We support

Adele Fornarino

Since 2021, Midnyte City has been honoured to support and sponsor Australia’s top ranked Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete, Adele Fornarino.
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Double Championship and making history at ADCC 2024
She did it! Adele Fornarino has won ADCC gold, not once but TWICE!

Adele won her weight category at ADCC 2024, against a stack of prior World Champions, with submissions in both the semi final and final. That win secured Australia’s FIRST EVER ADCC gold medal!

Not done yet, she went into the open weight, where she was the smallest to compete. Again she faced off against World Champion after World Champion, winning the final against the Lady Goat, Bia Mesquita! With this Adele becomes Australia’s first ADCC champion, double champ AND the lightest person EVER to win the open weight at ADCC. A record that will likely never be broken.

Congratulations to Adele Fornarino, once again, and her team for this incredible achievement! Midnyte City could not be prouder to be a sponsor.

Starting out
Adele started training at Dominance MMA at the age of 10. A year later she entered her first competition and beat out two boys to the gold. At 15, whilst still a juvenile white belt, Adele won her first Adult Blue Belt competition in the 2015 Pan Pacific Championships, with the fastest submission of the competition. In December 2015, Adele earned her Blue Belt.

Photos by Luke G Williams

Diversity Charter pledge

Midnyte City is committed to the improvement of diversity at events, to enable change in the technology industry for the better. Creating safe and inclusive spaces allows greater opportunity and enriches culture for all who participate and attend. 
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Midnyte City is dedicated to the evolution of technology culture. We see a vibrant industry where all voices, regardless of race, gender, social class or sexual orientation, weave together in the common pursuit of better technology.
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“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” Our imperative is to continually inspire raising that standard across the industry. 

The Uluru Statement from the Heart

The Uluru Statement is an invitation from First Nations Peoples issued to all Australians on 26 May 2017. It calls for legal and structural reforms to reshape the relationship between First Nations Peoples and the Australian population.

The Statement calls for 2 substantive changes: Voice and Makarrata.‍

1. Voice to Parliament enshrined in the Constitution
   

2. A Makarrata Commission to supervise
   

• Agreement making
  

• Truth telling about our history
  

The Statement calls for real and lasting structural change to our current systems of authority and decision making, rather than surface changes to existing systems. It is a path forward for justice and self-determination for First Nations Peoples in this country. An opportunity for ancient sovereignty to shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.

Midnyte City are a signatory to the Uluru Statement and fully support legal and structural reforms to reshape the relationship between First Nations Peoples and the Australian population. With hope and full hearts, we accept the infinitely generous invitation of the Uluru Statement to walk together, ‘in a movement of the Australian people for a better future’.

We want to see Australian society progress beyond the divisive, patriarchal, colonial mindset. Moving instead towards reconciliation, remediation and the forging an inclusive, shared national identity.  We believe that people and organisations who stand against The Uluru Statement will be shown to be on the wrong side of history.