Yearly Archives: 2021

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that it has been named a finalist for the ACS Digital Disruptors Awards in the ICT Service Transformation for the Digital Consumer (Corporate) category. These annual awards celebrate outstanding tech talent and recognise the innovators, disruptors, leaders and emerging professionals who are making a difference in the Australian industry.

ACS interim CEO Rupert Grayston says the Digital Disruptors Awards are about “showcasing excellence and brilliance, showing innovation, bringing economic benefit, prosperity and enabling companies to do great things.”

Winners will be revealed at the awards gala dinner following the ACS Reimagination Thought Leaders’ Summit 2022 in February 2022. To see the list of finalists, please click here:  https://reimagination.acs.org.au/disruptors2022/disruptors-finalists2022.html

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today has been named finalist for ARN’s 2021 Innovation Awards, in the category of Tech Innovation – Homegrown ISV.

ARN is the voice of the Australian IT channel, keeping Australia’s technology companies up to date with the latest news and analysis on the local IT landscape. This year, ARN Innovation Awards house a record-breaking number of submissions in what will be the largest celebration of ecosystem excellence in delivering transformative customer solutions across Australia.

Representing the entire Australian ecosystem, a few finalists make the shortlist from a pool of over 195 organisations and more than 470 nominations, spanning partner, start-up, telco, vendor and distributor businesses.

“ARN congratulates Complexica on becoming a finalist in the Tech Innovation – Homegrown ISV!” said Cherry Yumul, vice president of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation at IDG. “The 15th running of ARN Innovation Awards has undoubtedly captured the most challenging yet transformative period of the Australian channel. Enormous credit goes to the market-leading companies and individuals continuing to press ahead in helping customers innovate at pace – despite the notable difficulties – which once again demonstrates the depth of transformation taking place across the country. Congratulations to Complexica, nothing can stop your pursuit of excellence.”

In 2021, the Innovation Awards will honour the channel across eight categories, spanning Partner Innovation, Tech Innovation, Australia-wide Innovation, Start-up Innovation, Personal Innovation, Vendor Innovation, Distributor Innovation and Hall of Fame. In streamlining the program, the aim is to increase focus on the pace-setters of the local market, those revving up the innovation engine and powering ahead in the delivery of transformative solutions and services.

Reflective of a diverse technology network, finalists range from large-scale multinational consultancy firms to emerging start-ups, alongside leading system integrators, managed service providers and solution consultants, plus cloud specialists, independent software vendors, boutique agencies and application developers. This is in addition to channel-centric vendors, telecommunications providers and supply chain experts.

Within this standout group, finalists are located across the entire country and represent all states and territories, spanning New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Australian Capital Territory (ACT, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory. Collectively, the Innovation Awards in 2021 stand tall as the leading forum for setting the industry benchmark for ecosystem excellence across Australia.The winners will now be selected by an executive panel of industry judges – acknowledging creativity, innovation and excellence – before being announced at a celebration dinner at ICC Sydney on the 9th of December.

For more information and to see the full list of finalists please click here

This podcast explains how best to navigate the hype often associated with AI versus the reality of its use in decision support systems. While AI is often already in use within businesses, Complexica CEO Matt Michalewicz explains the importance of identifying a business problem to solve rather than implementing AI simply for AI’s sake. Artificial Intelligence can add real benefits through supply & demand optimisation, reaching into sales, marketing, supply chain and production systems and processes. 

This episode wraps up by covering the need to assess external information as well as information from within the organisation, the use of AI to augment staff and its ability to reduce the complexity of the modern business world. Modern AI systems provide information supporting their decisions which helps people understand and accept them.

Read the full podcast transcript here

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Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that the company’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Zbigniew Michalewicz, along with its Director of Business Development, Leonardo Arantes, and Managing Director, Matt Michalewicz, have released a new book entitled The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Real-world applications for revenue and margin growth. Divided into four parts and almost 500 pages in length, the new book is available for purchase in hard copy from Amazon, Dymocks, and many other booksellers, as well as in ebook form.

“Few terms have captured our imagination in recent times like ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ and it now seems that everyone ‘knows’ about AI; that everyone has an opinion,” said Dr. Zbigniew Michalewicz. “And yet, few people actually understand what Artificial Intelligence is and isn’t, where the field came from and where it’s heading, and how the technology can be harnessed to generate commercial outcomes.

This is exactly what The Rise of Artificial Intelligence explains in business language. Written for the modern-day business manager, The Rise of Artificial Intelligence examines Artificial Intelligence from the perspective of decision-making. Why? Because the quality of the decisions we make defines the quality of the future we create for ourselves and our organizations. In the same way that calculators have improved our ability to make better decisions—followed by spreadsheets, reporting tools, and countless other software applications—Artificial Intelligence is fast becoming the latest “calculator” to assist us, and one that happens to be particularly well-suited for the speed, noise, and complexity of the modern world.

Click here to download Chapters 1 & 2 of The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Real-world applications for revenue and margin growth, and please contact Complexica to request a soft copy of other chapters.

Flinders Ports has an ambition – to do as little work as humanly possible moving containers back and forth as they make their way through South Australia’s major logistics hub. So it’s perhaps poetic that the Adelaide company has brought artificial intelligence to bear, to crunch the numbers on the Tetris-like task of getting hundreds of thousands of containers per year on and off ships, and on their way to the end user. Flinders has been working with Adelaide AI company Complexica for the past 18 months on optimising container movements through the Adelaide Container Terminal. The process has been largely manual to date, with the decisions about where containers would go in the yard being been left up to humans.

Flinders’ chief financial officer and the executive charged with driving the company’s digitisation agenda, Keith Halifax, said the organisation had identified a simple, albeit not easy to solve, problem. Mr Halifax said the equivalent of 400,000, 20 foot containers went through the precinct each year, and several variables dictated the best way to handle each one through the yard. These included for example which of two berths it needed to go to, what time trucking arrived, and what contents were involved.

“It felt very much like a problem that AI had the potential to add value to,’’ Mr Halifax said.

For the team at Complexica, it was a classic scenario, well-suited to an AI solution, where the amount of data was simply well beyond human capacity to absorb, managing director Matthew Michalewicz said.

“I think this represents one of those problems where you have scale, you have complexity, and you have velocity. Things are happening very quickly, and it’s physically impossible for any team of human experts to be considering all the combinations, all the forward scenarios and in real time be making optimised decisions, second-in, second out. It’s ideally suited for algorithmic technology like the one we’re deploying for Flinders. It’s the perfect problem.’’

Mr Halifax said the project was about halfway to being fully implemented, with digital dashboards for users in the yards and also for management to both give instructions on what needed to be done on the ground, as well as to monitor how well it was working.

To read the full story, please visit: https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/business/flinders-ports-brings-artificial-intelligence-to-bear-on-the-container-conundrum/news-story/be3db389bc4380484dfaea360e539413

Complexica’s CEO, Matt Michalewicz, joins Peter Switzer on the Learning from Legends podcast to discuss the impact of AI on business, stocks, and our lives. 

https://switzer.com.au/the-experts/switzer-podcast/the-huge-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-on-business-stocks-and-our-lives

To read the transcript of the podcast, please click here

Matt Michalewicz, CEO of Complexica will be speaking on the Rise of Artificial Intelligence and what it means for business leaders. Engaging and educational, this session will draw on facts, case studies, as well as live technology examples to explain each concept.

For more information about the event, please visit: https://allevents.in/fullarton/gathering-with-purpose-matt-michalewicz-on-artificial-intelligence/10000151003219695

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that the company’s CEO – Matt Michalewicz – will speak at the national AMI Marketing Prediction Series event on March 31st. 

The Australian Marketing Institute has attracted some of Australia’s finest marketing minds to share their thoughts on the marketing trends they think will define 2021 and re-shape how we approach the future. The Prediction series is an opportunity to gain valuable insider knowledge from some of the industry’s most experienced and engaging thought leaders. During this exclusive one-day event, our expert panel of speakers will share their views on emerging trends at both national and global level. Key themes will include the continued evolution of martech and its role on the path to success, commitment to creativity and the true meaning of marketing with purpose. The speakers will also address some tough questions on the future of the marketing industry in a post-COVID world. 

For more information about the event, please visit: https://ami.org.au/ami-events/2021-ami-prediction-series

The Australian Marketing Institute is the preeminent professional association for marketers in Australia, with a purpose to provide cutting-edge marketing theory and practice to fuel progress in the careers of professional marketers. The AMI delivers this through accreditation of tertiary courses, training programs and events, and celebrates marketing excellence through our Awards program.

Complexica’s CEO, Matt Michalewicz, joins Peter Switzer on the Learning from Legends podcast to discuss application areas of Artificial Intelligence, as well as Complexica’s IPO plans:

www.switzer.com.au/the-experts/switzer-podcast/learning-from-legends-matthew-michalewicz/

To read the transcript of the podcast, please click here