Our Sponsors
The 2026 Summit is proudly supported by organisations committed to advancing Australia's early childhood education and care sector.
Z Staffing
Z Staffing isn't your average agency. With deep roots in the childcare sector and game-changing technology at its core, Z makes it faster and easier for centres to access qualified Educators — on demand. Having supported thousands of providers across Australia, Z understands the pressures of the sector and the non-negotiables: safety, reliability, and trust. Born from the sector, built for the sector, Z is all about raising the standard. Their commitment to strict compliance, educator-specific training, and proactive support means every Educator shows up ready to make a difference. Using Z App, centres can give real-time feedback, access compliance docs, and fill shifts in record time.
Ideagen
Ideagen helps organisations across regulated industries manage risk, compliance and safety with confidence. For early childhood education and care providers, Ideagen Policy Logic supports policy and procedure management, audit readiness and compliance evidencing against the National Quality Framework, helping centre directors and compliance teams keep policies current, staff informed and documentation ready as regulatory and safety expectations continue to rise. It's built to reduce the administrative burden of maintaining compliance across multiple services and sites so providers can demonstrate quality and safety with confidence, whether that's day to day or under the pressure of a regulatory visit. For more information, please visit our website au.ideagen.com.
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Group Elephant
Group Elephant is a global technology and professional services organisation helping businesses get more value from their people, processes and technology. With expertise across enterprise transformation, HCM, payroll, workforce management, ERP and broader business technology solutions, we partner with organisations to implement, optimise and support technology that enables better ways of working. Operating globally, Group Elephant combines extensive capability and experience with the flexibility and personal approach of a specialist partner. Through our Beyond Corporate Purpose philosophy, a significant part of the value we create supports elephant conservation and community initiatives in Southern Africa, creating positive impact well beyond business. Group Elephant | Beyond Corporate Purpose.
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Step4
Step4 is proudly Australian & family owned and operated; supplying educational resources, furniture and equipment Australia wide. We believe every early learning centre across Australia deserves quality products and innovative design that bring together functional, nurturing and creative spaces. From the perfect hand-held sensory toy right up to a full centre & educational resource fitout; we have you covered.
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Avenue Bank
Avenue Bank is Australia's first and only bank dedicated exclusively to bank guarantees, supporting the childcare sector at every stage of development and operation. We work closely with operators, landlords and developers to provide fast, reliable bank guarantees for leases, developments, and regulatory requirements. Avenue Bank removes friction from the bank guarantee process – enabling childcare centres to open sooner, scale confidently and secure long-term sites. Our relationship-led approach delivers certainty and flexibility in an increasingly competitive commercial market.
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ACCCO
Since 1996, ACCCO has been helping passionate individuals transform their love for nurturing children into rewarding professions. Founded in Brisbane, we've evolved into a leading national education and training provider. With a focus on quality, practical training and personalised attention, we empower educators Australia-wide to make a lasting impact in early childhood education. Our active industry engagement has ensured we've kept a modern approach that benefits students, services and young lives.
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Guild Insurance
For over 55 years, Guild Insurance has protected the livelihood of independent Australian professionals and business owners. We partner with over 120 associations, to work alongside the growing needs of our communities. When it comes to insurance for Early Learning and Childcare, Guild Insurance offers a policy that not only meets the changing needs of your profession, but actively protects your future. Our partnership with ACA NSW also means that our products are developed with direct input from the Early Learning profession, ensuring that your unique needs are met. With a range of features and benefits built for your profession, you can rest assured knowing you're protected for your 9-5 with Guild Insurance. To find out why ACA NSW continue to believe that no other insurer represents better value to their members than Guild Insurance, visit guildinsurance.com.au or call 1800 810 213. Guild Insurance — Over 60 years covering Australians — Don't go it alone.
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Total Image
At Total Image, we believe what people wear is a reflection of their brand, their people, and their purpose. We create fashion-forward uniforms and merchandise that do more than dress a team. They inspire confidence, strengthen identity, and bring brands to life. As an end-to-end uniform partner, we bring together thoughtful design, responsible manufacturing, seamless service, and game-changing technology to deliver solutions that elevate brands, empower teams, and create lasting impact. Proudly Australian-owned, family-led, and B Corp Certified, we're committed to quality, innovation, and genuine partnership. Together, we create positive impact for our clients, their people, and the communities they serve. Where Brands Come to Life. www.totalimage.com.au
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Storypark and Xap
Together, Storypark and Xap are committed to helping every child fulfil their unique potential, by empowering the educators and organisations who shape their early years. Our sector-leading tools support quality practice and deepen the connection between families and their children's learning, while helping you run your services with greater operational clarity and confidence. Trusted by more than 1,850 services across Australia already using both Storypark and Xap, including Goodstart, Affinity, SDN and KU Children's Services. Some things are just better together.
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1Place International
1Place makes childcare safer, simpler, and smarter — at every level. We're the childcare sector's leading assurance platform, purpose-built to protect everyone from classroom to boardroom. Created by people who've lived and worked in early childhood education, we translate complex regulation into practical, human solutions — combining deep sector expertise with intelligent technology to digitise compliance, safeguarding, and operations. Our platform serves 4,000+ centres globally, transforming paper-based processes into automated, audit-ready systems. We create multi-level protection: children benefit from consistent safeguarding; educators gain confidence through documented compliance; directors achieve assessment and ratings readiness; and boards maintain transparent governance oversight. ISO 27001 certified and continuously evolving with regulatory changes.
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Xplor Education
Xplor Education is Australia and New Zealand's leading cloud-based childcare management platform, trusted by 8,000+ services and backed by global technology and security infrastructure. Our integrated suite — Xplor Office, QikKids, Playground, Home and MyWaitlist — combines decades of sector expertise with purpose-built tools spanning subsidy management, advanced booking optimisation, rich reporting and insights, and the sector's most-loved family app. White-glove onboarding, best-in-class support and dedicated account management ensure every service thrives. Headquartered in Melbourne, with 160+ professionals across three countries, we're not just keeping pace with early education's future — we're building it.
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Miss Amara Trade
Miss Amara Trade is the professional arm of Australian design brand Miss Amara, partnering with designers, architects, developers and operators to create spaces people love to be in. With more than a decade of experience designing rugs for real life, our collections bring together original Australian design, softness, colour, texture and practical functionality — helping create warm, inviting environments for children, educators and families. With dedicated Trade support, sampling and product expertise, we make it easier to select the right rug for each space and its needs. Miss Amara Trade — Partnering to create spaces people love to be in.
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Playground Powers
Playground Powers is an Australian, evidence-informed and neurodiversity-affirming social and emotional learning program founded by clinical psychologist Dr Simonne Cohen and paediatric speech pathologist Joanne Lazarus. Created for children aged 2-8, Playground Powers addresses a challenge early childhood leaders see every day: children may understand social skills in theory but struggle to regulate, communicate and use them during real play. When this happens, educators can spend significant time managing conflict and distress, while leaders face growing pressure around staff capacity, inclusion and family confidence. Through engaging characters, stories, videos, practical resources and professional development, Playground Powers gives educators a shared language and proactive framework for co-regulation, inclusion and social problem-solving. By embedding a consistent approach across rooms and teams, Playground Powers helps services strengthen educator capability, support children's participation, build family trust and offer a meaningful point of difference in a competitive early childhood market.
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Cyclo
Cyclo is a design-and-construct specialist for care-based environments. Since 1988, we've been a trusted partner of choice for veterinary, childcare and medical providers across Australia because we understand their needs and deliver on our promises. With years of niche industry experience and architecture, technical capability, and construction under one roof, we deliver a seamless service with less risk, greater efficiency, and a practical outcome that's simply built better by design.
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Tanda
Tanda is an all-in-one platform for HR, payroll and workforce management, built for early childhood services that need precision in workforce compliance. Designed for centre owners, approved providers and directors, it brings accuracy and control across: hiring and onboarding; qualification and Working with Children Check tracking; rostering aligned to educator-to-child ratios; time clocks and timesheets for Children's Services Award and Educational Services (Teachers) Award compliance; and payroll ready for Payday Super. With automated award interpretation, Tanda helps services navigate compliance requirements across HR and payroll with greater confidence, without added complexity. Built in Australia, it reflects a deep understanding of the early childhood sector's regulatory environment to streamline operations across your service.
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Twinkl
Founded in 2010 by Jonathan and Susie Seaton, Twinkl's mission is to help those who teach. Trusted by educators and families across Australia and in over 200 countries and regions worldwide, Twinkl provides schools with a unique library of teacher-created resources. Alongside our global collection of over 1.5 million resources, Australian schools can access thousands of resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum, from lesson materials and assessments to books and innovative digital tools. Every resource is designed to save teachers time, support consistent planning across the whole school, and help students achieve their best.
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Gecko Property Services
Gecko Property Services specialises in keeping childcare centres safe, clean and well maintained. Supporting more than 150 childcare centres, we provide property maintenance solutions tailored to busy early learning environments. Our reactive maintenance service addresses issues when they arise, while our proactive program focuses on identifying and managing maintenance needs before they become bigger problems. Our services include pressure washing, yard refresh packages, outdoor compliance restoration, sand and mulch top-ups, rubbish removal, equipment staining, bin cleaning and window cleaning. With one reliable maintenance partner, centre teams can spend less time chasing jobs and more time focused on children each day.
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Anila Recruitment
Anila Recruitment recruits exclusively for Early Years and OSHC. We help approved providers, operators and childcare leadership teams nationally fill their critical vacancies by headhunting the best talent in the industry that job ads can’t attract. Founded in 2022 by a sector leader with more than 10 years leading services and regions, we know a single hire shapes everything that follows: staff retention, ratios, quality ratings and the trust families place in the service. So we look past the resume for the values, judgement and resilience the work really demands.
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The Pearl Way
The Pearl Way is an Australian, values-based pedagogical model for meaningful cultural learning in early childhood. Developed through seven years of practice in a diverse community, it brings authentic cultural experiences, shared Australian values and meaningful connections into everyday learning. Aligned with the Early Years Learning Framework, it supports educators to explore cultural difference with curiosity and confidence, creating joyful connections through shared values while respecting distinct identities and traditions. Resources and training in development to nurture belonging among children, families and educators. A proposed pilot and independent evaluation are under discussion with NSW and Australian governments to be rolled out in 2027.
ANZUK Education
ANZUK Education is the largest specialist education recruitment company in the world. While we have an extensive global reach, we follow a people-first, personalised approach. Whether you have a casual, contract or permanent Early Childhood educator job to fill, we're your go-to partner for sourcing quality educators and support staff across Australia. At ANZUK Education, we go above and beyond to connect your Early Childhood centre with amazing educators who bring more than just qualifications - they're the perfect cultural fit for your team!
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Earlyhood Recruitment & Earlyhood Executive
Connecting Exceptional People with Exceptional Early Childhood Organisations. Earlyhood Recruitment and Earlyhood Executive are specialist recruitment agencies dedicated to Australia's early childhood education and care sector. Operating across NSW, QLD, VIC and SA, we partner with privately owned centres, not-for-profit organisations and large childcare groups to deliver casual staffing, permanent recruitment and executive search solutions. From Educators and Early Childhood Teachers to Centre Directors, Area Managers and senior executives, we connect exceptional talent with leading early learning organisations. With extensive industry knowledge and strong candidate networks, we're passionate about building lasting partnerships, supporting career growth and helping early childhood organisations thrive. Because great early childhood education starts with great people.
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