On Thursday 16 October, we hosted our Digital Future of Work breakfast event in Cairns alongside Australian Retirement Trust. We were joined by the breadth and diversity of the Cairns business community, with representatives from industries spanning tourism, mining, retail, health, events, logistics, and more.

While each industry grapples with unique digital challenges, our local panellists shared several practical tips and tactics that all business owners can apply, including:

• Enabling employees to ‘play’ with new technologies to find efficiency gains and new ways of working,
• The importance of having the right governance structure and guardrails in place to enable experimentation while reducing risk, and
• Taking advantage of the range of free tools available from both government and industry to keep your digital skills up to date.

Thank you to our engaging panellists Suzie Cray from eMotion Video Training & Production, Jacinta Reddan from Advance Cairns, and Patrick Bardon from Australian Retirement Trust, and thank you to all the local businesses who joined us to unpack what the future of work looks like across the Cairns region.