The University of Sydney Union (USU) is dedicated to enriching the student experience. It is the basis of all the 200 different clubs and societies on campus, is the oldest student union in Australia, and runs one of the biggest C&S programs in the world. Without the USU, SYNCS would not exist. So remember to sign up for free USU membership.
Freelancer.com is the world’s largest outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace for small business. They have hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers from all over the world. Through the Freelancer marketplace, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software development, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering, the sciences, sales and marketing, accounting and legal services.
IMC is a technology-driven trading firm. They develop innovative technology and employ advanced trading strategies to make markets on more than 100 of the world’s best-regulated trading venues. Their global teams of technologists and traders team up to design and develop the software, hardware, advanced networks and algorithms that drive their trading strategies. They even have developers specialising in Field Programmable Gate Arrays!
INCUBATE is the multi award-winning startup program at The University of Sydney. Established in 2012, INCUBATE is one of Australia’s leading campus startup accelerators and offers programs and workshops to support all student and alumni entrepreneurs.
For students new to the world of startups and innovation, INCUBATE runs Proto workshops to teach critical startup skills, knowledge, and industry tips to help grow ideas into actionable businesses. INCUBATE also runs a 14-week accelerator that provides students, graduates, and researchers with seed funding and mentorship to launch their high-potential startups.
Jane Street is a proprietary trading firm that operates around the clock and around the globe. We bring a deep understanding of markets, a scientific approach, and innovative technology to trade in the world’s highly competitive financial markets, focusing primarily on equities and equity derivatives. Founded in 2000, Jane Street has in offices in New York, London, Hong Kong and Amsterdam.
Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help people and businesses realise their full potential. Headquartered in Sydney, Microsoft Australia has seven regional offices across the country. Woven throughout daily life, whether it be work or play, Microsoft technologies enable millions of Australian partners and customers to innovate in new ways. Microsoft Australia’s aim is to empower each and every Australian to achieve more.
Optiver isn’t your everyday technology or finance company. We combine the power of cutting edge technology, trading expertise and analytical rigour to trade on the global financial markets. We don’t have clients. Or dress codes. We don’t have a stifling organisational hierarchy. And we don’t have the ego-driven culture you might be expecting from finance. Our people are driven to solve open-ended problems in the most competitive market there is. We celebrate fast feedback and quick solutions. Every Optiverian knows that collaboration, responsibility, creativity and drive are what pushes our business forward.
SIG Trading is a global quantitative trading firm founded with a growth mindset and a rigorous, analytical approach to decision making. We bring together the brightest minds, the best technology, and an expansive library of data. Only by tapping into our diverse perspectives and our commitment to education can we truly reach our potential. This ability to think together (but not always alike) has propelled our success. WE’VE GOT WINNING DOWN TO A SCIENCE.
WHAT WE DO: Committing our own capital, we develop trading strategies to buy and sell financial instruments on exchanges around the world. By building virtually all of our own trading technology from scratch, we are able to stream billions of quotes per day. Our traders, quants, and technologists work side-by-side to implement our proprietary trading strategies, making us leaders in the financial markets.
Atlassian unlocks the potential in every team. Our products help teams collaborate, build software and serve their customers better. Nearly 40,000 large and small organizations – including Citigroup, eBay, Coca-Cola, Netflix and NASA – use Atlassian’s tracking, collaboration, communication, service management and development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time. Learn about products including JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, Bitbucket and Stash at our website.
Can you think differently? Designed to attract the best and brightest, CommBank Group’s diverse summer internship opportunities and award-winning rotational Graduate Programs offer a challenging and rewarding way to kick-start your career with Australia’s leading provider of integrated financial services. Join us in enhancing our customers’ digital futures through world-leading applications of technology and our deep commitment to innovation.
As one of the largest professional services firms in the world, our services are as diverse as the graduates we hire. From cyber security and tech innovation through to audit and advisory, we’re looking ahead and building industries of the future.
But we can’t do that without you – today’s graduates and tomorrow’s leaders. So, we’re calling on creatives, technologists and trailblazers. Join us and ask yourself: ‘What impact will you make?’
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. Facebook is defined by our hacker culture - an environment that rewards creative problem solving and rapid decision making. We encourage people to be bold. Our open culture keeps everyone informed and allows people to move around and solve the problems they care about most. We work in small teams and move fast to develop new products, constantly iterating and improving. The phrase “this journey is 1% finished” is posted on our walls, reminding us that we’ve only begun to fulfill our mission to bring the world closer together.
Build for Everyone. A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone. We have opportunities across a range of teams, including engineering, business, IT and more!
At SafetyCulture, we have created a SaaS solution that empowers teams and individuals across the globe achieve safer higher quality and more efficient workplaces. Through technology and culture, we’re re-defining an entire Industry across every vertical. We are tackling a seriously big problem and having the best time doing it. Today we have 310 mission obsessed people that are using data points to collect crucial customer insights to help to bring to life the problem at hand. This is what we are currently known for, but certainly not all we are working on. We’ve taken a deeper dive into the realms of IoT and machine learning to lead the way to our next journey. With our $440 million valuation, we’ve had the opportunity to grow 5x over 15 months, opening offices in Manchester, Kansas City and Manila.
Our technologies ensure that Life Is On for everyone, everywhere, at every moment.
We are leading the digital transformation of energy management and automation. We make it possible for IoT-enabled solutions to seamlessly connect, collect, analyze and act on data in real-time delivering enhanced safety, efficiency, reliability, and sustainability.
We are driven by our meaningful purpose to bring energy and efficiency to enable life, progress and sustainability for all. Along the way, we create and provide equal opportunities for everyone, everywhere. We continuously create an inclusive environment and welcome people from all walks of life. We are empowered to do our best and innovate, while living our unique life and work. Together, we dare to disrupt and turn our bold ideas into reality.
The University of Sydney’s core mission is connecting researchers, educators, students, administrators and the community with tools and information through the exploitation and effective use of technology. We continuously identify impactful technologies and trends relevant to education and undertake various experiments and larger projects to understand their impact and application opportunities.
Our actions range between running training and information sharing events, mentoring innovation programs, guest lecturing, a myriad of our Industry partnerships, student projects, interdisciplinary programs to hosting experiential learning and more…
We’re on a mission to redesign the way we all connect. As Australia’s leading telecommunications and Technology Company, Telstra’s mission is to create a brilliant connected future for everyone. We believe the more connected people are, the more opportunities they have and the more they will thrive. At Telstra you’ll have the opportunity to support the cutting edge work we’re doing in areas such as Internet of Things (IoT), Software Defined Networks, 5G, cyber security, drone technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and other emerging technologies.
VMware streamlines the journey for organizations to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and empower employees to do their best work. Our software spans compute, cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace.
Accenture solves our clients’ toughest challenges by providing unmatched services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, operations and Security. We partner with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, driving innovation to improve the way the world works, lives, works and grows. With expertise across more than 40 industries and all business functions, we deliver transformational outcomes for a demanding new digital world.
Wargaming is an international team with over 18 years’ experience in the video game industry. They are the software studio behind BigWorld Technology, the cutting-edge online game engine that powers World of Tanks, the smash-hit MMO with over 100 million players, and other record-breaking titles. BigWorld Technology is the product of a creative, dynamic and innovative team working in an environment that is challenging, exciting and constantly evolving.
BHAG provides management support, facilities and services that technology companies, particularly small ones, could not normally justify.
Small technology companies and larger fast-growing ones often have difficulties bringing and retaining enough talent into their businesses and here at BHAG we offer Internal Talent Acquisition services to ensure our companies benefit from having the right people in the right roles to help develop and drive their business to success.
Checkbox is a multi-award winning platform that turns regulation into software apps, all without coding. Checkbox allows users to rapidly build and deploy apps that produce automated assessments and documentation by seamlessly integrating the concepts of a form builder, visual decision-tree mapping, spreadsheet, and document automation.
At Displayr, we’re working to solve the biggest problem in data science: it is just too hard to do. We’re building apps that brings data science, visualization, and reporting to everyone. Our two main products are Displayr, the world’s first complete data science tool; and Q, the complete toolkit for market researchers. Our core business is a combination of advanced software engineering and data science, coupled with elegant design.
At HIVERY we believe Artificial Intelligence is the future.
We build products that make complex problems simple, using design methodologies, cutting edge machine learning and Operations Research techniques. We have brought people together from all across the globe to collaborate together in our Hub in Surry Hills, which is where most of the magic happens.
Inspired by our awesome startup culture, a team of diverse and extremely talented thinkers, an unprecedented growth trajectory globally, some pretty impressive algorithms, a product suite that is creating the future, with a passion for making the impossible possible, we’re only just getting started! And we’d love for you to join us on this journey.