Episode Summary In the Blink of AI: Conversations with AI Innovators Join Georgie Healy on 'In the Blink of AI', your weekly guide to the dynamic world of artificial intelligence. Each episode features interviews with the founders of top AI startups, creative product builders, and industry leaders. With 20 years in engineering and technology, Georgie aims to distill complex AI concepts into engaging stories. The show covers business building, cutting-edge AI technology, and guests' approaches to...
Oct 27, 2024•2 min
Summary Hi, and welcome to day one, the podcast for regional startups and the organisations that support Australian entrepreneurship. Welcome to day one is brought to you by the city of Newcastle and Newihub. Newihub is a growing and vibrant community of Newcastle's startups & founders. It's a central hub where you can learn about what's going on in our ecosystem, with events, available jobs and other resources. I'll tell you more about Newihub later in the episode, but for now, let’s jump i...
May 23, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Show Notes Sponsor Welcome to Day One is supported and the founder spotlights are made possible by our major sponsor the City of Newcastle’s Newihub . Join the community made up of entrepreneurs from Newcastle & the surrounding areas. Go to Newihub to sign up for your free account. Summary Hello and welcome to a new episode of Welcome to Day One, the podcast for Aussie founders, startups & the organisations that support Australian entrepreneurship. Welcome to Day One is brought to you by...
May 16, 2021•21 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Show Notes Sponsor Welcome to Day One is supported and the founder spotlights are made possible by our major sponsor the City of Newcastle’s Newihub . Join the community made up of entrepreneurs from Newcastle & the surrounding areas. Go to Newihub to sign up for your free account. Summary Hi, and welcome to day one, the podcast for regional startups and the organisations that support Australian entrepreneurship. Welcome to day one is brought to you by the city of Newcastle. The City of Newc...
May 02, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Show Notes Sponsor Welcome to Day One is supported and the founder spotlights are made possible by our major sponsor the City of Newcastle’s Newihub . Join the community made up of entrepreneurs from Newcastle & the surrounding areas. Go to Newihub to sign up for your free account. Summary Hello and welcome to a new episode of Welcome to Day One, the podcast for Aussie founders, startups & the organisations that support Australian entrepreneurship. Welcome to Day One is brought to you by...
Apr 25, 2021•19 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Show Notes Sponsor Welcome to Day One is supported and the founder spotlights are made possible by our major sponsor the City of Newcastle’s Newihub . Join the community made up of entrepreneurs from Newcastle & the surrounding areas. Go to Newihub to sign up for your free account. Summary Hi and Welcome to Day One, the podcast for regional startups & the organisations that support Australian entrepreneurship. Welcome to Day One is brought to you by the City of Newcastle. Today I'd like ...
Apr 18, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Show NotesSponsor Welcome to Day One is supported and the founder spotlights are made possible by our major sponsor the City of Newcastle’s Newihub . Join the community made up of entrepreneurs from Newcastle & the surrounding areas. Go to Newihub to sign up for your free account. Summary Hello and welcome to a brand new season of Welcome to Day One. The podcast for regional startups & the organisations that support Australian entrepreneurship. Welcome to Day One is brought to you by the...
Apr 11, 2021•13 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Today I’d like to share with you the story of Naomi Findlay. Naomi is a remarkably hard-working woman with a ridiculous amount of active projects, all of which aim to position her as Australia’s queen of property renovation and home styling. She has a digital video series, Renovie, hosted on Youtube with nearly two hundred episodes and approaching two thousand subscribers. She has a blog and hosts a weekly podcast, Reno Radio. She has appeared on TV shows including Channel 9’s Location Lifestyle...
Feb 01, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Today you’re going to hear the story of BYKKO and it’s founder Monica Zarafu. Born in Romania, Monica moved to Australia in two thousand and ten. Motivated by a need to mitigate the threat of climate change, and seeing the mass adoption of bicycles in parts of Europe, Monica is aiming to do more than build a successful business. With the lofty ambition of reshaping the way we think about transport in Australia, Monica has been working hundred hour plus weeks to build BYKKO as a proof of concept,...
Feb 01, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Meet Melanie Mury from IMBY (In My Backyard). IMBY operates in the proptech space (Property Technology) and is working to consolidate the development application process or at least make it easier to navigate. Melanie started IMBY with her partner in life and business, Chris Mury. This isn't just a story about a business venture, this is a life story, one that started and changed forever when Melanie was 18 years old and decided to head overseas. Let's go back to day one where this story begins....
Jun 23, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Today you’re going to hear the story of Linda Bergskas and Visionise. Linda started Visionise, a full-service fashion branding service after she sold her own international fashion brand in search of a more balanced lifestyle. With such a successful career and a large network within the industry, Linda found herself constantly being asked for her expertise to help start and grow fashion brands. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/pr...
Jun 09, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 13
In this episode guest host Andy Jones goes on a walking tour with Becky Kiil, founder of Newcastle Afoot, a top rated walking tour and cultural experiences business. On top of her already hectic work life, Becky is also volunteering her time as festival coordinator for Big Picture Fest Newcastle, a project which received over $200,000 in grant money to bring local and international mural artists to the city in October 2020. In this conversation Becky discusses the challenges of managing a work-l...
May 26, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Today I’d like to share with you the story of Your Food Collective. Your Food Collective is serving over 1400 people since they opening in 2017 at an 80% customer retention rate with a very good average order value. They have hubs all over Newcastle where you can collect your orders and catch up with your local champion and they’ve recently entered the Sydney market too. Your Food Collective is growing and bringing truly fresh food to everyone. Now, let’s go back to day one, where this story beg...
Jan 12, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Today you’re going to hear the story of Eat Your Water featuring Liam Scanlan. Before we go back to the beginning, here’s where we are today, Liam has been named one of the top 50 people in e-commerce in the whole of Australia. In November 2019 alone over 100,000 people went through the Eat Your Water store and Eat Your Water has one of the lowest cost per purchases at 27 cents per purchase with an average order value of $56. Very impressive numbers and Liam is an impressive guy and is only 23 y...
Dec 08, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Today you’re going to hear the story of Startmate featuring the head of operations at Startmate, Michael Batko. Startmate is the leading tech accelerator in Australia and they take 10 to 15 companies and new stage founders in each cohort and help them from three to four months to get them to the next stage of their business. They look for just the most ambitious founders and then work with that talent. Startmate doesn’t necessarily specialise in a certain area or industry. Startmate just focuses...
Nov 24, 2019•15 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Today you’re going to hear from Alan Jones - The Nice One. Alan Jones is a startup entrepreneur, a mentor to other startup founders, and an angel investor who is building a venture fund. Let's meet Alan Jones. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/lega...
Oct 27, 2019•15 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Today you’ll hear the story of Startup Muster through its founder Murray Hurps. Startup Muster is a report that produces the most comprehensive data on the Australian startup ecosystem to measure and publish the progress, challenges, and opportunities within the startup ecosystem. Startup Muster is important because the startup world here in Australia is, in no sense of the word booming. But it could be, and Startup Muster aims to make the data available for us to course-correct our ship. All ha...
Aug 13, 2019•17 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Today you’re going to hear the story of Yolanda Surjan from RadVet. Dr Yolanda Surjan is a senior lecturer of Radiation Therapy at the University of Newcastle, she has a bachelor degree in Medical Radiation Technology, a graduate certificate in health promotion, a masters in health science education and a PhD. She has worked in Europe and North America and she has a total of 5 teaching awards and was awarded CSIRO’s Breakout Female Scientist of 2017 and is the founder of RadVet. RadVet has gone ...
Jul 29, 2019•23 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Today you’re going to hear the story of Alicia, Daniel and CompEAT Nutrition. The concept of CompEAT first planted itself in Daniel & Alicia’s mind in 2016. Since then they’ve bootstrapped it themselves for quite some time and invested a lot of themselves into bringing this amazing company into existence, they eventually went through the ICON Slingshot program at the Newcastle University’s Integrated Innovation Network and all while raising a young family. Daniel & Alicia are trying to f...
Jun 30, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Today you’re going to hear the story of Diffuse Energy and it’s founders Joss Kesby, James Bradley and Sam Evans. Diffuse Energy is a company that, right now, is building wind turbines that are twice as efficient as their competitors, but the vision that Joss and his team have for the company is, well, the sky is the limit. We will hear all about that, but for now, let’s go back to day one where this story begins... This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - h...
May 22, 2019•22 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Today you’re going to hear the story of Andrew Mears and SwitchDin. SwitchDin provides software and hardware solutions for managing distributed energy resources. SwitchDin connects with utilities to help them work more efficiently with the grid. We’re going to hear all about SwitchDin, where the idea come from, Andrew’s backpacking adventures, the pivots that SwitchDin has gone through and so much more, but for now, let’s go back to day one where this story begins… This podcast uses the followin...
May 09, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Today you’re going to hear the story of Cake Server and Jade Ryan. Jade blew me away. Jade went to university to study structural engineering, became a structural engineer, started and built a side hustle while working full-time, is a mother of two young children and then, while on maternity leave went through the accelerator program ICON offered by Slingshot in partnership with the University of Newcastle and started a company called Cake Server, which you will hear about today. Oh and one more...
Apr 21, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Today you’re going to hear the story of Heath Raftery from Newie Ventures. Newie Ventures is an engineering agency. They build solutions to their client's problems. Basically, their customers come to them with an idea, and Heath and his team go to work figuring out how to build it. In the last 12 months alone Newie Ventures’ client base has tripled and its headcount has more than doubled. But as Heath says although those numbers sound impressive in reality things have moved very carefully and ve...
Mar 10, 2019•21 min•Season 1Ep. 1
