Silicon and sunshine as Brisbane tries to assert itself as Australia’s tech hub

Mark Sowerby wants you to think of Brisbane as a petri dish. If he has his way, the founder of Blue Sky Alternative Investments – who has taken on the mantle of the state government-appointed Queensland Chief Entrepreneur for a year – we’ll all be looking at successful tech companies in 10 years’ time and marvelling that they all had their start in the Sunshine State.