Partners
Partners play a hands-on role in our prizes—co-designing competitions, supporting operations, and helping scale solutions with their expertise, resources, and global reach.



New Harvest is a nonprofit research institute that funds and conducts open, public cultured meat research. Established in 2004, New Harvest is the world's oldest research institute dedicated exclusively to cellular agriculture. Its targeted, people-focused funding is designed to foster technical leadership, build scientific infrastructure, and address knowledge gaps. New Harvest's mission to maximize the positive impact of cellular agriculture, ensuring that the burgeoning industry delivers on its promises to reduce our dependence on animal agriculture and the heavy toll of protein production on the environment and public health.

Nexen Energy ULC is an upstream oil and gas company responsibly developing energy resources in the UK North Sea, offshore West Africa, the United States and Western Canada. A wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited Nexen has three principal businesses: conventional oil and gas, oil sands, and shale gas / oil. For information, visit www.nexencnoocltd.com.


NAMS is the only professional society in North America that promotes all aspects of membrane science and technology. This ranges from fundamental studies of membrane material science to process application and development.

The NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) is the lead combat agency for bush fires in NSW. For over 100 years NSW has been a significant part of the history and landscape of NSW. Working closely with other agencies they respond to a range of emergencies including structure fires, motor vehicle accidents and storms that occur within rural fire districts.

Ocean Conservancy advocates for sustainable solutions informed by science and our commitment to future generations. From the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico to the halls of Congress, we make ocean issues accessible and engaging, bringing science, action and communications together to facilitate change and protect the ocean for future generations. We recognize and understand the importance of balancing competing ocean interests and helping marine ecosystems adapt to a changing environment. As the political climate evolves, our depth of experience leaves us poised to address new challenges and continue our legacy of success.


Ocean Protocol Foundation aims to make data universally available for the benefit of humankind. The Foundation provides governance to build a thriving ecosystem for data sharing and sets guidance for technologies that can power a new data economy. The Ocean network is a decentralized data exchange protocol that enables the sharing of data while guaranteeing control, auditability, transparency and compliance for all actors. The network empowers developers and curators to create new and innovative data services, while protecting data owners. The Foundation is a non-profit entity based in Singapore.

Ocean Visions is a consortium of leading US oceanographic and academic institutions working in partnership with diverse members of the private sector to catalyze science and engineering research and innovation into real-world applications and scalable solutions to address the growing crisis in our oceans and climate.
The mission of the Ocean Visions Network is to identify, evaluate, develop, test, demonstrate and ultimately deploy equitable, durable, and scalable solutions to the ocean’s most pressing environmental challenges. The Network brings together diverse institutions and sectors with a common interest in ocean solutions.

Oceana was established in 2001 by a group of leading foundations — The Pew Charitable Trusts, Oak Foundation, Marisla Foundation (formerly Homeland Foundation), and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
In 1999, these foundations commissioned a study and discovered that less than 0.5 percent of all resources spent by environmental nonprofit groups in the United States went to ocean advocacy — an appalling statistic. No organization was working exclusively to protect and restore the oceans on a global scale.
To fill the gap, our founders created Oceana: an international organization focused solely on oceans, dedicated to achieving measurable change by conducting specific, science-based campaigns with fixed deadlines and articulated goals.
The Ocean Law Project — also initiated by The Pew Charitable Trusts — was absorbed into Oceana in 2001 as Oceana’s legal arm. In 2002, Oceana merged with American Oceans Campaign, founded by actor and environmentalist Ted Danson, to more effectively address our common mission of protecting and restoring the world’s oceans.
Since its founding, Oceana has won more than 200 victories and protected more than 3.5 million square miles of ocean.

One World One Ocean Foundation contributes to film, television, social media, and educational programs to inspire, educate, and connect millions of people worldwide toward a common purpose: protect and restore the health of the ocean. The cornerstone of our philosophy is the belief that eco-literacy and lifelong learning is critical to an individual’s development and important to inspiring people to become bold, passionate ocean ambassadors. We aim for a world of educated people who appreciate and advocate for the ocean, and realize that this One World and One Ocean need our protection.

Onshape is a cloud-based computer-aided design (CAD) software that facilitates global design collaboration.
Twitter: @OnShape

Open Photonics Inc. (OPI) accelerates early-stage product development, innovation and research and development for global clients that seek photonic based solutions as part of their strategy and product roadmap. Open Photonics manages a completely new type of open innovation and crowd-sourcing grant program, Photonic Horizons™, to harvest technology and new product ideas sitting dormant within garages, universities or small companies and matches them with more established companies looking to bring these ideas to market via their established processes and channels. OPI only engages clients and projects encompassing the commercialization of photonics technologies.

Today, biologists spend too much time pipetting by hand. We think biologists should have robots to do pipetting for them. People doing science should be free of tedious benchwork and repetitive stress injuries. They should be able to spend their time designing experiments and analyzing data. That's why we started Opentrons. We make robots for biologists. Our mission is to provide the scientific community with a common platform to easily share protocols and reproduce each other's results. Our robots automate experiments that would otherwise be done by hand, allowing our community to spend more time pursuing answers to some of the 21st century’s most important questions. For more information visit https://opentrons.com/

NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) is a federal laboratory that makes critical observations and conducts groundbreaking research to advance our knowledge of the global ocean and its interactions with the earth, atmosphere, ecosystems, and climate. PMEL’s mission is to a) observe, analyze, and predict oceanic and atmospheric phenomena, b) lead the development and deployment of innovative technologies, c) identify and understand ocean-related issues of major consequence, and d) inform society with well-documented, high quality science. Key research areas at PMEL include ocean acidification, tsunami detection and forecasting, hydrothermal vent systems, fisheries oceanography, and long term climate monitoring and analysis.

Palate was founded to create a net zero, animal-friendly world.
Many people are excited by the potential of sustainable foods to slow climate change and end factory farming. Despite this, slowing industry growth clearly indicates that inspiring consumers to change their eating habits would require better products.
The food industry has been stuck with the same product feedback tools that have existed since 1980 - think white rooms, two-way mirrors, and a burger patty served through a slot. Not only are these methods inauthentic to how people experience food, they’re expensive and slow-moving. Many brands have been priced out entirely and resorted to testing primarily with small, biased samples of friends or employees.
Palate is different. We’re revolutionizing product feedback with authentic, agile approaches that help sustainable food brands build better products faster.

Pan Pacific Hotels Group is a global hospitality company that owns and/or manages more than 50 hotels, resorts and serviced suites across three brands – “Pan Pacific”, PARKROYAL COLLECTION, and PARKROYAL – encompassing 30 cities across Asia Pacific, North America and Europe.
PARKROYAL COLLECTION Hotels and Resorts is driven by a passion for life, PARKROYAL COLLECTION’s iconic properties are sustainable hotels. The hotels offer iconic nature-driven design, eco-wellness and refreshing lifestyle luxury, inspiring everyone who steps through our doors to live life to the fullest. Visit www.panpacific.com.