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Filed Under: BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY Tagged With: Blockchain, sustainability, Tymlez

Right timing for TYMLEZ as carbon-neutral future accelerates

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Head of Operations Eoin Flynn (left) with CEO Maciek Kiernikowski and Executive Chairman Daniel O'Halloran

A year after setting up its international base in the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct, TYMLEZ has transformed its blockchain business into a mission to decarbonise the world, riding the crest of the clean energy wave that is hurtling the planet towards a carbon-neutral future.

Timing is everything and ASX-listed TYMLEZ is a company with the right technology for the future of the planet.

“It is a once in a lifetime transition to a carbon-neutral world,” says Head of Operations, Eoin Flynn.

Flynn works closely with new CEO Maciek Kiernikowski, and former CEO, now Executive Chairman Daniel O’Halloran, in leading a team of 15 Australian staff, mostly based in the Precinct at Cohort Innovation Space.

Founded in the Netherlands, TYMLEZ made the move down under in 2021 after securing Australian investment through an ASX listing (TYM) in late 2018. TYMLEZ has retained a small team in Europe, working on a project in partnership  with the Danish government, and recently opened an office in the US.

TYMLEZ CEO Daniel O’Holloran speaks to media when the company joined the Precinct in August 2021

Under O’Halloran’s leadership, the company has transformed from its broad focus on enterprise-grade blockchain technology to create transparent ledgers of data for transactions across a range of industries, to one with a laser focus on creating solutions such as carbon reporting and guarantee of origin for the global carbon economy.

With greenwashing a significant concern as corporations and governments face mounting consumer and citizen pressure to reduce emissions and meet climate change mitigation targets, demonstrating accountability is key. TYMLEZ’s blockchain platform can capture compliance and progress toward carbon targets, guarantee the origin of resources and fuels, and accurately account for offsets.

 

There’s a lot of talk about net-zero, but our platform offers proof that initiatives are actually reducing carbon intensity.”

“We provide guarantee of origin for green fuels and resources and can inject trust into carbon markets through the verified and transparent issuing of tokens for carbon offsets,” Flynn says.

The TYMLEZ Platform interfaces directly with range of IoT and smart metering devices – at Cohort, it uses ‘behind the meter’ IoT devices as part of a pilot with the Queensland Government to monitor energy usage and carbon emissions. Accurate measures will help to drive better investment decisions when it comes to green energy assets.

TYMLEZ’s influence is expanding all over the world – through commercial agreements with Magnum Mining and Exploration, an Australian mining company with a Magnetite Iron Ore project in the US State of Nevada that is using Biochar to develop green pig iron – a precursor to steel production; and Lloyd’s Register, which represents the global maritime industry.

Partnering to clean up the maritime industry

Head of Operations Eoin Flynn

Flynn explains that the goal to help the global shipping sector is highly ambitious as they seek to verify green hydrogen and green ammonia ‘from well to tank’, in what is a significant opportunity to establish leadership in the industry.

“Maritime decarbonisation is a massive undertaking but very important as the industry uses dirty bunker fuel and is responsible for an estimated 3 percent of global carbon emissions.”

“The industry would like to move to green ammonia but there are a range of safety and logistical issues with transportation and storage that need to be resolved, and we need to understand how much CO2 and other greenhouse gases are emitted all the way along the value chain.”

“Essentially we need to be able to identify each tonne of carbon emitted with all the data behind it, so everything is transparent.”

TYMLEZ is building upon a ‘3rd generation’ blockchain platform, capable of superior performance with unrivalled power efficiency – where the 1st generation Bitcoin platform handles only 3+ transactions per minute, the TYMLEZ platform can handle 10,000, confirming transactions on its blockchain almost instantaneously and doing it at a tiny fraction of the ‘energy cost’.

In fact, joining up one ‘link’ in the blockchain uses less energy than a single google search!

Recently TYMLEZ was awarded a grant to build on the US-based Hedera Blockchain network and has received a US$1million grant from the HBAR Foundation, shifting its focus away from managing its blockchain and associated servers and cybersecurity for customers, to developing sustainability solutions for them. Hedera is the world’s greenest blockchain network, with nodes under management by the likes of Google and IBM.

With rapid expansion comes the need for more staff, and in the competitive race for tech talent, TYMLEZ faces the same hurdles as tech companies everywhere, but the Gold Coast location can deliver an edge.

“Developers are in very short supply and it is a struggle, but we do get good people and we are able to retain them.”

“We are building a network of developers and the support of the Precinct and the City of Gold Coast has helped, while we also benefit from the reliability of the Council high-speed fibre network.”

TYMLEZ is on course to move forward with speed and reliability to a future that is getting ever closer.

Everyone is focused on 2030 – it is so close, only 7 years away – there is so much to be done!”

October 12, 2022 By Kathy Kruger

Filed Under: BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY Tagged With: Cohort, healthtech, Lumina, LuminaX, startups

LuminaX 2022 – start-ups pitch perfect for a big demo night

Fan favourites - Diabetes Subsciption Service 'Stripped Supply' and TAVR AI, a cardiovascular medical device company

After an intensive 14-week program it was fabulous to be able to celebrate at HOTA, with 200 supporters, investors, tech innovators and Precinct stakeholders gathering to hear from some of the most exciting healthtech founders in Australia.

Program Director Dren Xërxa introduces the teams

LuminaX Program Director Dren Xërxa set the scene for a boom in health tech over the coming decade to rival the growth of tech solutions and industry disruption in the financial sector over the past ten years.

The pitches from the 11 start-up teams sold the audience on solutions to a range of health problems – from how to assist people to manage their diabetes through automating their supply of consumables (Stripped Supply), to reducing the approximately 2.4 million adverse medication events that cause an estimated 220,0000 hospital admissions in Australia (MedaData).

Congratulations to all!

Cohort profiles the full 2022 LuminaX Cohort here.

And Lumina has done fabulous interviews with two of the founders – this year’s start-ups included 7 female leaders.

 

August 17, 2022 By Kathy Kruger

Filed Under: BUSINESS, STUDY Tagged With: internships, students

Student interns make their mark with Precinct companies

A cybersecurity forum proved popular with students looking for internships

As students prepare to start the second university trimester for 2022, a culture of internships within Precinct companies is building, as start-ups and scale-up companies see the benefits of testing out student talent for future employment and students realise the opportunities to be exposed to a broad range of projects on offer in smaller companies.

It’s been a busy first six months of 2022 and 23 student interns have played their part in supporting the growth of several Cohort Innovation Space companies.

Cybersecurity, data science and software development are all areas of strong industry growth and the appetite for up-and-coming talent is growing just as quickly.

Since being named in Forbes 2021 list of top cybersecurity start-ups, SecureStack, a cybersecurity company focused on helping app developers make their products more secure, has seen significant growth, including working with their customer AustCyber, the federal body in charge of cybersecurity policy in Australia, to help small businesses understand cybersecurity challenges. AustCyber’s use of the SecureStack platform has grown by more than 300% since they onboarded in 2021, while SecureStack has also partnered with AWS and GitHub to offer services on their native marketplaces, and linked with of the world’s largest cyber insurance companies to help their customers be more prepared for cyber attacks.

Student interns have helped meet business demand, according to SecureStack’s founder and CEO Paul McCarty.

“The main benefit of having interns is that we can help build out the specific skill set that we need, that is generally hard to find in market here, which is a software engineer with cybersecurity experience,” Paul says.

“The most important thing we look for in intern candidates is drive and hunger to learn.  If we find that all the other stuff is easy, as you can train and educate them, but that yearning to learn is NOT something you can train in someone, they need to have it to begin with.”

Bringing companies and students together to discuss cybersecurity careers

Paul shared his advice in a panel discussion that attracted 45 Griffith University IT students across undergraduate and postgraduate programs, all keen to learn about the benefits of small company experience over a corporate placement in kick-starting their careers.

He was joined on the panel by fellow Cohort cybersecurity firm CyberAudit Team and other industry representatives, along with Professor Paulo de Souza, Head of Griffith’s IT School, who indicated student numbers across IT programs had jumped 130% above pre-Covid levels.

“We will opportunistically hire,” Paul MCarty says. “We use internships to recruit talent and we will make openings for the right people.”

“One of my former interns who is now working with us said it best: ‘I love working here because I get to be across all of the things that SecureStack does and I can find areas that need help and I can fill that gap and become an indispensable member of the team.’   I couldn’t have said it better!”

SecureStack took on five interns, including Faisal Imtiaz, who is set to graduate as a software engineer this year.

Faisal Imtiaz, software engineer intern

“When I was offered an internship at SecureStack, I liked and understood their business objective and they were working on two things that I liked the most; Security and Programming,” Faisal says.

Over and above the technical experience are the key real-world learnings – “I am learning how a tech-based company works and how multiple people collaborate on a single project. How communication and management is done in a development-focused environment.”

The team from Edify Medical at last year’s LuminaX pitch night

For Edify Medical, a health tech start-up and graduates of last year’s inaugural LuminaX Accelerator program, taking on students for group projects across two trimesters is key to their philosophy to drive local employment, rather than seek remote talent overseas.

Edify Medical is creating a medical education platform to support healthcare workers in different languages who don’t currently have equality of access to up-to-date medical training resources, with their EdifyMed app.

Creative Director and Chief Technology Officer Adrian Marshall says 12 Griffith students are collaborating across two key projects to assist their platform development.

“The students we are working with on the group projects have come up with some fantastic ideas and we look forward to seeing how they execute them,” Adrian says.

“We’re excited to work with the students and look forward to building a relationship with Griffith moving forward.”

Data-driven technology company Datarwe has actively supported interns at both undergraduate and PhD level – they profile some of their current and former interns (some who are now working for them) here.

Meanwhile, Cohort recently caught up with Griffith international student Tay Ninh from Vietnam to talk about how he landed an internship gig at one of Australia’s fastest-growing start-ups Desygner.

The Precinct Office has embedded a resource within Cohort to facilitate connections between companies and Griffith University students.

July 15, 2022 By Kathy Kruger

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