University of Melbourne

University of Adelaide

Co-Founder Presagen  -  AI Enhanced Healthcare

Presagen is an AI healthcare company that is changing the way clinics, patients, and medical data from around the world are connected through AI. Its decentralized data-centric AI platform, The Social Network for Healthcare, connects clinics and patients globally, and enables collaboration and data sharing to create scalable AI healthcare products that are affordable and accessible for all. The decentralized network democratizes the creation of AI products, promotes collaboration through incentives, and protects data privacy and ownership.

With a focus on improving Women’s Health outcomes globally, Presagen’s first product, Life Whisperer, is being used by IVF clinics globally to improve pregnancy outcomes for couples struggling with fertility.

With a vision of creating the largest network of clinics, patients, and medical data from around the world, Presagen is driving the future of AI Enhanced Healthcare.

See Presagen.com and LifeWhisperer.com for more information.

Presagen

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

The Industry Mentoring Network in STEM (IMNIS) is an award-winning industry-led initiative of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. IMNIS connects motivated PhD students (mentees) in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) with outstanding high level industry leaders (mentors) in a one year industry mentoring program.

IMNIS provides Australia’s future STEM leaders the opportunity to engage with industry, extend their professional network, strengthen their implicit skills and get advice from an influential industry mentor. Student mentees learn what it takes to succeed in any part of the STEM ecosystem, gain a better understanding of how industry works and learn about career opportunities in other professional sectors.

IMNIS breaks down barriers, fosters a culture of mentoring and collaboration between industry and academia, extends professional networks,  and helps students strengthen their ‘soft skills’ and become more informed about the opportunities beyond academia.

See https://imnis.org.au/ for more information.

Industry Mentoring Network in STEM

Mentor

CSIRO ON Prime is an entry level, part-time pre-accelerator that helps research teams validate their research and discover a real world application for it. All teams who participate in ON Prime will have access to experienced facilitators and 80+ strong ON Mentor network of business leaders, entrepreneurs who've been there and done it before.

CSIRO

Mentor for  CSIRO ON Prime

Techstars is a global mentorship-driven startup accelerator that is considered one of the best startup accelerators in the world. Don is a mentor of Techstars Adelaide, Australia, to support early-stage companies advancing applications in Internet of things (IoT), big data, sensors and robotics, with potential to develop and commercialize technologies related to the defense and security sectors.

Techstars is a global ecosystem that empowers entrepreneurs to bring new technologies to market wherever they choose to live. With dozens of mentorship-driven accelerator programs and thousands of startup programs worldwide, Techstars exists to support the world’s most promising entrepreneurs throughout their lifelong journey, from inspiration to IPO.

Adelaide is poised to become a global center of excellence for the defense sector with over $100 billion worth of major industry projects in the pipeline. Recent investment in innovation in South Australia includes a $230 million Center for Defense Industry Capability backed by the Australian Federal Government.

Techstars

MIK Health uses groundbreaking analytics technology to allow businesses to monitor internal messaging apps (e.g. Slack) used by employees to accurately identify irregular patterns of behavior that indicate early signs of anxiety, stress or mental health conditions.

MIK Health enable businesses to reduce absenteeism, increase productivity, and support early intervention programs and employee wellness, to ultimately reduce cost and disruption which has been estimated to cost US businesses more than $200 Billion per year for mental health alone.

See mikhealth.com for more information.

MIK Health

Advisor

The Australian eChallenge is run by the Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC) at the University of Adelaide. It is a competition based learning experience that develops strategic business thinking for early-stage entrepreneurial ventures.

Don mentored the Life Whisperer team that won two eChallenge awards: Medical Innovation, and Research Commercialisation. This led to the incorporation of Life Whisperer where Don is now a Co-Founder.

See www.adelaide.edu.au/echallenge for more information.

Australian eChallenge

SouthStart Accelerate is a group of successful technology entrepreneurs with a strong connection to South Australia, who have partnered together to fund and deliver a mentor driven startup accelerator in Adelaide, South Australia.

See southstart.co for details.

SouthStart Ltd

Link4 delivers invoices electronically, from a customers cloud accounting software directly into a suppliers cloud accounting software.

Link4 mitigates the need for manual data entry or error checking, and overcomes limitations with error prone character recognition (OCR) eInvoicing applications. This is true eInvoicing. eInvoicing can cut invoicing costs by as much as 80%, improve accuracy, and increase cashflow.

See Link4.co for more information.

Link4 Cloud

Dr Don Perugini is an Executive Director in the Asia-Pacific analytics centre of excellence EYC3, leading the integration, development and market expansion of the Simulait analytics product and team following the acquisition of ISD Analytics. Don and his team use world-leading predictive analytics (behavioral micro-simulation) technologies to accurately predict human behavior of populations to provide business and Government clients globally with powerful market insights.

Executive Director, Advanced Analytics and Human Behavior Modeling

Dr Don Perugini was the founder of global technology company ISD Analytics, which operated in the US and Australia. ISD Analytics was acquired by Ernst and Young (EY) in 2015, with Simulait included in EY’s Synapse global suite of analytics products.

Don led the development and commercialization of its award-winning product Simulait which allows organizations to accurately predict human behavior of population of consumers in volatile or rapidly changing consumer markets, or where there is limited customer data (e.g. new product launch, pricing, marketing, policy, and predicting the impact of disruptive technology). Simulait allows organizations to test and accurately predict the impact of strategies or policy interventions on influencing customer behavior.

Simulait was repeatedly able to predict years of past sales/demand to over 90% accuracy without utilizing historical sales or personal customer data – instead using non-conventional and public data, studies and market research. Simulait was applied globally (Australia, US, Europe) and in a range of consumer markets, including energy, water, automotive, health, retail, emergency response, transport, workforce planning, and Government policy.

ISD Analytics

Director and CEO

Dr Don Perugini conducted research and development in the areas of advanced predictive analytics, cognitive reasoning/science, human behavior modeling, automation,  simulation, and optimization. Don’s R&D focus was in technologies to mimic human intelligence and reasoning for predicting and automating human behavior, collaborating with defense organizations in the US (DARPA), UK, Canada, and Singapore. Don's specialization included artificial intelligence and cognitive computational models, integrating multiple disciplines such as micro-simulation, behavioral science and psychology, micro-economics, cognitive agent-based modeling, game theory and AI.

Don applied the technologies to a range of military applications, including command and control (C2), wargaming, network centric warfare, information fusion and sensor networks, logistics and transport, emergency response, automated e-commerce, cyber security, and information operations. 

Don was also involved in the Future Operations Centre Analysis Laboratory (FOCAL) project, which uses artificial intelligence to create automated and intelligent virtual advisors to assist commanders with situational awareness and decision support for military planning. These concepts are now referred to (in the commercial sector) as Internet of Things (IoT), Chat bots, Autonomous Agents and Things, Virtual Personal Assistance (VPAs) and smart advisors.