2. The imperative for collaboration
Scientific collaborations
courtesy of Olivier H. Beauchesne
3. Why?
Intersect is deploying infrastructure and services
nationally and internationally.
Why?
 the collaboration imperative
 the tyranny of distance
4. Coordination “The coordination of the
various institutes in NSW,
and with the NSW
Government, has been of
critical importance. We
can coordinate our
research effort and speak
with one voice on the
national stage.”
Professor Les Field,
DVC(R), UNSW
5. Partnership of Lowy Institute and Intersect earned the
Big Data Big Impact award at the 2013 Premier’s Awards for
Outstanding Cancer Research
6. Connection
“The strength of Intersect,
for us, is their connection
across the system. That gives
us access to a network of
people who really can ensure
we are at the cutting edge of
key areas”.
Prof David Currow, CEO
Cancer Institute of NSW
7. Intersect and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (+others)
earned the 2013 CitySwitch Green Office Awards for national
leadership in energy-efficiency
8. HDS Health and Life Sciences Innovation Award
“Intersect Australia is improving the availability, accessibility
and reuse of data, images and datasets…to expand the
scale and scope of the research that Australian scientists
are seeking to address”.
9. Prof Johanna Westbrook awarded the NSW iAwards ICT Professional
of the Year 2014. We work with Professor Westbrook on WOMBAT and
POSSUM
10. Partnered with NSW Department of Finance and Services
on the Sharing Government Data Forum, April 2013
11. Partnered with NSW Department of Finance and Services and Sax
Institute on Open Data forum, data linkage workshop, November 2013.
12. Biobanking Needs Analysis
Intersect has delivered recommendations on
streamlining biobank digital imaging systems for
the Cancer Institute NSW sponsored Biobanking
Stakeholders Network (BSN)
Image courtesy of A/Prof Daniel Catchpoole, Children’s Hospital at Westmead Paediatric Tumour Bank.
13. “Before Intersect …we
were dealing with these
things one by one… we are
now able to deal with
much larger problems and
deal with things like the
large storage of data,
which everybody struggles
with”.
Professor Les Field,
DVC(R), University of New
South Wales
14. Collaboration
 eResearch Providers: National Services
 NCRIS Infrastructure Partners and
Research Facilities