Microsoft and Nokia have partnered with the South Australian Government to innovate with space technology and 5G telecommunications to bring a new class of digital solutions to industry.
The collaboration will combine leading-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, with global industry experience to showcase how space technology and 5G can deliver a new era of digital transformation.
Premier Steven Marshall has welcomed the partnership between Microsoft and Nokia. “This partnership between Microsoft and Nokia further cements our state’s standing within the global space industry,” Premier Marshall said.
Nokia believes the collaboration will deliver solutions that will have a lasting impact for Australian industries. Microsoft and Nokia are also working with the South Australian Government’s Office for Women on the recently published South Australian Women’s Leadership and Economic Security Strategy, exploring ways to better promote diversity in STEM.
Microsoft is also working with the Australian Institute for Machine Learning on space emulation innovation and collaborating with Stone & Chalk at Lot Fourteen’s innovation precinct.
Microsoft’s Lynn McDonald, a former US Air Force Colonel and lead of Azure Space in Australia
This important collaboration with Nokia will allow Australian organisations in multiple sectors to take a giant leap forward into a new era of communications and cloud computing, making the most of space data and technology and catapulting them to the very forefront of digital innovation.
Anna Wills, Managing Director of Australia and New Zealand at Nokia
We believe that by combining our 5G for industry capabilities with Microsoft’s space and computing capabilities, we can deliver solutions that promise deep and lasting impact for Australian industries in productivity, efficiency and safety, and we’re excited to begin that work in South Australia.