Hatching Innovation: Sensing Industry Connect comes to Macquarie University Incubator

The latest in the NSSN’s Sensing Industry Connect series took place last night at Macquarie University’s Incubator, bringing together the NSW smart sensing community for an evening of networking over casual drinks. 

The Sensing Industry Connect series is a popular fixture in the NSSN calendar that brings together a wide range of people connected with smart sensing from across NSW Manufacturers, designers, developers, researchers and entrepreneurs working across the sector gathered to share opportunities and build valuable professional networks.  

Co-Director of the NSSN, Professor Julien Epps emphasised the importance of events like Sensing Industry Connect to spark ideas between industry and universities. 

“Events like Sensing Industry Connect are really what the NSSN is about, and that is bringing people together from a variety of different backgrounds to share ideas.

The NSSN is so often a catalyst for universities and industry to collaborate and grow together while solving real-world issues and this is exactly what we are here to do.” 

Professor David Coutts, Deputy Dean, Research and Innovation from the Faculty of Engineering at Macquarie University spoke about the importance of universities connecting with industry to solve issues together. 

“Research excellence is no longer about an academic sitting in an ivory tower, not that it ever was, it’s actually about creating real impact and we have a very real need to connect with industry.  

NSSN is critical in bringing together multi-disciplinary teams to solve real world problems with other universities and we are a very proud member.” 

Romaric Bouveret, Director of Strategy and Operations at Macquarie University spoke about the strength of the relationships between the university and industry partners such as Google and Cochlear that have been unlocked through NSSN.  

“At Macquarie we greatly value our partnership with the NSSN and an example of it in action has been the work of Dr Kelly Miles. 

Kelly was successful in the 2023 NSSN Grand Challenge Fund through her work that will change how people wearing hearing devices listen and communicate using sensor networks.  

Kelly’s research is a great example of collaboration with key industry partners in Google and Cochlear to solve a major global problem.” 

The next NSSN Sensing Industry Connect event will take place on Thursday 8 June in Albury with Charles Sturt University. Further information is here.