Imagine a world where machine learning algorithms help first responders stop bushfires before they start. Where carbon-free transport systems shuttle commuters between the suburbs and the city without interruption. Where courts connect people to legal support using artificial intelligence. Wherever Portable works, this world exists. We are Australia’s leading innovation partners for public good, developing empowering services for the public and the people who serve it. Whether we’re coding the system that runs the largest tram network on earth, or rethinking the digital architecture of entire parliaments, we combine a heart for humanity, head for tech, and eye for design to improve quality of life at a societal scale. Our process is shaped by twenty years of experience and thousands of partnerships spanning every pillar of public life, from early childhood education to end-of-life care. Trusted by national governments, international NGOs, and ASX 200 companies, we navigate the world’s most complex subjects and stakeholder environments to design, engineer, and operate technical solutions that truly serve the public. Portable advocates for innovation at every level of society, actively seeking out areas of acute social need, and helping our partners find the funding and tools to address them. From empowering people with disabilities to navigate the healthcare system, to settling family disputes using generative AI, we see solutions to today’s problems in tomorrow’s tech. So if you believe in a world where governments exceed every citizen’s highest expectations, where emerging technologies are ethically integrated into the fabric of society, where the public and private sectors unite in service of the common good, Portable is your innovation partner.
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Sarah Kaur is a strategic designer and HCD researcher. Her passion is supporting the creative work of teams across disciplines to collaborate, and come up with smart ways to create impact through using participatory design.
Sarah realises both the incredible potential for AI to support positive outcomes in policy and consumer experiences, and the lack of awareness about appropriate ethical, and technical governance in the AI space.
She holds a Master of Business Analytics and a Bachelor in Fine Arts, and 12 years of professional experience supporting NFP, Government and Private organisations realise their business objectives by placing humans and quality data, at the centre of their decisions and investments. Sarah has designed and led stakeholder engagements on projects delivering algorithmic decision-making models to users. This includes Australia’s Family Court’s first machine learning product amïca, helping couples separate by automating a two-party workflow to gather data, and suggesting a fair division of assets for their agreement.
Prior to becoming a strategic designer, Sarah was a video artist working with dancemakers, and a curator and artistic producer for multidisciplinary festivals. Making a tough choice between staying an arts professional and a sustainable income meant a career change and an entry into the world of digital. She joined Tundra as a Digital Producer, and later Portable to lead the Production team and becoming the Chief of Operations and Strategy, Head of Account Management before founding the Business Design discipline.
Sarah is on the Australian Red Cross Humanity First Advisory Panel to support the development of a humanitarian framework to guide ethical technology development.