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Ovarian cancer is one of the most lethal women’s cancers because it’s often diagnosed too late and there’s still no routine screening test like a mammogram or Pap smear.

In this episode of Emerging Tech Unpacked, host Lucy Lin sits down with Associate Professor Michelle Hill, a biochemist, scientist‑entrepreneur, and founder/CEO of Proseek Bio, to unpack one of the most shocking realities in women’s health: right now, the only way to definitively diagnose ovarian cancer is to surgically remove the ovary and send it to pathology. That means many women undergo major surgery, sometimes losing an ovary, just to find out whether a mass was cancerous or completely benign.

In this conversation, we cover:

• What ovarian cancer is and why it’s called a “silent killer”
• Key ovarian cancer symptoms to watch for (bloating, pelvic pain, feeling full quickly, frequent urination, fatigue)
• Why today, definitive diagnosis often still requires surgery
• How Michelle’s company Proseek Bio is developing multi‑biomarker blood tests to help decide: “Do I really need this surgery?”
• The bigger picture of women’s health, medical gaslighting, and Michelle’s journey from scientist to health‑tech entrepreneur

With special thanks to the CSIRO ON Innovation Program for sponsoring this important episode! 🙏

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Chapters

00:00 Ovarian Cancer Wake-up Call

01:03 Meet Associate Professor Michelle Hill

04:04 Cake Lab

05:08 Why Diagnosis Needs Surgery

08:20 Silent Killer Explained

09:17 Why Detection Is Hard

12:07 Early Detection Saves Lives

17:03 Women Left Out Of Medical Research

20:09 Medical Gaslighting Reality

22:12 Symptoms You Can't Pin Down

34:29 Proseek Bio Origin Story

36:42 How The Blood Test Works

39:22 From Academia To Founder

42:54 Raising Capital Lessons

48:32 Future Skills For Scientists and Founders

53:22 Femtech And Women's Health

55:48 Practical Health Actions

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Imagine waking up one morning and realising your AI assistant hasn’t just written your emails overnight, it’s also moved money between your accounts, paid your bills and maybe even booked your next specialist appointment. Terrifying? Exciting? Maybe both.

In this live episode of Emerging Tech Unpacked, host Lucy Lin sits down with Stripe and splose to unpack how agentic AI is already reshaping fintech, customer discovery and payments.

In this live recording from Stone & Chalk during Sunrise Festival week, we explore what happens when AI stops being a chatbot on a screen and starts acting as an agent in the real world - discovering services, negotiating options and actually moving money in the background.

In this episode, we dive into:
💵 What agentic AI really is: from “call and response” chatbots to always‑on sidekicks that can take multi‑step actions for you.
💵 How customer discovery is shifting from Google searches to AI assistants, including why Stripe now sees more traffic to its docs from AI agents than from humans.
💵 Real‑world stories of agents over‑stepping the brief, from grocery orders gone wrong to Slack messages sent before they were ready.
Why payments have moved from “unsexy plumbing” to a growth lever and core part of customer experience, especially in allied health.
💵 Trust, fraud and safety: fake IDs, agent‑driven attacks, and why “trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback” in fintech and healthcare.
💵 The human skills that still matter in an AI world: adaptability, curiosity, communication and learning to brief your agents with the right context.

We thank our partners: Stripe, Sunrise and Stone & Chalk for their support in making this live podcast episode happen!

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*Chapters*

00:00 Welcome and We Love Our Partners
05:50 Meet The Panel
06:19 The Best Fun Facts
09:18 What Is Agentic AI?
13:04 Hype Vs Reality
17:18 AI And Customer Experience
29:43 Payments Friction And Growth
34:14 Letting Agents Pay
36:33 Search and Shopping Trust
40:33 Fraud and Transparency
43:23 Can Fraud Be Stopped?
46:50 Startup Scaling and Fundraising
50:25 Futureproof Skills
55:59 Audience Q&A
01:00:18 Fintech Innovations Ahead

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In this episode of Emerging Tech Unpacked, host Lucy Lin interviews 22‑year‑old environmental scientist and founder Kirah Godsell, co‑founder of Air2Energy, a climate hardware startup turning “pollution into power” from engines and boilers.

You’ll learn:

🌳 Decarbonisation explained in simple, non‑jargon language

🌳 How burning fossil fuels in cars, buildings and power plants traps heat and drives climate change

🌳 How an university assignment turned a pre‑med student into a climate tech founder

🌳 What Gen Z really thinks about climate anxiety, net zero, consumer guilt and greenwashing

🌳 Practical climate actions you can start taking today

If you’re curious about climate change, net zero, clean energy, climate tech careers and how young innovators are building real hardware solutions, this episode is for you.

With special thanks to the CSIRO ON Innovation Program for sponsoring this important episode! 🙏

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Chapters

00:00 Introducing Gen Z Founder, Kirah Godsell
02:54 Gen Z Climate Reality
04:51 Great Barrier Reef Loss And Motivation
07:03 Accidental Startup Origin
09:50 Decarbonisation Explained
15:17 What Happens If We Fail
18:55 Hard To Decarbonise Industry
30:45 Offsets Profit And Greenwashing
41:31 Carbon Capture Difference
44:08 Startup Prototyping And Scaling
48:30 Staying Motivated
53:49 Advice For Scientists
57:17 Future Skills Rapid Fire
01:00:48 Human Connection And AI
01:03:24 Studying During COVID
01:06:43 Practical Climate Steps
01:13:45 Final Earth Reminder

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