INNOVATION

Highlight, pitch and reward your innovation by entering the new look Indo Pacific 2025 Innovation Awards.

With the push for Australian industry and research sectors to innovate and deliver capability quickly to the Australian Defence Force, it is now more important than ever to foster new thought, technology and the development of ideas.

The Indo Pacific Innovation Awards will take new form in 2025, incorporating both the prestigious awards program and the popular Innovation Pitchfest, to help highlight and reward innovations at different phases of development. The awards will bring together Australian companies, organisations and young individuals with cutting-edge ideas and give them a platform to present their innovation at Indo Pacific 2025.

Australian organisations and individuals are invited to submit their innovation, which could be at various stages of development, to one of three categories:

• Indo Pacific 2025 Innovation Award
• Indo Pacific 2025 Emerging Technology Award
• Indo Pacific 2025 Young Innovator Award

Finalists will then be invited to pitch their innovation to an international audience of potential partners, investors and customers at Indo Pacific 2025 at the International Convention Centre, Sydney with the category winners announced onsite at the event.

Winners of each category will receive $40,000 cash prize to contribute to further personal and innovation development. There will be an additional winning category on the day for Best Pitch that will receive a trophy prize only.