Now in its 19th year, the Western Australia's Innovators of the Year Awards 2025 program showcases and supports local innovative and entrepreneurial individuals, businesses and creative minds.
The Rio Tinto Growth category is awarded to a Western Australian winner and runner-up who have developed an outstanding innovative product, technology, process, or service that is post-revenue. The innovations must also clearly demonstrate an economic, social and/or environmental benefit to Western Australia.
The winner of the Rio Tinto Growth category will be awarded a cash prize of $60,000 while the runner-up will receive a cash prize of $15,000.
Greenroom Robotics
Winner
GAMA - Greenroom Advanced Maritime Autonomy
Greenroom Robotics builds the software backbone for maritime autonomy to deliver Safe, Clean, and Protected oceans. GAMA is our upgrade for boats: a software-first, hardware-agnostic platform that lets existing and new vessels operate remotely or autonomously. Think of it as Android for boats.
Operating as a ‘team’ with human crews, GAMA handles the grind, raising vigilance, shrinking human error, while cutting fuel and emissions through precise control and smarter routing. Designed for dual use, it is proving itself across offshore energy, transport, and naval operations. The result is practical innovation that makes the ocean safer, cleaner, and better protected.
Hayes Recycling
Runner-Up
Recycling the unrecyclable: Western Australia’s subsea umbilical, riser and flowlines
Paul and Chris Coyte are Co-founders and Directors of Hayes Recycling, a company specializing in the recycling of end of life, subsea pipelines. These subsea pipelines are designed to be near indestructible, making them incredibly difficult to recycle at scale. This groundbreaking, proprietary recycling technology, extracts the various polymer and metals from within the pipelines enabling them to be recycled. With a minimum recycling rate of 95%, the technology that Paul and Chris co-developed sets a new standard for sustainable innovation in Australia, supporting the circular economy.
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