Season 2 The Value of Big Picture Thinking in the Australian Tech Industry With Kate Pounder, CEO of TCA

The Tech Council of Australia's (TCA) goal is to have 1 million Australians employed in tech jobs by 2025.

In this episode, Craig Forman sits down with TCA CEO Kate Pounder who shares her personal motivation behind making this goal a reality and how the TCA is driving policy shifts that will ultimately make Australia the best place to start and scale a tech company.

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Listen to this episode now to discover: 

• How Kate went from living in a small rural town that had no technology to becoming CEO of Tech Council Australia 
• How Kate’s background and upbringing built her confidence to take on big challenges in her career (and the big lessons she took from her parents) 
• Changing a 10-year career overnight: What Kate did next when she suddenly found herself without a job (and why it turned out to be a great thing)
• Kate unpacks what it’s like to be CEO of a rapidly growing organisation, Tech Council Australia
• Answering the biggest questions facing society - the work that drives Kate’s passion to create an impact with Tech Council 
• Big picture thinking: Why it’s essential to communicate the bigger vision when uniting multiple stakeholders on a solution 
• Discover why Kate believes Australia will become the best place to found and scale a company (and how the Tech industry will help)
• Learn about the exciting new initiatives Tech Council Australia are working on to address the issue of diversity in the sector 
• Plus so much more! 

Show Notes:
Tech Council of Australia - Launch Promise 
Safety Culture
Deputy
Employment Hero
Canva
Forage
Go 1
Academy XI
Open Learning

Credits:

Host: Craig Forman
Writers: Alessia Campagna and Craig Forman
Producer and Editor: Alessia Campagna
Technical Producer: Anthony Watson www.luma.city
Executive Producers: Leonie Rothwell and Marcus Worrall
Marketing & Promotion: Valerie Saindon and Sophie Callahan

We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which the podcast is taking place today. We pay our deep respects to all Elders past, present and emerging.  We would also like to extend that respect to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples listening today.