Who We Invite to Partner With Us
Industry Leaders Across All Sectors
We welcome organisations from energy, water, transport, manufacturing, retail, defence, finance, infrastructure and emerging technology sectors.
If your organisation faces complex decision making, operational pressures, sustainability requirements or strategic challenges, OPTIMA provides access to world‑class optimisation expertise and collaborative innovation.
Government and Policy Organisations
Government departments and policy agencies seeking data‑driven insights, improved modelling capability and evidence‑based decision support are encouraged to join. OPTIMA connects government priorities with applied research and helps build capability in nationally significant areas.
Universities and Research Institutions
Academic partners play a key role in advancing our interdisciplinary research. We welcome universities and research centres interested in joint projects, shared supervision, HDR training and real‑world impact through applied optimisation.
Ways to Partner With OPTIMA
Financial Partnership
Financial partners help drive long‑term capability building and research translation. Your investment supports collaborative projects, innovation programs, training for emerging researchers and the development of tools that deliver tangible industry outcomes.
In‑Kind Contributions
Partners may also contribute through non‑financial support such as:
• Access to data, systems or real operational challenges
• Staff time, expertise or technical know‑how
• Co‑supervision of PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers
• Hosting student placements or joint research residencies
• Participation in strategic working groups or advisory activities
These contributions ensure our work remains grounded in real‑world needs.
Collaborative Governance and Strategic Input
OPTIMA operates as a shared venture. Partners may take part in steering discussions, influence research directions and contribute to training priorities. This model ensures transparency, shared benefit and long‑term alignment.
Why Partner With OPTIMA
World‑Class Expertise
OPTIMA brings together more than 160 specialists in optimisation, AI, mathematics, engineering, data science and economics, creating one of Australia’s strongest interdisciplinary optimisation communities.
A Proven Track Record
Backed by ARC investment and supported by major industry and academic partners, OPTIMA has delivered practical solutions in supply chains, energy systems, water management, manufacturing, infrastructure planning and more.
Purpose‑Driven Collaboration
Our partners work with researchers who understand real‑world constraints and timelines, co‑creating solutions that are robust, scalable and ready for adoption.
Access to Exceptional Talent
OPTIMA trains the next generation of optimisation professionals through industry placements, interdisciplinary training and dual supervision. Partners benefit from early access to highly skilled graduates who are industry‑ready.
Shape the Future With Us
Whether you are seeking innovation, enhanced capability, operational improvement or greater research impact, partnering with OPTIMA opens the door to collaborative solutions that make a measurable difference.
Current Industry Partners
Melbourne Water: To help make Melbourne a fantastic place to live, we supply affordable, high-quality water, provide reliable sewerage treatment and resource recovery, manage healthy waterways, provide integrated drainage management and flood resiliency, and maintain outstanding natural community spaces.
AGL operate Australia’s largest electricity generation portfolio, with an operated generation capacity of 11,208 MW, which accounts for approximately 20% of the total generation capacity within Australia’s National Electricity Market. We deliver 3.95 million gas, electricity, and telecommunications services to our residential, small and large business, and wholesale customers across Australia.
South East Water is a metropolitan water retailer providing water, sewerage and recycled water services to over 1.83 million people in the south east of Melbourne.
MECCA Brands is an innovative Melbourne-based luxury beauty retailer presenting 200 beauty brands from around the globe across over 100 stores in Australia and New Zealand and a market leading online store.
Boeing Aerostructures Australia is the country’s only designer and manufacturer of advanced composite aerostructure components for commercial aircraft. Today the business designs, tests, certifies and produces world-class advanced structures for a range of Boeing aerospace products.
Future Fibre Technologies
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ purpose is to inform Australia’s important decisions by delivering relevant, trusted and objective data, statistics and insights. We are Australia’s national statistical agency and an official source of independent, reliable information. We tell the real story of Australia, its economy and its people by bringing life and meaning to numbers. We are at the forefront of data innovation – responding to today’s challenges and partnering to deliver rich, new information solutions and technologies for the future.
Probe Group: Covering every aspect of the customer journey within your organisation, Probe CX can help you unlock your potential through human-led intelligent technology solutions.
Probe CX’s solutions integrate capabilities into deliverable and replicable actions to ensure every customer encounter is exceptional. As a market-leading CX and digital transformation organisation, Probe CX designs and deploys personalised solutions that deliver exceptional customer experiences.
ENGIE is the world’s largest independent power producer with over 100 GW of installed energy production. ENGIE’s purpose (“raison d’être”) is to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally-friendly solutions. In Australia, ENGIE was the first operator to exit coal completely and now runs a portfolio of low carbon generation and serves over 730,000 customers through its retail arm Simply Energy. ENGIE continues to develop low carbon solutions for the Australian market and is active in: generation and storage projects at both large and distributed scale, Hydrogen production, EV Public Charging and electrification and optimisation of heating and cooling systems.
Gurobi Optimization is a leading solver in mathematical optimisation, widely used for tackling complex decision‑making challenges in industry and research. Its commitment to advancing optimisation practice includes working closely with academic centres to support training and innovation. Through its partnership with OPTIMA, Gurobi helps create opportunities for knowledge exchange between researchers, students and practitioners. This collaboration strengthens skills development across the optimisation community and supports the translation of advanced methods into real‑world impact. Together, Gurobi and OPTIMA contribute to a more connected and capable optimisation ecosystem.
Regen Melbourne is a collaboration to help shape a resilient and regenerative future for Greater Melbourne. Powered by an alliance of more than 180–200 organisations, it brings together community, industry and research partners to reimagine how the city can thrive for both people and planet. Formed amid the dual crises of the Black Summer bushfires and the COVID‑19 pandemic, Regen Melbourne now plays a leading role in building new narratives, projects and systemic interventions for long‑term urban transformation.
International Partners
