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Sohn Hearts and Minds, Adelaide 2024
South Australia was proud to host Sohn Hearts and Minds in 2024. Our state’s collaborative ecosystem, encompassing industry, academia, and government, were on show throughout the conference with key sectors brought to life in the foyer. Invest SA, a dedicated team of investment and business professionals within the Department of State Development, chatted with guests during the event and are happy to engage in any follow up conversations for anyone who joined in person or online.
South Australian products displayed at Sohn Hearts & Minds
1:1 MODEL OF 'KANYINI' SATELLITE
Kanyini was designed, built, integrated, tested, and is now operated by Inovor Technologies. Launched in August 2024, 'Kanyini’, Australia’s first state-owned satellite will help deliver space applications in emergency services, environmental and water quality monitoring, and bushfire mitigation.
- Inovor Technologies
- Inovor Technologies
ASPARAGOPSIS SEAWEED – METHANE TAMER FOR FEEDLOTS
Making lower-methane animal products a reality. Methane Tamer is a line of animal feed supplement formulation based on whole Asparagopsis seaweed, which is the most effective natural substance for reducing enteric methane. In fact, Methane Tamer Beef Feedlot is designed to deliver a minimum 70% reduction in enteric emissions throughout its shelf life.
When comparing Methane Tamer™ and control cattle, meat received consistent scores across all MLA quality metrics.
When comparing Methane Tamer™ and control cattle, meat received consistent scores across all MLA quality metrics.
There have also been significant benefits to the cattle fed Methane Tamer™, as they’ve achieved the same weight gain as the control group while consuming less feed per day, representing an improvement in feed conversion efficiency of a few per cent over a 100-day period.
- CH4 Global
- CH4 Global
INTEGRATED ROBOT SOLUTIONS
Omni-Health is a leading system integrator in both the healthcare and aged care industry. Omni-Health began their journey nearly 20 years ago in the pharmacy automation sector and have since moved into other aspects of the healthcare industry.
Omni-Health remain a system integrator that is brand agnostic, working with the latest technology to support the healthcare workforce, enhance client wellbeing and improve operational efficiency.
- Omni-Health
- Omni-Health
TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY SURGICAL TRAINING MODEL
Knee arthroplasty technique is constantly evolving and the opportunity for surgeons to practice new techniques is currently highly dependent on the availability of cadaveric specimens requiring certified facilities. The high cost, limited supply, and heterogeneity of cadaveric specimens has increased the demand for synthetic training models, which are currently limited by a lack of biomechanical fidelity.
Fusetec aim to design, manufacture, and experimentally validate a synthetic knee surgical training model which reproduces the flexion dependent varus‐valgus (VV) and anterior‐posterior (AP) mechanics of cadaveric knees, while maintaining anatomic accuracy.
A probabilistic finite element modelling approach was employed to design physical models to exhibit passive cadaveric VV and AP mechanics. Seven synthetic models were manufactured and tested in a six‐degree‐of‐freedom hexapod robot. Overall, the synthetic models exhibited cadaver‐like VV and AP mechanics across a wide range of flexion angles with little variation between models.
- Fusetec
- Fusetec
WHYALLA HYDROGEN POWER PLANT MODEL
South Australia’s Hydrogen Jobs Plan will deliver a world-leading hydrogen facility featuring 250MWe of hydrogen production, 200MW of power generation, and hydrogen storage.
This facility will utilise South Australia’s excess renewable energy from existing wind and solar farms to produce renewable hydrogen, stabilising the grid during periods of high renewable energy penetration. The stored hydrogen will be used for power generation at the facility, returning renewable energy to the grid and providing essential firming services for the state when needed.
This initiative will support South Australia’s goal of achieving 100% net renewable energy generation by 2027. Additionally, renewable hydrogen will be made available to help decarbonise heavy industry and support the Government of South Australia’s green iron and steel strategy.
- Office of Hydrogen Power SA
- Office of Hydrogen Power SA
ZERO® - FUEL REINVENTED™️
Zero Petroleum (“Zero”) is a breakthrough energy company that develops and manufactures whole-blend synthetic, non-biological fuels – gasoline, diesel and jet fuel – in a completely fossil-free process, using just carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water. Zero’s proprietary DirectFT® fuel synthesis process has demonstrated industry-leading fuel quality and production efficiency.
Synthetic fuels (e-fuels, electro fuels, PtL, eSAF) are fully sustainable and circular in material, they retain the critical energy density of liquid fuels, and they can be manufactured at unlimited scale, therefore providing the only solution to the total de-fossilisation of the majority of transport sectors including aviation, heavy transport, marine and agriculture.
Founded by Formula 1® legend Paddy Lowe, Zero recently opened the world’s first fully featured synthetic fuel plant (Plant Zero.1) near Oxford, UK and has plans to build a commercial-scale plant which is to begin production in 2026.”
- Zero Petroleum
- Zero Petroleum
Introducing South Australia
South Australia is a place where brilliant minds develop business ideas, test and sell them to the world.
- South Australia is a global renewable energy superpower, leading the world to net-zero and growing the economy through green investments.
- Australia’s defence leader and central to AUKUS investments: 7 of the world’s top 10 primes are in South Australia.
- From industrial strengths to transformational advanced manufacturing: South Australia is producing high-value and precision products in defence, space, resources, agribusiness, and medical sectors.
- South Australia’s natural advantages are driving meaningful impact, at scale, in the global energy transition, decarbonisation of industries and creation of sustainable and resilient future food systems.
- Leveraging our strengths for commercial success: South Australia has the ecosystem to be a world-class renewable hydrogen supplier and support commercial‑scale hydrogen opportunities.
- South Australia is working with the world’s largest companies in globally competitive artificial intelligence, computer vision and deep learning.
South Australia is not just a great place to invest; it is also the easiest, thanks to Invest SA.
Invest SA is a dedicated team of investment and business professionals within the Department of State Development. We’re the only agency that can connect you with opportunities, industry networks and other government agencies in the following sectors in South Australia.
The Invest SA team can support you with:
- Identifying a suitable location
- Connections across government
- Attracting and retaining highly-skilled staff
- Introductions to industry partners and networking opportunities
- Planning and cross-government delivery of investment projects
- Connections with our global teams and identifying export opportunities.