We are proud to announce that applications are NOW OPEN for The Ocean Impact Accelerator Program 2022.

The Ocean Impact Accelerator Program is OIO’s flagship program, providing the best ocean impact startups with the support they need to reach their potential.

We’ve partnered with EnergyLab to deliver a custom-designed program for startups working on scalable solutions to improve ocean health. The program is industry and technology agnostic, your ocean impact solution may be addressing climate change; plastic pollution; fisheries and aquaculture; ocean data and monitoring and many other challenge areas.

It’s with great excitement that we announce the BIG news for 2022 - the launch of the Ocean Impact Accelerator Program - OIO’s flagship new program to find, develop and accelerate the most impactful new companies improving ocean health.

This is a milestone moment for OIO and the chance many startups have been waiting for to work closely with OIO to access the knowledge, skills, partners and resources to dramatically accelerate their business and their ‘ocean impact’.

We are pleased to announce that expressions of interest for the Ocean Impact Accelerator Program are NOW OPEN with formal applications to open in late January 2022. Register your interest here.

The 7-month virtual program will commence in April 2022 and is open to startups across the Pacific Rim (Australia, Pacific, West Coast USA, SE Asia - locations based on conducive timezones for virtual sessions).

18th November 2021: We’re hiring!

OIO is seeking a motivated and creative communications specialist with a passion for dynamic content and campaigns driven by our purpose: to transform ocean health.

In a busy world, saturated with content, we require communications that ‘cut-through’ the noise to inspire innovation, investment and action to transform the health of the ocean. The ideal candidate will have a passion for the ocean, conservation and accelerating ‘good business’ for a better future.

The ideal candidate will be excited about the future of OIO and the impact the organisation intends to make. Entering the organisation at an early stage of its journey, the candidate will be motivated to work closely with the Founders to optimise the organisation’s communications; contribute to its future success and develop your own professional skills within the organisation and the growing ‘ocean impact’ innovation ecosystem globally.

For centuries, humanity has viewed the ocean as a metaphor for infinity. The assumption was—and frankly still is for many people—that the enormity of the sea comes with a limitless ability to absorb and metabolize all. This vastness is what lends the ocean deity-like potential. And more dangerously, it is what has given humans the license to dump virtually anything offshore. Oil, sewage, corpses, chemical effluvium, garbage, military ordnance, and even at-sea superstructures like oil rigs disappear into the oceans, as if swallowed up by a black hole, never to be seen again.

Ships knowingly release more engine oil and sludge into the oceans in the span of three years than that spilled in the Deepwater Horizon and Exxon Valdez accidents combined. They emit huge amounts of certain air pollutants, far more than all the world’s cars.

Ocean Impact Organisation (OIO) this week launched The Ocean Impact Pitchfest 2021, a six week global initiative to find, support and accelerate innovative solutions that can transform the health of the ocean. Applications are open until 21 September 2021 with the Winners announced on 4 November 2021.

With $150,000 in cash prizes and $150,000 of additional products and support from OIO and their partners, startups and entrepreneurs are encouraged to apply for the chance to accelerate their ocean impact and help to improve the health of Planet Ocean. This year also sees the debut of the HP Generation Impact Incubator, a new program for young (35 and under) innovators residing in Australia with an idea to transform ocean health.

Coinciding with the launch of The Ocean Impact Pitchfest 2021, OIO are pleased to announce a new Major Partnership with HP Australia.

HP will join Ocean Impact Organisation as our Major Technology Partner and the co-Presenting Partner of The Ocean Impact Pitchfest 2021 alongside Bank Australia.

The team at OIO are thrilled to have the support of HP as we pursue our purpose to transform ocean health through inspiration, innovation and good business.

We’re very excited to announce a new Major Partnership with Bank Australia! The Major Partnership will support OIO’s annual innovation programs including the very successful Ocean Impact Pitchfest we are proud to be launching again in August 2021. See how you can pre-register for Pitchfest 2021 below.

The Major Partnership continues Bank Australia’s strong support of Ocean Impact Organisation that commenced with them being the Presenting Partner of our inaugural Ocean Impact Pitchfest 2020.

Kirstin Hunter (co-founder, ex CEO of Future Super) and Professor Peter Steinberg (Founding Director and ex CEO of Sydney Institute of Marine Science - SIMS) have been announced as new Directors of Sydney based Ocean Impact Organisation (OIO).

The announcement was made at a special Earth Day gathering of OIO supporters at Manly’s Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve attended by Federal Independent Member for Warringah Zali Steggal and State Member for Manly James Griffin.

Traditional visual representations of our global ocean fail to accurately depict it’s true integrity. As our relationship with the ocean evolves, properly advocating for and protecting it demands a collective shift in how we imagine it.

Covering over two-thirds of our terraqueous Earth, the ocean is the planet’s largest ecosystem. This body of water provides us with the oxygen we breathe, regulates our climate, fuels the water cycle, and supplies nourishment and sustenance for billions of people.