2025
2025 Tasmanian Award
Roxane Bandini-Maeder, CEO and co-founder of climate tech startup Geoneon, was awarded the 2025 Tasmania Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year at the Enterprize Tasmania Demo Day in Hobart.
Pearcey Entrepreneur does it again!!
As reported in The Age, Grant Petty, National and Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur award recipient in 2020, has partnered with APPLE to once again make professional video creation and editing accessible to every creative effort.
IT Innovation in AU joint Study
The Pearcey Foundation and the Business School at the University of Sydney are proud to release a detailed project report looking at IT Innovation in Australia, A Long-Term Perspective.
2025 WA Award
The 2025 WA Pearcey Entrepreneur Award was presented to Chris Morrissey, founder and CEO of Ever Nimble, at the 34th WAITTA Incite Awards in Perth on Friday 18th July 2025.
Grandmother of the Web
Mary Lee Woods enjoyed a short career in Australia at Mount Stromlo. Her son, Tim Berners-Lee, is known as the “Father
of the Web”. Mary accepted the name “Grandmother of the Web’. She should be celebrated for her own career in programming.
Author:
Barbara Ainsworth
Curator, Monash Museum of Computing History
Faculty of Information Technology
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
UNSW Quantum Professor presented Hall of Fame
Prof Andrew Dzurak was elevated to the Pearcey Hall of Fame in November 2024. Unfortunately, Andrew was overseas at the time of the presentation and so the Chair of the Pearcey Foundation presented the certificate in person on Friday 14 February at the Diraq lab at UNSW Campus in Kensington, NSW.