Sunglasses you can’t lose are Tech23 winners

THE annual Tech23 Awards announced on October 24 in Sydney presented a potpourri of Australian innovation and creativity, with winners having developed sunglasses you cannot lose, GPS tracking with three-dimensional visualisation and a clever little  ‘bar tab’ app.

Tzukuri’s 20-year-old founder Allen Liao stole the show with his cool and collected presentation on unloseable sunglasses, eventually winning the Tech23 2014 People’s Choice Award. 

The Tech23 Innovation Excellence Award went to Intelligent Fleet Logistics for its ready-to-market vehicle routing and scheduling optimisation technology.

The Tech23 Greatest Potential Award was won by Clipp for a popular and practical bar tab app. Clipp also won a $5000 cash prize from PayPal.

Now in its sixth year, Tech23 2014 confirmed the event’s status as a benchmark for the Australian start-up community.

Each year 23 of Australia’s most innovative technology start-ups gather in Sydney to present their business models to a panel of industry experts and an audience of entrepreneurs, investors and incubators along with established leaders of research and development (R&D) and information and communication technology (ICT) organisations and enterprises. 

National and international Industry leaders, enterprise and start-up sponsors, along with  Tech23 Alumni companies, award them valuable prizes including thousands in cash, meetings with influential people and development trips overseas.

“The scope and impact of Tech23 continues to grow exponentially,” said event founder Rachel Slattery of SlatteryIT.

“This year we had companies from six states representing products and services that range from big data technology to location services, enterprise applications to healthcare.

“I’m consistently amazed by the level of innovation and ambition our Tech23 show. The technology on display today boasted benefits for business and community alike.”

Doarama, creators of a 3D GPS track visualisation program, won a trip to Silicon Valley sponsored by ATP Innovations.

Bluedot Innovation, a technology for precise, battery friendly location services, has won a trip to Boston from Bigtincan and Bluedot also won $5000 cash from REA Group.

REA Group also awarded a second $5000 cash prize to Sound Scouts, a game which detects hearing loss in children.

Clevertar was awarded $3000 from NRMA, while Global and Smart won $2,500 from Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.

Tech23 2014 was sponsored by NICTA, Amazon Web Services, ASX, Bendigo Bank, Citrix, CSIRO, Suncorp Group, UNSW’s Business School, AusIndustry, London & Partners, MYOB, and NRMA.

www.tech23.com.au

 

Tech23 2014 prize winners:

Tech23 2013 Innovation Excellence Award: Intelligent Fleet Logistics.

Tech23 2013 Greatest Potential Award: Clipp.

Tech23 People’s Choice Award: Tzukuri.

ATP Innovations Silicon Valley Explorer Award: Doarama.

Bigtincan Enterprise Mobility Leadership Award: Bluedot Innovation.

The PayPal People Powered Innovation Award: Clipp.

REA Group Digital Disruptor Award: Sound Scouts.

REA Group Connected Marketplace Award: Bluedot Innovation.
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Connecting Communities Award: Global and Smart.

NRMA Innovation in Sustainable Solutions Award: Clevertar.

ThoughtWorks Disruptive Innovation Award: Clevertar.

Citrix Best Early Stage Company Award: RedEye.

Global Access Advisors Catapult Prize: AUUG.

Google Mentoring Session: Intelligent Fleet Logistics.

Hills Fast Track Award: Sound Scouts.

Meeting with Bill Bartee: GoFar.

Meeting with Paul Bassat: Oar Inspired.

Meeting with Daniel Petre: Maestrano.

MYOB’s Online Innovation for Small Business Award: Appbot.

The Noah Consulting Disruption Award: Tzukuri.

S2M Digital Recruitment Key Hire Award: Intelligent Fleet Logistics.

Sirca University Medal for Student-led Tech Entrepreneurship: Tzukuri.

Meet Geoff McQueen: Appbot.

Coffee with BugHerd founders: RedEye.

Creately Diagramming Best Visual Presentation Award: Clevertar.

Inteferex Communications Best Telecommunications Enterprise Award: Bluedot Innovation.

Lunch with the Chairman and COO and Co-Founder of IPscape: Geomoby.

Lunch with Local Measure team: Pop Tech.

Mentoring session with Virtual CFO, Rachel White: Oar Inspired.

Free 12 Month Subscription to StreetHawk Mobile Engagement Automation: Pop Tech.

Intersective Best Education Enterprise Award: StatSilk.

x2 Free Saasu Large Plans: GoFar and Leapin Digital Keys.

PayPal’s Startup Blueprint program: All Innovation Island companies.

Amazon Web Services Award: All Tech23 2014 participants.

 

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