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Ben Wylie and Yamen Sader – the founders of Sixtree, which joined Deloitte Australia in 2016 – have re-joined the startup world to create web3 and blockchain investment and engineering specialist Lab Eleven.

Voice AI communications platform Curious Thing has closed a $7 million pre-series A funding round led by investment firm Hawkstone, which will be used to expedite the adoption of voice AI assistants.

AWS and Databricks specialist Intellify's team is to join professional services firm Deloitte Australia.

COMPANY NEWS: Syniti, a leader in enterprise data management, today announced the first of multiple updates to its industry-leading Syniti Knowledge Platform this year. Building on the platform’s history of success in complex enterprise data migrations, the company is introducing the fully cloud-based version of Syniti Advanced Data Migration, now called Syniti Migrate. With Syniti Migrate, customers will have greater control of their data in a faster, more secure offering—from any source to any target—helping to ensure a Boring Go Live every time.

Internet infrastructure for commerce provider Shopify has announced that its Australian merchants contributed $39.4 billion in economic activity in 2021, a 50.1% increase in economic activity from $26.3b in 2020. 

Process intelligence and automation specialist Nintex has appointed Eric Emans to the role of CFO.

Deloitte will further expand its place as a provider of ServiceNow technology and enterprise process automation, in particular within healthcare, with a team from Brisbane-based Entrago to join the professional services firm.

Data cloud specialist Snowflake has launched its Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud, said to be a single, integrated, and cross-cloud data platform that eliminates technical and institutional data silos.

The need for digital skills became more pronounced during the pandemic with 81% of workers surveyed in Australia reporting they need more skills to cope with changes in their jobs due to the pandemic, according to Amazon Web Services research report.

Global cloud enterprise software company was recognised in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Field Service Management Solutions for Utilities 2022 Vendor Assessment for offering a single configurable enterprise solution for clients in the FSM space.

Enboarder, the world's only people activation platform enabling companies to transform their people programs into simple, science-based, human-centric journeys, today announced it has raised US$32 million in Series B funding, bringing its total investment to US$50 million. The round was led by NewSpring, with participation from previous investors, Greycroft and Next Coast Ventures, and new investors Golub Capital, Escalate Capital Partner, Alumni Ventures and Gaingels.

Consultancy services giant Deloitte and Salesforce have teamed up to develop a national talent development program aimed at boosting diversity in the technology industry and help close a growing skills gap in Australia.

GUEST OPINION by Paul Arthur, Regional Vice President, ANZ at OutSystems:  From cashless payments to online food delivery and getting assistance from AI-assisted chatbots, the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across countries and industries. This has normalised many tech advancements that were considered revolutionary only months earlier. Almost overnight it became necessary to know how to navigate a digital-first environment to access the most basic of services.

The Covid pandemic has had an impact on how consumers engage with digital technologies, according to the second edition of Deloitte’s annual Digital Consumer Trends survey report (previously Mobile Consumer Survey).

The drone sector has been earmarked as a burgeoning employment pathway for generations as robots, drones, AI, and automation is poised to dominate the tech industry in the coming decades.

Fujitsu has appointed Branko Panich to the role of ANZ executive general manager of consulting.

Swinburne University of Technology will aim to meet the needs for cyber security professionals in Australia through the setting up of a Cyber Academy, the organisation says.

BlackBerry and Deloitte announced the two organisations are teaming up to help OEMs and those building mission-critical applications secure their software supply chains.

Another Australian cloud provider, this time the secure cloud specialist Sliced Tech, has passed into foreign hands with its sale to UK-headquartered private consultancy services giant Deloitte for an unspecified sum.

Global application development company OutSystems and Deloitte Consulting have expanded their 13-year alliance to include a Center of Excellence (COE) focused on providing cloud-based industry solutions utilising Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a global scale.