The agency made regional integration feel ordinary with one fare card and free transfers. Then a 19-kilometre light-rail project took 15 years and roughly $13.1 billion to open - a case study in both the power and peril of building the connective tissue of a city.

Zetaris is an Australian enterprise data company building an open, agentic data lakehouse that lets organizations query and prepare data across many disparate sources without moving or copying it. Founded in 2013 in Melbourne by Vinay Samuel and Jason Jaesung Jun, the platform uses federated, in-place querying with intelligent multi-engine routing (Spark, Trino, Presto, DuckDB) and a unified semantic layer to feed private, governed AI workloads. It positions itself as a control plane for enterprise AI rather than another business-intelligence tool.