The winners of the 2024 Geospatial Excellence Award Winners for Victoria were announced at a gala occasion in Melbourne last Friday.
These annual awards celebrate achievements and innovations by individuals and organisations across Victoria’s geospatial sector, and cover a wide variety of topics and themes within the field.
The winners are as follows:
- Environment & Sustainability Award: Nova Systems Australia and New Zealand and the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) for their Native Vegetation Regulation Map.
- Community Impact Award: The Department of Transport and Planning and Esri for their School Crossing Risk Assessment Framework.
- Innovation Award (Medium to Large Businesses): FrontierSI, RMIT University, the Department of Transport and Planning, and SmartSat CRC for Dynamic Vicmap.
- Innovation Award (Small Business): Esper Satellite Imagery for ‘Over The Rainbow,’ Australia’s first commercial EO Sat.
- International Partnership Award: Spatial Vision for their Pacific Islands Geospatial Skills Development Program.
- Technical Excellence Award: DEECA, 1Spatial, Spatial Partners Pty Ltd, Jirotech, CSIRO, Spatial Vision, GeoCat bv, Datacom, and AWS for DEECA’s Enterprise Spatial Data Platform Transformation.
- Workforce Development and Inclusion Award: Australian Spatial Analytics for Acciona: Employment transition program for geospatial and digital engineering.
- Postgraduate Student Award: Foad Brakhasi
- Undergraduate Student Award: Rebecca Thomas
- Future Leader of the Year Award: Ben Vordermaier
- Professional of the Year Award: Bruce Baker
- Educational Development Award: Qian (Chayn) Sun
The following special awards were also presented:
- Excellence in Geographic Place Naming Award: Bass Coast Shire Council and Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation for their excellence in the naming process of Berninneit Community Centre; and Mildura Rural City Council and Mildura Historical Society for their excellence in the process of naming several roads after pioneering Mildura women.
- Sustained Excellence in Cadastral Surveying Award: Neville Brayley
- Vicmap Custodian Award: Alpine Resorts Victoria
The awards ceremony was held following the annual one-day Victorian Geospatial Conference at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre.
There are plenty more GCA state-based conferences and awards ceremonies coming up, as follows:
- 16 August – Spatial Information Day in Adelaide
- 30 August – 2024 NSW Geospatial Excellence Awards in Sydney
- 5 September – 2024 Queensland Geospatial Conference & Excellence Awards in Brisbane
- 20 September – 2024 Tasmanian Geospatial Conference & Excellence Awards in Launceston
- 11 October – 2024 North Queensland Geospatial Conference in Cairns
- 8 November – 2024 Western Australian Geospatial Conference & Excellence Awards in Perth
- 21 November – 2024 ACT Geospatial Conference & Excellence Awards in Canberra
And you can find many more industry events listed on our Events page.
