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About the awards

The Innovation PNG Awards have been created to celebrate and encourage innovation in PNG businesses and organisations.

Award categories
Timed to coincide with the 2025 Innovation PNG Conference (to be held at the Stanley Hotel, Port Moresby on 28 March 2025), five awards will be made in 2025:

  1. The Innovation PNG Award for Small Business (open to businesses with less than 10 employees)
  2. The Innovation PNG Award for Large Business (open to businesses with 10 employees or more)
  3. The Innovation PNG Award for Digital Government (open to government agencies and departments)
  4. The Innovation PNG Award for Female Innovator of the Year (open to female innovators from any sector)
  5. The Innovation PNG Award for Young Innovator of the Year (open to innovators from any sector, aged 21 years or under on 27 February 2025)

Judging
They will be judged by an independent panel. In submitting your entry, you acknowledge that the judges' decisions are final.

How to enter
To enter the 2025 Innovation PNG Awards, simply tell us about your innovation by answering the questions below. (You'll have the chance to upload some additional information or images if you want.)

You have until 5pm (Port Moresby time) on Thursday 20 February 2025 to enter. Late entries will not be considered.

Winner/shortlist announcements

The shortlists for each of the five awards will be announced at a special Women in Tech event in Port Moresby on Thursday 27 February.

The five winners - one for each category - will be announced at the Innovation PNG Gala Awards Dinner on 27 March 2025. Winners will receive 2 tickets to the Gala Awards dinner, a unique crystal glass winner's trophy, and have the chance to speak at Innovation PNG 2025 about their innovation.

Innovation PNG 2025 is co-hosted by the Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Business Advantage International.

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* 1. For which award are you entering? (check all relevant boxes)

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* 2. Briefly, what is your innovation? (It could be an invention, a piece of technology, a new way of doing things in your organisation, a new product or service, or a new business for PNG.)

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* 3. What problem was your innovation designed to solve?

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* 4. What was the impact of your innovation - on your own organisation and/or your clients? (Provide evidence that the problem was solved, or partly solved here.)

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* 5. What's the future for this innovation? Where could it take your organisation, or other organisations in PNG, in the future?

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* 6. Any other information you want to share about your innovation? You can upload supporting documentation (eg brochures, photos, designs, drawings, references from users etc) here

PDF, DOC, DOCX, PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF file types only.

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* 7. Please provide your contact details

Thanks, your application is now complete. You'll be hearing from us soon.
Gala Awards Dinner

The winners of the 2025 Innovation PNG Awards will be announced at a special Gala Dinner on Thursday 27 March 2025 at the Stanley Hotel, Port Moresby on the eve of the 2025 Innovation PNG conference (Friday 28 March), at the same venue.

To reserve tickets for the dinner and/or conference, and find out more about Innovation PNG, visit www.innovationpng.com.
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