#175 | Throw Back Episode - #149 | From Kid Coder to Tech Leader, Adventures in AI and Global Tech with Martin Cooperwaite

About this episode

Martin Cooperwaite shares his journey from a kid coder to a tech leader in Australia.

Dive back in with Martin Cooperwaite! Martin Cooperwaite, co-founder of Kiandra, takes us from his early days of coding adventure games as a kid to leading one of Australia’s top software companies. Inspired by his dad’s source code books, Martin’s passion for tech evolved from childhood tinkering to co-founding Kiandra with a friend in 1995, starting with local projects and growing into a global digital transformation leader with offices across Melbourne, Perth, and Toronto. Martin shares ho...

People in this episode

Host: Fatimah Abbouchi

Guest: Martin Cooperwaite

Topics covered

• coding
• tech leadership
• AI
• digital transformation
• software companies

Keywords

• coding
• AI
• tech leadership
• Kiandra
• digital transformation
• software development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kiandra

Places: Australia, Melbourne, Perth, Toronto

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