Time: 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Location: ARM Hub
Departure: Leave Sofitel at 9 am, return by 12 pm
ARM Hub
The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub has established itself as Australia’s premier institution for commercialising great ideas and research in manufacturing. As the nation’s only fully integrated technology and manufacturing innovation centre, the ARM Hub operates across each stage of technology, manufacturing, and commercial readiness levels (TRLs, MRLs, and CRLs) to help companies scale. From collaborating with researchers to bring cutting-edge technologies to market, to guiding companies through the investment landscape, the ARM Hub is committed to creating impact.
ARM Hub is five years old. It has about 25 staff, collaborates with over 50 researchers, operates nationally and has partners across the world.
UAP
Incredible things don’t just happen; they’re created, nurtured, believed in.
Arts, culture, and creativity have always played a vital role in bringing people together. UAP continues this tradition with an enduring belief that creativity can inspire incredible possibilities. By pairing exceptional strategies and manufacturing capabilities with our team’s unrivalled dedication to excellence, we ensure that our generation creates timeless and relevant objects, ideas, and places that will inspire and connect people for generations to come. As a company, this is the common ground on which we move forward.
UAP is an Australian business and the world’s largest manufacturer of public art. It is 30 years old and has manufacturing operations in China, USA and Holland in addition to the site here in Brisbane. UAP has about 400 staff.
You will first visit ARM Hub and hear from seven tenant businesses as well as learning about the ARM Hub business model. You will then visit UAP, which provides an exemplar of the R&D collaboration and commercialisation model used by the ARM Hub. It is also an fabulous opportunity to look at big art being made.