National Gold Sponsor CSIRO is Australia's pre-eminent science agency with a proud and remarkable track record of success. It is one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world with more than 50 sites throughout Australia and overseas. Globally, CSIRO is recognised among the top applied research organisations. CSIRO continues to demonstrate scientific excellence with great relevance to industry, the community and a sustainable future. The passion of CSIRO and its people is to have a positive and profound impact on the most significant challenges and opportunities facing Australia and humanity.

National Gold Sponsor Beck Engineering specialises in mine planning and mining engineering for extreme environments or where corporate or expert geotechnical experience is being challenged. Their practical, first-principles approach to solving mining problems enables Beck Engineering to consult on a wide range of mining methods covering the extremes of geological environments. Beck Engineering have experience in high stress, seismically active and high deformation environments, block and sub-level caving, mine-scale inelastic modelling and infrastructure placement as well as general geotechnical engineering.

National Gold Sponsor GE serves the energy sector by developing and deploying technology that helps make efficient use of natural resources. With nearly 85,000 global employees and 2009 revenues of $40 billion, GE Energy is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies. The businesses that comprise GE Energy - GE Power & Water, GE Energy Services and GE Oil & Gas - work together to provide integrated product and service solutions in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil and natural gas; and renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and biogas.

National Gold Sponsor Leighton Holdings is Australia's largest project development and contracting group, founded in 1949. Growing organically and via acquisition, the Leighton Group is now one of the world's major contracting, services and project development organisations, and the world's largest contract miner. Leighton Holdings operates through nine diverse and independent companies: Thiess, Leighton Contractors, John Holland, Leighton Properties, Leighton Asia, Leighton Offshore, Leighton Welspun, the Habtoor Leighton Group and Leighton Africa, which operate in Australia, South East Asia, New Zealand, Vietnam, China and the Middle East. The Group’s companies provide development, construction, contract mining, and operation and maintenance services to the infrastructure, resources and property markets.

National Silver Sponsor Google's mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Beginning in 1996, Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine called "BackRub" that used links to determine the importance of individual web pages. By 1998 they had formalized their work, creating the company you know today as Google. Since then, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language we now offer dozens of products and services - including various forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasks - in scores of languages. And starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world.

National Bronze Sponsor NICTA is Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, answering the hard questions in ICT research. NICTA drives innovation through high-quality research, research training, commercialisation and R&D services. Located in five laboratories in four cities around Australia: Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane, specialised teams are focused on a series of specific research themes and business areas.