UWA Defence and Security Institute

Our Director, Professor Gia Parish, will be speaking next week at ‘WA | Building the New Defence-Tech Economy’ hosted by CEDA - Committee for Economic Development of Australia, discussing Australia’s defence-tech business, AUKUS Pillar II, and the recently released 2026 National Defence Strategy update. 🔬 🤖

👇 Register below! 👇
https://my.ceda.com.au/eventdetails/?id=d3cebdd2-ea4c-4a68-92e5-071208373f34

The Defence Science Centre, together with Team WA universities -The University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, Edith Cowan University (ECU) and Curtin University -successfully launched the inaugural Defence Innovation on Tap event last week at the Raffles Hotel in Applecross.

Bringing together a large audience from across defence, research, industry and the community, the event explored the theme “Truth Under Attack: Understanding Information and Cognitive Warfare and How Research and Innovation are Responding.” From AI-enabled misinformation and disinformation to cognitive warfare and societal resilience, expert speakers shared insights into the complex challenges shaping today’s information environment—and the innovative research underway to address them.

The evening featured a keynote from Dr Onno van der Groen (Defence Science and Technology Group), followed by presentations from leading researchers across Team WA universities, and an engaging panel discussion with audience Q&A.

Thank you to everyone who joined us to kick off this exciting new series. We look forward to continuing the conversation at future Defence Innovation on Tap events across Perth!

For Blue, City of Cockburn, and support partners invite you to "Heading to the Horizon", a showcase of emerging marine, maritime and naval innovations, and launch of new platforms and services for innovators, SMEs, corporates and investors.

This is your opportunity to see a vetted selection of the best innovations from the Cockburn instance of the Blue Gravity incubation program, and to get exclusive insight into the future support for ocean innovators, blue economy export market development and the best pathways and pipeline of ocean innovations.

Thursday 23 April 2026
3pm - 5pm
City of Fremantle, 8 William St, Fremantle

Register here https://events.humanitix.com/heading-to-the-horizon