Idea Overflow

Jimmy Smart unpacks the opportunity and complexity of innovating from within large organisations - including his own journey from intrapraneur to entrepreneur - as well as the growing space of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environment, Social, & Governance practices in the corporate landscape.

Jimmy then gives us a few business ideas he has tucked away for a rainy day.

Get in contact with Jimmy:
 * LinkedIn
* Give Back

About Jimmy
Jimmy Smart is a passionate innovator and leader with over 12 years of experience in the recruitment and technology industries. He is the founder of GiveBack, a B2B SaaS that helps organisations create, capture and communicate their social and environmental impact.

Jimmy has also held the position of Head of Technology Initiatives at WorkPac, where he was responsible for the identification, feasibility, and delivery of new to business technology solutions.

GiveBack was born from a formative personal experience that James had in 2018 that reshaped how he believed that organisations can build connection, engagement, and loyalty with both their internal employees and external stakeholders (whether it be customers or investors). He's on a mission to help organisations everywhere achieve this.


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This episode is part of a special series with _SOUTHSTART in the lead up to the 2024 festival from the 5th to 7th March in Adelaide. Click HERE for tickets and more info.

Help us grow by liking, sharing and commenting, and if you're interested in pursuing any of our ideas, or you already have, reach out to us for a chat.

If you're an entrepreneur or in corporate innovation and want some help in idea generation and/or idea validation, get in touch with us.

Music by Rodney Hutton. Artwork by Anton Mastrullo.

We speak with guest Allys Todd about her career in climate impact and how ValAi is helping people fight climate change.

We then move into Allys' ideas around moving from a 'unicorn' economy to a 'zebra' economy, and Doconomy, a European fintech company linking everyday transactions with carbon emissions.

Get in contact with Allys:
* LinkedIn
* ValAi

About Allys
Allys Todd is the cofounder and Chief Executive of Val.Ai. Allys has a Bachelor of Technology, Flinders University. She has had a career in climate impact, carbon conservation and community collaboration.

Allys is a shared value partnership specialist with a Prime Minister's Award for Community and Business Partnership. Allys established the world's first Art event Carbon Offset and Carbon Neutral event with Greening Australia, Arts Projects Australia and WOMADelaide (18 years strong). Allys has also led the Conservation Council of South Australia, as General Manager and facilitated the South Australian Nature Alliance.

ValAi is a globally recognised climate and fintech company with a vision to decarbonise the economy and not let any household be left behind. The Val.Ai technology provides data insights to lenders, insurers, homeowners and the property sector on the financed emissions associated with homes and digital engagement platforms to manage and track home sustainability, energy use, carbon footprint & climate resilience.

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This episode is part of a special series with _SOUTHSTART in the lead up to the 2024 festival from the 5th to 7th March in Adelaide. Click HERE for more info.

Help us grow by liking, sharing and commenting, and if you're interested in pursuing any of our ideas, or you already have, reach out to us for a chat.

If you're an entrepreneur or in corporate innovation and want some help in idea generation and/or idea validation, get in touch with us.

Music by Rodney Hutton. Artwork by Anton Mastrullo.

Vicky Alexandrou spent 17 years in medical research, along with a several-year stint as a Greek Teacher. And now she's all-in on agricultural technology (AgTech)... what the?

We learn how Vicky combined her medical background and passion for innovation to now lead Bio-Optics / Woven Optics, a company that enables wool farmers to know the value of their fleece in real-time, reducing time from about 6 weeks to 1 minute.

Having done a PHD and with an intimate knowledge of the way academic research papers and journals work, we later riff on an idea to modernise the system and build a new business model.

Get in contact with Vicky:

• LinkedIn
• Bio-Optics / Woven Optics

About Vicky
Vicky is the Managing Director and co-founder of Bio-Optics Australia and a part of the core team since the company was founded in 2018.

Vicky completed her research PhD in Medicine in 2020 after a 17-year career in medical research. During her time at both the University of Adelaide and University of Melbourne, she worked primarily as a Research Assistant and Laboratory Manager with a core focus in exploring the central mechanisms of chronic pain. In 2004, Vicky completed her Graduate diploma in Secondary Education and worked as a Greek language teacher for several years.

During her PhD, she participated in several entrepreneurship courses including CSIRO’s ON Prime, University of Adelaide’s Tech eChallange and the Australian-French Entrepreneurship Challenge, where she was part of the winning team that was awarded a 10-day study tour to Paris, France.

More recently Vicky was the recipient of the 2022 Women in Innovation Award for Emerging Innovator and to date has helped raise over $800K in funding for Bio-Optics Australia.

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This episode is part of a special series with _SOUTHSTART in the lead up to the 2024 festival from the 5th to 7th March in Adelaide. Click here for tickets and more info.

Help us grow by liking, sharing and commenting, and if you're interested in pursuing any of our ideas, or you already have, reach out to us for a chat.

If you're an entrepreneur or in corporate innovation and want some help in idea generation and/or idea validation, get in touch with us.

Music by Rodney Hutton. Artwork by Anton Mastrullo.

This week's episode features special guest Katia Dowling. We talk about longevity in ageing, the huge problem & opportunity in ageing populations, and four business ideas in the longevity space.

Get in contact with Katia:

•  LinkedIn
•  Follow Katia on LinkedIn for Friday wrap-ups of all the best news in longevity
• Lumen Longevity

About Katia
Katia has spent her career helping either people or the planet and more recently, her work in the wellbeing space led her to the realisation that longevity is the final product of our life choices and activities.

The way we live our second half of life is outdated: it’s time to change the system and our mentality around preventative health and longevity. With Australia lagging behind other countries, she believes it’s time for us to form a down-under longevity community and industry that will catalyse necessary change, as well as create new products and services to prolong our nation’s healthy year

From this Katia has started the Lumen Longevity Festival, a dynamic and collaborative environment where individuals and organisations from various sectors and across startups, investors, industry, and government can come together to shape the future of longevity in Australia.

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This episode is part of a special series with _SOUTHSTART in the lead up to the 2024 festival from the 5th to 7th March in Adelaide. For tickets and more info, click HERE.

Help us grow by liking, sharing and commenting, and if you're interested in pursuing any of our ideas, or you already have, reach out to us for a chat.

If you're an entrepreneur or in corporate innovation and want some help in idea generation and/or idea validation, get in touch with us.

Music by Rodney Hutton. Artwork by Anton Mastrullo.

Special guest Ruhee Meghani tells us how being a generalist has helped her make unique connections, and how and why she started Allied Collective, an inclusion and wellbeing agency.

We then get into the topic of AI + inclusion (15:04) and talk about the inherent biases in AI, what is "right" when there are different political, cultural, religious and other differences, and an idea for a service that audits and scores a company’s datasets on inclusion and ethics before they use it.

Get in contact with Ruhee:
* LinkedIn
* Allied Collective

Check out these (mentioned in the show):
* Women in AI Ethics website
* Coded Bias documentary (currently showing on Netflix)

About Ruhee
Ruhee Meghani was born and raised in India, studying psychology, political science and business management. She has spent 900 hours teaching Yoga and Philosophy. 11 years ago she moved to Australia and scaled her career through hospitality and retail into diversity and inclusion, leading to her becoming a leading voice for inclusive wellbeing in Australia and founding Allied Collective, an inclusivity and wellbeing agency.

Through Allied Collective, Ruhee works with leaders and organisations within inclusive facilitation and wellbeing to bridge the gap between inclusion and wellbeing via training, workshops and conversations for a better future.

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This episode is part of a special series with _SOUTHSTART in the lead up to the 2024 festival from the 5th to 7th March in Adelaide. For tickets and more info, head to: https://bit.ly/3MSxeQe

Help us grow by liking, sharing and commenting, and if you're interested in pursuing any of our ideas, or you already have, reach out to us for a chat.

If you're an entrepreneur or intrapreneur inside a larger business and want some advice or help in idea generation and/or idea validation, get in touch with us.

Music by Rodney Hutton. Artwork by Anton Mastrullo.

Discover how Anu Ganugapati's journey from burnout to innovation led to StatDoctor - a groundbreaking app connecting hospitals and locum doctors.

Anu also dove into his idea journal and pulled out three big ones:
* (16:52) smartphone-powered cardiac defibrillator,
* (24:21) AI-powered toothbrush that can identify things like diabetes and obesity through oral health in real-time, and
* (28:45) 3-pack sports drinks with correct isotonic ratios for pre-, during- and post-game.

If you want to get in contact with Anu:
* Visit StatDoctor.app
* Connect on LinkedIn
* Email at [email protected]

This episode is part of a special series with _SOUTHSTART in the lead up to the 2024 festival from the 5th to 7th March in Adelaide. Click HERE for tickets and more info.

Help us grow by liking, sharing and commenting, and if you're interested in pursuing any of our ideas, or you already have, reach out to us for a chat.

If you're an entrepreneur or intrapreneur inside a larger business and want some advice or help in idea generation and/or idea validation, get in touch with us on LinkedIn.

Music by Rodney Hutton. Artwork by Anton Mastrullo.

Ever had a car accident and waited weeks or months for an insurance assessment? Patrick wants to create an intermediary company that does immediate insurance assessments at the time it happens.

(9:06) And Dan thinks there needs to be an independent body that can audit the emissions for a company's products, and then allow that company to display a 'carbon comparison' on the product or the shelf label, so that people can make informed choices between like products. Think cost/L or cost/kg, but for emissions.

Help us grow by liking, sharing and commenting, and if you're interested in pursuing any of our ideas, or you already have, reach out to us for a chat.

If you're an entrepreneur or intrapreneur inside a larger business and want some advice or help in idea generation and/or idea validation, get in touch with us on LinkedIn.

Music by Rodney Hutton. Artwork by Anton Mastrullo.

Special guest and serial entrepreneur Gresham Harkless talks about building a suite of software tools for founders and "CEO Unplugged" - "unofficial, official" meetups for founders and investors.

Connect with Gresham on LinkedIn or at https://iamgresh.com/

Help us grow by liking, sharing and commenting, and if you're interested in pursuing any of our ideas, or you already have, reach out to us for a chat.

If you're an entrepreneur or intrapreneur inside a larger business and want some advice or help in idea generation and/or idea validation, get in touch with us on LinkedIn.

Music by Rodney Hutton. Artwork by Anton Mastrullo.

As we head into 2024, this week we spoke with renowned Adelaide market research Jason Dunstone about some of the big trends he's seeing across his hundreds of clients and research projects.

(8:10) Trend #1 - Free At Last

(11:22) Trend #2 - Woe Is Me

(16:03) Trend #3 - Feedback Fatigue

(19:17) Trend #4 - Human Values In An AI World

Find out more:
* connect with Jason on LinkedIn
* visit the Square Holes website
* subscribe to the Think! newsletter

Help us grow by liking, sharing and commenting, and if you're interested in pursuing any of our ideas, or you already have, reach out to us for a chat.

If you're an entrepreneur or intrapreneur inside a larger business and want some advice or help in idea generation and/or idea validation, get in touch with us on LinkedIn.

Music by Rodney Hutton. Artwork by Anton Mastrullo.

In Australia there are 10.6 billion toxic, non-recyclable paper receipts printed every year, Dan talks about new research and a new movement looking to improve this. For more, check out the FutureProof website.

(11:59) Millions of people are lonely, but what if there was a way to rent friends (no, not "friends", platonic friends)?

Help us grow by liking, sharing and commenting, and if you're interested in pursuing any of our ideas, or you already have, reach out to us for a chat.

If you're an entrepreneur or intrapreneur inside a larger business and want some advice or help in idea generation and/or idea validation, get in touch with us on LinkedIn.

Music by Rodney Hutton. Artwork by Anton Mastrullo.