Year in Review 2022_23

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING                                                      18 SEPTEMBER 2023


facility that expands Council’s ability to service and expand the digital industry in the region. The AI
Lab represents the Phase 2 Hub expansion project under the Rufous Street Masterplan.

Through the crawl phase, there has been a single full-time employee managing the Hub’s operations,
in the form of the Digital Hub Director with part-time contract resources in support. In March, Council
appointed Deidre Marczynski to the Hub team in a full time employee capacity as Program Officer
to help grow the Hub’s industry and talent development programs.

Hub Programs
Digital Industry Development
Digital industry sector              Group Name                      Members       Members
                                                                     6/2022        6/2023
Technologists                        Coding from Beach               758           827
Digital Agencies, Creatives &        REBOOT                          555           632
Marketers
Screen Professionals                 Sunshine Coast Screen           372           449
(Film/TV/Video)                      Collective (SCSC)
Tech Startup Founders                Founders Network                70            80

In addition, SC Screen Collective ran their 2nd Sunny Coast Showdown (film and TV incubator). The
Showdown is part of SCSC’s plan to build a screen industry in our region. In this year’s competition
which ran from January to June 2023, over 90 entries were submitted.

Judges selected seven category winners - 3 short films, a music video, 2 documentaries, and a
reality-style program, which were produced with the help of experienced mentors, actors and
production/creative crew as well as local Screen Media students from high school/TAFE and UniSC.
Each project was filmed using diverse, unique locations across Noosa and Sunshine Coast. The
Showdown planning and production team utilised space in the Hub’s new AI Lab for the duration of
the program.

Ecosystem program/event summary:
   •     Digital industry sector meetups (includes 2 Manufacturing Excellence Forum meetups): 25
   •     Talent development (Cadetships, holiday workshops, Inventor Club): 67
   •     Other (including AtlassiVan event, SunBiotech event, Noosa Digital Xmas party): 18
   •     Total number of events - 12 months to 30/6/23: 110

Growth of Digital Industry Networks
Ecosystem Groups                       Meetups/events              Attendees
REBOOT                                 9                           364
Coding from Beach                      7                           260
Screen                                 6                           215
Tech Founders                          5                           120
Noosa Digital End of Year Event        1                           150
SunCoast Angels                        2                           40