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From CSIRO, to Q-CTRL, to Quantum Australia, here are six standout women changing the face of emerging technology in our nation.

The barrister, law professor and co-founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice joined the 2026 Cartier Women’s Initiative celebrations in Bangkok, to mentor and award fellows from all over the world. Partnerships are vital to scaling impact, Clooney says.

The AI-native ecosystem grew 969 per cent between 2021 and 2025, according to Startup Genome’s new global report. Last year, almost 90 per cent of funding went to North American AI-native firms, predominantly in Silicon Valley and New York. Here’s where Australia’s innovation centres are placed.

Admiralty Capital led the round, which comes just 16 months after Ovum’s $1.7m pre-seed fundraise. In less than a year the women’s health platform has been downloaded 20,000 times, growing 30 per cent month-on-month.

The vast majority of high achievers question their intellect, skills, or accomplishments according to reasearch, and neither career success or reaching the C-suite brings it to an end. Cartier’s former global CEO, and organisational behaviour PhD Dr. Lisa Orbe-Austin explain why.

Australia’s richest person joins forces with the world’s richest to leverage local critical mineral assets and strengthen the Australia/US relationship. They will both potentially make billions more in the process.

As machine capability shifts from passive responses to autonomous operation, the concept of singularity – coined in the academic realm and adopted by science fiction – is one every professional needs to know.

Exclusive: In the lead-up to its IPO, Anthropic President and co-founder Daniela Amodei talks to Forbes Australia about containing its new model, Mythos, and why the frontier lab is anchoring in Australia.

As the Aussie fashion label signs a new lease on Beverly Hills’ coveted North Beverly Drive, CEO Lucy Henry Hicks shares the insights she has gleaned from leading a 94 per cent female workforce.

Maternal monitoring platform Oli has closed a $6.5 million Series A3 round – drawing funds from Scale Investors, the University of Sydney, and Clare Ventures – to address postpartum hemorrhage, which globally takes the life of one mother every 8 minutes.