The CXO Report

Through our Sky News partnership, ACS is aligned with some of Australia’s most prominent ICT leaders and tech entrepreneurs. With successful stories of tech entrepreneurship, we hope to spark innovation within Australia so that others will use technology to propel our future economy.

Tech.biz reveals how innovative technologies are reshaping business and industry. In a special series, The CXO Report on Tech.biz, ACS uncovers the strategies for success by our nation's biggest tech entrepreneurs.

In this episode, you will see ACS Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Johnson, interviewing Aaron Birkby, Chief Executive Officer of Startup Catalyst on The CXO Report.

Whether you're contemplating a startup or have become an established tech leader, you're bound to benefit from the views of one of Australia's most prominent startup community advocates Aaron Birkby. 

Learn valuable lessons from Aaron's extensive global experience with Startup Catalyst:

• Why Australia needs to think globally
• How cultural differences impact your conversations overseas
• Why Australia has world-class technical talent
• How we can retain talent by encouraging companies to secure business and financing overseas, then spending it locally on Australian tech talent
• Where Australia has grown and what our future can look like

Don't miss this exciting series, with game-changing insights from some of Australia's most successful tech entrepreneurs.

Aaron Birkby
CEO of Startup Catalyst, Co-founder of Peak Persona, and Director at StartupAUS

Aaron is a tech entrepreneur, currently serving as the CEO of Startup Catalyst, leading missions to Silicon Valley, Europe, Israel and Asia for youths, founders, investors and innovation leaders. He is also the co-founder of Peak Persona, delivering programs for startup founders with tangible, action-based routines that they can adapt to better manage their time, and to engineer their emotional state, on a consistent basis. In 2016 Aaron was awarded the national Benson Award for Entrepreneurship, and also the Pearcey Award for Queensland. Learning to code at the age of eight, Aaron has started over 10 businesses (with four small exits) since the age of 16. His largest business, Arinda, which he sold in 2012, provided a cloud-based billing and authentication platform for public-space ISPs – at the time of sale that software was used by over 250 points-of-presence with over six million users annually in nine countries. Aaron previously worked as the Entrepreneur In Residence for muru-d Brisbane at River City Labs. He is also a member of Queensland Government Startup Working Group, serves on a number of advisory boards, has facilitated over 40 Startup Weekend and corporate hackathon events, has led multiple trade missions to Silicon Valley, Europe and Israel, and has a weekly technology segment on ABC Coast FM radio station.