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Sydney is emerging as one of the leading global technology centres. In the decade to 2010 many global technology successes have emerged from Sydney including Google Maps, Atlassian, Radiata (WiFi), PC Tools, SpringSource and many more.
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ICT Industry Strengths Sydney and Australia
Sydney is a rapidly growing Global hub for Digital Services.
Market Strengths
What is Australia really good at?
Where does our real competitive advantage lie?
Hyper-Competitive Media Enterprises
Media and Entertainment: Australia’s Seven Giants
ABC (TV, Radio, Online and Interactive)APN News and Media Fairfax Media (Newspapers, Radio, Fairfax Digital)News Corporation (Newspapers, Fox Studios, Foxtel)PBL Media (Nine, ACP, Ticketek)Seven (TV, Pacific Magazines, Yahoo7!, Ticketmaster)Ten Network (TV, Outdoor)
Has led to Super Strengths in Media
Also in customer-facing enterprises
$30Bn
$5.5Bn $1.1Bn
And there’s more on the way…
Atlassian founders celebrate Accel Partners $60M investment.
And also in Financial Services… Australia has very large, diverse and
sophisticated financial markets including Equity, Debts, Derivatives and Foreign Exchange.
In Sydney like Chicago, many of these started to resources and commodities trading and now have evolved to serve all industries.
Sydney is now a global hub for innovative Global Finance Technology Companies
Technology Strengths
The Quiet Revolution.
[1] Attracted $60m Expansion Capital Investment from Accel Partners.
Technology Strengths
Australia’s Quiet Revolution
Source: GCIO Research, 2010
Operating Systems, Security and Software development
SpringSource (VMWare acquisition)OK Labs (NICTA Spinout)Atlassian (Accel Partners Investee Co)[1] PC Tools (Symatech acquisition)Google (Where2 acquistion)
[1] Attracted $60m Expansion Capital Investment from Accel Partners.
Technology Strengths
Google Maps
Lars Rasmussen, Founder of Google Maps
Google Maps
2003 — Where2 Technologies, Founded in Sydney
2004 — Acquired by Google
2005 — Launched as Google Maps
2009 — Becomes Global Leader in Online Mapping
Google Maps — now Global #1
Google Australia Team 2006
Smart Grid Energy and Smart Metering
Landis and Gyr — World’s largest smart meter companyEnergyAustralia — $100m Newcastle SmartGrid Showcase
Market Strengths
Health Informatics
Cochlear (Public, ASX:COH 1888 Employees)iSoft (Public, ASX:ISF 4700 Employees)Resmed (Public, NYSE:RMD 2900 Employees)
Technology Strengths
Wireless
CSIRO 802.11 Wireless Standard and Patents NICTA GiFi Multi-Gigabit WirelessRadiata (Cisco Acquistion)Avega Systems (Cisco investee Co)
Technology Strengths
NICTA HQ at the Australian Technology Park, July 2010
Media Technologies: Audio Video and Imaging
Canon Research Labs (Integrated Arts Acquisition)Silverbrook Research (Global patent leadership)Dolby Laboratories (Lake Technologies Acquisition)Audinate (NICTA Spinout)Animal Logic (World leading Vfx and Animation)Dr D Studios (Digital Production Studio)
Media Technology Strengths
Fairlight global pioneers electronic music in 1980s.
Stevie Wonder + his CMI, Madison Square Gardens 1980
Fairlight
Integrated Arts
Canon’s Information Systems Research Lab300 Researchers working on next generation imaging technology
Silverbrook Research500 scientists – led by the most prolific patent holder in the world
AV Technology Leadership
1980 1990 2000 2010
Lake Technology
Dolby Labs Australia30 Researchers working on next generation Audio technologies
Silverbrook Research
1. Microsoft Corp
2. IBM
3. Hewlett-Packard Co
4. Canon Inc
5. Hitachi Ltd
6. Ricoh Co Ltd
7. Sun Microsystems
8. Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd
9. Xerox Corp
10. Seiko Epson Corp
Silverbrook Research ranks in top 10 global companies in Information Technology Patents.
Silverbrook Research holds over 1,800 US patents, with more than 2,000 US patents pending.
Source: Information Technology rank by The Patent Scoreboard ™ on the 1/1/2008.
Silverbrook Research
Patents granted relating to Inkjet Printing, USPTO 2000-8.
Sydney’s “Big Six”*
Six major animation and VFx studios1. Animal Logic (Babe and The Matrix)
2. Omnilab (Where the Wild Things Are)
3. Flying Bark (Zigby the Zebra)
4. Fuel (Iron Man 2, Australia)
5. FSM (Death Defying Acts) and
6. Rising Sun Pictures (Wolverine)
*Sydney Morning Herald, Erin Odwyer “Drawn from the best why the world wants Australia's animators”, May 29, 2009.
More information
• Paul McCarthy
Manager, Strategic Industry Development
New South Wales
Government Chief Information Office
• Phone (02) 9372 8286 / (0418) 608 224
