***• Melbourne City Council*** ***Fishermans Bend Challenge***

Voting by the public opens at 7 pm on Thursday 15 August 2024 in Melbourne City Council’s Fishermans Bend Challenge.

Voting continues for two weeks, to Thursday 29 August 2024.

Anyone inside or out of the pitch venue at Fishermans Bend may vote for their choice of three finalists who will pitch their projects.

Melbourne City Council says of the project:

“Fishermans Bend is Australia’s largest urban renewal project covering approximately 480 hectares in the heart of Melbourne.

By 2050 it will be a bustling precinct, home to approximately 80,000 residents and provide employment for up to 80,000 people.

This urban renewal project provides an exciting opportunity to collaboratively explore how we can harness data and emerging technologies to enable our city spaces to thrive now and into the future.

City of Melbourne invited entrepreneurs, individuals, universities, researchers, startup, scaleups and organisations to submit their creative applications of data and technology to harness opportunities and solve challenges in future city spaces like Fishermans Bend.

The theme for 2024 is A Regenerative City and respondents submitted ideas as a response to the following challenge statement:

How might technology and data enable city spaces to be more resource efficient, circular, resilient and healthy?

A record-breaking 33 submissions were received, with the judges undertaking the hard task of narrowing the top three ideas as finalists.

On 15 August, in front of a live and online audience, these three ideas will be pitched in front of the judges and community. The winner will receive $90,000 to work with City of Melbourne to bring their idea to life in 2025.

For those unable to attend the Pitch Night in person, a livestream will be available here on 15 August.

• To vote when voting opens at 7 pm Thursday 15 August for the three pitches just click on the image of the pitches shown above.

by

Michael Mobbs

DISCLOSURE: Michael Mobbs is a collaborator with Upsoil Collective, one of the three pitch presenters