2018 Year In Review
The Pearcey Foundation was proud to present many events and awards in 2018.
National Awards
The Pearcey Medal, Pearcey Hall of Fame and Pearcey National Entrepreneur Award were held as part of the ACS National Disruptors Award program, 1 November 2018 at Melbourne's MCEC.
- 2018 Pearcey Medal - Dr Dennis Cooper
- 2018 Pearcey Hall of Fame - Dr Dennis Cooper, Emeritus Professor Robin Stanton, Dr Reg Coutts
- 2018 Pearcey Entrepreneur - Tony Clark
We very much appreciate the support of ACS and Data61 (CSIRO) for these awards.
State Awards
The 2018 Pearcey State Entrepreneur Winners are:
- 2018 WA Pearcey Award - Dr Mark Andrich (Sustainable Platform)
- 2018 SA Pearcey Award - Tony Clark (Rising Sun Pictures)
- 2018 Vic Pearcey Award - Michael Cameron and Bernie Tschirren (Rome2Rio)
- 2018 ACT Pearcey Award - Ken Kroeger (Seeing Machines)
- 2018 Tas Pearcey Award - Dr Gary McDarby (Enterprize Tasmania)
- 2018 Qld Pearcey Award - Peter Laurie (Junta)
- 2018 NSW Pearcey Award - Nick Molnar (Afterpay)
Other Events
The Pearcey Foundation is proud to have been involved in the following events:
- Special Pearcey Day(PDF, 107 KB) as part of the Vic Gov Digital Innovation Festival
- 2018 Pearcey Oration entitled "Australia, be bold!" was delivered by Mr Paul Shetler.
- Special ICT Heritage Event at Federation University, Albert Street, Ballarat
