Investor Focus Ep 5: Dr Judy Halliday. Director, R&I Programs and Office of the SA Chief Entrepreneur

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🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this episode of Founder Focus: Dr. Judy Halliday is an exceptionally rare and valuable asset in the Australian innovation ecosystem, having operated in every pillar of the innovation landscape as an inventor, founder, investor, academic, director, advisor & industry professional across both private and public sectors as well as universities. A prominent figure in the South Australian innovation and entrepreneurship landscape. She currently serves as the Director of the Office of the South Australian Chief Entrepreneur within the Department for Innovation and Skills (DIS). She also current serves as a NED at KIK Innovation, working to end youth unemployment through entrepreneurship education, is an Activator at SheEO, is an Advisory Board member of both the Medical Device Partnering Program and the Institute of Photonics & Advanced Sensing at the University of Adelaide Prior to her current roles she was also a key figure at TechInSA (formerly known as BioSA), an organisation dedicated to supporting South Australia's high-tech sector, as well as roles at UniQuest and a former Director of the Australian Society for Medical Research. And if that isn't enough, she was also a torch bearer for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games! [email protected]

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0:00.0	I think this is a great episode.
0:11.3	I think it's a cracker.
0:12.4	I mean, I'm biased.
0:13.3	I'm a huge fan of Judy and the work she's done and continues to do.
0:16.8	But awesome conversation today.
0:18.7	Absolutely.
0:19.2	And we didn't even get to all of the bits in the show notes,
0:21.8	and we'll have to have a follow-up.
0:23.2	I think we need to because we need to hear more about the torchbearing for the Sydney Olympics.
0:27.7	Yeah.
0:28.2	So what do we discuss?
0:29.8	Ah, we talked about commercialisation of research out of universities
0:33.1	and the challenges there, but how she managed to successfully navigate that.
0:38.0	Yeah, and then that transition to the government role, I thought was quite interesting
0:41.7	in the work that the government does broadly, which also led us to talk about gender diversity
0:47.4	in capital raising and startups. And I think that was a good conversation to have.
0:53.2	Yeah, really good conversation. And also just
0:56.1	about the investment, landscape, the virtues of places like South Australia and Adelaide and why they do
1:02.6	become a bit of a factory for really good entrepreneurs. No, absolute hats off to the South Australian
1:08.6	government for having that role where you've got someone
1:11.2	like Judy who's an absolute operator from founder, investor, inventor, director.
1:19.5	Like she's lived on every pillar of the innovation ecosystem, both in public and private
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