WA Innovator of the Year: 2023 Finalists
07/08/23 - The Western Australia Innovator of the Year (WAIOTY) Awards has showcased innovative and entrepreneurial individuals, businesses and creative minds since 2006.
WAIOTY assists local innovative companies with profiling and building creditability. Through the awards program, startups, entrepreneurs and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) gain public recognition as well as access to funding and a range of networking and commercialisation training opportunities.
Click on the headlines below to find out more about the finalists for each category.
Western Australia Innovator of the Year: Rio Tinto Emerging Innovation Category Finalists
ClearDrum Pty Ltd
ClearDrum aims to be the first prosthetic eardrum on the market. It is being developed for the repair of chronic eardrum perforations, a major cause of disability for children and adults globally.
Virex Pharma
Virex Pharma (Virex) is developing a proprietary product, GlyXine — an inhaled nanoemulsion formulation for treating viral respiratory diseases.
Cytophenix Pty Ltd
Cytophenix’s innovation is a novel, disruptive diagnostics platform that enables precision personalised pathology for patients with bloodstream infections causing sepsis – a life threatening condition affecting more than 55,000 Australians each year.
OMNI Industry Pty Ltd
Omni is developing a world-first non-invasive hydration measurement to help teams across heavy industry, elite sport, healthcare and emergency services optimize their health and performance, manage workload and reduce the risk of injury.
Earflo (EarBuddy Pty Ltd)
EarFlo is an innovative medical device developed to treat young children who suffer from chronic ear infections and restoring their hearing. Instead of undergoing “grommet” surgery, which is the usual treatment option, the EarFlo device offers a non-surgical alternative.
LubDub Technologies
Lubdub Technologies aims to revolutionize heart care by making it accessible, convenient, and life-saving. With Lubdub's technology, patients can track their cardiac health from home, avoiding time-consuming trips and waiting for lab results.
Western Australia Innovator of the Year: Rio Tinto Growth Innovation Category Finalists
Innovation Energy Solutions
The Autonomous Solar Cleaning Robot (ASCR) is an innovative and adaptable solution for effectively cleaning solar panels in remote and harsh environments. Designed for long-term reliability, the ASCR operates autonomously and features a dry cleaning brush to remove dust and maintain panel efficiency.
Leisure Technologies Pty Ltd
Leisure Technologies has developed the WiTi products, a suite of technologically advanced, integrated, wireless technologies designed for use on towable RVs (recreational vehicles) which includes caravans, pop tops and camper trailers and heavy industrial trailers, to prevent theft, and provide advanced braking supports to improve safety.
Portable PPB Pty Ltd
detectORE™ y for the first time enables geologists to gain gold results at the necessary very low concentrations anywhere using an off the-shelf but optimised portable XRF.
Camp Connect Pty Ltd
The Co Connect App is a workforce communication, engagement & an emergency app. It incorporates smart GIS technology with a unique interface, providing on hand access to information and timely communication to the entire workforce while working in remote, rural and offline environments.
Digital Matter
The ‘Hawk’ is a robust, modular, plug-and-play IoT sensor gateway designed to support an extensive range of sensor integrations. It is available in several connectivity, power, and housing variations to best fit specific applications. The Hawk’s versatile architecture provides near limitless options for interfacing with sensors that report on data to be used for analysis or generating actions.
SpaceDraft
SpaceDraft is a ‘space and time’ platform that empowers users to achieve their complex planning and logistics goals and tasks through enhanced visualisation in various contexts.
Western Australia Innovator of the Year: Woodside Energy Platinum Award for Energy Innovation Finalists
Innovation Energy Solutions
The Autonomous Solar Cleaning Robot (ASCR) is an innovative and adaptable solution for effectively cleaning solar panels in remote and harsh environments. Designed for long-term reliability, the ASCR operates autonomously and features a dry-cleaning brush to remove dust and maintain panel efficiency.
OMNI Industry Pty Ltd
Omni is developing a world-first non-invasive hydration measurement to help teams across heavy industry, elite sport, healthcare and emergency services optimize their health and performance, manage workload and reduce the risk of injury.
SpaceDraft
SpaceDraft is a ‘space and time’ platform that empowers users to achieve their complex planning and logistics goals and tasks through enhanced visualisation in various contexts.
Clear Carbon Pty Ltd
Clear Carbon has developed Carbon Reality, a revolutionary, cloud based, digital climate technology platform delivering unmatched granularity and traceability of all direct and indirect GHG (Greenhouse Gas) Emissions for accounting and reporting with a 90% plus accuracy.
Western Australia Innovator of the Year: Wesfarmers Wellbeing Platinum Award Finalists
Earflo (Earbuddy Pty Ltd)
EarFlo is an innovative medical device developed to treat young children who suffer from chronic ear infections and restoring their hearing. Instead of undergoing “grommet” surgery, which is the usual treatment option, the EarFlo device offers a non-surgical alternative.
Inspiring Holdings Pty Ltd
The Universal Spacer System (USS) is proprietary technology that, for the first time ever, applies effective spacer (reservoir) capacity to all forms of current inhalation drug delivery devices - MDIs (puffers), Nebulisers and Dry Powder delivery devices (DPIs).
ClearDrum Pty Ltd
ClearDrum aims to be the first prosthetic eardrum on the market. It is being developed for the repair of chronic eardrum perforations, a major cause of disability for children and adults globally.
Customa Pty Ltd
CustomaEAL is a patient-matched personal stomal device, taking the customisation process out of the ostomate’s hands.
Virex Pharma
GlyXine is an inhaled nanoemulsion formulation for treating viral respiratory diseases.
Western Australia Innovator of the Year: Business News 'Great for the State' Platinum Award Finalists
Earflo
EarFlo is an innovative medical device developed to treat young children who suffer from chronic ear infections and restoring their hearing. Instead of undergoing “grommet” surgery, which is the usual treatment option, the EarFlo device offers a non-surgical alternative.
Reliis
Reliis’ team have developed a new liquid formulation of a popular global drug, quetiapine. This drug is known to be exceedingly difficult to dissolve, but we have created several liquid formulations that will allow this drug to be given to patients either intravenously (IV) or under their skin.
Cytophenix Pty Ltd
Cytophenix’s innovation is a novel, disruptive diagnostics platform that enables precision personalised pathology for patients with bloodstream infections causing sepsis – a life threatening condition affecting more than 55,000 Australians each year.
Koodaideri Innovation & Technology Pty. Ltd.
HydraTune is a ground-breaking invention that completely revamps the way hydraulic maintenance is performed, pioneering a remote and safety-focused approach. HydraTune facilitates remote adjustment of hydraulic systems, effectively removing technicians from potentially hazardous situations associated with live equipment.
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