Presentation to WITSA Delegates

8 March 2001

Peter Rowland

Chief Executive, Invest South Australia

Invest SA is South Australia’s investment attraction agency

Key investment attraction targets:

IT&T/Electronics Food Services & Back Office Defence/Aviation

We see WCIT 2002 as an ideal opportunity to showcase our State’s capabilities to the world

Our Interest in WCIT 2002

Specifically…

wireless online content e-commerce multi-media/games

development

internet security silicon design microtechnology intelligent transport

systems

IT&T/Electronics investment attraction to build on South Australia’s existing industry strengths:

Our objective is to be a world leading ‘connected community’

by 2002 under the State’s IE2000 Strategy Plan

World Class Research Capability

Electronics surveillance research

Sensor Signal and Information Processing

Telecommunications High performance and parallel

computing Personal Communications

services - wireless/mobile access

Satellite Systems Computer Systems and

Software Engineering High speed microelectronic

design Concurrent computing,

database systems, intelligence systems and software engineering

Through Adelaide’s three universities and 14 Co-operative Research Centres:

Motorola DMR EDS Compaq

BAE Systems CSC Thomson Marconi SAAB

Key Multinationals Already Here

Others

Mitsubishi General Motors Holden

Faulding Sola Optical

Over 800 companies Skilled workforce of nearly 20,000 Low staff turnover Cost competitive salaries and property rentals Highly trained graduates from Adelaide’s three universities Ease of recruitment Exporting to the world

IT&T/ Electronics snapshot

Wireless Speech Recognition Information Security On-line Content E-Commerce/Smartcards

Priority Target Sectors

Working with WITSA to make

WCIT2002 a resounding

success