2024 Queensland award recipients announced

By jnally on 9 September, 2024

The recipients of the Geospatial Council of Australia’s (GCA) 2024 Geospatial Excellence Award Winners for Queensland have been announced.

The awards were presented during a gala ceremony at the conclusion of the GCA Queensland Conference on Thursday, 16 September.

The recipients are as follows:

Environment & Sustainability Award: The Wilderness Society, for Watch on Nature.
Community Impact Award: Jacobs, for the Arts Queensland Cultural Centre.
Innovation Award (Medium to Large Businesses): Australian Spatial Analytics, for its Talent Services (Employment Transition Program).
Innovation Award (Small Business): Locatrix, NSW Police, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services and Queensland Police Service, for the Emergency Services Platform.
Technical Excellence Award: Cancer Council Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology, for the Australian Cancer Atlas 2.0.
Workforce Development and Inclusion Award: Australian Spatial Analytics and the Department of Resources (Queensland), for the Department of Resources: Employment Transition Program for geospatial data analysts.
Postgraduate Student Award: Sijan Bhandari
Diversity and Inclusion Award: Geoffrey Smith (Australian Spatial Analytics)
Future Leader of the Year Award: Ben Gan

All recipients are eligible for the prestigious Oceanic awards competition, the recipients of which will be announced during the Locate Conference, to be held in Brisbane from 6 to 10 April 2025.

You can check out the recipients of the recent Victorian, South Australian and New South Wales awards, too.

The next state-based awards event will be held during the 2024 Tasmanian Geospatial Conference & Excellence Awards in Launceston Friday, 20 September.

And the following state and territory events will round out the year: