A Word from The Boss

Connected for Life, Race to Launch

Welcome to our Spring newsletter for 2025!

In this edition read on to discover how Mipela GeoSolutions “Launch” digital Transformation Stage revolves around the cloud to enable our clients to Implement and Scale their day-to-day activities. Recently Graham Budby, Director at Barada Barna Aboriginal Corporation, visited the Mipela team and presented an overview of the Cultural Heritage Services his team delivers across more than 20 mining, gas, and exploration tenements on Barada Barna country. We also showcase how Mipela is supporting Australia’s Renewable Energy Zones.

With the confluence of two key generational challenges well underway – the energy transition and the growth of artificial intelligence – pressures from rising electricity demands, geopolitical shifts, and digital advancements are converging to redefine the way we produce, manage, and consume energy. Energy and infrastructure projects are notoriously complex, spanning diverse stakeholders including cultural advisors, regulators, landowners and environmental groups. What’s more, these assets stretch across geographically dispersed locations, have multiple lifecycle phases, and often operate for decades. With such complexity, fragmented systems and siloed data breeds inefficiency, miscommunication, delayed decisions, mounting costs, and elevated risk. Organisations are scrambling to manage people, visualise spatial relationships, and optimise assets across portfolios, often without a unified approach. Effectively managing land access and stakeholder management is critical to achieving your social licence to operate and is fair to say would be one of the key issues for developers of infrastructure in Australia and elsewhere in the world. The build out of transmission and distribution networks, onshore renewable generation and firming and the investment increasing capacity of existing gas infrastructure, with development of supporting infrastructure for offshore wind, will all impact upon significant parcels of Australian land. Appropriate identification and engagement with indigenous custodians of this land and local community groups will be critical to these projects proceeding on time. If you are interested in a solution that bridges these gaps. By “Connecting for life” what we call the three “P’s”, ‘People’ (enhancing stakeholder engagement and communication), ‘Places’ (enabling spatial data visualisation and location based intelligence) and ‘Portfolio’ (managing diverse assets and activities across their lifecycle), centralising everything in one coherent whole, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our Client Success Team for more information.

On an exciting note, Adam Herbert, Alek Hillier, Jaci Button, Justin Fielke, Karen Thompson and Hayden McDonald look forward to seeing our clients and industry colleagues in our hometown of Brisbane 18-21 October for the 2025 Australian Pipeline Gas Association Annual Convention & Exhibition. This is the event for anyone serious about shaping the future of Australia’s pipelines, energy infrastructure, and gas sectors. We look forward to catching up with you over the course of the event and invite you to our comfy lounges to understand your most pressing cloud hosting or data management needs. Drop by Stand 47 in the exhibition to fuel your business sessions with some M&M’s on us.

Hayden McDonald
Founder and Managing Director