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2025 Consensus Awards – Edition I Announced

IT’S A FACT: 9 out of 10 of the Winners of the Consensus Awards go on to become highly successful. The judges get it right, year after year, after year! If you wish to get recognition for your innovation and a leg-up, call us on +61 413 309 056. 

And the winners are ….

Edition I of the 2025 Consensus Awards were presented by (left) Claire Chandler, Senator for Tasmania along with (right) Consensus Awards Founder Julian Day

We announced two Consensus Innovation Awards, for Secure My Identity and Closed Loop Mining System plus a Notable Mention for Consensus GreenTech Award Entrant Solar(chi)tecture – click on the links to see the results!

Many thanks to Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer for hosting the event and thanks to Dentons Lawyers for hosting the judging days.

We successfully stepped it up and ran the Consensus Awards twice in 2024 and are doing the same again this year. Quite an accomplishment in our 26th year! We are the ONLY technology awards worldwide run twice a year. So feel free to contact us at any stage through the year to nominate your Australian or New Zealand innovations for review by our judges.

The timeline for Edition II of the 2025 Consensus Awards is as follows:

2025 Edition II
Close of EntriesEnd of October
JudgingEarly November
Announcements & PresentationsWeek Commencing 8th December

2024 Consensus Awards – Edition II

The prestigious Awards below were presented in December 2024, sponsored by CampusQ and hosted at Easts Leagues Club.

We announced two Winners of Consensus Awards – one Consensus EdTech Award, one Consensus FinTech Award, and one highly commended Consensus Innovation Award – click on the links to see the results! Plus the “Kester” Lifetime Achievement Award along with the Consensus IT Writers Awards.

Many thanks to CampusQ for their sponsorship of the event and thanks to Dentons Lawyers for hosting the judging days.

Many thanks to the enigmatic Emmanuel Constantinou, President of Bondi & Districts Chamber of Commerce for being our Master of Ceremonies.

2004 Consensus Awards – Edition I Announced

Edition One of the 2024 Consensus Awards were presented by (right) Senator The Hon Jonathan Duniam, Shadow Minister for Environment, Fisheries & Forestry on 22nd July, along with (left) Consensus Founder Julian Day.

We announced three Winners of Consensus Awards – two Consensus Innovation Awards, one Consensus MedTech Award, and one highly commended Consensus Software Award – click on the above Awards pages to see the results!

Many thanks to Herbert Smith Freehills for hosting the event and thanks to Dentons Lawyers for hosting the judging days.

2023 Consensus Awards – Announced

The 2023 Consensus Awards were presented by (left front) The Hon Ed Husic, Minister for Industry & Science on 24th August.

After a 2 year hiatus due to Covid-19, the Consensus Awards were held again this year. We started in 2000 – we are now going into our 24th year of identifying and awarding the most innovative technologies in Australia & New Zealand across the following Awards Programs.  We will be running the Consensus Awards twice in 2024.

Consensus Awards are the most successful innovation awards in the world with 9 out of 10 winners going on to enjoy worldwide success. We have more than 160 judges who have conducted more than 1,200 evaluations of innovation over the last 25 years! Well known Atlassian & WiseTech Global are just two of over 200 winners.

2023 CONSENSUS AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED

August 2023: We announced the six Winners of the 2023 Consensus Awards, plus 2 Highly Commended – one Consensus Software Award, three Consensus Innovation Awards, one Consensus GreenTech Award, and one Consensus EdTech Award. – click on the Awards pages to see the results! Many thanks to Phil Redding for being the MC for the evening.

Thanks to Dentons Lawyers and MIP – The Data Company for hosting the judging days.

 

2023 CONSENSUS IT WRITERS AWARDS ANNOUNCED

August 2023: We announced the many Winners of the 2023 Consensus IT Writers Awards, plus the prestigious “Kester” Lifetime Achievement Award. Consensus IT Writers Awards

 

2020 CONSENSUS AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED

October 2020: We announced the two Winners of the 2020 Consensus Awards – one Consensus Software Award and one Consensus Innovation Award – click on the Awards pages to see the results!

GLOBAL MANAGEMENT CHALLENGE

Consensus runs the World’s Largest Strategy & Management Competition, the Global Management Challenge in Australia & New Zealand. Started in Portugal 40 years ago, it is run in 30+ countries with the winner of each country competing to be the world-wide Winner. Entries are now open for any team of 3-5 people to enter the 2023 Global Management Challenge.

Team Alvarium from the Australian Graduate School of Management at University of New South Wales were the Australian Winner of the 2022 Global Management Challenge. They are pictured below with (left) Julian Day, Founder and CEO, and (right) Len Norman, GMC Program Manager of Consensus.