Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) is excited to host ASCA Pitch Day 2025 on Monday 3 November 2025 in Sydney NSW.

The Pitch Day 2025 is an opportunity to hear from invited Australian organisations, academia and emerging innovators to present their groundbreaking ideas on the 2 themes to an esteemed judging panel.

The themes for the ASCA Pitch Day 2025 are: 

  • Theme 1: Power and Energy seeks innovative solutions on energy sources for deployable and fixed sites, and agile operation capabilities.
  • Theme 2: Acoustic Data Collection and Processing seeks innovative solutions on sensors, edge processing and high-performance computing for data processing.

Videos

Pitch presenters

Theme 1: Power and Energy
Company Name Pitch title State
3ME Technology BladeHAUL NSW
ABLO Consulting Australia Hybrid Electric Drive VIC
APC Technology Methanol Fuel Cell Generators for Defence SA
Aquila Space Technology  Deployable Wireless Energy: Lightway NSW
Carbon Project Australia HERMES VIC
Carnegie Clean Energy  Energy autonomy at sea WA
CSIRO Soldier-Carried Power System with Advanced Sensing and Control ACT
ecoJet Engineering Microturbine Inverter Genset SA
Emergent Group  Low observability, ultra-portable charging system NSW
Maetrium Mobile Autonomous Self-contained Storage And Retrieval System NSW
PELOS Group Directed energy charging for mission-critical power NSW
PRISM INERTIA PRISM INERTIA enginator & power conditioner NSW
QinetiQ Deployable Adaptive Smart Grid ACT
Sirius-beta Labs Quantum Digital Twins for Agile Rail QLD
Toshiba International Corporation Toshiba SCiBTM – Rapid, safe energy storage for deployed equipment NSW
Theme 2: Acoustic Data Collection and Processing
Company Name Pitch title State
Advitech Covert Acoustic Swarm Network for Maritime Threat Detection NSW
Aurizn Defence Self-contained Seabed Sensor SA
BitLogic Technolabs Autonomous Maritime Acoustic Sensing and Processing Network QLD
CSIRO Marine Acoustics at the Edge ACT
EPE Sensor Processing and Networking System QLD
Evolving Machine Intelligence MachineGenes QLD
Flowershift Exploitation of FADS and machine learned transmission loss VIC
Mercury Information Security Services The Aries Pathfinder AI NSW
Mission Systems Nautilus Distributed Acoustic Surveillance System NSW
MkIV Phase-Based Distributed Acoustic Sensing VIC
Mulga Hive Subsea Sentry QLD
NanoCube Acoustic Barrier Edge Intelligence VIC
PhoenixZ Cellular Acoustic Network with Single-Crystal Hydrophones NSW
PrioriAnalytica Acqua Signal SA
TKMS Sonartech Atlas DeepWatch NSW

Details

Date

3 November 2025,
9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Location

Sydney
New South Wales