Issue 37

OBM IS BACK!

October Business Month (OBM) is back bigger and better with an exciting mix of high profile keynote speakers designed to inspire Territory businesses. OBM has been supporting the Territory’s small business community for close to 3 decades and it is now in its 29th year. Five keynote speakers will attend this year’s OBM: Dr Richard...

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STATE OF OUR INNOVATION NATION: 2022 AND BEYOND

The Northern Territory provides investors and international innovators one of the most commercially exciting jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region. In the past six years, the Northern Territory has quietly developed the foundations of a vibrant innovation ecosystem. A highlights reel would show you companies such as SPEE3D creating new...

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OCTOBER BUSINESS MONTH – DECLAN MILLER INTERVIEW

How did the idea for your business come about? In 2017, as a year 8 student, I created a storyboard about time/space travel to the inland sea after attending a local sacred site tour with Arrernte Elders and geologists. I showed this to my teacher at school, Ms. Cowan. This started a chain reaction – suddenly many artists began working on my...

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OCTOBER BUSINESS MONTH – KYLE PEARSON INTERVIEW

How did the idea for your business come about? I had spent a lot of time working for a major brewery and had always wondered why Alice Springs didn’t have its own. I had taken on an interest in home brewing as soon as I was old enough to drink beer and had a good understanding of what would be required to make the idea a reality. I have also...

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OCTOBER BUSINESS MONTH – METTE STIMSON INTERVIEW

How did the idea for your business come about? Through depression and anxiety I hit rock bottom some time ago and baking became my therapy. My father is a retired baker in Germany and creativity has always been my passion. My husband started putting on weight from all my baked goods and he suggested selling it. And that’s how it all...

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OCTOBER BUSINESS MONTH – MARK ENGLUND INTERVIEW

Fiber Sense is delivering a completely new digital platform for digitising movement and events in cities over wide area grids in real time with no gaps. How did the idea for your business come about? On a flight from Seattle to San Francisco on a clear night looking down at the mass of lights in the cities below and putting two views...

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OCTOBER BUSINESS MONTH – NATALIE BELL INTERVIEW

What is your favourite aspect of being a business owner? I love looking ahead, planning for growth and being proactive and strategic about where our next opportunities will come from and what the next steps are for our business and the team, across both our events and communications divisions. We are planning for our growth 3-5 years from now...

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OCTOBER BUSINESS MONTH 2021 – TERRITORY SUCCESS STORIES

BEL COOK Digitally Buzzed Bel is a Digital pioneer and has been working in the Digital industry for 13 years creating software and technology, even before smartphones. She has delivered over 400 projects and worked with clients such as Google, Apple, Woolworths and many more. Bel’s mission to introduce new technologies to the...

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OCTOBER BUSINESS MONTH 2021 – PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT SERIES The October Business Month International Engagement Series is designed to give Territory businesses and industry key insights into the opportunities to grow international trade, relationships and connectivity. The series includes the following in-person and webinar events: Starting your Export...

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OCTOBER BUSINESS MONTH 2021

October Business Month (OBM) returns in 2021 with a tailored regional program designed to meet the current and future needs of small business. Throughout October there will be over 90 workshops and networking events to help businesses navigate through current economic challenges and further support small businesses across the Territory....

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TRADIES WELCOME

Organisers fear tradesmen and women mistakenly feel that OBM is a bit of a tie and canape affair. But nothing could be further from the truth. The Department of Trade, Business and Innovation knows that more than 99 percent of Northern Territory businesses are small or medium sized – and a hugely important sector are the traditional trades....