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All the Jazz in Noosa plays on The 2023 Noosa Jazz Festival is bringing a unique gathering of Australia’s leading jazz musicians together for a feast of exciting classic jazz performances until 3 September in concert theatres, river cruises, in restaurants and bars, and ending with a free Fathers Day concert on Sunday at Gympie Terrace, Noosaville. Story page 36
Jazz musicians take to the water for a musical river cruise. Picture: ROB MACCOLL
Firetech solution Experts in firefighting technology came together last Friday at the Peregian Beach digital hub to experience the world’s first Firetech lab, the brainchild of hub director Chris Boden. Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart said the purpose of the official open day was to bring together the Firetech and biotech programs in a collaborative approach to tackle future firefighting. “In times of trouble we need to collaborate,“ she said. “In 2019 no one expected to have these huge fires but we did. “We had no loss of life and no serious injury because of our wonderful emergency services. “This will go a long way in helping the community when and if the next disaster strikes.“ The catastrophic bushfire at Peregian in 2019 sparked the creation of the Firetech Connect program aimed at “fast-tracking the
An autonomous vehicle created to extinguish fires in small, contained spaces was demonstrated at Peregian. commercialisation and adoption of innovative technologies to predict, prevent, fight and manage bushfire emergencies“. “As tech geeks, we of course wanted to understand what role technology played in the
emergency response and so we spent time debriefing with key players in the response effort to get an inside view. What we learned was that a bushfire emergency involves a set of highly dynamic and complex problem spaces from
firefighting to public communications to evacuation management,“ according to Firetech Connect websites. “Many of these problem spaces are ripe for innovative solutions that use some of the powerful technology platforms available including drones, computer vision, predictive analytics, autonomous vehicles, robotics, near-realtime satellite imagery, IOT systems, social media, etc. We call this category of tech innovation FireTech.“ Chief executive officer of Beyond Flight, a company that makes AI-driven upgrades for aerial-driven firefighting planes, Mike Read, said the results they were achieving were on a world stage but the crisis being faced was not just the era of global warming it was the era of global burning. Despite this crisis occurring, aerial firefighting lacked advanced technology in the aircraft and airspace management, he said. Continued page 3
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