2015 Winnovation Award Winners

Congratulations to all of the highly innovative women who were finalists in the 2015 Winnovation Awards!!

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Nicole Pratt

Nicole helped develop a detection tool for the field of medicine testing. The rapid signal detection tool can be used across multiple data sets in multiple countries, potentially helping millions of people avoid serious side effects of some medici...

Award Category 2015 Science

Emily Rich

Emily developed computer vision technologies that allow anybody to train cameras to recognise, detect and identify objects; with one current application being work in the conservation of the orangutan in Borneo. This is the only computer vision so...

Award Category 2015 Technology

Karen Nelson-Field

Karen has helped advertisers around the world to better navigate the social web and understand the power of creating emotionally engaging content built for sharing.

Award Category 2015 Engineering

Simone Kain

Simone’s innovation – the educational character ‘George the Farmer’ – aims to teach children about farming practices along with food and fibre production.

Award Category 2015 Arts

Sam Moyle

Sam is the creator of Project Igloo, a STEAM, challenge-based learning task for secondary students. It yields a 4m diameter igloo and enables students to use technology to conceptualise the igloo with apps to meet an engineering design brief.

Award Category 2015 Maths

Amber Cordeaux

Amber transformed community TV station Channel 44, and for the past 3 years has been the youngest TV station manager in Australian history, and one of only two females in the top job. She's taken the station from analogue to digital play-out, rest...

Award Category 2015 Open & Arts

Nayana Parange

Nayana led the development of an education and training model to help upskill midwives and GPs caring for Aboriginal women in remote locations. This enables them to provide life-saving ultrasound services to patients who would otherwise not have a...

Award Category 2015 Regional Rural and Remote

Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA)

Karen Brown

The Women Influencing Agribusiness and Regions (WIAR) Strategy, a first in Australia, aims to raise the profile of agribusiness and the important contributions being made by women.

Award Category 2015 Innovative Women's Initiative in Business