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Rearc is a boutique, engineering-driven services firm founded in 2016 by former Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal engineers who led a landmark three-year cloud transformation journey. This experience sparked the vision for a company that could bring enterprise-grade cloud expertise to organizations navigating complex digital transformations. Today, Rearc empowers builders to drive innovation through small, sharp teams that deliver outsized impact - combining deep technical expertise with a genuine care for people and customers. The company specializes in three core areas: Cloud, Data, and Generative AI. As an AWS Advanced Partner and Databricks Delivery Partner, Rearc helps enterprises accelerate their cloud and AI development efforts through services like Cloud Platform Engineering, Data Platform Foundation, Secure Data Collaboration, and GenAI Quickstart programs. Their engineering mindset focuses on creative problem-solving and sustainable outcomes, partnering closely with customers from strategy through implementation. With team members across multiple continents and a culture rooted in work-life harmony, Rearc has built trust with customers including Guardian Life Insurance, Bloomberg L.P., Avesis, and Moderna by consistently delivering technical excellence in regulated enterprise environments.

At Nordstrom, we believe our heritage of service since 1901 is the foundation of everything we do. We empower our employees to set their sights high and blaze their own trails, creating an environment where ownership and initiative are valued over rigid hierarchies. Our team members thrive when they can build genuine connections with customers and each other, treating every interaction as an opportunity to make someone feel good and look their best. We like to keep things simple - reward outstanding work, build lasting relationships, and focus on doing whatever it takes to serve our customers. We're a fast-moving fashion company that has grown from one tiny shoe store into a leading fashion retailer, but we've never lost our startup mindset. Our people are entrepreneurial at heart, whether they're styling customers, managing inventory, or innovating behind the scenes. We believe in flexibility, adaptability, and giving our team the autonomy to make decisions that drive results. From our stores to our distribution centers and corporate offices, Nordstrom is a place where your success and growth matter - and where you can build a career that's as unique as you are.

NEXTDC is an ASX 100-listed digital infrastructure company enabling business transformation by delivering three core pillars of customer value: Operational Certainty, Future Readiness and Strategic Advantage. We build secure, sovereign and sustainable digital infrastructure at speed and scale. As Australia's largest locally owned and operated data centre provider, NEXTDC is a trusted partner for organisations that require resilient, scalable and energy-efficient environments for mission-critical IT and AI workloads. With 17 operational data centres across Australia, plus a further four in development and seven in planning, NEXTDC delivers a nationwide platform built and operated to the highest global, government and industry certification standards. Our rich ecosystem includes more than 750 clouds, carriers and digital services partners, as well as a broad range of enterprise and Government organisations with resilient pathways into hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. As the only Australian operator with a nationwide footprint of Tier III and Tier IV facilities, NEXTDC continues to expand into key APAC regions, including our first international data centre currently in development in Kuala Lumpur.

At Roche, we believe that advancing science requires deep collaboration and an unwavering commitment to patients. As the world's largest biotech company and a leading provider of in-vitro diagnostics, we combine our unique strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics to transform healthcare. Our cross-functional teams work together across borders and disciplines, focusing on preventing, stopping, or curing diseases with the highest societal burden. We empower our people with integrity, courage, and passion to explore new possibilities and take calculated risks that lead to breakthrough innovations. For over 125 years, our culture has been defined by scientific excellence and a relentless pursuit of better health outcomes. We operate with a long-term vision, making sustainable investments in R&D and partnerships that span over 250 external collaborations. Our ways of working foster agility and networked responses to the evolving needs of patients worldwide. Whether in our research labs, manufacturing facilities, or offices, Roche employees thrive in an environment where diverse perspectives fuel innovation and where we measure success by the time we give patients with the people they love.

WaveStrong is an information security and data privacy consulting company founded in 2001, specializing in helping organizations protect their critical assets through comprehensive cybersecurity solutions. The company provides both strategic and solution consulting services, serving over 500 companies worldwide across diverse industries including healthcare, government, education, and enterprise sectors. With over 20 years of experience, WaveStrong has established itself as a trusted leader in information security consulting. The company's approach is vendor-agnostic, enabling customers to select the best customized security model for their specific business needs. WaveStrong's team of certified technical and business professionals guide clients through the complexities of planning, designing, implementing, and managing data security. Their service offerings encompass managed security services, professional services, and value-added reseller capabilities, focusing on delivering customer outcomes through the right balance of services and solutions. WaveStrong is particularly known for its sensible approach to risk management, data protection solutions, and project management excellence.

In 2016, Astra's founders Gil Akos and Sam Morgan recognized that while the first two waves of fintech had transformed financial products and unbundled banking, they had also made managing money exponentially more complex. Every new account added exponentially more potential connections, creating overhead and friction. They realized the solution wasn't better apps - it was a platform that could programmatically route cash between any source and any destination, automatically. Today, Astra provides the all-in-one platform for lightning-fast payments, building mission-critical infrastructure that processes billions in annual transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime. From instant disbursements and account funding to accelerated ACH transfers, Astra's API enables businesses to embed payment capabilities directly into their products. The company has evolved from an automation platform for consumers into the default developer platform for businesses moving money at scale, partnering with Visa, Cross River Bank, and leading fintechs to transform how the financial system operates - one transfer at a time.