Professor Cori Stewart is a leading figure in advanced manufacturing and innovation acceleration. With a background in humanities, she bridges government, research and industry to bring bold ideas to life.

In 2019, she founded Australia’s first independent not-for-profit technology-based commercialisation facility, ARM Hub. The Hub has successfully guided hundreds of companies through robotics, AI and manufacturing scale-up projects, delivering productivity gains and strengthening national capability.

She has spearheaded strategic international partnerships – including launching Propel-AIR, Australia’s first AI and robotics accelerator – and contributed to multiple Industrial Transformation Training Centres.

Stewart influences the innovation landscape through policy development and commercialisation strategies. As a board member of Industry Innovation Science Australia, Stewart shapes Australia’s industry and innovation investment. She is also a Superstar of STEM 2023, and winner of an Asia Pacific Women in AI Award for Manufacturing.

Professor Stewart works in new industry sectors (particularly AI and robotics) to scale both new and existing priority industries in Australia. She has built a unique career principally on the demand-side of innovation and she is recognised as achieving a high degree of success in R&D commercialisation for SMEs. As the Founder and CEO of the ARM Hub, Cori has built an Australian-first not-for-profit technology commercialisation company. Cori is widely recognised by her peers and the companies she works with, having been awarded one of Australia’s 2023 & 2024 ‘Superstars of STEM’ – lifting the profile of women and science in our communities – and the Asia Pacific 2022 Women in AI Award in AI for Manufacturing.