Podcast appearances and mentions of Alan Finkel

Green hydrogen was meant to be a major part of the government’s renewables-only path to net zero. Why are most of its projects crumbling? Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Kristen Amiet, and edited by Josh Burton. Our regular host is Claire Harvey and our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack, Joshua Burton, Stephanie Coombes and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on The Fin podcast, resources reporter Peter Ker discusses whether Andrew Forrest's green hydrogen dream was a fantasy and what his retreat means for the government's green energy plans and Fortescue's future. This podcast is sponsored by Team Global ExpressFurther reading: Green hydrogen too ‘expensive and inefficient': Finkel Former chief scientist Alan Finkel – who devised Australia's first clean hydrogen strategy – now says we are “unlikely to use hydrogen for storage of electricity”. Forrest says Element Zero execs burned bridges ‘like Nazis' Fortescue chairman Andrew Forrest has distanced himself from surveillance tactics used against former employees, but fully supported the IP lawsuit against them. Labor's hydrogen dream stalls as Fortescue slims down H2 vision Fortescue will cut 700 jobs and slow its push into green hydrogen in a blow to the Albanese government's plan to make Australia a hydrogen superpower supported by more than $8 billion of taxpayer funded incentives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this Energy Unplugged episode, we discuss the transition to a future in which the role of electricity is scaled up in the global energy mix, powered by low-emission solutions. We're pleased to be joined by Alan Finkel, Chair of the Low Emissions Technology Investment Advisory Council and James Ha, our Research Lead for Australia, in conversation with Hugo Batten, our Managing Director for APAC & California. Alan is, among many things, a neuroscientist, engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was Australia's Chief Scientist from 2016 to 2020, during which time he led the National Electricity Market Review and developed Australia's first National Hydrogen Strategy. The ideas presented in his latest book, titled “Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain”, are the focus of today's discussion. Main topics include the following: • Supply chain bottlenecks, and what the government can do to mitigate this and other risks • Australia's opportunities to become an export superpower for electrostates • Industrial policy and appropriate basket of policies to help countries transition towards electrostates

On this episode of the Lieb Cast, host Attorney Andrew Lieb takes a deeper look at claims of selective prosecution in Donald Trump's ongoing fraud case. After Trump posted on social media taking aim at the judge's court clerk and baselessly dubbing her "Schumer's girlfriend," vitriolic responses ensued. Lieb seeks to move the conversation to a more constructive discussion of legal standards and fairness. He considers limits on prosecutorial speech and standards for investigations. Joining Lieb is Mordy Yankovich, Alex Licitra, and special guest legal mediator Alan Finkel as they work to find common ground on this week's most provocative comments regarding Trump's baseless social media attacks on the judge's clerk. 

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI #24: Week of the Podcast, published by Zvi on August 11, 2023 on LessWrong. In addition to all the written developments, this was a banner week for podcasts. I would highlight four to consider listening to. Dario Amodei of Anthropic went on The Lunar Society to talk to Dwarkesh Patel. We got our best insight so far into where Dario's head is at, Dwarkesh is excellent at getting people to open up like this and really dive into details. Jan Leike, OpenAI's head of alignment, went on 80,000 hours with Robert Wiblin. If you want to know what is up with the whole superalignment effort, this was pretty great, and left me more optimistic. I still don't think the alignment plan will work, but there's a ton of great understanding of the problems ahead and an invitation to criticism, and a clear intention to avoid active harm, so we can hope for a pivot as they learn more. Tyler Cowen interviewed Paul Graham. This was mostly not about AI, but fascinating throughout, often as a clash of perspectives about the best ways to cultivate talent. Includes Tyler Cowen asking Paul Graham about how to raise someone's ambition, and Paul responding by insisting on raising Tyler's ambition. I got a chance to go on EconTalk and speak with Russ Roberts about The Dial of Progress and other matters, mostly related to AI. I listen to EconTalk, so this was a pretty special moment. Of course, I am a little bit biased on this one. Capabilities continue to advance at a more modest pace, so I continue to have room to breathe, which I intend to enjoy while it lasts. Table of Contents Introduction. Table of Contents. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Proceed with caution. Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility. Not with these attitudes. GPT-4 Real This Time. Time for some minor upgrades. Fun With Image Generation. Some fun, also some not so fun. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. They keep ignoring previous instructions. They Took Our Jobs. People really, really do not like it when you use AI artwork. Introducing. Real time transcription for the deaf, also not only for the deaf. In Other AI News. Various announcements, and an exciting Anthropic paper. There Seems To Be a Standard Issue RLHF Morality. It has stages. What's next? Quiet Speculations. Cases for and against expecting a lot of progress. The Quest for Sane Regulation. Confidence building, polls show no confidence. The Week in Audio. A cornucopia of riches, extensive notes on Dario's interview. Rhetorical Innovation. People are indeed worried in their own way. No One Would Be So Stupid As To. I always hope not to include this section. Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult. Grimes also difficult. People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. No one that new, really. Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Alan Finkel. The Lighter Side. Finally a plan that works. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility Control HVAC systems with results comparable to industrial standard control systems. Davidad: I've witnessed many philosophical discussions about whether a thermostat counts as an AI, but this is the first time I've seen a serious attempt to establish whether an AI counts as a thermostat. Ethan Mollick offers praise for boring AI, that helps us do boring things. As context, one of the first major experimental papers on the impact of ChatGPT on work just came out in Science (based on the free working paper here) and the results are pretty impressive: in realistic business writing tasks, ChatGPT decreased the time required for work by 40%, even as outside evaluators rated the quality of work written with the help of AI to be 18% better than the ones done by humans alone. After using it, people were more worried about their jobs. but also significantly happier - why? Because a lot of work is boring, an...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI #24: Week of the Podcast, published by Zvi on August 11, 2023 on LessWrong.In addition to all the written developments, this was a banner week for podcasts.I would highlight four to consider listening to.Dario Amodei of Anthropic went on The Lunar Society to talk to Dwarkesh Patel. We got our best insight so far into where Dario's head is at, Dwarkesh is excellent at getting people to open up like this and really dive into details.Jan Leike, OpenAI's head of alignment, went on 80,000 hours with Robert Wiblin. If you want to know what is up with the whole superalignment effort, this was pretty great, and left me more optimistic. I still don't think the alignment plan will work, but there's a ton of great understanding of the problems ahead and an invitation to criticism, and a clear intention to avoid active harm, so we can hope for a pivot as they learn more.Tyler Cowen interviewed Paul Graham. This was mostly not about AI, but fascinating throughout, often as a clash of perspectives about the best ways to cultivate talent. Includes Tyler Cowen asking Paul Graham about how to raise someone's ambition, and Paul responding by insisting on raising Tyler's ambition.I got a chance to go on EconTalk and speak with Russ Roberts about The Dial of Progress and other matters, mostly related to AI. I listen to EconTalk, so this was a pretty special moment. Of course, I am a little bit biased on this one.Capabilities continue to advance at a more modest pace, so I continue to have room to breathe, which I intend to enjoy while it lasts.Table of ContentsIntroduction.Table of Contents.Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Proceed with caution.Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility. Not with these attitudes.GPT-4 Real This Time. Time for some minor upgrades.Fun With Image Generation. Some fun, also some not so fun.Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. They keep ignoring previous instructions.They Took Our Jobs. People really, really do not like it when you use AI artwork.Introducing. Real time transcription for the deaf, also not only for the deaf.In Other AI News. Various announcements, and an exciting Anthropic paper.There Seems To Be a Standard Issue RLHF Morality. It has stages. What's next?Quiet Speculations. Cases for and against expecting a lot of progress.The Quest for Sane Regulation. Confidence building, polls show no confidence.The Week in Audio. A cornucopia of riches, extensive notes on Dario's interview.Rhetorical Innovation. People are indeed worried in their own way.No One Would Be So Stupid As To. I always hope not to include this section.Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult. Grimes also difficult.People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. No one that new, really.Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Alan Finkel.The Lighter Side. Finally a plan that works.Language Models Offer Mundane UtilityControl HVAC systems with results comparable to industrial standard control systems.Davidad: I've witnessed many philosophical discussions about whether a thermostat counts as an AI, but this is the first time I've seen a serious attempt to establish whether an AI counts as a thermostat.Ethan Mollick offers praise for boring AI, that helps us do boring things.As context, one of the first major experimental papers on the impact of ChatGPT on work just came out in Science (based on the free working paper here) and the results are pretty impressive: in realistic business writing tasks, ChatGPT decreased the time required for work by 40%, even as outside evaluators rated the quality of work written with the help of AI to be 18% better than the ones done by humans alone.After using it, people were more worried about their jobs. but also significantly happier - why? Because a lot of work is boring, an...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI #24: Week of the Podcast, published by Zvi on August 11, 2023 on LessWrong. In addition to all the written developments, this was a banner week for podcasts. I would highlight four to consider listening to. Dario Amodei of Anthropic went on The Lunar Society to talk to Dwarkesh Patel. We got our best insight so far into where Dario's head is at, Dwarkesh is excellent at getting people to open up like this and really dive into details. Jan Leike, OpenAI's head of alignment, went on 80,000 hours with Robert Wiblin. If you want to know what is up with the whole superalignment effort, this was pretty great, and left me more optimistic. I still don't think the alignment plan will work, but there's a ton of great understanding of the problems ahead and an invitation to criticism, and a clear intention to avoid active harm, so we can hope for a pivot as they learn more. Tyler Cowen interviewed Paul Graham. This was mostly not about AI, but fascinating throughout, often as a clash of perspectives about the best ways to cultivate talent. Includes Tyler Cowen asking Paul Graham about how to raise someone's ambition, and Paul responding by insisting on raising Tyler's ambition. I got a chance to go on EconTalk and speak with Russ Roberts about The Dial of Progress and other matters, mostly related to AI. I listen to EconTalk, so this was a pretty special moment. Of course, I am a little bit biased on this one. Capabilities continue to advance at a more modest pace, so I continue to have room to breathe, which I intend to enjoy while it lasts. Table of Contents Introduction. Table of Contents. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Proceed with caution. Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility. Not with these attitudes. GPT-4 Real This Time. Time for some minor upgrades. Fun With Image Generation. Some fun, also some not so fun. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. They keep ignoring previous instructions. They Took Our Jobs. People really, really do not like it when you use AI artwork. Introducing. Real time transcription for the deaf, also not only for the deaf. In Other AI News. Various announcements, and an exciting Anthropic paper. There Seems To Be a Standard Issue RLHF Morality. It has stages. What's next? Quiet Speculations. Cases for and against expecting a lot of progress. The Quest for Sane Regulation. Confidence building, polls show no confidence. The Week in Audio. A cornucopia of riches, extensive notes on Dario's interview. Rhetorical Innovation. People are indeed worried in their own way. No One Would Be So Stupid As To. I always hope not to include this section. Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult. Grimes also difficult. People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. No one that new, really. Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Alan Finkel. The Lighter Side. Finally a plan that works. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility Control HVAC systems with results comparable to industrial standard control systems. Davidad: I've witnessed many philosophical discussions about whether a thermostat counts as an AI, but this is the first time I've seen a serious attempt to establish whether an AI counts as a thermostat. Ethan Mollick offers praise for boring AI, that helps us do boring things. As context, one of the first major experimental papers on the impact of ChatGPT on work just came out in Science (based on the free working paper here) and the results are pretty impressive: in realistic business writing tasks, ChatGPT decreased the time required for work by 40%, even as outside evaluators rated the quality of work written with the help of AI to be 18% better than the ones done by humans alone. After using it, people were more worried about their jobs. but also significantly happier - why? Because a lot of work is boring, an...

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Former Australian Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel (pictured), visited Shepparton on Wednesday, July 12, to deliver the annual Fairley Lecture organized by the Shepparton campus of La Trobe University. This year's lecture was at the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) with the venue being booked out by people eager to hear what Dr Finkel had to say. He anchored his address around the inspiration, passion, spirit, and endeavour, commitment of one of the Goulburn Valley's great pioneers, Sir Andrews Fairley. Dr Finkel has also recently released the book, "Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

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Should we be investing in solar, wind, hydrogen or nuclear power? Carbon offsets or carbon credits? Alan Finkel was former Australian Chief Scientist from 2016 to 2020 he led the review of Australia's electricity market, the development of the national hydrogen strategy and the national low-emissions technology road map. He has been an adviser to industry and governments on both sides of politics across the Tasman. Now he has released his blueprint for the clean energy transition in a new book, called Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain.

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“Coal, oil and gas shouldn't be vilified. They've brought us the civilisation we have – but with side effects. The big one is carbon dioxide leading to global warming, and we have to do something about it” – Alan Finkel. The clean energy transition is one of the world's largest economic and environmental challenges, with the potential to usher in a new age of electricity and transform the planet. In a recent edition of the Fifth Estate, host Sally Warhaft met with Alan Finkel, author and former Australian chief scientist, to discuss the science and politics behind clean energy. In his new book, Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain, Alan Finkel outlines his ideas for transforming our energy landscape, which have drawn both praise and criticism around the world. Warhaft sat down with Finkel to learn about the possibilities and challenges of a clean energy future, explore how Australia could lead the way in the global transition, and provide guidance on the road ahead for Australian industries and consumers. This event was recorded on Tuesday 30 May 2023 at the Wheeler Centre. The bookseller was The Paperback Bookshop. Featured music is Different Days by Chill Cole.Support the Wheeler Centre: https://www.wheelercentre.com/support-us/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Alan Finkel on Australia's potential to emerge as an “electro-state” with its wind and solar resources, and his Powering Up book. Plus: More big battery deals.

Former Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights for Australia to lead the way in the global transition to clean energy and how to remove the barriers that prevent nations transforming to electrostate.

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Alan Finkel, Australia's former Chief Scientist, plots a course for moving away from carbon emitting fossil fuels, towards a zero emissions world. Solar, wind, as well as battery storage of renewables, will meet more of energy needs.  But the great hope, down the track, is hydrogen power.

Alan Finkel, Australia's former Chief Scientist, plots a course for moving away from carbon emitting fossil fuels, towards a zero emissions world. Solar, wind, as well as battery storage of renewables, will meet more of energy needs.  But the great hope, down the track, is hydrogen power.

As Australia’s former Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel has been on the front line of Australia’s climate wars. This year he was appointed special advisor to the federal government on low emissions technology, but some of Australia’s leading climate scientists have expressed concern about Dr Finkel’s plan, questioning whether it’s ambitious enough. Today, Alan Finkel on his plan for our energy future, and whether the Australian government should be moving faster.Guest: Former Chief Scientist and author of ‘Getting to Zero’, Dr Alan Finkel. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alan Finkel on Science, Start-Ups and Success.   Photo: Andre Goosen Boem.

This month Alan Finkel ends his term as Australia's Chief Scientist.  An entrepreneur, engineer, neuroscientist, and educator in his former life, Finkel describes the role he's held since 2016 as consisting of two activities. There's "reviewing" – briefing government on all matters scientific, including energy and climate change. And then there's "making things up" – developing programs to support the communication of science, technology, innovation, and research across the community. Writing for The Conversation, Finkel expresses confidence Australia will achieve the "dramatic reduction in emissions" that is "necessary".  However the road has not been easy, with many political setbacks. "I was certainly somewhat personally disappointed, and disappointed for the country, that the Clean Energy Target wasn't adopted," Finkel tells the podcast. "On the other hand, I took a lot of comfort from the fact that the other 49 out of 50 recommendations [in his report] were accepted and adopted and most of them have been implemented." "Those recommendations – a lot of them have been part of the reason that we've been able to introduce solar and wind electricity at extraordinary rates in the last three years." The debate currently is whether Australia will sign up for zero net emissions by 2050. While Finkel says "that's a question for politicians, not for me", he adds that "we're taking the right measures already consistent with a drive towards zero or low emissions". These measures, he says, involve cheaper batteries, solar, wind, pumped hydro, and gas as a "backstop", as we transition out of coal fire electricity. Asked if a new coal-fired power station project could ever be started, Finkel said that to comply with carbon capture and storage, the cost of electricity from the plant would be "five or six times higher" than electricity produced by solar and wind. "I would never predict anything...but I can say with some degree of confidence that that economics would be challenging". His message was clear.

Australia's good run suppressing COVID-19 has come to an end with four cases in Adelaide sourced to a quarantine hotel.

The applied physicist will replace Dr Alan Finkel when his term ends in December, becoming the second woman to hold the position.

‘Working in isolation – what's been occupying Australia's Chief Scientist in 2020?' Dr Finkel will present an overview of his work so far in 2020 – supporting the government's response to COVID-19 including convening the Rapid Research Information Forum to provide rapid responses to questions arising from the pandemic; chairing the Expert Advisory Panel for the CSIRO Report on Climate and Disaster Resilience; and chairing the Technology Investment Roadmap Ministerial Reference Group. Chair of the Day, our Honorary Member, Nobel Peace Laureate Dr Tilman Ruff AO, public health and infectious diseases physician will introduce Australia's Chief Scientist.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency - ARENA - has just taken submissions for a $70 million round of funding for new hydrogen projects.

Australia's chief scientist says the link between climate change and its horror season of bushfires is clear. Dr Alan Finkel suggests the key to a low emissions future to try and prevent more extreme weather is hydrogen power - Shkencetari kryesor australian thote se nuk mund ti mbyllim syte dhe mohojme lidhjen mes zjarrit dhe ndryshimit te klimes. Eshte e qarte se per te mbijetur si specie ndotja e mjedisit duhet te ndalet.

Australia's chief scientist says the link between climate change and its horror season of bushfires is clear.Dr Alan Finkel suggests the key to a low emissions future to try and prevent more extreme weather is hydrogen power. - Fosil yakıtlarından uzaklaşırken rüzgar ve güneş enerjisi öne çıkıyor. Ancak Avustralya'nın baş araştırmacısı, hidrojeni gözden kaçırmamamız gerektiğini düşünüyor.

In this special bonus episode of Secret Life of STEM, our resident Science Advisor Dr Andi Horvath speaks to Australia's Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel. Listen in as Alan Finkel talks about his inspirations and biggest tips for aspiring scientists, and answers year 10's burning STEM questions. That's right, you submitted your questions, and now Alan Finkel has the answers. What is Alan Finkel's earliest ‘STEMmory'? What challenges has he overcome in his career? What advice would he give his year 10 self? Find out in this bonus episode of Secret Life of STEM! GUESTS: Alan Finkel, Chief Scientist of Australia LINKS: Alan Finkel's Biography CREDITS: Episode Host/Supervising Producer/Science Advisor: Dr. Andi Horvath Producer: Buffy Gorrilla Assistant Producer/Editor: Silvi Vann-Wall Additional Editing: Arch Cuthbertson CONTACT: podcasting-team@unimelb.edu.au

In this special bonus episode of Secret Life of STEM, our resident Science Advisor Dr Andi Horvath speaks to Australia’s Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel.Listen in as Alan Finkel talks about his inspirations and biggest tips for aspiring scientists, and answers year 10’s burning STEM questions. That’s right, you submitted your questions, and now Alan Finkel has the answers.What is Alan Finkel’s earliest ‘STEMmory’? What challenges has he overcome in his career? What advice would he give his year 10 self? Find out in this bonus episode of Secret Life of STEM!GUESTS:Alan Finkel, Chief Scientist of AustraliaLINKS:Alan Finkel’s BiographyCREDITS:Episode Host/Supervising Producer/Science Advisor: Dr. Andi HorvathProducer: Buffy GorrillaAssistant Producer/Editor: Silvi Vann-WallAdditional Editing: Arch CuthbertsonCONTACT:podcasting-team@unimelb.edu.au

Australia's Chief Scientist says leaders and policy makers should read more science fiction. Science fiction is a hub of ideas for future technology and the social and ethical challenges it brings.  

Chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his love of electric vehicles, his charging needs, his views on autonomous driving and the prospects of fuel cell electric vehicles.

Forget the humans versus machine dichotomy. Our relationship with technology is far more complicated than that. To understand AI, first we need to appreciate the role humans play in shaping it.

In this special episode Teacher is joined by Dr Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, to talk about his most recent final report, titled ‘Optimising STEM Industry–School Partnerships: Inspiring Australia’s Next Generation’. We speak about why partnerships with STEM industries can be beneficial for students, and how schools can work towards implementing such a program.

Dr Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation and Science, Zoos Victoria Speaking on "Zoos Victoria: Fighting Extinction" Described as one our Superheroes, by Australia's Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel, Marissa completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne and University of Pretoria, South Africa, and later her PhD from University of Melbourne. Marissa has published 18 papers and is internationally acclaimed for her conservation work on endangered species. Marissa's post-doctoral research examined assisted reproduction and novel techniques to maximise breeding success in captive breeding colonies of marsupials across Australia. She has more than fifteen years' experience in field work, five years in molecular genetics laboratories, and fifteen years in research and zoo captive breeding programs. Marissa has experience with a variety of wildlife and conservation programs in Australia, Asia, Africa and the Americas. She has a particular interest in the wildlife of South East Asia, having worked with conservation programs in Borneo and Cambodia, where she assisted with capacity building and wildlife research with Zoos Victoria's international partners. In 2007, Marissa started working at Zoos Victoria on the breeding program for the critically endangered Mountain Pygmy Possum. She joined Zoos Victoria's department of Wildlife Conservation and Science as their Reproductive Biologist in 2009. Marissa now works across Healesville Sanctuary, Werribee Open Range Zoo and Melbourne Zoo to improve sustainable zoo populations, reproductive research, and captive breeding and reintroduction success, particularly in threatened species. Marissa has recently been named one of National Geographic's Global Wildlife Talents, and this year was showcased as an Australian Science Hero by the Office of the Chief Scientist. She sits on a number of Threatened Species Recovery Teams and has a strong focus on endangered native marsupial, rodent and frog species to aid Zoos Victoria's commitment that no Victorian terrestrial vertebrate species will go extinct.

My guest for Episode 10 of The Startup Playbook: Hustle is Byron Scaf, the CEO of Stile Education. Stile helps schools to transition from textbooks and handouts to their own interactive, online science curriculum, through providing workbooks, videos, simulations, and assessments combined into a seamless teaching and learning experience. Stile was initially founded by Alan Finkel, with Byron taking over the role of CEO when Alan was offered the role of Australia's Chief Scientist role in 2014. The business has been entirely self funded to date and since pivoting from a platform to a content play, Stile has gone on to take a significant chunk of the local market and is now preparing to launch into new markets overseas. In this episode we talk about: Dealing with distraction When and how to pivot Breaking and building brand When and how to expand internationally Developing a hiring pipeline    WATCH ON YOUTUBE PLAYBOOK MEDIA – Growth through Data-Driven Storytelling THE E-COMMERCE PLAYBOOK ACCELEPRISE AUSTRALIA STARTUP PLAYBOOK HUSTLE APPLICATION    Show notes: Evan Thornley Better Place Alan Finkel Stile Education Elizabeth Finkel Cosmos Magazine Daniel Pikler Bett Show - Education Technology conference Mark Horstman - Managertools.com Clickview Tim Power Laurence Savin Topgrading - book Byron Scaf (LinkedIn) Feedback/ connect/ say hello:  Rohit@startupplaybook.co @playbookstartup (Twitter) @rohitbhargava7 (Twitter – Rohit) Rohit Bhargava (LinkedIn) Credits: Intro music credit to Bensound Other channels: Find the podcast video on Youtube here Don't have iTunes? The podcast is also available on Stitcher & Soundcloud The post Hustle Ep010: Byron Scaf (CEO – Stile Education) on attracting the best talent appeared first on Startup Playbook.

The brain is the most complex machine in the known universe. More than any other organ, it defines our destiny – and delivers our future. It is humanity’s last and greatest science frontier. The time is ripe for a bold Australian ambition: backed by strategy, driven by technology and achieved through collaboration. Join Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel for a perspective on Australia’s place in the brain’s golden age, as he gives the annual Merson Lecture at QBI.

The Lady with the Lamp ought to be known as the Lady with the Logarithm, argues Australia's Chief Scientist Alan Finkel.

Event Podcast: This Forward Thinking event followed the release of the Final Report of the Finkel Review. Dr Finkel and a panel of experts discussed how Australia can respond to challenges that our electricity system faces

Despite the government still considering his proposal for a clean energy target (CET) – after endorsing his other 49 recommendations – Chief Scientist Alan Finkel is optimistic the CET remains firmly on the agenda. Finkel's challenging task has been to put forward a scheme to bring Australia's energy market into the future, providing certainty for investment and supply. His plan has required a balance between appeasing consumers on prices and meeting Australia's commitments on climate change. This is made harder by the desire of many in the government to push on with developing new “clean-coal-fired” power stations, a term Finkel describes as “a murky concept”. “There is no prohibitions in any of our recommendations. The government has to decide whether to license new technologies,” he says. Asked about the concept of “reverse auctions” – better called competitive tenders – he says this is “widely recognised to be the most cost-effective means of bringing the lowest cost solution into the market”. But that's dependent on the wisdom of the entity running the auction rather than the wisdom of investors. Overall, Finkel acknowledges there's a hard road ahead for policymaking on energy. “Transitions are always painful,” he says.

Event Podcast: This Energy Futures Seminar followed the release of the Final Report of the Finkel Review. Dr Finkel and a panel of experts discussed how Australia can respond to challenges that our electricity system faces. Please note the sound quality for this recording is poor due to audio issues on the night.

As politicians debate the causes of South Australia's power failures, separating fact from rhetoric has become difficult. In this episode of The Conversation's politics podcast, Michelle Grattan interviews energy expert Hugh Saddler. Dr Saddler explains the complex mix of factors behind the power failures in South Australia and the stresses on the electricity systems elsewhere, and canvases what can be done to fix the problems. With the government attempting to reinvigorate enthusiasm for coal, Saddler doesn't believe the idea of subsidising the development of “clean coal” power stations will fly. “There's so many parties who would be involved in that sort of investment saying there's no way they would invest in such a type of power station. "One factor is that they have a long life. … That type of power station would take a very long time to build. Then it will have a long life and under that sort of life they would still be operating in 2050 when many countries have said we've got to be [at] zero emissions.” A review into energy security by Australia's chief scientist Alan Finkel is still underway. But the government has already ruled out establishing an emissions intensity scheme. “In my opinion an emissions intensity scheme is just one of a number of different mechanisms which probably should be used. … I would suspect the sort of process that might go through is the Finkel report will come down with a whole suite of recommendations,” Saddler says. Music credit: “Equestrian”, by Anitek on the Free Music Archive

The CSIRO has partnered with an educational software company set up by Dr Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, to improve science teaching in schools.

The CSIRO has partnered with an educational software company set up by Dr Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, to improve science teaching in schools.

The CSIRO has partnered with an educational software company set up by Dr Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, to improve science teaching in schools.

The CSIRO has partnered with an educational software company set up by Dr Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, to improve science teaching in schools.

New Zealand's chief science adviser, Sir Peter Gluckman, and Australia's newly-appointed chief scientist Alan Finkel discuss how their countries could work together for the good of science and innovation.

New Zealand's chief science adviser, Sir Peter Gluckman, and Australia's newly-appointed chief scientist Alan Finkel discuss how their countries could work together for the good of science and innovation.

1) Incident Parkinson disease and 2) Topic of the month: Headaches. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. John Morgan interviews Dr. Tien Khoo about his paper on incident Parkinson disease. Dr. Jen Fugate is reading our e-Pearl of the week about paroxysmal dysarthria and ataxia. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Mike Sowell interviews Dr. Alan Finkel about the topic of post-traumatic headache. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Morgan, Khoo, Fugate and Finkel.Dr. Morgan has served on the speakers' bureau of GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., and UCB Pharma; has performed CME for Oakstone Publishing, LLC; is a consultant for Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Chelsea Therapeutics, and Impax Laboratories, Inc.; receives research support from NIH as a sub-investigator and received compensation for review of medical records and expert witness testimony in multiple cases of litigation involving neurological conditions.Dr. Khoo receives speaker honoraria from Teva and Lundbeck; receives funding for travel from GlaxoSmithKline and receives educational support from a grant with UCB Pharma.Dr. Fugate serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Finkel serves on the speakers' bureau of Allergan, Inc. receives research support from American Headache Society, DVBIC and the American Academy of Neurology.