The metaverse is here: now businesses must take the next step

The metaverse is here whether the world is ready for it or not. Tech leaders say timing is of the essence as companies decide what role the technology will play in their future. The metaverse – or a shared virtual reality space – might sound to a like a far-off tech concept straight out of […]

Forbes Australia’s most read articles in 2022

Forbes Australia launched in September 2022 to bring you ideas that change the world. Here’s our most read articles to date. The metaverse and Web3 certainly gained a lot of interest. KPMG goes deep into the metaverse with new appointment The billion dollar brothers Entrepreneurs taught us a lot about how to succeed. The quest […]

How to shape a career – starting with surfboards

Collaborations bring enormous diversity to what’s on offer from Haydenshapes, with innovation key to every project. At 15, Hayden Cox started shaping surfboards, and at one point, he noticed another local artist in Sydney’s Mona Vale who was producing some “pretty incredible street art”. “I asked him to come and paint surfboards,” Cox says. He […]

The world’s largest team sport just got better, says GitHub CEO

The CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub explains why artificial intelligence is revolutionising the way coding works. In a world where software plays an increasingly central role in day-to-day life – from producing sophisticated business reporting functions to driving a car or choosing the next series to binge on, the shortage of software developers is cause for concern, […]

Are these Australia’s best work perks?

These three companies offer next-level experiential perks to high performing team members. A berth on a famous yacht race: LawConnect When app developer Payal Pattanaik got an email saying she had won a place on the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2022, she didn’t know what it involved. She had entered the companywide lottery without […]

Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women List: 4 Australians to watch  

A mining magnate, former PM, a banker and a colleague of Elon Musk are among the Australian women on Forbes’ The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women List. A mining magnate, former PM, banker and colleague of Elon Musk are among the Australian women on Forbes’ The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women List Forbes’ 100 Most […]

Shark tank survivor dreams of a bigger pond

Earlier this year, Alisha Geary zoomed in from Paris to the weekly Dream Venture Masterclasses ahead of a shark-tank style pitch against other Indigenous start-ups. Everyone there was vying for a slice of the $150,000 from Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation and, perhaps more crucially, for the attention of the venture capitalists in the […]

Harnessing the sweat of the sun

91-year-old theoretical physicist Heinrich Hora and material scientist Warren McKenzie, the co-founders of HB11 Energy, believe they can radically change the future with a high-powered laser and a few protons to create viable nuclear fusion. Now, they say, they just need a $100 million laser of their own to prove it, and the Australian government […]

The party trick that conjured Australia’s most expensive gin

This is how Wild Hibiscus spent $1.6 million researching how to put ‘caviar’ in a bottle and create a magical spirit. Lee Etherington’s journey to becoming the maker of finger lime gin began with a hibiscus flower dropped, on a whim, into a glass of champagne. The diners at his dinner party that night some […]