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Cyber security hub launched, manager appointed
Townsville has moved two steps closer to establishing itself as a national cyber security leader with the launch today of a new cyber security node and the appointment of the node’s inaugural manager.
Mayor Jenny Hill said the local node was part of a national network of cyber security innovation nodes and had been developed in a partnership between Townsville City Council and the Queensland and Australian Government.
“Cyber security is a high economic growth industry and having this node in Townsville will provide our local businesses the building blocks they need to secure their digital networks and improve their capabilities,” Cr Hill said.
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IATA AGM Postponed to October
Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced the postponement of the 77th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit. The event will be hosted by JetBlue Airways in Boston, USA on 3-5 October 2021.
The event was originally scheduled for 27-29 June 2021, also in Boston.
“We believe that it is vital to do all we can to meet as an industry face to face. Doing so will affirm that airlines can safely connect the world, demonstrate our industry’s resilience, and confirm the inestimable value of in-person meetings, facilitated by aviation,” said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO.
I set up an alternative Bullingdon Club for state school students
I was made to feel like an outsider at university, so I set up a club to tackle elitism on campus and support less well-off students
17 March 2021 • 3:00pm
Sophie Pender, founder of The 93% Club and trainee solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills in Dubai
Credit: Christopher Pike
We can all picture that archetypal Bullingdon Club member clad in a bespoke £3,500 tailcoat, bought specially for the riotous dinners that are the hallmark of this famously snobbish Oxford University drinking club.
At our ‘alternative Bullingdon’ club, though, a £10 hoodie and jeans is permissible. Kingly dishes might line the Bullers’ dining table, which have been graced by future Prime Ministers and millionaire entrepreneurs. At our meetings, we’ll settle for a Nandos.
The Change Lab
17 March 2021
A group of global change experts are sending a disruptive message out to Australian businesses calling for approaches that ’embrace uncertainty and the mess’ of change over trying to “command and control” when it comes to workplace challenges.
The Change Lab are the leading industry experts in helping organisations worldwide (including clients such as Deloitte’s, IBM, LendLease, Treasury Wine Estate, the Dubai Government, Melbourne University and Xero) to thrive through change using the latest research in neuroscience, positive psychology and systems design.
Co-Founder of The Change Lab, Michelle Etheve, says a ‘command and control’ or ‘traditional management’ approach to change in the workplace in the pandemic-impacted landscape won’t work to create the kind of ongoing positive change needed for organisations to operate effectively in the current market context.