Last week Slattery IT hosted Angel Connect - Tasmania. This follows on from the success of Angel Connect in other cities around Australia. Over 90 people attended the event at The Henry Jones Art Hotel on the Quay in Hobart. The program included sessions on:

• Meeting and attracting Angel Investors
• Understanding the expectations and motivations of Angels
• Doing the deal
• Working together
• Clever Angels and Active Investors
• Collaborating with other Investors

Attendees included:

• Entrepreneurs
• Employees of Australian ICT companies
• Venture Capitalists
• Incubators
• Angel Investors
• Research Facilities
• Universities
• Service Providers
• Government

It was a fantastic event and great credit goes to the team @ the Tasmanian Department of Economic Development and Tourism for having the vision to host and fund the event and Slattery IT for faultless execution.

In the picture above I am moderating a panel on 'Funding Strategy' with Martin Hosking (left), and Roger Allen (centre). Image courtesy of Slattery IT.

Windlab Systems has made the BRW 2008 Fast 100 list.

To appear in the list companies must have achieved an average annual growth rate to June 2008 of over 44%. The full article can be viewed behind a paywall here.

On Tuesday 21st October the Board of Directors and Senior Management of Windlab Systems conducted a field visit to the Capital Wind Farm. The Project is located on ridges of the Great Dividing Range to the east of Lake George, approximately 12 kilometres south-west of Tarago and about 10 kilometres north of Bungendore in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales.

According to the planning application the project is for 63 x 2.1 megawatt wind turbines and when complete, will have a capacity of 132MW. The Project also includes an electrical substation to facilitate connection to an existing TransGrid 330,000 volt transmission line, a facilities building, temporary and permanent wind monitoring towers, underground cables, a twelve kilometre internal overhead power line, and access tracks and works.

The wind turbines will be a three bladed rotor type, 90 metres in diameter, mounted on 80 metre tall towers. The top of the blade sweep will be approximately 124 metres above ground level.

The project was bought by Babcock and Brown in Dec 2007.