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Join Future Anything and school-age entrepreneurs from across Australia and beyond as we bend the future, one youth-led idea at a time.

Future Anything transforms young people’s passion and curiosity into innovative ideas that make the world a better place.

In 2025, 85+ schools have built enterprising mindsets in their classrooms, challenging their students to create innovative, sustainable and scalable solutions to the problem THEY care about through our award-winning Activate program.

Join us live online on  Tuesday 21 October and Thursday 23 October from 9am AEST as 40 teams of student entrepreneurs pitch their innovative ideas live online to our expert judges in our eight live Future Anything National Semi Finals 2025.

They’ll showcase their epic for-purpose ideas and be in with a chance of progressing to the National Grand Final, where they can win the funding and support to launch their ideas into the real world.

We’ll be streaming live each day from 9am AEST – register below to watch the whole thing or drop in at the right moment to support a team of your choice.

Read on to check out the event details, and to meet our awesome teams and epic judges (NB line ups are subject to change).

Tuesday 21 October

Semi Final 1 (9am – 10am AEST)

Semi Final 2 (10.30am – 11.30am AEST)

Semi Final 3 (12 noon – 1pm AEST)

Semi Final 4 (1.30pm – 2.30pm AEST)

MEET THE TEAMS AND JUDGES BELOW!

Thursday 23 October

Semi Final 5 (9am – 10am AEST)

Semi Final 6 (10.30am – 11.30am AEST)

Semi Final 7 (12 noon – 1pm AEST)

Semi Final 8 (1.30pm – 2.30pm AEST)

MEET THE TEAMS AND JUDGES BELOW!

SEMI FINAL 1 – Tuesday 21 October (9-10am AEST)

Meet the judges!

Terry Woodcroft

Tech Founder and Investor

Project Insight

Lewis Jarden

Co-Founder & Director

YOWY

Nilan Mihindukulasooriya

Managing Director

FHTS Pty Ltd

SEMI FINAL 2 – Tuesday 21 October (10.30am – 11.30am AEST)

Meet the judges!

Chad Renando

Research Fellow (UniSQ) and co-Founder Ready Communities

University of Southern Queensland / Ready Communities

Eddie Blass

Founder

Inventorium Pty Ltd

Daniel Pittman

Managing Director

Zinus Australia

SEMI FINAL 3 – Tuesday 21 October (12noon – 1pm AEST)

Meet the judges!

Joel Connolly

Creative Director, Head of Foundation

Blackbird Foundation

Maree Whiteley

Youth Curriculum and Learning Coordinator

Bloom - The Centre for Youth Innovation

Jackson Rowland

Executive Director

Canbury

SEMI FINAL 4 – Tuesday 21 October (1.30pm – 2.30pm AEST)

Meet the judges!

Theia Gabatan

Grant Programs and Impact Lead

Blackbird Foundation

Alexander Kakagiannis

Owner

E-scooter trailers

Dante St James

Director of Innovation & Investment Readiness

Paspalis Innovation Investment Fund

SEMI FINAL 5 – Thursday 23 October (9am – 10am AEST)

Meet the judges!

Alex Lagelee Kean

Program Manager

Snow Foundation

Chloe Alley

Founder & Owner

By Chloe / Youngpreneur Markets By Chloe

Saskia Urlass

Investment Analyst

Mandalay VC

SEMI FINAL 6 – Thursday 23 October (10.30am – 11.30am AEST)

Meet the judges!

Alex Afflick

CTO

Audeara

Noah Pronk

Founder & Owner

Sticky Pronk

Sherry Smith

Manager of Future Strategy

Greater Whitsunday Alliance (GW3)

SEMI FINAL 7 – Thursday 23 October (12noon – 1pm AEST)

Meet the judges!

Monte Huebsch

CEO

Aussieweb Pty Ltd

Dr Marcia Mattushek

Program Facilitator

QUT Entrepreneurship

Lea Diffey

Principal Consultant

Diffey Consulting Pty Ltd

SEMI FINAL 8 – Thursday 23 October (1.30pm – 2.30pm AEST)

Meet the judges!

Laura Ashmole

Head of Growth

ACS Labs

Batoul Soliman

Founder

Shawls and Hope

Lachlan Munro

Managing Director

Ergo Accounting

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