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Ultivate Annual Awards Soirée
2026
| Tickets opening soon
A Brisbane city awards event celebrating Ultivate Company's first birthday and to honour the leaders, workspaces and professionals building more creative, courageous and flourishing futures. Celebrating a year of building the leadership team, cultivating the foundations of an enriched company and promoting the Ultivate mission. Join us!
The 2026 Honours
Three awards for people and teams whose work demonstrates that flourishing is not a luxury. It is social infrastructure.
A cultural awards experience
Honouring what cannot be counted on a balance sheet.
Impact. Innovation. Collaboration. Creative expression. Individuation. Integration. Human flourishing.
A different measure of success
Some achievements change the way people live, lead and belong.
In a world organised around speed, scale and financial performance, Ultivate makes room to recognise another kind of success: work that strengthens people, deepens culture and helps build future-ready societies.
The 2026 Theme
Value was never only about wealth.
Inspired by the artistic, architectural and ceremonial brilliance of Mesoamerican cultures, the 2026 soirée considers a timeless question: what changes when a culture learns to prize more than accumulation?
Feathers, craft, art, community contribution, ritual and cultural responsibility have long carried meaning beyond price. This evening does not recreate or borrow from sacred traditions. It draws respectfully on the broader human insight that societies become richer when they honour beauty, contribution and collective possibility.
More than an awards event
An evening to remember
what matters.
The Ultivate Annual Awards Soirée is designed as an immersive cultural experience: a place to pause, celebrate and meet people committed to building more psychologically intelligent, creative and humane futures.
01
Art & creative expression
Because imagination is one of the forces that allows societies to solve problems and tell new stories.
02
Ritual & reflection
Because meaningful change needs moments that reconnect us with purpose, responsibility and one another.
03
Collaboration & community
Because the strongest futures are built by capable people learning how to work together.
04
Leadership & legacy
Because every leader is shaping the norms and emotional climate that others will inherit.
The future is shaped not only by what we earn, but by what we create, protect and make possible for others.
Your hosts
Andy Solange Sarmonikas
Founder, Managing Director
& Psychologist
Dr Thierry
Peynot
Co-Director & Professor
of Robotics & AI
Celebrating the people who make better futures possible.
Andrea (Andy) Solange Sarmonikas | Founder | Psychologist
Collaborate with us
We invite values-aligned sponsors, facilitators and innovators to collaborate on transformative Ultivate retreats that cultivate psychological health, meaningful connection and future-ready leadership.
