCH Executive and Advisory Board to shape activities relating to three core lines of effort:• investment opportunities and commercialisation of iLAuNCH projects,• selection and award to candidates for our $1.8m Fast Track Fund, and• Future Skills Development program.Looking forwards to helping iLaunch drive industry impact and yes-we-can impact for Australia in space!

Paris, Washington D.C., Montreal, Yokohama, and Sydney, May 20 2021 – Euroconsult is opening a representative office in Australia to serve local and international clients in the fast growing Australian space sector, further expanding its global market reach. "Attracting a blue-chip space intelligence group like Euroconsult to join Australia’s space ecosystem is a big vote of confidence in our collective efforts to build a world-class space sector," said new Euroconsult Australia representative director Dr Tim Parsons. "I’m incredibly humbled and proud to represent Euroconsult in the Australian market, and look forwards to helping local, regional and international clients make the most of the firm’s 30-year history of providing the highest levels of quality commercial space consulting, training, and competitive intelligence." See https://euroconsult-ec.com/node/648 for the full press release.

Leading a team of developers creating a novel streaming media and data protection platform for Web 2.0, Edge and Web 3.0, leveraging VT's patents in several related mediatech spaces.

Pioneering in-orbit satellite inspection to monitor space objects and their environment, HEO Robotics delivers in-space imagery and analytics that helps businesses, governments, and defence understand and operate space systems in space.

Worked to help grow the cluster through Covid, exploring multiple partnerships and impact models within under the SmartSat CRC umbrella with Aurora chair Dr Sarah Cannard, SmartSat CEO Prof Andy Koronios, COO Andrew Beveridge, and Commercial Director Cameron Stephenson - plus fellow board members past and present Anastasia Volkova, Andrew Barton, and Conrad Pires. Lots of great learnings, and one of my first board experiences in space 🚀🛰️🌏❤️

Aurora is a National space startups cluster creating pathways for space-focused startups, scale-ups and SMEs initiate and participate in SmartSatCRC projects, have a stronger voice in the industry, gain key linkages, skills, access to capabilities, tools and infrastructure. This was a foundational executive role, organising events, growing a member base to over 50 SMEs, and coordinating a terrific volunteer Establishment Committee team, who transitioned into our first board.

Delighted to be assisting LeoLabs Australia and LeoLabs Inc globally to make Earth Orbit safe, sustainable and transparent, for all humankind.

See first open Industry R&D EOI 👇 below! NSW is one of Australia's strongest space ecosystems. My role: helping to create commercial research partnerships, place researchers in industry and vice-versa, unlock access for companies to relevant infrastructure, and create stronger personal and professional links between NSW researchers and companies. Let's lift Space TRL capabilities and create high-quality products for global space customers! Working in partnership with NSW Govt Space Team and Chief Scientists Office, building foundations for the National Space Startups Hub, the Tech Precinct and Aerotropolis.

Food Agility CRC aims to lead the digital revolution for a sustainable food future, via a $150million+ innovation hub leading a digital revolution in food production and supply. We curate innovation and research that creates new digital technologies and services which will boost the Australian agrifood industry to be more globally competitive and sustainable.With research nodes at UTS, QUT, Curtin and RMIT, and over 50 corporate and government partners from all states in Australia, such as Bosch, NAB, IAG, The Yield, and many others, Food Agility is uniquely positioned to drive a program of deliberate, entrepreneurial innovation at the intersection between supply and demand of AI, data analytics, and IoT sensors, tools and services - which promise to make agrifood a sustainable industry.

Helping accelerate product, platform and people – bringing an incredible selection of the best TV and movie content to as many people as possible in emerging economies, at an affordable price. That's iflix.com – an incredible, joyful journey across ASEAN and beyond.Its a bold, breathtaking vision – and we're executing – and we're winning. Let's Play!

What an intense time this last period of Pollenizer was, crossing over my time as a contractor at iFlix. Having been in-and-out of the Guild for ages, i finally took the plunge and joined the mothership, immediately diving into setting up Health-X, Energy-X with Horizon Power, Free Money with Pepper, 2-day workshops, running the famous Pollenizer accelerator program, working with dozens of founders and national brands. An incredible, deep learning experience. A place of high integrity, the firm ultimately decided it had not hit proof-of-scale, and so following its own tough-love advice (the thing it was famous for), we wrapped up. Am amazing time.

Led and delivered total overhaul of product vision and delivery strategy to meet strategic business imperatives – a $15m program of new product development work, 500,000 downloads for the relaunched Jump-in (later renamed 9Now) - a “TV Show Companion PLUS Catchup TV” app and platform, in the process transforming how Mi9 provides support for Channel Nine TV shows, and making the ninemsn network a more sticky destination across more platforms.

Lead technologist in charge of delivering and operating core platform to enable strategic collaboration between Product / Marketing / Membership / Content / Fulfillment and Technology. When I joined in 2009, QFX had about 25K customers. When I left, over 125K customers were enjoying a Hollywood-approved multi-platform publishing, rights management, and API framework streaming movies & TV episodes to 200+ models of smart phone, tablets, games consoles and connected TVs across Australia and New Zealand. I also worked evangelising Quickflix technology and innovation - and led efforts to define and nurture a Quickflix culture of trust, respect and leadership.

Worked with over 50 clients, both direct and partnering with digital, branding, media and marketing agencies, such as• The One Centre (Jun '06 - May '07) - led digital work for Audi, Amex, Diageo, Woolworths• Profero Sydney & Singapore (Jun '05 - May '06) - led mobile work for Apple, Nat Geo, Medtronic• Sugar Partnership (Feb '01 - May '05) - led digital for Merivale, NSW Govt, Customs House, NetforceKey achievements: the business was born in, and weathered the post dot-com crash shakeout. Our highly creative design + tech build team always delivered on-time and budget, pushing technology - especially Flash-based interactive and animated interfaces - to their limit in a pre-broadband world.

My third dot-com era role, where I led AsiaPac sales, client engagement, design and technical execution teams across three core offices, building on the team's reputation as a powerhouse high-productivity player within the global Oven Digital family. We developed cutting-edge rich media experiences for the likes of Channel Seven, Hookt, Tiffany, One Cosmos, and many others, until the US parent's untimely dot-com collapse. Gained valuable experience working with company administrators through a deed-of-company arrangement windup.

My second dot-com era role, where I led the delivery of interactive web projects for the global marketing teams of Honda, Mazda, Nikon, Sony and Toyota, as well as the ARCUS Artist-in-Residence - IBARAKI project with Wacoal Spiral Aoyama Gallery. So much fun working out of their super-trendy Harajuku offices.

My first dot-com era role - a true garage startup experience - architecting and building web sites and applications for clients such as Art Gallery of NSW, Honda Australia, MCA Chicago, MCA San Diego, MCA Sydney, Southcorp Wines (Lindemans, Penfolds, Seppelts, Seaview, Wynns), Sun Microsystems, and Toyota Australia. The unique thing about Spike in 1996 was how they were born of a magazine design business, and unlike peers began their work with a creative visual concept, art direction and copywriting - sensitive to the leading digital media of the time, desktop websites. My job was to execute pixel-perfect versions of these concepts in code, and my job was to push the tools and technology of the day to nail a pixel-perfect creative execution of the vision, and not allow it to dilute the visual and experiential work of our creative team. Had a blast, and also a bona-fide dot-com burnout 😎

Under UK Ministry-of-Defence contract, I joined Imperial College's Hypersonics research team under Professor John Harvey, with the goal to apply contemporary software engineering methodologies - object orientation, abstraction, test-base development, visualisation - to develop a new system for the computational aerothermodynamics simulation of ultra-high altitude rarefied hypersonic flows. My work also explored parallelisation, the use of Voronoi diagrams to partition 2-D and 3-D spaces to support spatially smooth statistical convergence sought by the core Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo algorithm underpinning rarefied gas and plasma flow simulations, used where non-equilibrium conditions make traditional fluid dynamics methods - Euler and Navier Stokes' equations - break down.

Wrote, presented and co-produced this BBC 2 Horizon Films' documentary "Cyberpunks and Technophobes", exploring why despite exciting technological imagery and scientific ideas in films and television programmes, UK teenagers were becoming technophobes, switching off from science and technology. Highlights: got to interview Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams, Red Dwarf star Craig Charles, and - most of all - work with an incredible BBC team (See on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139772).