A-UKFTA to be “transformative” for both business and economies
Informed Solutions is a multi-Queen’s Award for Innovation international provider of technology, complex data analytics, systems integration services and enterprise platform solutions that support large-scale digital transformation. Seth Finegan is Informed Solutions’ UK CEO and a longstanding champion of free trade.
“Our work involves applying geographic information systems and AI systems to land and environmental quality management. That work started in Scotland; we then took that work and did a whole-of-government project in NSW to create an environmental data management platform – which we then brought back to work with Scotland Natural Heritage so that they can use satellite data and AI to help manage sensitive areas.” The to-and-fro between Australia and Scotland is a great example of how the A-UKFTA will enable companies to share innovation and share ideas.
“We’ve been keen to see an FTA that’s designed for a knowledge economy,” Seth says. “It will be one that not only facilitates what business is done, but how business is done. Exchanging not just intellectual property, but the in-person presence of workers themselves. “It’s hugely exciting and I think it will be transformative for our business and our economies as well.”
“We’re both nations that love to innovate, that love to be
creative, and I know from personal experience that when we have staff coming from Australia to work here, or we take teams and put them out to work in Sydney or Canberra, they click really easily and really early on because they share that spark and interest to do something good with technology,” Seth says.
Seth Finegan
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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
business envoy
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