[ { "post_id": "480", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2025 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "Professor Lachlan Blackhall<\/strong>, Founding Professor of the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program at the Australian\nNational University and previously co-founder of Reposit Power, is the recipient of the 2025 ACT Chief Minister's Pearcey\nAward. The award was presented by ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr at the 2025 Pearcey Round Table in Canberra on Thursday, 2\nOctober 2025.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/480\/Prof-Lachlan-Blackhall.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2025-act-award\/", "post_date": "2025-10-02 10:00:00" }, { "post_id": "463", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2024 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "The founders of CEA Technologies, Ian Croser<\/strong> and David Gaul<\/strong>, were the recipients of the 2024 ACT Chief\nMinister’s Pearcey Award. The award was presented at a special Pearcey event in Canberra on the 25th of September 2024 by the ACT Chief\nMinister, Andrew Barr.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/463\/david-gaul-ian-croser-.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2024-act-award\/", "post_date": "2024-09-24 10:00:00" }, { "post_id": "430", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2023 ACT Pearcey Award", "post_content_short": "At a special Pearcey Foundation roundtable event, Marcus\n\tDawe<\/a><\/strong>\n\twas awarded the ACT Chief Minister’s Pearcey Entrepreneur Award by the ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr. Marcus is CEO of MCi Carbon, a\n\tclean energy scale-up that started in Canberra 17 years ago. Marcus has mentored many rising entrepreneurs over last 10 years. This year,\n\tthe Pearcey Foundation is pleased to announce him as the 2023 ACT Chief Minister’s Pearcey Entrepreneur for his involvement in MCi Carbon.\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/430\/PearceyAwardPresentation.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2023-act-award\/", "post_date": "2023-10-17 08:00:00" }, { "post_id": "396", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2022 ACT Pearcey Award", "post_content_short": "At a special Round Table event, the Chief Minister, with former Senator Kate Lundy announced the winners of the ACT Chief Minister\nPearcey Award were Adam Zegelin<\/strong> and Ben Bromhead<\/strong>, the technical inspiration behind Instaclustr. <\/a>Instaclustr\nhelps organisations deliver applications at scale by operating and supporting their data infrastructure through its SaaS platform for open\nsource technologies.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/396\/Adam-ZegelinplusBen-Bromhead.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2022-act-award\/", "post_date": "2022-10-17 07:00:00" }, { "post_id": "122", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2021 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "Canberra 28 Sep 2021: The Pearcey Foundation<\/a> today announced Daniel\nShaddock<\/a>,\nfounder and CEO of Liquid Instruments<\/a> as this year's recipient of the ACT Chief Minister's\nPearcey Entrepreneur Award. The award was presented by Andrew Barr, ACT Chief Minister at the Annual ACT Pearcey Round Table (held virtually\nthis year).", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/122\/Prof-Daniel-Shaddock.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2021-act-award\/", "post_date": "2021-09-28 07:33:00" }, { "post_id": "25", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2020 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "Canberra, Australia - 22 September 2020 - The Pearcey Foundation today announced Shane Hill<\/strong>, founder of Skoolbo as this\nyear's recipient of the ACT Chief Minister's Pearcey Entrepreneur Award. The award was presented by Senator (retd) Kate Lundy representing\nthe ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr at the Pearcey Round Table 2020 event in Canberra.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/25\/ResizedImage300225-Shane-Hill-Kate-Lundy-fmr-Senator.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2020-act-award\/", "post_date": "2020-09-22 13:32:00" }, { "post_id": "26", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2019 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "Canberra, Australia - 10 October 2019 - The Pearcey Foundation<\/a> today announced Matthew Wilson, CEO of Penten<\/a> as\nthis year's recipient of the 2019 ACT Chief Minister's Pearcey Entrepreneur Award. The award was presented by Senator (retd) Kate Lundy\nrepresenting the ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr at the Pearcey Round Table 2019.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/26\/Matthew-Wilson.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2019-act-award\/", "post_date": "2019-10-10 13:35:00" }, { "post_id": "27", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2018 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "Ken Kroeger, CEO of Seeing Machines, was presented the 2018 ACT Chief Minister's Pearcey Entrepreneur Award.  The award was presented by ACT\nChief Digital Officer Bettina Konti, representing the ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr, at ACS Canberra's 25th<\/sup> Annual Conference on\n4 September 2018.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/27\/Ken-Kroeger.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2018-act-award\/", "post_date": "2018-09-04 13:40:00" }, { "post_id": "121", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2017 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "The 2017 Chief Minister's Pearcey Entrepreneur Award was presented by the Chief Minister, the Hon. Andrew Barr MLA.<\/strong> to\njoint winners as the judges could not distinguish between two highly qualified contributors to ACT's burgeoning ICT industry. The 2017 ACT\nwinners were Phillip Williamson co-founder and Chief Innovator at Intelledox<\/strong> and Mark Riley, co-founder and CTO of\nContentKeeper.<\/strong>", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/121\/ACT-2017-Winners.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2017-act-award\/", "post_date": "2017-08-15 13:15:00" }, { "post_id": "123", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2016 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "At a gala dinner held in the Gandel Hall at Australia's National Gallery in Canberra, Dean Spaccavento was awarded the 2016 ACT Chief\nMinister's Pearcey Award.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/123\/Dean-Spaccavento.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2016-act-award\/", "post_date": "2016-06-28 07:37:00" }, { "post_id": "124", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2015 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "The 2015 ACT Pearcey Entrepreneur Award was presented to Mr Greg Boorer at the Digital Canberra gala dinner in the Gandel Hall of the\nNational Gallery of Australia. Mr Boorer is a well-known identity in the ICT industry in the nation's capital having started Canberra Data\nCentres (CDC) just eight years ago in 2007. Today CDC is the dominant data centre vendor in the ACT with more than 40 Federal and ACT\ngovernment agencies as customers.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/124\/Greg-Boorer-ACT-2015.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2015-act-award\/", "post_date": "2015-06-23 07:43:00" }, { "post_id": "125", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2013\/14 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "At a gala event held on Tuesday evening 17 June at Canberra's Aboretum, Senator Kate Lundy presented the 2014 Pearcey ACT Entrepreneur Award to John de Margheriti<\/strong>.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/125\/John_DeMargheriti_pic.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2013-2014-act-award\/", "post_date": "2013-06-17 13:00:00" }, { "post_id": "126", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2012 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "The 2012 ACT Pearcey Award was presented to Dr Vikram Sharma<\/strong> on Thursday evening 15th November at the Boat House by the\nLake as part of the ACS ACT Branch annual Canberra ICT Awards night.", "post_icon": "", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2012-act-award\/", "post_date": "2012-11-15 12:15:00" }, { "post_id": "127", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2011 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "The 2011 ACT Pearcey Entrepreneur Award was presented to Matt Bullock<\/strong> by Senator Kate Lundy, Senator representing the ACT\nand Parliamentary Secretary Prime Minister and Cabinet, as part of the annual combined ACS and Pearcey Foundation Awards held this evening\nat ‘The Boathouse’ in Canberra.", "post_icon": "", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2011-act-award\/", "post_date": "2011-09-15 13:00:00" }, { "post_id": "128", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2010 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "Fullbright Scholar Dr Raymond Choo<\/strong> was presented the 2010 ACT Pearcey Award by Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary\nto Prime Minister & Cabinet, at a gala dinner held at 'The Boathouse' in Canberra on 16 September 2010.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/128\/Raymond-Choo-1.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2010-act-award\/", "post_date": "2010-09-16 13:15:00" }, { "post_id": "129", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2009 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "The 2009 ACT State Pearcey Award was presented to Mr Michael McGoogan<\/strong> on Wednesday 16th September 2009 in Canberra at the\nCanberra Business Events Centre, Regatta Point. The award was presented by Mr Jon Stanhope MLA, Chief Minister for the ACT during the\nBusiness in Focus Month and jointly sponsored with the Australian Computer Society, ACT Branch.", "post_icon": "", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2009-act-award\/", "post_date": "2009-09-16 13:15:00" }, { "post_id": "130", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2008 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "On Tuesday 2nd September 2008 the inaugural ACT Pearcey Award was presented to Mathew Purcell<\/strong> by ACT Chief Minsiter, the\nHon Mr Jon Stanhope, at the Regatta Point Business Centre in Canberra. The Canberra Branch of the Australian Computer Society joined\nforces with the Pearcey Foundation to select Matthew Purcell alias "The Silicon Kid", as the winner. Thanks to strong financial\nsupport from the ACT Government, the Pearcey foundation has been able to extend its highly competitive peer recognition award process to\nICT professionals in the ACT.", "post_icon": "", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2008-act-award\/", "post_date": "2008-09-02 13:15:00" } ]