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COMPANY NEWS:  Founder and CEO of Q-CTRL Receives 2024 NSW Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year Award

COMPANY NEWS: Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ) co-founders David and Aidan Tudehope have been awarded the Pearcey Medal and been inducted into the Pearcey Foundation’s Pearcey Hall of Fame for lifetime contributions to Australia’s ICT industry.

Didier Elzinga, founder and CEO of employee experience platform Culture Amp has been announced as the recipient of the 2023 Pearcey Victorian Entrepreneur Award.

COMPANY NEWS: The Pearcey Foundation today announced founder and CEO of FiberSense, Dr Mark Englund, as the recipient of the 2022 NSW Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Mohan Koo, co-founder and chief technology officer of cybersecurity provider Dtex Systems, has received the 2021 South Australian Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

The Pearcey Foundation has named Bronwyn Le Grice, CEO and managing director of ANDHealth, as its 2021 Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award recipient.

OPINION: It is now four days since the government released its COVIDSafe tracing app. There has been a lot of debate over the privacy aspects of the app, and a lot of commentary about whether people should or shouldn’t use it.

The Pearcey Foundation has released a discussion paper in response to the launch of the Australian Government’s COVIDSafe app.

The Director of Research Computing at the University of Queensland, Professor David Abramson, has been awarded the Pearcey medal for 2019 by the Pearcey Foundation for his contribution to the development and growth of the ICT industry in Australia.

The NSW Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year Award for this year has been won jointly by the founder of Startive Ventures and PC Tools, Simon Clausen, and Red Balloon founder, Naomi Simson.

Today's new world of computer science met the old recently when senior executives from the CSIRO's ICT Centre paid a visit to the University of Melbourne to see CSIRAC, Australia's first and the world's fourth programmable electronic digital computer, built in 1949 by a CSIRO team led by Dr Trevor Pearcey, after whom the Pearcey Foundation was named.

The Australian ICT industry's three peak bodies have joined forces to bring their respective national awards under the banner of the well known iAwards program, created by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) in 1995.