Western Australia

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR Western Australia STATE WINNER: Illegal Tender Rum Co

RUNNER UP: Space to co
COMMUNITY CHOICE: Space to co

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2017 Cohort

Finalists

Tim Hayes - WIZENBOX

Hi, I am Tim Hayes, I grew up in Perth, W.A but spent most of my life from 13 onwards in Regional WA from Albany to Broome and places in between.

Paula Pownall - Grubs Up Australia

Paula Pownall is a rural woman with a passion and a purpose to change our perception of protein.

Jeremy Hurst, Daniel McCullen and Daniel Franco - SpacetoCo

Jeremy Hurst lives in Hovea outside of Perth, WA. He is a former educator with 13 years experience in education. More recently he worked in IT consultancy, heading up a team of 5...

Hayley Wells & Codie Palmer - Illegal Tender Rum Co - WA

Illegal Tender Rum Co Pty Ltd was founded in August of 2015 by Codie Palmer who is our head distiller and director and his partner Hayley Wells who manages all of the administration and Sales for the distillery.

Angela del Pino - Delpino's Ethical Department Store

Angela del Pino is the Founder and Director of Delpino’s Ethical Department Store; running the nation-wide online platform from her coastal townhouse in Bunbury.

Panel of Judges

Judges

Petra Nelson

Petra Nelson is Managing Director and shareholder of Bright People Technologies, a SaaS technology company which provides compliance and mobilisation solutions for the resources sector.

Paula Taylor

Paula is the Executive Director of the OzAPP Awards which aims to foster dialogue and collaboration between innovators, researchers, investors and industry...

Andrew Larsen

Andrew is passionate about Australian entrepreneurship. Andrew co-founded Perth’s first tech focused co-working space; SyncLabs and is an active venture investor in the early stage technology sector through a variety of roles.

Gregory Sutherland

As Chief Innovation Officer, and member of the Executive Committee, Greg is responsible for key services and investments enabling innovation. This includes Australia Post Accelerator and Venture Fund.

Simone Eyles

Simone Eyles is an entrepreneur who uses new technology to solve old problems. Holding a graphic design degree, Simone began her first start-up in 2011 after a conversation with friend (now business partner) Marz about how fantastic it would be to order coffee from your mobile phone.

MC

Featured

Stan Shaw

Stan Shaw is a WA boy and has been an ABC broadcaster for over 6 years, presenting programs in regional towns like Albany, Esperance and now Bunbury.

At the moment Stan is an early riser, presenting the South West breakfast program from 6.30am each weekday.

Stan loves sharing other people’s stories, particularly those that inspire and show the true human spirit when we overcome adversity.

Local Partners

City of Bunbury

Creative Corner

daz.digital

Edith Cowan University

Maker + Co

Milligan

Pollinators