Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On the Gold Coast, as our tech ecosystem accelerates, more of the people who enjoy a morning wave will be getting ready for a day of coding or software marketing. Total tech innovation points to an even brighter future for the Gold Coast. Last week at the Health and Knowledge Precinct in Moncrieff, I visited two great examples of the Gold Coast technology sector.

The Cohort Space has received an incubator support grant of $150,000 from the Morrison government to develop and deliver their Luminex health and wellness startups accelerator. This is the first such specialised accelerator program on the Gold Coast. Ben Howe and Dren Xerxa from Cohort are building our own Gold Coast tech ecosystem. This project will validate and commercialise up to 10 internationally orientated start-ups that will have access to hospitals and laboratories, connections to health industry leaders, mentoring and international market access and connections. The project will leverage existing resources at the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct, and the Morrison government is backing the Gold Coast tech ecosystem. Based at Cohort already is the AI Health business, the public-private partnership, and Dataway, an acute-care medical research data platform as a service. Thank you for your insights when I visited last week and congratulations to you for the great work that you and your team do on innovation that will translate to better health outcomes for patients.