Lot Fourteen is Adelaide’s globally connected innovation district and home to world-leading organisations including Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft.
At Lot Fourteen, the community shares the capacity to be curious, leading to new realisations. By embracing this new era of progress across space, defence, cyber, hi-tech and creative industries worldwide, the innovation district celebrates human ambition, tenacity and resilience.
The $2.2 billion development is supported by the Government of South Australia and the Australian Government, with a combined investment of $762 million. It is a place that harnesses untapped inventiveness, provoking new explorations.
It’s a community that strengthens organisations who are ready to embark on journeys with unknown destinations. And even though the power of discovery is not always about knowing the answers, Lot Fourteen is where new and emerging industries come to thrive and succeed.
Lot Fourteen is growing and perfecting an ecosystem that is incubating, nurturing and accelerating these explorations across a range of developing global industries.
It’s a home that welcomes world-firsts, cutting-edge research, and new discovery networks able to solve global challenges that have quantifiable value around the world.
The creation of a culture of determination that combines experience with exuberance, ensures organisations can connect and combine strengths; taking their ambitions to a new level.
Lot Fourteen exists, because the world can only be changed by those brave enough to question it.
COLLABORATIONS SOLVING GLOBAL PROBLEMS FROM LOT FOURTEEN
Microsoft helps develop ubiquitous connectivity
Microsoft Azure Space is working with the United States Department of Defense (DoD)’s Hybrid Space Architecture, alongside a space partner ecosystem, to integrate best in class commercial and government space capabilities to provide ubiquitous, resilient connectivity and insights anywhere on and off the planet. The Hybrid Space Architecture is essentially building an internet in space.
Using its advanced and trusted cloud capabilities, Lot Fourteen-based Microsoft Azure will help build the US DoD’s ambitious Hybrid Space Architecture vision showing what’s possible when government and industry work together to tackle the biggest challenges in the universe. Crafting a transformational platform to support space-based national security missions is a key outcome of this project.
Microsoft Azure Space’s work also includes satellite communication based access to the cloud from anywhere on the planet; streamlined access to Earth observation data and advanced analytics; a software development kit to create, deploy and operate applications in orbit; and edge processing for space technology.
At Lot Fourteen, Azure Space is partnering with leaders in the space community including the South Australian Government Department for Trade and Investment, Nokia, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, the Australian Space Agency, Stone & Chalk, and forward facing businesses that understand the power in bringing together space technology and hyperscale cloud to advance a new generation of digital transformation.
SILICON VALLEY BOARDROOM DEAL INKED BY CYBER FIRMS
When DTEX Systems’ founder and Splunk’s Regional Sales Manager metaphorically ‘collided’ at the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre, at Lot Fourteen, the sparks of a future relationship between their companies instantly ignited.
The two companies spearheaded a global strategic partnership which made it all the way up to the two companies’ Silicon Valley boardrooms and continues to go from strength to strength.
The negotiation and inking of the deal has meant that the global enterprises can access superior data, helping them defend against the increasingly sophisticated and prolific issue of insider related cyberattacks and breaches.
The partnership joins the world’s richest enterprise data source (DTEX) with the world’s best enterprise data platform (Splunk).
With better, richer and cleaner datasets, Splunk now delivers superior services to their enterprise clients, with less reliance on ‘noisy’ data.
Security consolidation will future-proof enterprises and offer advanced analytics and reports, accelerated response times and diminished manual operations.
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Improving and monitoring water quality, crop health and bushfire resilience are all outcomes for Kanyini, a $6.5 million, groundbreaking South Australian space services mission lifting off in 2023.
The satellite, built at Lot Fourteen, will become the first to be launched into space by an Australian state government.
The Government of South Australia is partnering with South Australian space industry companies to send the locally manufactured small satellite into low Earth orbit.
Headquartered at Lot Fourteen, the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), is leading the mission and application prototyping. Two other Lot Fourteen tenants are working on the mission. Inovor Technologies are designing, building and testing the satellite and Myriota are providing Internet of Things (IoT) capability.
The information gathered by the satellite will provide valuable intelligence from across the state’s vast landscape and will be used for applications including emergency service and disaster management response, mining, and environmental monitoring.
The Kanyini mission will strengthen the competitiveness of South Australian businesses in the small-satellite supply chain and pave the way for external investment and future industry growth in Australia and abroad.
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SPACELAB AT LOT FOURTEEN SEES FOURFOLD INCREASE IN JOBS
High growth space companies based at Lot Fourteen’s SpaceLab this year announced that they’ve collectively seen a four-fold increase in new jobs created since moving to the innovation district.
QuantX Labs, Inovor Technologies, Sitael Australia, CyberOps and Neumann Space have all realised significant growth in just a couple of years, in part, due to co-location with the Australian Space Agency, SmartSat CRC and other space-related organisations in the district.
Quadrupling staff numbers has been no mean feat for the companies who work together in different capacities at their home in the SpaceLab building at Lot Fourteen.
The predominantly South Australian-owned companies have also expanded their offices, lab spaces, cyber ranges and clean rooms to continue building world-leading technology, driving growth in South Australia’s space industry.
With over 100 space-related companies based in the state, South Australia is a centre-of-gravity for Australian space activity.
