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Tag: Energy / Renewables

Exploring Beyond Zero Emissions’ National Action Plan [webinar]

Beyond Zero Emissions’ will be presenting the latest progress on the National Action Plan, a place-based framework for assessing regional readiness and accelerating Australia’s clean energy transition.

This webinar will include an overview of the NAP’s approach to assessing and guiding regional readiness for clean industry development. They will be sharing early findings from two new Western Australian locations currently being assessed under the NAP framework, giving you a first look at what clean industry readiness looks like on the ground in WA.

Whether you’re in regional planning, industry, policy, or community advocacy, this is your chance to engage directly with the work and ask questions of the BZE team.

Everyone’s Climate Series: Risk, Responsibility & Reputation

Risk, Responsibility & Reputation is the second event in the Everyone’s Climate Series, presented by WA Climate Leaders in partnership with Solutions for Climate WA. It highlights the line in the sand facing WA business: on risk, on legal exposure, and on the financial cost of inaction.

Approved by the Legal Practice Board of WA – 1 CPD point – this conversation will feature an expert panel or speakers, and will examine:

  • What climate impacts WA is already experiencing — and how they will intensify
  • How that translates to economic risk, community disruption, insurance exposure and biodiversity loss
  • The clean energy transition opportunity still on the table in WA
  • Current and emerging legal considerations for WA businesses including implications of the ICJ Advisory opinion on Obligations of States in Respect to Climate Change
  • How directors’ duties are evolving
  • What this means for personal wealth and investment portfolios
  • What legacy WA’s business leaders will leave if they sit on their hands

Read more about our speakers and event here: https://www.ticketswa.com/event/everyones-climate-series

DEADLINE: CORE Start Program

CORE Start is a fully supported, six-month entrepreneurial development program for founders and innovators in Australia’s energy and resources sectors — at any stage of commercialisation.

Through structured workshops, expert mentoring, and access to CORE’s innovation ecosystem and infrastructure, participants build the commercial skills to move from idea to market-ready opportunity.

Designed for founders and innovators working in Australia’s energy and resources sectors — including clean energy, critical minerals, advanced manufacturing, automation, robotics, and industrial decarbonisation — the program delivers the four things that move an innovation from idea to market-ready opportunity: capability, mentoring, ecosystem, and infrastructure.

ON Prime 19 Showcase

The CSIRO ON Prime program equips publicly funded researchers with the tools to uncover where their science can create the greatest real-world impact.

Through this fast-paced, hands-on program, teams engage directly with customers, challenge their assumptions, and identify the most promising pathways forward. The Showcase event marks the culmination of the nine week program, where graduating teams present how they are translating their work towards real-world impact, including the progress made in the program as well as a peek into what they are planning next. It’s also a great opportunity for interested researchers to come and hear more about the program!

  • Meet the teams shaping the future across health, mining, agriculture, and more

  • Hear rapid-fire presentations as researchers translate cutting-edge science into real-world solutions

  • Connect with innovators spanning industry, investment, government and research

  • See how ON Prime works in action, building momentum from early insight to impact pathways

  • Play a role in what happens next – your connections and perspectives could help unlock the next opportunity

Whether you’re from industry, government, research or the investment community, or simply curious about the future of Australian science – you’re invited to be part of it.

DEADLINE: Slingshot 2026 Pitch Competition

Applications are now open for Singapore’s premier deep tech startup competition SLINGSHOT 2026, now in its landmark 10th edition.

Taking place at the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) from 27th–29th October, SLINGSHOT brings together breakthrough founders with leading investors across five categories:

  • Advanced Computing and Intelligence
  • Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Systems
  • Digital Technologies and Security
  • Environment, Energy and Sustainability
  • Health and Biomedical

Top 50 Global Startups will connect with key decision-makers across the global startup ecosystem through a sponsored trip to Singapore to pitch live during SWITCH. Winners can receive over S$2M in grant prizes and showcase their breakthrough innovation to global investors, corporates and industry leaders.

If you are building in any of these spaces and ready to put your company in front of a global audience in Singapore, applications are open until the 30th of June.

Supercharge Australia Incubator #2 Pitch Day

Join us for the Supercharge Australia Incubator #2 Pitch Day, showcasing the next generation of battery and electrification innovators shaping Australia’s energy future.

These companies are tackling the full lithium battery value chain – the materials that go in, the chemistry that makes them safer and longer-lasting, the systems that track health across an entire lifecycle, the infrastructure that lets EVs feed power back into the grid, and the manufacturing capability that keeps more of this value onshore.

7th Australia-Korea New Energy Forum

Invest and Trade Western Australia (WA) is proudly supporting 7th Australia-Korea New Energy Forum, presented by the Australia-Korea Business Council in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea.

Under the theme, ‘A Future Made in Australia: From shared vision to joint action with Korea in the new energy era’, the forum will bring together government and industry leaders to strengthen collaboration across the global energy transition.

As home to some of the best renewable energy sources in the world, including rich reserves of critical minerals, WA continues to play a key role in powering innovation, supporting the transition to new energy, and strengthening long-term international collaboration, including with partners such as Korea.

Learn more and register via the Australia-Korea Business Council website

WA HSA Site Tour: Baden Engineering Facility Via Online Composite Engineering

The Hydrogen Society of Australia (HSA) WA Chapter invites you to attend an exclusive industry presentation and facility tour hosted by Online Composite Engineering (OCE), a Western Australian specialist engineering company delivering advanced carbon fibre composite repair technologies to critical industries across Australia.

Operating across the Mining & Resources, Oil & Gas, Water Utilities, Chemical Processing, and Heavy Industrial sectors, OCE provides innovative engineering solutions that enable damaged pipelines, tanks, pressure systems, and structural assets to be rehabilitated while remaining operational. By avoiding full shutdowns and intrusive replacement works, these technologies can significantly reduce downtime, improve safety outcomes, and extend long-term asset performance.

Attendees will gain insight into how advanced composite engineering systems are being applied in real-world industrial environments to support safer, more sustainable, and cost-effective asset management strategies.

DEADLINE: DEED Community Engagement Officer (PoweringWA)

This role plays a key part in building and maintaining strong relationships with communities, businesses, organisations, government and industry to support the delivery of key initiatives. You will contribute to effective communication, engagement strategies, and the coordination of stakeholder insights that inform decision-making and project outcomes. As part of a high-performing team, you will assist with the planning and delivery of engagement activities, development of communication materials, and management of stakeholder information systems.

 

BrewHub and Connect – June

Join us for our June edition of our Brew Hub and Connect networking event at the AARP – featuring Robotic Systems.

This morning tea-style event is a fantastic opportunity to meet and connect with current AARP Users, key stakeholders and the broader robotics and innovation ecosystem. There will also be a tour of the AARP HQ facility as part of the event.

About Robotic Systems
Founded in Newcastle and now with a presence in Perth,  Robotic Systems  is an industrial design, development, and manufacturing business. We partner with mines and mining equipment manufacturers to design and manufacture advanced operational technology products. Our team specializes in precision sensing, control systems, and automation solutions that address complex challenges in harsh in-mine environments. With a proven track record of delivering production-ready technologies used globally, we help the mining industry improve safety, productivity, and operational performance.

About the Speaker: Will Brentson, Head of Advanced Technology
Will Brentson leads Robotic Systems’ newly established Western Australia division. He brings over 15 years of experience in the mining sector, including 10 years in operations roles. Prior to joining Robotic Systems, Will held leadership positions across the mining technology landscape, including eight years at Fortescue and serving as Regional Manager at Weir, where he led the APAC Motion Metrics division and drove advancements in mining intelligent-vision technologies. With a background in large-scale deployment, mining automation, and frontier hardware systems, Will now oversees Robotic Systems’ WA operations.