(Lauren Adams – Austrade) Indonesia is not just going digital. It is decoming the digital engine of Southeast Asia. What we’re hearing today at the conference from industry partners and government is a renewed commitment to innovations, partnerships and building trusted, well-governed ecosystems.
We have ten amazing Australian tech companies and scale ups joining us here this week in Jakarta for the Austrade landing pad digital transformation cohort. Together we’re driving partnerships that will take forward Indonesia’s priority digital transformation agenda, importantly embedded in systems of trusts, good governance and sustainable innovative Australian technology solutions.
(Jason D’Cruz – Atlassian) It’s been amazing. It’s my first time in Tech in Asia and first time in Indonesia and Jakarta. I think a couple of things that I’ve been blown away is one, by the hospitality of the people here and two, the sheer energy and enthusiasm for start up community, enterprises, as well as how they loved our products and Atlassian. It’s been an excellent time so far.
(Jacob Lescove – UnicornShift) Austrade has been super helpful already. It doesn’t happen straight away, but the introductions that Austrade makes, it puts you into the right environment, to develop the right connection. So yeah, the business matching has been super helpful but just bringing us to here, putting us in front of people, growing our network, it’s super helpful.
(Shaun Lordan – Sphere for Good) I believe this has been a fantastic experience as part of the landing pad, but Austrade, for Sphere for Good specifically, gonna help us with access to more partnerships, access to regulators, government agencies, associations and following up; making sure that we are interacting with all the great contacts that we’ve had over the last few weeks.
You’ve got to be on the ground, you need to mete with the people and the companies firsthand and hear what their problems are and make sure that the solutions that have you have apply to them.