TEDxSydney was held at the Sydney ICC - under the theme of "legacy" - on the 30th of March . St. George Bank, being the principle sponsor of TEDxSydney, held its annual Kick Start 2019 competition. Miriad was selected as a finalist (of 1000 applicants!) to pitch in just 60 seconds about our business. Unfortunately we did not get to walk out with 1st prize - but it was an honour being part of such a big event, networking with other start-ups and businesses in the area. Congratulations to the winners of Get to Sleep Easy and Pointer Remote Roles!  Miriad is proud to be sponsor of the 2018 IONS-KOALA conference - a student organised IONS Conference on Optics, Atoms, and Laser Applications. Catch our demonstration of the Miriad S3 Spectrometer at the Industry Night - on the 6th of December! We wish the best for the future students in optics, and that they form great collaborations!  To kick off National Science Week 2018, the Northern Sydney Science Hub hosted a Science and Tech Expo Day at Ryde Library, inviting members of the public, students of all levels (elementary to university) , and citizen scientist to learn more from a range of tech-devolopments happening in Sydney today.  Part of the expo day featured the ""Lightning talks" - a series of presentations given by entrepreneurs and businesses that are related to scientific instrumentation. Tomonori Hu, co-founder of Miriad Technologies, presented the talk "Seeing the invisible with infrared imaging" to (hopefully) inspire the younger audience to develop an interest in following a career in science.  Miriad Technologies has been glad to be part of National Science Week and wishes the best for remainder of the week! We would also like to thank the organisers of the event - the Northern Sydney Science Hub and the City of Ryde for hosting us.
For more information about National Science Week and the exciting events ahead: https://www.scienceweek.net.au
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We would like to thanks the authors of the paper to acknowledging the contributions from Miriad Technologies made to this great work.  May 17th saw the Knowledge Commercialisation Australia (KCA) Demo Day at Google Sydney. A total of eight start ups got together to pitch their ideas to a crowd of investors, researchers, and members of the general public. Miriad Technologies, nominated to present by James Alexander from the Incubate program, pitched on the development of mid-infrared spectrometers for applications in sensor technologies. On top of visiting the incredible facilities that Google Sydney offers, we had some great mentoring from the greatest minds on start ups and growing businesses. Big thanks to those who came along and wishing the best for the other starts-ups that did so well this night! Below: Tomonori Hu pitching the future of mid-IR technologies to "see the invisible".  Check out the other great Aussie-based tech start ups below! Hypetap - a platform which connects agencies, brands and influencers to work on marketing campaigns together Chatterbox - a new education technology startup developing a specialised online learning platform for students and teachers of debating and public speaking. Storekat - an aggregation service for Self Storage providers that functions as a peer to peer platform, with a purpose to expand their online presence in the marketplace. Vald Performance - a sports technology startup formed out of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to commercialise an innovative hamstring testing system. Me3D - creating the worlds best 3D printing educational package. Certified Renewable - certifying businesses that use 100% renewable energy. Anonalytix - Data Privacy and Security specialists whose goal is to improve the protection of everyone's personal and sensitive data worldwide. Congratulations to all our new friends!  A nice gem on why we need a mid-IR camera as opposed to a generic infrared camera. We often say in the research community that "mid-IR is in the fingerprint region", "there is a mid-IR transparency window in the atmosphere", "mid-IR..."...etc. In particular the lower end of the mid-infrared, 1-5 microns, has some interesting applications beginning with methane sensing. Another important application - seeing through flames when doing thermography. Andy Whitcher highlights in this video that a portion of the mid-IR can penetrate through flames, giving clear information through, for instance, a furnace.  The ABC show Q&A featured the topic of Innovation in Australia, featuring a University of Sydney research representative - Dr. Michael Biercuk. The program sparked interesting conversation regarding the national innovation statement, and whether the ratio of funding into university research and small stage start-ups is making sense.
The need of government support and investment into all levels of innovation from early stage start up Incubators and next generation technologies like Quantum Computers was discussed. Miriad Technologies, founded by University of Sydney researchers, also feels responsible to show active involvement in this conversation in future. Great to see that Australia is now seriously having this discussion to catch up to the rest of the world. The full program available here.  Miriad technologies is a recent 'graduate' of the start up accelerator program Incubate. We're extremely proud to be part of the start-up Class 7 featuring a wide range of entrepreneurs from drone technologies (Iridium Dynamics) to block-chain based equity management (Horyzon).
Tomonori Hu from Miriad Technologies pitches the idea of using mid-infrared spectroscopy to transform the way in which chemical sensing is done in the food industry. Moving beyond the academic industry and delivering field usable devices to the field is our vision at Miriad Technologies. Find out more about Incubate Demo Day here. |
