Sally-Ann Williams is the CEO of Cicada Innovations, Australia’s home of Deep Tech. The Incubator has a twenty-one-year track record of developing deep tech ventures tackling pressing problems like the future of human health and the climate crisis. She leads national commercialisation programs to drive a fundamental shift in Australia’s economic base by increasing the number of R&D driven businesses.

Sally-Ann is currently serving as Chair of the Pathway to Diversity in STEM Review for the Federal Government. She is an experienced Non-Executive Board member currently serving on the boards of Cicada Innovations, Qudos Bank, NSSN, and AusOcean. She also serves as an Advisory Group Member for CSIRO’s Data61, Chair of the Computing Advisory Board at ANU, as well as the advisory board member of the Heavy Ion Accelerator NCRIS Facility, NSW Government Tech Central Advisory Board.

Prior to Cicada, Sally-Ann was an Executive Program Manager at Google for 12 years where she led Google’s efforts in entrepreneurship and startup engagement, research collaborations with universities and CS, and STEM education & outreach (K-12).