2025 TD Awards
Nominations Entries

Celebrating DE+I Trailblazers

2025 TechDiversity Awards Nominations

Welcome to the showcase of this year’s TechDiversity Awards nominations—a powerful collection of initiatives, programs, and projects that are redefining what’s possible in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE+I).

Each nomination featured here represents bold leadership, innovative thinking, and real-world impact across Australia’s tech and innovation sectors. With five award categories and entries from across the country, this is where we recognise the changemakers who are shaping a more inclusive future.

These entries are more than just submissions—they are stories of progress, courage, and vision. Being reviewed by a distinguished panel of leaders from government, business, media, and industry, every nomination here stands as a testament to excellence in DE+I.

Explore the 2025 nominations and be inspired by the individuals and organisations leading the way.

📢 Please note: Some nominations are not available for public view, as per the preferences selected during the entry process.

ORGANISATION’S NAME ARE IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Nomination Title Awards Category Organisation Name
ACT Education Directorate Government ACT Education Directorate
AWS She Builds Mentorship Program Business Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Indigitech Bridging the Digital Divide in New Zealand’s Education Sector Education Amazon Web Services, Intel, Lancom Technology, Education Perfect, and Code Avengers
RISE – Empowering Women in Technology at Atturra Business Atturra
Disability Discrimination Act: Guidelines on Equal Access to Digital Goods and Services Government Australian Human Rights Commission and Intopia
AI in Action: From Curiosity
to Capability for Everyone		 Education Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML); Centre for Augmented
Reasoning (CAR); The University of Adelaide
Balanced Workforce Business Axe Group
Cérge Companion Technologies: Building an Accessible Future Tech for Good – Social Impact and Accessibility and Inclusivity Cérge
Circletalk App Tech for Good – Accessibility and Inclusivity Circletalk Australia
2024 Virtual Engineers Summit Campaign of the Year Code Like a Girl
CommBox: Green AV for Sustainable, Inclusive Classrooms – Technology for People and Planet Tech for Good – Environmental Sustainability CommBox
Accessible home ownership for all Tech for Good – Health & Wellbeing, Accessibility & Inclusivity, Social Impact Co-operty
Australia’s Diversity Drives Business Impact: Qudos Bank Arena’s Multicultural Marketing and Engagement Campaign of the Year CulturalPulse and Qudos Bank Arena
Cybermate Tech for Good – Social Impact Cybermate
Deadly Coders Academy Education Deadly Coders, ANZ, EdTech Group
Deadly Coders Online Tech for Good – Social Impact Deadly Coders, EdTech Group, Kazacos AI
(1) Enabling EDIE and (2) Speaking the language: Dementia Australia’s multilingual campaign to support our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse community Tech for Good – Accessibility & Inclusivity and Campaign of the Year Dementia Australia
Creating a culture of inclusion: DCJ’s Accessible Communications Framework Government Department of Communities and Justice
DuluxGroup IT&DE DEI Initiative Business DuluxGroup
(1) Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Performance and (2) My initiatives Advancing Women in HPC (WHPC) Objectives Education Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU)
FrontYa: Unlocking Homeownership Through Tech-Enabled Equity Partnerships Tech for Good – Social Impact FrontYa
FutureTech: Reimagining Education for Neurodivergent Youth Education Futuretech Australia
(1) Getmee AI Empowering Inclusive Employability Pathways and (2) Getmee AI Empowering Youth and Migrants into Work Tech for Good – Health & Wellbeing, Accessibility & Inclusivity, Social Impact, Business and Government, Campaign of the Year Getmee AI
MyAMES Chat: Empowering Language, Literacy, and Employability Skills Through AI Innovation Government and Education Getmee and AMES Australia
Inclusee’s KIND Project Campaign of the Year Inclusee
Intopia Learn Tech for Good – Social Impact and Accessibility and Inclusivity Intopia
DEIR.AI Tech for Good – Social Impact and Accessibility and Inclusivity iSTEM Co. and DEIR
Jaimee AI Tech for Good – Social Impact Jaimee AI
Press Play Ventures – Pre-Accelerator Program for Women Education, Government, Business Jumpstart Studio, Vox360, NiceTo & Evander Strategy
Kaboose Tech for Good – Social Impact, Health & Wellbeing Kaboose
Kaleida’s Career Passport Business Kaleida
(1) Kinetic IT’s Katalyst Podcast: Women, Work and What’s Next, (2) Kinetic IT’s 2025 IWD Campaign, (3) Career Catalyst: Kinetic IT’s STEM Impact in Action, (4) Kinetic IT Belonging Framework Business, Campaign of the Year, Education Kinetic IT
Kismet Healthcare – Revolutionising access to
healthcare and disability services		 Tech for Good – Health & Wellbeing Kismet Healthcare
Code and Country: Kirra Academy’s Mission for Inclusive Tech Empowerment Tech for Good – Social Impact Kirra Services & Kirra Academy
(1) IT’s Her Future, KPMG and (2) KPMG’s 10by30 Initiative Education, Business and Tech for Good – Social Impact KPMG
Maestro – Reimagining the way the world works Business Maestro
Metluma Tech for Good – Health & Wellbeing Metluma
Mo Works: Flipping the narrative on vaping for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth Tech for Good – Health & Wellbeing and Campaign of the Year Mo Works, Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
(1) Wallara and Monash Mobile STEAM Maker Van Program and (2) Wallara and Monash STEAM Education Program for People with Disabilities Tech for Good – Accessibility and Inclusivity and Education Monash University and Wallara
Inclusion and Connection across generations – Motorola Solutions Young Professionals Group Business Motorola Solutions Australia
Nabu.ai – the digital health advocate for patients, carers and providers improving outcomes in complex care Tech for Good – Accessibility & Inclusivity and Health & Wellbeing Nabu.ai
See the Way: AR for Neurodivergent Commuters Tech for Good – Social Impact and Accessibility and Inclusivity NCS Australia
NSLHD Virtual Care and Hospital in the Home Services Tech for Good – Social Impact NSLHD Virtual Care Service and Stewart House
Democratising Leadership Development: Equity, Access and Impact at Scale Tech for Good – Accessibility & Inclusivity Peeplcoach
Building Inclusive Startup Pathways for Underrepresented Tech Founders Business Press Play Ventures
IT Engagement Club Business Probe CX
T-EDI Standards Business Project F Australia
(1) LGBTIQA+ 101: Queer Town’s Workplace Inclusion e-Learning Module, and (2) Queer Town: Supporting a Gender Transition at Novatti Tech for Good – Accessibility and Inclusivity and Business Queer Town
Red Dirt Robotics Tech for Good – Social Impact Red Dirt Robotics
RefugeesCode Melbourne Education RefugeesCode Melbourne
Technical Support Tech for Good – Social Impact Ryanair Airlines
SafeSpace@elevate Tech for Good – Social Impact SafeSpace@elevate
SAYFE Tech for Good – Health & Wellbeing, Accessibility & Inclusivity, Social Impact SAYFE
Chanel Roistacher Tech for Good – Accessibility & Inclusivity Services Australia
HyroBot Rumble Challenge
by STEM Hub: Accelerating
Diversity Through STEM		 Campaign of the Year and Education STEM Hub in collaboration with the Australian Grand Prix Corporation (event
partner) Sponsored by BAE Systems Australia
Telstra’s Inaugural Culture, Ethnicity and Race Action Plan Business Telstra
The Mindful CIO – Community & Podcast Tech for Good – Health & Wellbeing The Mindful CIO Community
BoostHer Education The University of Queensland and BoostHer
Changing the landscape Campaign of the Year Today, Our Watch, Women with Disabilities Victoria
Trideca’s Women in Technology Program Business Trideca
Understanding Zoe Untangling the Complexity of Neurodivergence Tech for Good – Health & Wellbeing, Social Impact, Accessibility & Inclusivity Understanding Zoe
No Money No Time – a website for those with limited resources to improve nutrition Tech for Good – Social Impact and Health & Wellbeing University of Newcastle
(1) UpLift AI: Empowering Mental Health for Lasting Social Impact, (2) UpLift AI: AI-Enhanced Mental Health Care for Government Debt Relief Programs, (3) UpLift AI: Mental Health Innovation for All Abilities and Identities, (4) UpLift AI: Inclusive Mental Health Innovation Tech for Good – Social Impact, Accessibility & Inclusivity, Health & Wellbeing and Government UpLift AI Group
Digital Accessibility and Inclusion Government Victorian Public Service -Enablers Network
Make it easy App Tech for Good – Social Impact and Accessibility and Inclusivity We Make It Easy
20 year’s of championing diversity Campaign of the Year Women 4 STEM
AI Amplified Academy by Year13, Microsoft and KPMG Education Year13, Microsoft and KPMG