Services Are the New Software
Services represent a $6tn global market. Software is only $695bn (just 12% of that). Something new is happening.
Historically, the world's largest investors looked down at the services industry in favour of software. Now, many of the world's largest investors are investing in a new wave of AI-enabled services firms. With AI models passing human-level benchmarks across coding and maths in the last 18 months, the space is wide open for AI services companies to disrupt traditional services firms.
Building Australia’s Premium Industrial Ecosystem
What will it take for the Hunter to become Australia's premium industrial innovation ecosystem?
In this tightly curated session, four leaders each deliver a short, focused keynote on their vision for the region's next chapter:
Gillian Summers (Brain Industries) on how the Hunter has reinvented itself before — from the end of BHP steelmaking to today — and why resilience comes from solving real problems, buying and building locally where it makes sense, and refusing to wait to be rescued.
Victor Dominello on what intelligent, citizen-centred public services and digital infrastructure (drawing on the ideas in Government 3.0) can unlock for regional economies in the age of AI.
