Wah Chin Boon - Liz Ferentinos - Albert Frauman

Founded in 2018, Meizon is impacting the health and wellbeing sector by developing advanced platform technologies. Focused on therapeutics for dementia; Alzheimer’s, Neimann-Pick Type C (childhood dementia) and autism, Meizon is committed to addressing critical unmet clinical needs. With a strong emphasis on research and development, strategic business growth, and global market potential, Meizon is positioning itself as a leading healthcare platform. Dedicated to creating equity value and delivering transformative treatments, Meizon is on a mission to make a lasting difference in the lives of millions affected by dementia, autism and other cognitive disorders.

Nicole Jenkins - Gawain McColl - David Simpson - Liam Hall

FeBI Technologies aims to bring the power of quantum to the clinic. The company is working to revolutionise the diagnosis and management of iron imbalance with our cutting-edge quantum sensors. The goal is to empower preventative medicine to optimise health, recovery, and performance.

Anushi Rajapaksa - Hamish McWilliam - Jenny Kirschner - James Friend - Paul Carboon Joanne Boag - Mark Stambaugh

Misti™ is an Australian-owned MedTech company at the forefront of respiratory care innovation with our advanced medication delivery platform. Misti™ is pioneering an advanced form of sound wave powered nebulisation system that is specifically designed to efficiently deliver large molecular agents to the lower respiratory airways, ensuring effective and targeted treatment with minimal disruption to bioactivity. Misti™ technology facilitates extremely efficient energy transfer and forms a gentle, bio-preserving mist - ideal for administering advanced medication such as aerosol treatments for symptomatic relief and combating infectious diseases.

Christine Nearchou

Vis-CAT uses validated methodology to assess visual cognition in young children with an innovative digital platform. Vis-CAT is an intuitive, accessible online application

that enables parents and educators to pinpoint and address cognitive development needs effectively, fostering improved learning outcomes and reducing unnecessary costs and frustrations associated with delayed assessments.

Raymond Wong - Keith Martin

Mirugen is a biotech spin-off from the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) dedicated to transforming the future of vision restoration through innovative gene therapy. Leveraging the cutting- edge cell reprogramming technology, the company is developing new therapies to stimulate retinal regeneration and restore vision for those affected by blindness. As one of the first start-ups supported by Australia’s premier biotech incubator fund, the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) CUREator program, Mirugen is poised to lead the way in advancing innovative treatments for blindness.

Raymond Wong - Keith Martin - Ari Laverty

VoltMind combines AI-driven innovation with power engineering expertise to create software solutions that transform electricity grid management and facilitate renewable energy integration. Their grid analytics platform delivers unprecedented modelling capabilities and science-backed insights, helping electricity distribution businesses to optimise grid utilisation and enable modern technologies like rooftop solar and electric vehicles.

Masood Alivand & Kathryn Mumford

MK Collect is a pioneering direct air capture (DAC) company based in Australia, focused on developing advanced technologies to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere. Our goal is to combat climate change by capturing and sequestering carbon emissions at scale. We have partnered with the University of Melbourne and Innaco Pty Ltd to build a pilot plant, leveraging cutting-edge research and innovation to drive sustainable solutions.

Irma Mooi-Reci

Jobography is a GPS roadmap for people’s career, which maps out real, existing occupations, displaying their locations and connections and projecting occupational paths dynamically. It leverages users complete work histories and personal preferences to visualise where in the job landscape they are located, how they got there, and navigates the shortest, most frequent, and most efficient routes to better fitting and better-paying jobs for them. Jobography is a tool designed for those who want strategic, personalised career insights to make informed, strategic decisions for their future in this dynamic job market.

David Kelly & Antony Chacon

SpinalLog is a collaboration between the School of Computing and Information Systems and the Department of Physiotherapy. Our aim is to develop medical simulators for the learning and teaching of manual skills in spinal mobilisation, employing emerging technologies such as metamaterials, 3D printing, and extended reality (XR).

John A. Nguyen, David Conidaris, Benny Li, Candice Bao & Yen Tien Yap

Sano Technologies (Sanotech) is transforming body composition assessment and disease diagnostics and management through our AI-enabled imaging technology. Our system can reveal localized composition imbalances and patterns in a three-dimensional and highly visual way, offering new insights into health and wellness.

Branden Chen & Shuangjia Wu

Stemmed from 2022 BioDesign program in Unimelb, Sensure Medical strives to build a solution that works with and for the users. Tackling epidural procedures initially, Sensure aims to eventually build a new ubiquitous device that addresses the global barrier of access to safe and quality surgical and anesthetic care, and is well on way with building its first hardware MVP.

Shanaka Kristombu Baduge, Gihan Ruwanpathirana, Sadeep Thilakarathna & Hasala Sakvithi

Autonomous vision and robot system for identifying, auditing, picking, and sorting objects in plastic waste stream. Independently and concurrently process and synchronise vision, AI and robotics for autonomous real-time cognition, coordination, and operation to audit and sort waste plastics simultaneously. A database and data model that can characterise polymers according to material types, colour, user types and brands. Also, the proposed method enables real-time operation and synchronisation of the systems because of time-based integration.

Tim Mahoney, Farhad Goodarzy, Dean Freestone, Sam John & David Grayden

How we currently interact with technology is limited by our physical capabilities. We aim to break these limitations by connecting peoples brains directly to the digital world. This will fundamentally revolutionise how we interact with technology, and will profoundly impact the lives of both people with disability and, eventually, consumers.

David Challis, Guy Morrow, Aaron Eastment, Karen Thompson & Guy Morrow

This project represents a highly innovative response to shortcomings in current artwork authentication practices. Computational methods are used to authenticate a given physical artwork by comparing a dataset collected from a hyperspectral image of the artwork against a previously collected reference dataset. This methodology will be of significant consequence to artists, artist estates, private and public art collectors, logistics companies, art secured lenders, insurers and art market intermediaries.

Miguel Ortiz del Castillo, Jack McRobbie, Andrew Woods

We are a team of space engineers and scientists looking at providing space based services for agricultural products.

David Challis, Aaron Eastment

We aim to use blockchain and computational methods to validate the authenticity of painting collections.

Michael Halwes, Callum Vidler, Gagana Weerasinghe

We equip researchers and clinicians with the tools they need to get results quickly, consistently, and reliably, so that novel therapies can be more effective and more accessible.

Niels Fraehr

Niels is a PhD student researching how to improve flood forecasting by making fast and accurate predictions. The main goal is to make flood information accessible and helpful in emergencies.

Carl Eiselen, David Grayden, Farhad Goodarzy, Tim Mahoney

We’re a team of engineers and clinicians dedicated to creating brain-controlled technology that empowers individuals with disabilities to live on their own terms.

Lysander Miller

We detect radiation over large areas using a UAVbased radiation detector. Not only is it more efficient, but it completely removes a human operator from the vicinity of radioactive sources, minimising their exposure to radiation.

David Kelly, Antony Chacon

Our team is working to improve physiotherapy education using emerging technologies like 3D printing, metamaterials, and mixed reality.

Yi Wang, Zahra Eivazi Zadeh, Negar Mahmoudi

Our goal is to enhance the delivery of therapeutic agents within the body, ensuring they are released precisely at the right time, location, and under the desired conditions within target tissues.

Sarah Healy, Kathryn Coleman

SWISP mediates complexities that others can’t. We amplifly knowledge to shape public consciousness and address social, ecological, and technological challenges of our time.

Dana Young, Karen Block

We strive to address the insidious issue of racism within sports and beyond. Recognizing the need for effective, scalable solutions, STARS is developing a “train-the-trainer” program.

Jean Wu

The ‘Dentistry In Motion’ team delivers effective, evidence-based strategies to improve the health and ergonomics of the dental workforce maximising productivity and the provision of essential dental care to the community.

Elena Vella, Robert Walton, Daniel Williams, Goran Duric

FabulaRasa blends ancient and emerging technologies to explore the mutual trust between humans and machines by creating immersive experiences of possible futures.

Nicholas Pan, Benjamin Goudey & Liang Jin

We're developing AI tools to help people understand their risk of dementia and better predict how their cognition may change over time.

David Seignior & Sonja Arndt

Many teachers across Early Childhood Centres in Australia and NZ experience racism and feel they do not belong. Our project listens to their stories and co-creates interculturally supportive solutions.

Morgan Savy & Krupa Mistry

We're using genomics to avoid over-treatment in prostate cancer, improve patient quality of life, and reduce unnecessary healthcare spending.

Joel Yang, David Berlowitz, Anthony Stell, Peter Wang & Ernesto Calderon Caparo

We're developing a machine-learning solution to quickly and accurately identify when a ventilator falls out of synch with a patient's breathing cycle.

Ryan Tiew & Daniel Hopkins

We're using AI and advanced personalised surgical simulations to automatically plan complex hip replacement procedures and reduce the rates of hip implant failures.

Jack Drummond, Negar Zoka, Seb Mousavi & Dineth Mudalige

We are developing a brain stimulation device that uses focused ultrasound for treating neurological disorders without complex surgery.

Laura Gomez Aurioles

VRTM is an online worldwide archive that preserves and promotes intangible cultural heritage by co-creating immersive experiences in 360 videos with owners of culture.