If there’s a single precinct in Australia that embodies what’s doable with digital innovation, it’s the Tonsley Innovation District in Adelaide. Tonsley was a response to a novel set of challenges in South Australia greater than a decade in the past:

• The closure of the Mitsubishi automobile meeting plant which was one of many State’s main employers but additionally a really seen financial shift
• A recognition that South Australia wanted to take management of its personal future and create future jobs primarily based round know-how, innovation and new industries

The imaginative and prescient for Tonsley has confirmed to be transformative and a strong demonstration of financial renewal. The magnitude and distinctive nature of the positioning itself creates a novel house to carry out innovation and collaboration at a scale that has not seen earlier than in Australia. A strong demonstration of success is that Tonsley now employs extra folks on website than when the Mitsubishi automobile meeting plant was working on the identical website. Tonsley’s trajectory – and Cisco’s half in it as a strategic associate of Flinders College – is explored in a brief video and particulars the various contributions that Cisco has made to Tonsley’s success:

1. A protracted-standing partnership with Flinders College – who bookends the positioning with TAFESA – spanning analysis and educating. The centrepiece of our partnership has been the Digital Well being Analysis Chair (Professor Trish Williams) – positioned at Tonsley in a devoted Digital Well being Design Lab – which is approaching its 10-year anniversary
2. Institution of Innovation Central Adelaide at Tonsley the place firms and governments can experiment with know-how to resolve issues and convert alternatives. Innovation Central Adelaide is linked to different innovation centres throughout Australia beneath the banner of the Nationwide Business Innovation Community (NIIN)
3. Funding within the Manufacturing facility of the Future at Tonsley which is showcasing what’s doable with digital innovation in superior manufacturing but additionally offering an vital car to extend the availability of know-how expertise to South Australia. Our expertise focus extends into the Cisco Networking Academy which companions with each Flinders College and TAFESA on website at Tonsley

Over the previous 10 years I’ve watched Tonsley develop right into a globally important innovation district that’s laying the muse for the South Australian financial system for years to come back. Maybe Flinders College’s Vice Chancellor Prof Colin Stirling sums it up finest:

“Tonsley’s a very particular place. It’s a spot that we have now helped to deliver ahead from having been a former automobile manufacturing plant, to now one in all Australia’s main innovation districts. An innovation district that’s attracting consideration globally.  You want companions. You want partnerships. You want companions who get it. And Cisco undoubtedly get it”. 

Professor Colin Stirling, Vice Chancellor, Flinders College

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