The Industrial Adjacency Accelerator helps businesses turn existing skills, equipment, knowledge and operational challenges into adjacent opportunities for growth and expansion through the region’s energy transition.
What is it?
A three-month program for ten proactive businesses to strategise adjacent opportunities for business sustainability and/or growth and expansion opportunities.
What participants receive
- One-on-one personalised diagnostic of your business’s adjacency opportunities
- Three facilitated group sessions: opportunity identification, market validation and venture architecture
- Plus three peer meetings in two structured groups of five business owners per group
- Presentations from industry leaders
- An adjacency opportunity plan
- A place at the Transition Economy Showcase attended by Origin Energy, investors, and government representative
Your participant commitment
- Minimum five hours per month for three months
- Transition Economy Showcase participation
- Cost to participants: Nil
Who should apply?
Business owners ready to explore new markets, products or services using their existing capabilities.
Sectors may include:
- Construction, engineering, and civil contracting
- Electrical and mechanical maintenance
- Environmental and water services
- Logistics, transport, materials management
- Advanced manufacturing and fabrication
- Professional services
Lead practitioner: Kim Liddell
Director of Investment and Innovation – Dantia
- Entrepreneur, Speaker and DirtBoss Author
- Former Regional Chair, Entrepreneurs’ Organization
- Former Vice President and Founding Women in Civil Chair, Civil Contractors Federation of NSW
- Private Industry: Sole Founder and Managing Director: Non Destructive Excavations Australia ($50M+ cumulative revenue – successfully exited in October 2023), and Slurry Recyclers, a circular economy waste recycling business.
Program dates – Cohort One: Industrial Adjacency Accelerator (IAA).
- 27 Nov 2026 – EOI Closes
- 15 Dec 2026 – Interviews completed, Places confirmed
- 2 Feb 2027 – Program commences
- 20 Apr 2027 – Transition Economy Showcase
Delivered by Dantia in collaboration with Lake Macquarie Business
Funded by the Origin Energy Eraring Community Investment Fund
Submit your EOI Application here.
