Cooling Comes From Heat | Cristina Cojocaru-Parsons, Corellian

Cicada x Tech23: Australia's biggest deep tech event As the biggest deep tech event in the country, Cicada x Tech23 is not just a showcase but a movement. A movement to champion 23 visionary founders, connect them with the right people, and accelerate their journey from lab to market, from startup to scale. The 2026 Tech23 cohort is tackling challenges across five national opportunities: a new system of care for our strained health system, upgrading the built world for a changing climate, re-sourcing value from waste and untapped resources, strengthening Australia's sovereignty in space and defence, and engineering new capability in AI, quantum and robotics. These ventures represent the best of Australian deep tech: bold ideas backed by world-class science, and a mission to build a more sustainable, secure, and sovereign future. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ About Corellian Corellian turns waste heat into cool air. The company's AirSolaris technology captures low-grade heat and converts it into air conditioning that runs at up to 80% lower lifetime cost, with the lowest emissions of any comparable system and none of the HFC gases that make conventional AC a growing climate liability. This scales from homes to the most demanding industrial loads, such as AI data centres, delivering efficient, affordable cooling to hot and humid regions like India and South-East Asia, where demand is exploding and the alternative is out of reach. Corellian is a proud alum of CSIRO Kick-Start and the India-Australia RISE Accelerator. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Learn more about Cicada x Tech23 https://www.cicadainnovations.com/cic... Learn more about Corellian https://corellian.tech And a massive shout-out to our ecosystem! To our sponsors, Main Sequence Ventures, NSW Government, Investment NSW, Westpac, City of Sydney, CFO Plus, CSIRO, FPA Patent Attorneys, Adelaide University, Radium Capital, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Addisons, Techvisa, InvestHK, The Onset, University of Sydney, Honda Xcelerator Ventures and UNSW Founders, for supporting Tech23.