2024 State Winners - VIC

Empowered Women in Trades is a social enterprise that is helping champion tradeswomen, diversity, and gender equality. 

By collaborating with educational institutions and industry leaders it strives to help empower women and non-binary individuals to pursue and excel in careers across the trade sector.

The Conversation is a global knowledge project, driven by a powerful combination of technology, academic expertise, and journalistic know-how. 

Through a network of newsrooms across Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, and beyond, its on a mission to bring together universities and journalists to produce and disseminate free, independent, and fact-based journalism. 

Founded by Clinical Psychologist and Director Frances Bilbao, Mums Matter Psychology is a leading perinatal psychology practice that provides specialised, affordable, and accessible psychological therapy to help support women's mental health during the transition to parenthood.

MakerX seamlessly combines technology, innovation, and business acumen to build successful digital products for start-ups, corporates, and venture builders. 

Its decades of experience developing mobile and web applications, cloud infrastructure, product strategies and more, offer clients an end-to-end digital business building capability. 

Foundations Family Day Care is a First Nations family-owned and operated service, that prides itself on supporting and encouraging children to be themselves, to belong to their family and community, and to chase after their dreams.

iBuild Building Solutions specialises in the design, manufacturing, and delivery of high-quality flat pack homes and prefabricated buildings. 

With a focus on providing sustainable and affordable living solutions for all, its products include kit homes, granny flats, modular buildings, and steel structure.

Nationwide Waste Solutions solves waste management needs quickly and professionally and aims to enhance the profitability of Australian businesses by minimising waste and maximising materials recovery. 

It offers several solution-based facility services, including specialist services such as liquid waste removal and medical waste removal.