Meet our sponsors
ARTD
ARTD is a medium-sized Australian-owned company that supports government agencies and not-for-profits to use evaluative thinking to design and refine action for the public good. We are collaborative, creative, and critical thinkers who deliver evaluations that are engaging, robust and impactful. From co-designed and lived experience led evaluations to causal inference and experimental designs, we have the technical expertise and experience to tailor to your specific needs. When you choose to work with ARTD, you tap into over 35 years of strategic evaluation experience across the policy spectrum and the wisdom and passion of our team.
Rooftop Social
Rooftop Social is a leading provider of evaluation, research, and facilitation services across Australia.
Our expertise includes:
- designing evaluation frameworks, systems, and tools
- building evaluation capacity through training and coaching
- facilitating participatory design for social innovation
Since 2013, our 'evidence for good' mission guides:
- who we partner with – government and for-purpose organisations
- our inclusive, flexible, and transparent approach
- our focus on education, justice, environment, health, and human services
- taking on projects where we make meaningful contributions to important causes
Our core team is based in NSW and Victoria, with a network of subject matter experts and colleagues nationwide.
Whereto | Ipsos
Whereto | Ipsos has provided high-quality social research and evaluation services and directional, effective advice to governments for over 20 years. We pride ourselves in taking our clients further — we don’t just deliver reports, we articulate ‘where to next’.
Our team has a strong commitment to social impact, collaborative learning, and trauma informed, culturally responsive and participatory evaluative approaches.
Our partnership with Ipsos Global Public Affairs brings to bear expertise working across government and the civil sector worldwide, addressing pressing complex policy challenges, and the full range of experimental design and economic evaluation services.
Grosvenor
At Grosvenor, we deliver program evaluation done right — rigorous on paper, practical in practice. Our independent, practical approach is led by experienced specialists who help teams clearly understand what’s working, what isn’t, and where to focus next.
We partner with you to develop fit-for-purpose frameworks and evaluation plans that define what success looks like and how to measure it so you can deliver with confidence. Beyond assessment, we focus on building lasting capability. Through tailored systems and learning supports, we strengthen performance and embed evidence-informed practice across organisations.
We are proud to sponsor the aes26 International Evaluation Conference and have supported this important event for many years. Our ongoing partnership with the evaluation community reflects our commitment to advancing better practice, sharing knowledge, and contributing to stronger outcomes across the public sector. We are honoured to support the Australian Evaluation Society because we genuinely want to help the evaluation community thrive. The result is evaluation that not only provides assurance, but drives better decisions, stronger programs, and improved outcomes for the communities you serve.
Bellberry
Bellberry is an award-winning, national, independent Not For Profit organisation providing streamlined scientific and ethical review of research projects across Australia.
Bellberry provides assistance from pre-submission and HREC review through to ongoing monitoring, ensuring research meets the highest ethical standards of practice and scientific integrity. Through nationally recognised processes, Bellberry supports research across clinical trials, health and medical research, medical device, digital health and AI, social science, evaluation and observational studies.
We return surplus funds to the research sector supporting our aims of protecting the welfare of research participants and improving the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of research.
Our key services include Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs), Animal Ethics Committees (AECs), and Consumer and Community Advisory Panel (CCAP).
Iris Ethics
Iris Ethics is Australia’s leading open-access Human Research Ethics Committee specialising in the review of projects spanning the evaluation, social research, and market research industries. The firm is grounded in an understanding of what is relevant for projects and methods in these industries, delivered by people who are actively involved in the research and evaluation community.
Our committee operates on an on-demand basis, and we incorporate you into the discussion process. This means we can give you a 10-business day turnaround for full committee Reviews, and 5 business day turnaround for lower risk applications. We also host a freely accessible resource library for the community to build collective capacity and to support our goal of empowering ethical practice.
Program Evaluation Services
Program Evaluation Services (PES) is a small consulting business based in Perth Western Australia run by Prof Rick Cummings. It provides evaluation services at state and national level as well as training in evaluative thinking, program logic, monitoring, and evaluation.
Gilibanga Create-Make Light: Blak Evaluators & Trusted Allies Network
Gilibanga Blak Evaluators and Trusted Allies Network is a sector-shaping force in Australian evaluation, bringing First Nations expertise, cultural authority, and accountable allyship into the centre of professional practice.
For First Nations members, the Gilibanga Network creates a culturally grounded professional home - a place of return, recognition, decompression, peer wisdom, and collective strength. It supports Blak Evaluators to stand in their authority, strengthen confidence and visibility, build pathways into paid evaluation work, leadership, and Blak-owned enterprise - and know they are not carrying this work alone. Grounded in kinship, reciprocity, connection, cultural integrity, and First Nations Data Sovereignty, Gilibanga supports members to define evidence on their own terms, protect cultural knowledge, and influence the standards, policies, and practices shaping the future of evaluation.
For the mainstream evaluation sector - partnering with Gilibanga is an opportunity to demonstrate credible leadership, enrich evaluative practice, and help shift the profession beyond consultation and extractive measurement toward genuine self-determination, relational accountability, and shared power. Join us to drive change at gilibanga.com.au
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