STARTUP ECOSYSTEM REPORT
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CENTRALITY<br />
PEOPLE<br />
30 Most Central People Ranked by ><br />
ORGANISATIONS & EVENTS<br />
30 Most Central Organisations & Events Ranked by ><br />
Rank Votes Eigenvector Votes Eigenvector<br />
1 Chris Harris (Rockhampton) John Williams theSpace (Cairns) Code Valley<br />
2 Luke Anear (Townsville) Roy Wybrow CQU (Rockhampton) SafetyCulture<br />
3 Joe Hoolahan (Townsville) Andrew Joy JCU (Townsville) IBM Australia<br />
4 Andrew Beckenhauer (Bundaberg) Ian Atkinson Best Practice Software (Bundaberg) 2bit Studios<br />
5 Richard Chappell (Rockhampton) Anna Daniel Fire Station101 (Ipswich) Osmotion<br />
6 Neil McPhillips (Bundaberg) Derel Wust Sister City Partners (Townsville) JESI<br />
7 Warwick Powell (Brisbane) Alistair Hart 2bit Studios (Cairns) I Want that Course<br />
8 Matthew Schultz (Ipswich) Chris Woods Carbon Link (Rockhampton) CatchLog<br />
9 David Masefield (Toowoomba) Greg Bruce Iceberg Innovation (Cairns) Experimental Unicorns<br />
10 Greg Bruce (Townsville) Benjamin Taylor Microair (Bundaberg) Oz Apps<br />
11 Damian Zammit (Cairns) Bronwyn Voyce Wide Bay Volunteers (Bundaberg) SaferData<br />
12 Ben Taylor (Bundaberg) Russell Savage iLab (Brisbane) LogiCamms<br />
13 Frank Pyefinch (Bundaberg) Christine Bell Koolivoo (Cairns) ESRI<br />
14 Jason Foss (Rockhampton) Blake Pelling BigMate (Mackay) D2K<br />
15 John McClean (Bundaberg) Luke Anear Gilmour Space Corp (Bundaberg) Thales<br />
16 Steve Baxter (Brisbane) Mark Matthews Kadence Group (Mackay) Strategenics<br />
17 Dale Edney (Cairns) Stephen Dummett Startup Toowoomba (Toowoomba) Raytheon<br />
18 Darren Cooke (Mackay) Kristy Gostelow Startup Townsville (Townsville) Department of Health<br />
19 Daryl Postgate (Cairns) Joe Hoolahan Dive into Digital (Cairns) ThomsonAdsett<br />
21 Jack Millbank (Bundaberg) Damian Zammit Commercialisation Australia Best Practice Software<br />
21 Paul Pisasale (Ipswich) Leanne Griffin Inspection Apps (Cairns) Minstaff Survey<br />
22 Robert Buhrke (Cairns) Ricardo (Richard) Sazima Konveen (Cairns) Koolivoo<br />
23 Russell Savage (Townsville) Matthew Schultz SafetyCulture (Townsville) 4tel<br />
24 Steven Hambleton (Cairns) Darryl Postgate JESI (Townsville) BigMate<br />
25 Troy Haines (Cairns) Terry McCosker River City Labs (Brisbane) AgData Australia<br />
26 David Cole (Townsville) Paul Wyatt MacDonnells Law (Cairns) Hortus<br />
27 Ian Atkinson (Townsville) Dennis Murphy Startup Mackay (Mackay) Acubis<br />
28 Jodie Stanley (Mackay) John Mlikota Future Now (Townsville) Agri Labour Australia<br />
29 Leanne Griffin (Toowoomba) Chris Mills ThermaCulture (Cairns) Polaris Data Centre<br />
30 Richard Sazima (Townsville) Joy Taylor Strictly Service (Mackay) Microair<br />
METHODOLOGY<br />
Network centrality is a measure of the density<br />
of a person or organisation’s interconnectedness<br />
with a network and its relationships. It is a strong<br />
factor in entrepreneurial success.<br />
As part of the project, we held seven workshops,<br />
one in each region, with 100+ key members of<br />
the ecosystem. Participants were asked to map<br />
the local community and vote on the key people,<br />
organisations and events in the ecosystem. The<br />
two columns above, labelled Votes, display the<br />
community votes ranked accordingly across the<br />
seven regions.<br />
In addition, the relationships between people<br />
within the startup ecosystem on LinkedIn were<br />
aggregated and analysed using an algorithm to<br />
calculate a network centrality score for all the<br />
nodes in the network. There are several measures<br />
of centrality. This report uses a common measure<br />
of network centrality - Eigenvector - to identify<br />
the top 30 people and organisations.<br />
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