COMMUNITY

Welcome to Innovation in the City. Innovation in the City is a network of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and industry experts in Adelaide and across Australia.

COMMUNITY

Welcome to Innovation in the City. Innovation in the City is a network of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and industry experts in Adelaide and across Australia.

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BECOME A PART OF THE INNOVATION IN THE CITY COMMUNITY

An independent, not for profit private sector-led network that fundamentally believes that Adelaide has a number of untapped opportunities for innovation, talent, and business growth.  Partnering with a number of private sector and government firms we provide a forum to bring together the community to Connect, Collaborate and Converse on all range of business topics. We run a number of key events as well as smaller focussed forums to ensure we are at the forefront of innovation in Adelaide.

KRISTAIN LIVOLSI, Interim Chair

A serial entrepreneur and business advisor to business owners and c-suite executives.
Kristian is an Amazon Best Selling author, podcast host and writer for global publications such as Entrepreneur, Good Men Project and Thrive Global.

Dr RICKY LEE, Deputy Chair & Secretary

Partner at Globalex Tax + Legal and Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia. He is a commercial lawyer, notary public, and business consultant with clients throughout Australia, Asia, and Europe.

Silvia Caricasole

Silvia is an established IT professional with extensive experience in strategic planning, enterprise architecture, business architecture and digital transformation.
In the early years of her career, Silvia has worked in the UK for organisations like British Airways, Harrods and MCI WorkdCom.
Since moving to Adelaide in 2002, she has worked in a number of organisations like the University of Adelaide, SA Health, Housing SA, RAA and SA Power Networks.
Silvia is passionate about innovation, cross-sector applications of technologies, and helping develop new business opportunities to maximise outcomes to enterprises and the broader community.

Graham Hartland

Experienced business leader with 35+ years in executive management roles, spanning multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, and defence. Graham is skilled in growing businesses and delivering successful end-to-end projects. He focuses on customer value proposition to enhance sales and customer experience. A strong advocate for collaboration and robust processes, leading to measurable outcomes and continuous improvement. Graham excels in people management and leadership, empowering staff and implementing effective systems for strategic initiatives and safety-focused cultures. A true champion for innovation and technology integration in all business solutions.

Di Thompson

Di was a former co-founder, director, and shareholder of the technology company C&PA, Adelaide. She left this enterprise when her husband experienced a stroke 20 years ago and became the General Manager of Adelaide Hills Magazine. She guided the sale of this business which included a two-year consulting agreement before taking on her current position as the Operations Manager of One Advisory – a boutique Adelaide accounting and advisory firm.

In this role Di is responsible for the working of the practice, HR, IT, marketing, strategy, and assistance to the Directors of the business. Di has coached and assisted many start-ups and established businesses over the years. She has a passion for business and people.

Benjamin Woenig

Benjamin Woenig is the founder and CEO of Visione Group, a South Australian based technology architecture consultancy and systems integration firm. A seasoned enterprise, business, data and technology solution architect, Benjamin has more than 15 years of experience across healthcare, utilities, mining, energy and manufacturing industry verticals with both enterprise and operational technology applications and services.

An advocate for industry-academic collaboration, Benjamin also leads a range of research activities with long term aims of commercialisation for solving complex problems and delivering quality outcomes that acknowledge the needs of people, and the processes and data that they work with, and are responsible for.

ADVISORY BOARD

Innovation in the City brings together some of the most respected and influential people from SA’s business sector to form a distinguished board of advisors.  All SA born, they have the drive and the passion to drive innovation for SA and future generations.  Their collective experience on a local, national and international scale can contribute to the aims of helping SA success.

How IITC is governed IITC is governed by the Constitution of Launch Adelaide Inc. (the Association).  We have a robust code of conduct in which the board is required to adhere to.  If you would like a copy of the either the constitution or code of conduct then please get in touch with one of the board members.

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