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• Autodesk introduces new scan-to-mesh capabilities to enhance sustainable building practices such as retrofitting existing buildings and adaptive reuse projects.
• Additional updates to the AECO portfolio deliver performance enhancements to core products and help teams streamline complex models.

Company rounds out product leadership team with Bala Kumaresan, EVP, Head of Engineering

Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation, today announced a strategic partnership with DX, an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers, to help organisations optimise their software development teams with quantifiable improvements to engineering efficiency. The companies also announced Software Engineering Insights, a joint offering for organisations who are looking to take a data-driven approach to accelerating digital value creation. 

Snowflake has today announced it has expanded its AI capabilities with the public preview of Cortex Agents, streamlining agentic app data access across structured and unstructured data. Cortex Agents leverages Anthropic Claude as a key LLM powering agentic text-to-SQL for high-quality structured data retrieval.

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.

COMPANY NEWS:  Engineering leader to oversee global technology direction

The work of the future will see widespread use of self-organised dynamic teams. This is not a new shift, but on that has been steadily emerging over time, and since change is now occurring at a more rapid pace, organisations are starting to replace older, more hierarchical structures with models that are more fluid and rooted in collaboration and teamwork. In this reality, it is challenging to provide proper conditions needed for effective focus and communication. Acoustic pods are an innovative solution, which can help meet these demands. They ensure essential privacy as well as acoustic comfort to enable project teams to accomplish their objectives effectively.

Babu Kumar joins as General Manager of Engineering and Delivery, bringing nearly three decades of experience to Australia’s clean energy transition

Two years after joining Nutanix as vice president of Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) Solution Engineering, Daryush Ashjari’s role has been expanded to include chief technology officer (CTO) responsibilities across the region.

COMPANY NEWS:  Cyber Security Expert to Lead and Align the Company’s Cyber Security Strategy with Regional Customer Needs

OPINION  What's the winningist? In most data processing as with most engineering, we have a pretty reasonable idea about what most people want most of the time. Planes that don't ignore the pilots and the doors stay on, cars that don't turn off the brakes, banks that pay the bills when we ask them too etc. etc. With generative AI, not so simple especially in the world, the real world, of rotting data and hacked code and not enough money to polish it up.

The demand for Australian executives remains flat after many months of decline, according to the latest report from executive search firm E.L.Consult.

Indian global IT, consulting and business process services company Wipro has appointed Srini Pallia as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, effective immediately.

COMPANY NEWS: Autodesk today announced Autodesk AI, technology that unlocks creativity, helps solve problems, and eliminates non-productive work across the industries that design and make the world around us.

GUEST OPINION: Effective use of data – via a digital twin – can shift the fortunes and performance of major infrastructure projects.

About four pages in and I just knew that I was going to enjoy this book about the invention of the barcode and all the equipment required to support it.

New jobs for Australian executives slid 18 per cent in November as continuous interest rate rises feed domestic and international uncertainty, according to the E.L. Executive Demand Index.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Before Appian was a company, its founders had an idea about the culture needed to sustain innovation and value, and the belief that talented and passionate people, given the power and autonomy to excel, will deliver amazing results. Appian is the result, with its ever-evolving low-code automation platform combining people, technologies, and data in a single workflow to maximise resources and dramatically improve business results, with Suvajit Gupta joining us to discuss, explore and more.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Before Appian was a company, its founders had an idea about the culture needed to sustain innovation and value, and the belief that talented and passionate people, given the power and autonomy to excel, will deliver amazing results. Appian is the result, with its ever-evolving low-code automation platform combining people, technologies, and data in a single workflow to maximise resources and dramatically improve business results, with Suvajit Gupta joining us to discuss, explore and more.

The James Dyson Award program is an annual student design competition run by Dyson’s charity, is now open and accepting submissions from young inventors, and this year, the Award is increasing its prize money to support the crucial first steps of entrepreneurship.