Nuclear Taskforce Series

As Australia gears up for the monumental AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine projects – hailed by the Prime Minister as the most significant industrial initiative in our nation's history – there's an imperative for business and community frontrunners to understand the nuclear landscape.

Nuclear Taskforce Chairman, Michael Sharpe will be in conversation with nuclear industry leaders, from nuclear law, to nuclear propulsion and critical minerals to uranium mining and nuclear industry supply chains.

The nuclear powered submarine project with AUKUS thrusts Australia into a whole new world where innovation and technology rule.

AUKUS will be much more than nuclear submarines and the opportunities will expand into all industries - The Prime Minister has said that AUKUS will be the largest industrial endeavour in Australia's history and will require a whole of nation effort. "This whole of nation effort also presents a whole of nation opportunity; for new jobs, new industries, and new expertise in science, technology and cyber."

AUKUS is already expanding from nuclear with particular emphasis on cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies and more.

Join us to hear from defence industry leaders, world leading researchers and industry experts as we build a whole new ecosystem to build the AUKUS Partnership.

Collaboration will help unleash the power of AUKUS - Join us.

AGENDA

Please Note - No media, no cameras, no mobile phone filming.

[11.00 - 11.10] Introduction from Michael Sharpe, Director of the AUKUS Forum and Chairman of the Nuclear Taskforce.

AUKUS Forum Advisory Board Co-Chairs are former Labor Defence Minister, the Hon Joel Fitzgibbon and former Liberal Minister and United States Ambassador, the Hon Arthur Sinodinos AO.

[11.10 -11.30] CPT Dale Heinken Jr. - President and Managing Director, Ascent Vision Technologies (AVT) which specialises in the design and development of gyro-stabilised imaging systems for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), target acquisition, and counter uncrewed aerial systems operations.

Prior to joining AVT Australia, Dale served in the United States Navy as a surface warfare officer with a subspeciality in naval nuclear propulsion for 26 years. He retired as a Captain in 2021.

During his time in the Navy, he served on a variety of ships and staffs, and he is most proud of his time as Commanding Officer of Littoral Combat Ship Crew 101 aboard USS Freedom (LCS 1), the Reactor Officer aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), and the Commanding Officer of USS Boxer (LHD 4).

[11.30-11.50] Leigh Whicker - Commercial Manager at entX Limited - an Australian company developing innovative clean energy and nuclear medicine technologies. The company takes great concepts and develops them through to commercialisation via partnerships formed with academia and industry.

🟢 Green H2 - Limestone Coast H2 (Kimberly-Clarke Millicent & Western Eyre Green H2 / NH3
🟢 GenX - betavoltaic battery providing power for decades
🟢 GenT - using a smart semiconductor structure to transform capture waste heat into electricity
🟢 CarbonX - converting CO2 into tradable commodities via a process called betacatalysis
🟢 Radioisotope Heating Unit - an amended NASA design for heat generation in space.
🟢 PhosEnergy Process - extracting Uranium from Phosphoric acid during fertiliser production.
🟢 Nuclear Medicine - extracting key isotopes from waste for nuclear medicine supply chains.

The vision is being driven by a highly experienced management team from energy, resources, manufacturing and science. This team is supported by a board with a pedigree in developing early stage companies in resources and energy into multi-billion dollar market caps.

[11.50-12.00] Closing remarks and preview of the next conversations.

Registration & Tickets

Tickets are free.

Please register using your work email address. Personal email addresses are not accepted, and any registration using personal email addresses will be rejected and cancelled.

We reserve the rights to cancel tickets at our discretion. For any cancellation, notification will be provided via email.

Registration close on Tuesday 14th May, 2024 at 11:59pm. Unfortunately we cannot accept any registration after this date.

Approved registrations will recieve the zoom link to join the Go Nuclear conversation.

Contact AUKUS Forum Operations Manager, Cathy Krimmer - cathy@aukusforum.com