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Melbourne teens' digital agency idea sparks $5 million business

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · June 29, 2020 11:46 AM · 1 reaction

When Fotios Tsiouklas and Alan Gokoglu first met in Year 7, they "didn't really like each other".

But today, they're not only best mates, but also co-founders of a multimillion-dollar company.

The Melbourne teens went into business together while they were still in high school and now their digital agency has well and truly taken off.

But the journey started many years ago.

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Wipro to establish Cyber Defence Centre in Melbourne

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · December 10, 2019 2:53 PM · 1 reaction

MELBOURNE: India's IT major Wipro (NSE -0.94 %) Ltd is all set to expand its presence in Australia's Victoria state by establishing a 1.5 million dollar state-of-the-art Cyber Defence Centre.

The new centre in South Melbourne will offer protection from cyber-attacks to the organisations and will generate 100 new tech jobs for locals.

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Melbourne, Australia, is the happiest city in the world. These 53 breathtaking photos show what life is really like there.

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · February 19, 2019 12:56 PM · 1 reaction

Melbourne, Australia, has been named the happiest city in the world this year.

In June 2018, Time Out paired up with Tapestry Research to survey 15,000 people in 32 cities worldwide. They asked residents about food, drink, culture, lifestyle, dating, sex, community, travel, neighborhoods, affordability, nightlife, happiness, public transportation, and civic pride. The findings collectively helped both companies come up with an ultimate ranking for each city in every category.

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The Seven Places in the World that should not Surprise You

Posted on News & Media by Louis Zacharilla · February 10, 2019 7:14 PM · 1 reaction
 
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The best description I have ever heard about ICF as an ideas-driving think tank for enabling Digital Age policy for cities and towns was from Rob van Gijzel, the former mayor of Eindhoven, The Netherlands and the ICF Foundation’s first chairman. He called us, “The method of transformational decision making for cities.”

And we are. Or at least “a method” for this. We are also a group that inspired communities to believe that, yes, they can.

The world has cooperated with the ICF vision. Thanks to broadband and satellite telecommunications the world became flat. Like the sound of a rail train’s whistle, people heard something familiar and it allowed them to rethink the proposition of the small and the midsized city especially. It dawned on them that “the middle of nowhere” was no longer their domain. They had places with a history and assets that could be transformed.

These cities and towns have begun to determine the course of the global economy because of how they have moved from using smart technology to become Intelligent places. This year’s Smart21 is laden with them, from Vietnam to Ohio to India.

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How Does a Startup Ecosystem Maintain Momentum and Growth? Lessons from Melbourne and Victoria

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · May 29, 2018 1:02 PM · 1 reaction

Melbourne, Australia is a very nice city: that’s an understatement for a place that, seven years running, has been named the world’s Most Livable City by The Economist. (It’s also, as my 10-year-old son has enthusiastically informed me, the birthplace of Kyrie Irving and hometown of Ben Simmons.) I'm here this week for Melbourne Knowledge Week, and the launch of Startup Genome's latest regional report, about the startup ecosystem in Melbourne and the state of Victoria.

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Melbourne prepares to overtake Sydney as biggest city

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · May 16, 2018 12:29 PM · 1 reaction

If you Google “Melbourne Sydney rivalry”, an option comes up “song”, and a 2015 story pops up from the Leader-Herald Sun website headlined “10 Great Songs About Melbourne.”

As journalist Caitlin Ryan gushed, you couldn’t compose such a list without a song or two from “the great Paul Kelly”.

“We all know Melbourne is better than Sydney, but in this track from 1985, he nails the divide,” Ryan writes. She then quotes “these classic lines” from Kelly’s song From St Kilda to King’s Cross:

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Clean Energy Finance Corporation taps into Melbourne Quarter

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · April 09, 2018 10:27 AM · 1 reaction

Lendlease's emerging Melbourne Quarter precinct in Melbourne's Docklands area bordering the old city grid will be given a sustainability nudge by the federal government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation through a $100 million equity investment.

While Lendlease, in its role as a developer, is pursuing the broader $2.5 billion seven-tower project, its investment arm, the Australian Prime Property Fund Commercial, also has an exposure, taking stakes in two office buildings so far.

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Ramco invests into innovation in Melbourne

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · March 23, 2018 1:20 PM · 1 reaction

Ramco has announced that it is to set up an Asia-Pacific Centre of Excellence for Workforce Innovation in Melbourne, Australia. The aim of the new centre is to attract talent from across Australia to work on innovative technology for HR. Last year Melbourne was crowned Australia’s tech capital by the Australian Business Review, that followed the announcement of a four year plan by the City of Melbourne. The Lord Mayor Robert Doyle AC said: ”Our vision is for Melbourne to be recognised as the number one destination for start-ups and entrepreneurs to ‘start, grow and go global’, across Australia and Asia.”.

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Melbourne 'world's happiest city'

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · February 13, 2018 12:32 PM · 1 reaction

Melbourne's not just the world's most liveable city. It's also the happiest, a new survey shows.

A poll of 15,000 people from 32 cities - including Barcelona, Berlin, Tokyo and New York - showed the Victorian capital outranks its competitors for happiness, a Time Out City Life Index said.

The survey looked at anonymous data across seven categories: food and drink, culture, relationships and community, neighbourhoods, affordability, happiness and liveability.

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The Intelligent Community Podcast - Collaboration is Key with Andy Lee (Melbourne)

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · November 02, 2017 2:45 PM · 1 reaction

 

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In today’s episode, we’re going to be hearing from Andy Lee, Technology Investment Director with the state of Victoria, Australia. ICF's Lou Zacharilla spoke with Andy at Silicon Harlem’s 4th Annual Next Gen Tech Conference in New York City during a panel discussion also featuring Brad Ferguson from the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation, Dr. Jack Chu from the Weatherhead East Asian Instutute, and Rui Barros of WeWork. While we'll be featuring each of them in coming episodes, we started with Andy Lee because much of our discussion surrounds Melbourne, our current reigning Intelligent Community of the Year for 2017. We'll be hearing from him why collaboration really is key in developing an intelligent community.

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