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  • Discussing our report at SC Asia

    Our first news item for 2024 is that we are hosting a BoF at SC Asia to discuss the outcomes of last year's Sustainability of AI-scale Digital Research Infrastructure workshop report. Taking feedback from all quarters, we've distilled the needs to 4 targeted workshops: Demand response & efficiencies for compute-intensive DCs Why? Lift your awareness & access to environmental sustainability innovation in data centres, in particular nearer-term solutions, not reliant on major capital building works Dimensionalising an AI DRI ecosystem for NRIs Why? Gain a peer-wide uplift of awareness of AI within NRI communities Underpinning industrial platforms with an AI DRI Why? Awareness of best-practices at providing DRI (data & pipelines) into commercial plays Sustaining an AI DRI ecosystem with institutions Why? Explore commercial sustainability through co-designing with universities ... all seeking the safe & facilitated environment for suppliers and centres, private and public, big and small, to discuss these topics. Hence, we will also use the BoF to explore and prioritise these workshops. Come join us at SC Asia on Thursday Feb 22 in the afternoon. Reach out to engage, shape and secure your spot!

  • Introduction to Sustainability and AI mini-documentary

    Innate Innovation partook in a mini-documentary cover story investigating the relationship between #AI and #sustainability. Put together by Digital Nation Australia, the documentary responds to the increasing awareness that AI may be for the #ESG good or may come at a cost. How is AI used to help to contribute to ESG goals in organisations? What is AI’s impact on ESG? How do these balance now and into the future? Speaking to the topic of a greener future in the 10minute documentary - we’re hopeful. Yes, on surface value, AI is changing our demands on computers. However, both the old guard and start-ups (see our Firmus Technologies Forge Partnership to Build a Global Network article) are tackling the impact of this change on efficiency and carbon emissions today. In our contribution to the documentary, you’ll hear us explain how the performance of algorithms behind AI is changing 1000-fold, contributing to decarbonisation at the application level. “We’re still in the baby era of AI algorithms, and algorithms when they improve, we’ve seen this over decades and over many of our world’s innovations, they improve a thousand-fold” We help customers map, measure and project in this complicated but critical space - to get your role in “AI can contribute $115 billion to Australia’s economy if implemented correctly” right!

  • Report: Sustainability of AI-scale Digital Research Infrastructure

    The report from the Sustainability of AI-scale Digital Research Infrastructure workshop @ eResearch Australasia is now available on the workshop's website. Organised by Innate Innovation, the workshop created a safe environment, enabling broad representation from the community to discuss and develop a shared understanding of an AI-centric future. Across all themes, we discussed matters across the hardware, services, platforms and research stack. It ratified the gaps in collective knowledge and provided an example approach for ecosystem-wide co-design of pre-competitive facets. Some key findings: At the data centre level, the Australian DRI ecosystem has sufficient buying power to adopt cooling innovation progressively, An increased consciousness exists to tailor performance/watt and cooling efficiency to local concerns, The critical gap, however, is the need for more attention given to software efficiency, given its dominant role in overall efficiency. With a baseline understanding set, community engagement & confidence in the format, and distinct themes with learnings, we propose a series of workshops to develop the questions and findings further. You can view the presentation version of the summary report online (expandable to full screen) or register to download the print-friendly version. Please get in touch with us for further evidence or details.

  • Announcing the sustainability of AI-scale digital research infrastructure workshop

    Are you an #AI creator? An AI user? Or a quality data provider to AI? Adapting #LLMs to an organisation or project is compute-intensive, requiring dedicated use of traditionally #HPC-scale facilities. The electricity needed for data centres will explode, let alone the skills gap, which raises significant environmental, governance and cost questions. Are we ready for this? Join ARDC, BOM, CSIRO, NCI and Pawsey as we educate and explore what it means to develop a sovereign AI-scale digital research infrastructure ecosystem. This eResearch Australasia 2023 pre-conference workshop combines four distinct groups of our ecosystem: large research-centric datacentres, emerging sustainability-driven AI technology vendors, research- and industry-driving AI platforms, and research organisations & communities. And with Carmel Walsh's help, Innate Innovation is coordinating this event. Find more information at the workshop's official page.

  • UK commissioner reprimands NHS Lanarkshire for sharing patient data via WhatsApp

    Here is an excellent example of the innovator’s dilemma - the complexities of #socialconsciousness driving better #technologygovernance & #datagovernance in an environment desiring #speed and #agility. It’s a pattern we see all the time! A UK commissioner recently reprimanded NHS Lanarkshire (the national health service operating in a Scottish county) following the unauthorised use of #WhatsApp by 26 staff to share patients’ personal data over 500 times in two years. What’s the story? NHS Lanarkshire made limited use of WhatsApp available to staff as an environmental measure to increase speed and agility in response to the pandemic (working remotely, issues with IT systems, staff workload, etc). It seems the #cultural adoption of WhatsApp was too successful, such that not only did staff choose to use it for communicating patients’ #personaldata (especially images), but they also continued to do so well after the emergency of the pandemic. And then, a non-staff member was also added to the WhatsApp group in error, resulting in the inappropriate disclosure of personal information to an unauthorised individual. A clear break in public trust! The reprimand recognises the complexity, highlighting poor communication and training in data governance and WhatsApp as the root cause. However, it first points out NHS Lanarkshire’s insufficient balance in #risk assessment. Our read is it relied on staff behaviour to mitigate the open nature of the tool, seemingly without consummate measures in place. It’s not necessarily about saying no, but what it takes to say yes.

  • Taming the Climate Is Far Harder Than Getting People to the Moon

    Why is #decarbonisation a focus of Innate Innovation? Why do organisations feel the pressure to respond #climatechange? The McKinsey Global Institute estimates the world needs to spend US $275 trillion between 2021 and 2050 under the NGFS Net Zero 2050 scenario. IEEE Spectrum’s Vaclav Smil provides some simple ways to understand just how significant that investment is... “By the time the Manhattan Project ended in 1946, it had cost the [USA] nearly US $2 billion, about $33 billion in today’s money, the total equal to only about 0.3% of the 1943-45 [GDP]. When Project Apollo ended in 1972, it had cost about $26 billion, or $207 billion in today’s money; over 12 years it worked out annually to about 0.2% of the country’s 1961-72 GDP.” “[$275 trillion over 30 years] implies an annual expenditure of about 10% of today’s world economic product.” That is, systemic decarbonisation is 50 times larger than our endeavour of getting people to the moon! We’re glad to be helping digital innovators play a vital and upfront role! #decarbonization

  • Announcing the Techtify & Innate Innovation collaborative venture

    Having recently celebrated the first six months of Innate Innovation, we noticed a few big tech providers and users could readily access us, but much of our local industry couldn't. Part of the price of being niche and boutique. To expand our world-class technology strategy mandate to local industry, we needed help. Founded within the pandemic period, serving local SMEs, and with a human-centric and paradigm-changing approach, Techtify's values and capabilities are the perfect synergy for Innate Innovation. Techtify and Innate Innovation recently announced a collaborative venture to provide strategy services as part of Techtify's one-stop-shop approach for technology needs and to drive the novel Techtify approach to market further. ... or watch our 1 minute clip. "Having assisted peak innovators in fulfilling their commercial and social obligations through technology, partnering with Techtify is the optimal approach to making sought-after strategy, advise and implementation available to many", said Steve Quenette, Principal advisor & CEO of Innate Innovation "People are at the heart of what we do - offering strategy services to our comprehensive portfolio ensures our clients can begin to address the complex issues of our times," said Brent Valle, CEO of Techtify. Through Techtify, some of our best learnings and insights are available as smaller pieces and integrated into existing value/product streams.

  • Investing in technology efficiency - why offsets can't save us

    Innate Innovation’s mission is to help organisations unblock the pathways to innovation and unlock #sustainability value through digital technology. Humankind adds another 33 billion tonnes of #carbon dioxide to the atmosphere annually by burning fossil fuels. A proactive #energytransition posture or “going green” can serve two purposes - drive consumption efficiencies leading to more significant operating margins in the short term, and improve the #socialconsciousness towards your brand in the longer term. The question is ROI. Is offsetting a sustainable decarbonisation option? We have all heard of the inauthenticity in the carbon offset marketplace. But are a few bad apples enough to reconsider the offset, versus change towards sustainable technology? We decided share another reason why we need to innovate and decarbonise the digital landscape. Here’s the summary of the A tonne of fossil carbon isn’t the same as a tonne of new trees: why offsets can’t save us article. "Planting trees does not lock carbon away again deep underground" - necessary for maintaining a carbon/warming balance. "Instead, the introduced fossil carbon remains part of the active carbon cycle" - because releasing that carbon into the atmosphere is (e.g.) a bushfire away. What should we invest in to yield short- and long-term financial outcomes? Have we passed the inflection point where investment is necessary to be competitive? How do we measure and create a corporate (or product) environment that better guarantees an ROI target? And specifically in the #cloud, #HPC, #AI, #LLM and #data space? The space within which we excel!

  • TSMC brags of 20TWh solar scheme

    Supersized and specialised computer chip-making factories - foundries - are where most of the computer chips we use today come from. The Taiwanese company TSMC has nearly 60% of the global foundry market. This article's headline is forward in suggesting TSMC is #greenwashing. The headline does reflect the growing #socialconsciousness (and increasingly regulatory environment) driving the materiality of green claims. On the one hand, TSMC's twenty-year clean (solar) energy purchase is a good, albeit small, step. It will only reduce a tiny part of their carbon footprint. Conversely, TMSC has recognised early their suppliers' need to catch up in #decarbonisation so that TMSC can materially reach #netzero. Thus through this new initiative, TMSC actively incentivises their suppliers towards net zero by reserving half of this new #cleanenergy for use by those suppliers. It is an example of innovative behaviour-changing approaches available when adopting #energyasaservice strategies. #decarbonization

  • Launching Innate Innovation

    Welcome to Innate Innovation! Digital innovation can be innate to a sustainable, equitable and inclusive world. We help technology-driven organisations adapt to social consciousness and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) priorities. Founded by Steve Quenette, discover how our strategy and advisory services balance leadership, culture, and #technology to knock down the complexity wall. #datagovernance #cybersecurity #decarbonization #decarbonisation #cloudcomputing "Through Innate Innovation, I hope to share pioneering insights with leaders across multiple sectors", said Steve Quenette, Innate Innovation CEO.

  • 1 year to go to Paris

    Tagging along with Brent Valle / Techtify yesterday, visiting the Victorian Institute of Sport we came across a reminder that will excite all those with an inner athlete...

  • ST Telemedia Global Data Centres and Firmus Technologies Forge Partnership to Build a Global Network

    Product-market fit is a marvellous thing! Aussie ingenuity, investment, skills and a little help from Innate Innovation to cast and ratify truly global & sustainability-based technology play! #gotomarket #strategy Our client Firmus and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres have just announced a massive join-venture to roll out their ultra-sustainable AI computing platform - the HyperCube, across STT's global sites. Firmus is pioneering the combination of #modularDCs, #immersion and NVIDIA #DGX / #OVX at scale. The result - Sustainable Metal Cloud, is the quickest and cleanest way to source #generativeAI scale of #GPU #cloud resources! #sustainability #decarbonisation #decarbonization #hpc

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