Meet the CORE Start Mentors: Jasmin Ward, Nick Saunders and Bill Withers. Our highly experienced industry leaders and entrepreneurs in their own right work one-on-one with CORE Start participants to help further grow and scale their businesses.

Over the last six weeks, our five CORE Start founders and co-founders have not just worked in their businesses but have dedicated time to working on their businesses. With the guidance of mentors, advisors and industry professionals, CORE Start gives founders the opportunity to refine their ideas, products, services and their pitch.

That’s right! CORE Is growing and we are very excited to be on the lookout for not one but two new humans to join our team! This is your opportunity to join a small but highly innovative team in a rapidly growing organisation and play a significant role in CORE’s expansion.

It’s official! CORE Innovation Hub is attending the 2022 Pilbara Summit in Karratha this June.

We are even more excited to announce we are on the lookout for two businesses from our ecosystem to join our Innovation Zone and the Summit and exhibit their business for FREE! Find out more!

CORE is excited to announce our Newman site will be opening its doors in the Parnawarri Retail Centre on Lee Lane very soon!

Find out about the space, our foundation memberships, and how you can get coffee round the clock!

CORE kicked off the first round of CORE Start for 2022 recently and we are pleased to welcome 5 new businesses to the program. This cohort represents a diverse range of businesses with operations across the whole of the mining sector - from marketing to AI systems to improve sustainability to battery-powered wireless monitoring sensors, ion exchange technology with copper extraction application and a condition monitoring system that can be retro-fitted to any piece of machinery.

Join Rob Daw, Chief Innovation Officer of Hexagon Mining and learn more about how his team are helping to drive innovation in the energy and mining space. Be the first to hear about the latest project, Autonomous Road Trains and the potential value they can bring to the energy and mining industry.

Ahead of this month’s Tech Talk Tuesday, we sat down with Carlie Byrne, Principal Geophysicist at Rio Tinto to discuss why innovation is so important to both her role and to the future of energy and mining.

Austrade invites you to apply for their San Francisco Landing Pad Summer 2022 Cohort. This cohort will run from July 18 – October 18, 2022. Participants are encouraged to travel to the US and attend this Landing Pad cohort in person and take advantage of the physical space on offer.

With so much happening across Perth & Adelaide in the coming weeks, we thought we would share our curated list of events and networking opportunities in the mining and energy sector. 

CORE is very excited to share our plans to submit a tender to Operate and Activate a new Australian Autonomous Robotics Precinct (AARP) in Western Australia recently released by DevelopmentWA, in collaboration with the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation (JTSI). Find out how you can keep up to date.

Wednesday April 20 - Join Chief Scientist for South Australia, Professor Caroline McMillen, has extended an invite for South Australian businesses and stakeholders to attend an Industry Roundtable to learn more about the Commonwealth’s Cooperative Research Centre -Projects (CRC-P) Scheme.

Maxmine CEO, Coert du Plessis is often described as 100% passion and 100% relentless drive, making up the 200% energy needed to sustain lasting change. Ahead of his Tech Talk Tuesday presentation we sat down with him to take 5.

Attention Newman & Pilbara-based business! BHP has launched two new challenges seeking solutions for their Newman Operations and Port Hedland sites in Western Australia through the Supplier Innovation Program. Attend the Webinar Launch on Wednesday to find out more!

Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-Ps) are a federally funded grants program that provides industry-led collaborations with short term (up to three years) matched funding of up to $3 million to develop innovative technologies, products, and services.

There is a lot happening in the energy and mining space and across the innovation tech start-up space in the coming months. With so much opportunity for growth, expansion and even potential funding, we have rounded up some of the great events, courses, challenges and accelerator’s about to kick off.

Entrepreneurs, game-changers and challengers. Give your business a competitive advantage with CORE Start.

Join a FREE 3 month entrepreneurial mentorship program aimed at helping founders to effectively scale their business.

On International Women’s Day this year Melinda Hodkiewicz, based here in Perth, was announced as a finalist in the Australia/ NZ Women in AI awards, in the AI in manufacturing category. How does an engineer who cut her teeth as a metallurgist, operator and maintenance engineer and is now responsible for teaching Risk, Reliability, Maintenance and Safety to engineering students at the University of Western Australia find herself on this short list?

New businesses looking to take up desk tenancy in CORE Hub Perth may be eligible to receive a one-off payment of up to $1500 towards a working space lease agreement of 12 weeks or more through the CIty of Perth’s Small Business Bounce Back Scheme!

Today marks International Women’s Day - a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.

We celebrate the Hot 30 Women helping to #BreaktheBias by imagining a gender equal world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated.