With mandatory climate-related disclosure requirements looming in Australia, tech, legal, industry and sustainability experts gathered in Sydney last week at the IoT Alliance Australia State of the Nation event to discuss real-time measurement of operations.

On the agenda at the event, hosted by Telstra and sponsored by Digital Twinning Australia, was a national plan for collecting trustworthy data to support climate related accounting disclosures, proposed by Australian sustainability and technology industry organisations IoT Alliance Australia, Carbon Market Institute, Australian Industry Group (Ai Group), Climateworks Centre and the Tech Council of Australia.

Discussing getting to a national plan for trusted quantitative data for the net zero and nature positive transition was Derryn Heilbuth from BWD Strategic, Gabriella Warden from Carbon Market Institute and Thierry Lotrian from Climate & Decisions, moderated by Judy Anderson from IoT Alliance Australia.

Speakers also discussed how to achieve data and digital trustworthiness in an uncertain AI-powered and security threatened future. This conversation involved Ian Opperman from ServiceGen and University of Technology Sydney, Peter Leonard from Data Synergies, and Karla Taboada from Infrastructure NSW.

Also on the agenda was how to raise Australia's digital and data maturity for productivity. This discussion included Genéne Kleppe, CEO of session sponsor Digital Twinning Australia, an Australian company applying Industry 4.0 and cyber physical system infrastructure to help organisations generate continuous and measurable value from data assets.

Kleppe was joined on stage by Baker Tamory from Microsoft and Lenka Bednarikova from Telstra Purple for the session, which was moderated by Emeritus Professor Roy Green AM from University of Technology Sydney