As well as being on an organiser of the challenge, Australian Anthill is one of our key media sponsors. Anthill’s objective is to bring together ideas, money and skills, thereby accelerating the growth of Australian entrepreneurial businesses. Visit the Anthill website at www.anthillonline.com

CitiPower and Powercor have been leaders of Australian innovation since establishing the eighthgate innovation program in 2002. eighthgate is a conduit for unlocking and fostering innovative thinking, and converting that thinking into wealth for CitiPower and Powercor.

eighthgate sets CitiPower and Powercor aside from others in the electricity distribution industry. It ensures their future by attracting and energising the best people. It is centred on results that are valued by customers, stakeholders, shareholders and employees. Above all it focuses on implementing innovative solutions to guarantee the quality and reliability of power supply to CitiPower and Powercor's customers in Melbourne and throughout Victoria. http://www.powercor.com.au/  

Ivoke have the expertise and know how to expand, build on, and shape ideas into tangible, innovative products and services. Ivoke assists teams to assemble ideas by visualising concepts, building demonstrators and testing ideas before the real investment begins. We will provide your team with results to support your business case and help describe your innovation so it appeals to market desires and exhibits an opportunity to investors. We employ best practice research, visual communication and 3D development tools to explore and fully develop your projects, and to detail your products. www.ivoke.com.au

Mindwerx is a leading international provider of creativity and innovation training. Mindwerx is playing a key role in (re)innovate challenge by providing a series of online workshops to help potential entrants develop great ideas. For more information about Mindwerx head to www.mindwerx.com 

InnoFuture is an annual, world-class business innovation conference. InnoFuture 2008 is being held in Melbourne on 9-10 September. Last year’s conference was so good we highly recommend you book this in your diary! Visit the InnoFuture website at www.innofuture.com.au

The Australian Institute for Commercialisation helps business, research organisations and governments convert their ideas into successful outcomes. The AIC will be playing a crucial role at the end of (re)innovate challenge by helping successful teams commercialise their business plans. Visit the AIC website at www.ausicom.com 

Do you want to turbo-charge the creative thinking abilities of your organisation? At Inventium, we help companies all around the world through training them in the tools and techniques that are critical to generating great ideas (not just mediocre ones) that help them solve problems and remain several steps ahead of their key competitors. Quite simply, we turn our clients into creative thinking dynamos. For more information on how we can turn you into a creative thinking dynamo, and help you build a culture that supports innovation, visit our website: www.inventium.com.au

Publicity Queen is Australia's leading public relations specialist for start-up and small businesses right through to fast-growth companies and multimillion dollar enterprises - and guarantees 100% value on its services. Publicity Queen has its own trademarked PR methodology, TRUEpublicity, that leverages four channels to generate publicity. With presence along the eastern seaboard, we have PUblicity Queens who can manage your PR requirements in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Our well-established PR expertise helps companies grow - and we do it by focusing on two core PR marketing strategies: Branding and Bottom-line.

CRE8BIZ works with lateral thinkers to screen, develop and create exceptional future products, technologies and businesses. They provide quick and professional integrated business services, which simplify and systematise the innovation and commercialisation processes for all inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs who have an exciting new idea for the world. They will be playing an important role at the end of (re)innovate challenge by helping successful teams with key aspects of their innovation. www.cre8biz.com.au 

Strategyn is a global leader in innovation management and a pioneer in Outcome-Driven Innovation®. Strategyn’s methodology transforms the front end of innovation from a random, unstructured process into a lean, linear, and predictable discipline. For more information visit www.strategyn.com

Industry Development Centre (Hunter) Ltd is a not-for-profit organisation specialising in innovation services to help Australia’s inventors and innovative small businesses evaluate, develop, protect and commercialise new ideas. Each year IDC provides assistance to over 1500 innovators from across Australia. For more information visit www.idc-hunter.org.au

The Western Sydney IT Cluster is an industry development program of the NSW Department of State and Regional Development, with more than 300 registered members and a network of more than 2000 firms. The IT Cluster aims to raise awareness of the IT capability of the region; accelerate adoption and diffusion of new technologies both within the IT industry in the Western Sydney region, and between the IT industry and other industry sectors, particularly other high technology sectors; and strengthen the research base of the IT industry in the region. www.wsitc.com.au

Biolytix Water…innovators in wastewater management

Biolytix observed that in nature the fastest decomposition occurred on dry land. This is because decomposer organisms require oxygen to thrive. By understanding the importance of this they turned wastewater treatment on its head. Biolytix engineered an ecosystem in a tank, where up to a billion living organisms break down waste and recycle it into irrigation water. In a Biolytix system nature does the work, not machinery, which is why the system uses up to 90% less energy than most other systems. http://www.biolytix.com/index.php