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Ericsson has appointed Ludvig Landgren as the new Head of Australia and New Zealand, effective from 1 May, 2025.

Ericsson says Ludvig Landgren brings to the role more than 25 years of experience in executive roles in sales and delivery across Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Australia’s four largest airports, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, each reported their highest ever aeronautical revenues in 2023-24, the ACCC’s latest Airport Monitoring Report shows.

Sydney-based startup EvenBetter.ai has today launched the "world’s first AI-driven platform to help businesses move beyond gender pay gap reporting and take real, data-driven action in the workplace".

Document database provider MongoDB has expanded its investment in Australia with a new office in Sydney in a move it says it will enable growth across its engineering, support, and go-to-market functions.

Software provider OpenText has announced expanded investment in the Asia Pacific and its upcoming flagship summits in Sydney and Tokyo.

The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the latest and most intelligent model in the Claude model family from artificial intelligence (AI) safety and research company Anthropic, is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.  To learn more about this announcement, please join us at our upcoming Data & AI Day Roadshow in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland.

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Global and domestic disruptions continue to destabilise the container freight supply chain, leading to congestion, delays and higher costs, which resulted in some importers having to pay four to 11 times as much for ocean freight as a year earlier, according to the  2023-24 ACCC Container stevedoring monitoring report.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix has appointed Cyrus Adaggra, a four-year Equinix veteran, as President, Asia-Pacific (APAC).

● Five of Indonesia’s top female founders have met with Australian government, industry leaders and investors
● Affirms importance of mentorship for young startups amid economic headwinds and resistance to female founders from investor community
● Comes as countries look to foster stronger trade ties across multiple domains

The cream of Indonesia’s SheHacks startup program has arrived in Sydney, with five leading female founders from Jakarta ready to meet with government, industry leaders and investors to explore opportunities for transnational collaboration and mentorship.

There’s a final Super Moon this coming weekend – it’s the last in a sequence of four.

Mark your calendars for Melbourne - Tuesday 3 December AND Melbourne Thursday, 5 December 2024 

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New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has revealed new Australian homes are up to 50 per cent more airtight than those tested in 2015.

Sydney Water has commenced micro tunnelling as part of a $90 million upgrade to the North West Growth Area project and will provide critical water infrastructure to “secure” the city's future housing.

Cevo, the born-in-the-cloud AWS Advanced consultancy helping businesses move faster with confidence, has appointed Mark Badenach as its new Sales Director.

Macquarie Data Centres, part of Macquarie Technology Group, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony, signaling the start of construction at its newest data centre, IC3 Super West, in Sydney’s north zone, which is purpose-built for high-density AI and cloud workloads.

COMPANY NEWS: Cvent is bringing together professionals from the events and hospitality sectors on Thursday 18 July 2024 in Sydney, Australia for the third annual industry conference ‘Cvent Accelerate’.

COMPANY NEWS: UiPath (NYSE: PATH) a leading enterprise automation and AI software company today announced several new features in its platform which infuse GenAI deeply into the UiPath Business Automation Platfor to help businesses achieve greater outcomes with AI and automation.

Motorola Solutions has acquired Sydney-headquartered Noggin, a global provider of cloud-based business continuity planning, operational resilience and critical event management (CEM) software.