2024 National Awards Gala & CSIRAC 75th
November 19th, Victoria Park Garden Marquee
An evening of celebration and recognition, the Pearcey National Awards Gala started with the Queensland Pearcey Entrepreneur Award
presented to Andrew Bate, founder of SwarmFarm
Robotics,
by the Honourable
Minister Steven Minnikin,
Queensland Minister for Customer Services and Open Data and Minister for Small and Family Business.
Next was the Pearcey National Entrepreneur Award presented by Emeritus Professor Roy Green AM to Ian Crosser AM and David Gaul co-founders of CEA Technologies.
Outstanding Australians, Jan Kornweibel and Professor Andrew Dzurack, were inducted into the Pearcey Hall of Fame. These awards were presented by the Honourable Kate Lundy, (Pearcey Hall of Fame 2017).
The pinnacle of the evening was when 2023 Pearcey Medallist, David Tudehope, presented Professor Svetha Venkatesh with the Pearcey Medal.
In
the course of the evening, there were addresses by national figures, Professor Roy Green AM and Helen McHugh, to
recognise the 75th anniversary of the first operation of CSIRAC - the first digital computer
invented in Australia.
To mark the evening the Pearcey Foundation presented gifts of an authoritative history of CSIRAC - The Last of the First. This
excellent work was co-authored by Pearcey Heritage chair, Dr Peter Thorne AM, and published by the University of Melbourne. (Downloadable
as a soft copy.)
The entire evening was recorded, and the recordings can be accessed below, or on our
YouTube channel.
In addition to the recordings below, you can find all the photos from the evening here:
General networking and opening remarks
2024 Queensland Entrepreneur of the Year
2024 National Entrepreneur Award
2024 Hall of Fame & Medal
If you have photos of your own you'd like to share, please upload them to our Guest
Album.
In the last 26 years the Pearcey Foundation has had the privilege to recognise 245 outstanding Australians with Pearcey Awards.
- 175 with the Entrepreneur Award, including 20 who have been recognised with the Pearcey National Entrepreneur Award.
- 70 have been inducted into the Pearcey Hall of Fame, and 28 of those received the Pearcey Medal.
Everyone is welcome, and encouraged, to nominate somebody else for a Pearcey award.
