People in Paddocks and PIPA have been backed by industry programs, awards and safety bodies.
PIPA named a Farm Safety Solution Finalist at the WorkSafe Awards 2025.
2026 Finalist - recognising leadership and innovation in Australian agriculture.
Selected for Asia-Pacific's leading agrifood-tech innovation program.
Winner of the Victorian Government's farm safety innovation challenge.
2025 Female Founder Fellowship for ag-tech founders.
Aligned with the global movement redefining dyslexia as a workplace strength.
National Farmer's Federation Data accreditation.
Sam was selected for the 2026 cohort of the National Farmers' Federation Diversity in Agriculture Leadership Program, and featured in Farmsafe Australia's Safer Farms 2026 report - sharing how safety systems work best when they're designed around the people using them.
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Sam brought People in Paddocks to evokeAG in 2025 to get chatting, and returned in 2026 with those chats now looking like partnerships, customers and investor interest. Selected to pitch at the high-profile Culinary Capital Dinner, she made 30+ new connections, and four investors reached out afterwards. "evokeAG is the holy grail for launching your agtech business in Australia."
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Victorian Country Hour broadcast live from evokeAG and sat down with Sam - AgriFutures Rural Women's Award finalist, founder of People in Paddocks and creator of the award-winning PIPA platform.
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Sam was named a 2026 Victorian AgriFutures Rural Women's Award finalist, recognised for creating PIPA and for driving behaviour change through her national Safety Served Sweet project. The award celebrates the vital role women play in rural and regional industries and communities.
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People in Paddocks - PIPA was named a finalist in the Farm Safety Solution category at the 2025 WorkSafe Awards, chosen from almost 100 nominations across all categories.
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Sam joined ABC VIC Country Hour to talk about how to make farms safer - covering the human side of farm safety and why so much of the workforce isn't receiving instructions they can understand.
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Presenting for GRDC, Sam's focus was practical: why inductions matter, what steps to follow, and how inclusivity across languages, literacy levels and backgrounds helps every worker hit the ground running - and protects farmers from the risks of non-compliance.
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Agriculture Victoria's AgVic Talk podcast season Farming Safe and Well featured Sam sharing how to make farm safety inductions more effective and inclusive. Though agriculture employs just 2% of working Victorians, it accounts for 14% of all workplace fatalities.
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Sam was announced as a Female Fellowship recipient in the Farmers2Founders National Scale Accelerator. "Farmers2Founders has supported, guided and championed me from our first meeting. They have opened doors for PIPA that I never dreamed possible."
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People in Paddocks and leading agribusiness recruiter The Lucas Group announced a strategic partnership to improve recruitment, onboarding and workforce safety across agriculture. "PIPA puts safety and leadership into the hands of every worker - and this partnership helps more businesses access that."
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People in Paddocks was named a finalist in the Australian Agritech Awards, recognised among the people and ideas transforming the sector, celebrated at the awards gala at Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane.
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Gartner named nudgetech among its top workplace predictions for 2025. Built on Nobel Prize-winning nudge theory, PIPA delivers the right behavioural cue at the right time - in a dyslexic-friendly way. "PIPA doesn't just digitise HR for agriculture - it humanises it."
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PIPA received NFF Data Code certification, recognising its commitment to responsible, transparent handling of farm data.
Read more →Keynotes and workshops on cognitive accessibility, safety authorship and neurodiversity as agriculture's hidden strength.
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