Women in Engineering Summit 2025

Downer is a leading provider of integrated services across Australia and New Zealand, delivering and maintaining essential infrastructure that enable communities to thrive. The demand for our services is shaped by investment in the energy transition, defence capability, government services and infrastructure expansion necessary to support population growth, and local industry revitalisation. The sectors where we operate include roads, rail, ports and airports, power, gas, water, telecommunications, energy networks, health, education, defence, and other government sectors. Downer is one of Australia’s and New Zealand’s largest private sector employers, with more than 26,000 dedicated people, who are united by our high-performance culture, known as ‘The Downer Difference’

Our Energy & Utilities business designs, builds, operates and maintains critical assets and utilities networks, delivering complete services across the water, electricity, gas, telecommunications, energy and industrial sectors. We work across Australia and New Zealand delivering safe and sustainable essential services to help shape a smarter future.

Cochlear is the global leader in implantable hearing solutions providing cochlear implants and bone conduction implants.

For more than 40 years, Cochlear has been connecting people all over the globe to the world of sound.

Inspired by his father's struggles, Professor Graeme Clark developed the world’s first multi-channel cochlear implant to help treat hearing loss. Since then, Cochlear has provided more than 750,000 implantable devices, helping people of all ages to hear.

Cochlear continuously strives to develop new technologies and innovations for all recipients – whether they received their implant today or many years ago.

Participating in over 100 collaborative research programs worldwide, Cochlear has invested more than AUD$2.7 billion in research and development to date.

Cochlear aims to support cochlear implantation becoming the standard of care for people with severe to profound hearing loss, and offers bone conduction solutions for conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss and single-sided deafness.

Cochlear commenced operations in 1981 as part of the Nucleus Group, and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in 1995. Cochlear is a Top 50 ASX-listed company with annual global revenues of around  USD$1.9billion.

Cochlear’s global headquarters are on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia with regional headquarters in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas. With a significant international footprint, Cochlear sells its products in over 180 countries and has a global workforce of around 4,800 employees based in over 50 countries.

Cochlear strives to help people hear – aiming to provide them with a lifetime of hearing through the best possible support.

Hear now. And always

www.cochlear.com

ExxonMobil Australia’s reliable supply of natural gas and transportation fuels is powering Australian jobs, providing the energy used by local manufacturers, hospitality venues, medical facilities and construction, transport and logistics firms, and supporting the countless industries who rely on their products and services. The ExxonMobil Australia group has been operating in Australia since 1895. Learn more about us at www.exxonmobil.com.au.

ACCIONA is a global leader in sustainable infrastructure solutions.

Our people are empowered to be innovative, to demonstrate technical excellence and to deliver sustainable infrastructure solutions so we can contribute to economic and social development.

With a business that spans the entire value chain, from design and construction through to operation and maintenance, we combine our local expertise with global experience to deliver a broad portfolio of sustainable infrastructure solutions, now and into the future.

ElectraNet design, operate and manage South Australia’s electricity transmission network and infrastructure to ensure our communities and industries have access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.

ElectraNet is a private company that operates $4.5b of transmission assets made up of more than 6,500km of high voltage transmission lines and 99 substations located around South Australia.

South Australia is a world leader in the clean energy transition and ElectraNet is playing a vital role. As we enter the next phase of this transition, we are witnessing an unprecedented level of interest from new, large electricity loads seeking to connect to this clean energy.

We have released a Network Transition Strategy which provides a pathway and framework for working with our customers and stakeholders to manage the challenges and opportunities of the energy transition.

The strategy outlines actions we have taken and solutions we are developing to maintain reliable, affordable and sustainable electricity as South Australia continues its journey to 100 per cent net renewables by 2027.

The strategy supports our core objectives of safety, affordability, reliability and sustainability and covers three key themes:

• Energy reliability – developing a capable transmission network

• Power system security and resilience – maintaining a secure and resilient power system

• Operability – managing increasing system complexity and risk.