Name: CISO Sydney 2025
Start: 2025-02-11
End: 2025-02-12
Location: National

2023 National Winners and Merit Recipients

Inspiration Award

Inform & Empower

Inform & Empower's live stream incursions utilise innovative uses of existing technologies to deliver high quality and affordable digital safety and wellbeing learning to classrooms across Australia. Their solution enables primary schools across Australia, whether they be urban, regional or remote, to have access to the identical high quality, engaging and interactive learning necessary to thrive in an online world.

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Diversity Award

KJR

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Chief Judge Innovation Award

Vantari VR

Vantari’s technology sets the gold standard for medical procedural training. Launched by leading clinicians with extensive real-world experience in emergency medicine and surgery, Vantari has been integrated into tertiary training hospitals globally and is already having a significant impact on training and education delivery for doctors, nurses and students.

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Government & Public Sector Solution

FloodMapp

FloodMapp has developed a world-first flood modelling technology that provides highly accurate, real-time, property-level dynamic flood inundation and depth insights. Developed by software engineers, flood engineers and data scientists, it combines data analytics and automation with fundamentals of hydrology and hydraulics to deliver large-scale, rapid flood mapping.

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Technology Platform Solution

Etiscope

Joint Action's innovations deliver the most accuare, easiest and cost-effective way to provide protection from manual handling injuries. Simple to use technology that engages workers in a safe work culture delivered to the top line and bottom line of any business.

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Not-For-Profit / Community Solution

Dementia Australia

BrainTrack is a free app addressing the need for timely diagnosis of dementia which has been downloaded by more than 40,000 people since being released by Dementia Australia on 13 October 2022. BrainTrack is designed for people who may have a health or lifestyle predisposition to dementia, are noticing changes in their cognitive health and anyone interested in healthy ageing.

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Sustainability & Environmental Solution

Xsights Digital Pty Ltd

The XIoT Tag is a patented tool for the agricultural industry that is an affordable and scalable solution for real-time health & welfare monitoring of livestock. It is a wafer thin, encapsulated three core silicon processor, which includes integrated sensing, security, processing and a Bluetooth transmitter that sits between an animals’ ear and standard ear tag for live data collection. It is disrupting the current livestock monitoring solutions with a focus on the health and welfare of individual animals.

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Student & Education Solution

Deakin University

The innovation provides a solution for conservationists and researchers that uses a network of microphone sensors and artificial intelligence to monitor, track, and analyse endangered animal movements in real time. The system is non-invasive, cost-effective, and works in low light and cluttered environments, offering several advantages over traditional camera-based monitoring systems.

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Government & Public Sector Solution

Swinburne University of Technology

This innovative solution, the first of its kind in Australia, addresses the challenge of proactive maintenance of roadside assets in local government areas (LGAs). The solution involves equipping waste collection trucks with Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and 5G connectivity to capture high-resolution video data of roadside assets, such as roadside signs, bus stop shelters, and public spaces.

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Start-Up Solution

SmartAIConnect AI Framework

SmartAIConnect’s AI Framework revolutionises the deployment of AI models at the edge. It simplifies the entire process, from deployment to monitoring and distribution of predictions, while ensuring security, audit trails, and governance measures.

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Business & Industry Solution

Digital Pathology System

UQ/Sullivan and Nicolaides Pathology has developed an intelligent scanning microscope, AI analysis software, and a custom-built slide handling hotel, revolutionizing traditional manual optical glass slide microscopy. The technology allows glass slides to be fully digitized at multiple magnifications, providing high-quality digital images viewed on computer screens.

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Diversity Award

Services Australia

Start-Up Solution

VueMotion Labs Pty Ltd

VueMotion platform brings innovation in multiple aspects. From novel AI movement analysis modules, the platform also allows collaboration and data management. The unique combination of platform features are combined in a true user centric way for one and only one vision - unlock the true potential of human movement at scale.

Government & Public Sector Solution

NSW Rural Fire Service & Agile Digital

PRAS is a hyperscale, geo-distributed, fault-tolerant, and cyber-resilient solution designed for the NSW RFS by the NSW RFS and Agile Digital. Its foundations are in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem, allowing PRAS to adapt to the heights of fire seasons and then scaling back when the need is less.

Government & Public Sector Solution

FloodMapp

Student & Education Solution

Curtin University

Student & Education Solution

Murray Bridge High School

The club chat app is a scalable, tailored, administrative, and customisable solution to empower communication between members of school social clubs. A collaborative and reliable web application that can run on all modern devices across all platforms, powered by scalable and school-approved technology.

Technology Platform Solution

Telstra Health

Drawing on over a decade of experience in virtual care solutions and delivery, Telstra Health has developed Virtual Health Platform (VHP) with a primary focus on healthcare interoperability. VHP innovatively uses FHIR as its primary data repository, enabling seamless data interchange with any health systems across the globe, thereby transforming traditional care delivery into a digital, automated, and streamlined process that can be easily scaled within organisations of all sizes, for a variety of use cases.

Not-For-Profit / Community Solution

Hashcode Pty Ltd

UNICEF commissioned Hashcode Pty Ltd (Australia) to advise, help architect, design and implement a digital mental health platform called usupport to address the growing need for mental health services for youth in Europe and Central Asia. usupport as a platform caters for the fundamentals of digital mental health and the capability to support the specific needs of countries in the region.

Sustainability & Environmental Solution

Eco Detection Pty Ltd

A WORLD’S FIRST SYSTEM. The innovation is a fully autonomous laboratory grade water analysis system designed for remote operations, critical infrastructure, wastewater processing, aquaculture, research and general water chemical analysis.

Sustainability & Environmental Solution

Green Gravity

Green Gravity is commercialising a technology utilising legacy mine shafts to move heavy weights vertically, creating economic energy storage at a scale likely to provide material storage to the grid. By reusing legacy mining infrastructure, the technology provides large scale renewable energy storage while proving for repurposing of existing assets. The technology provides a low cost, highly sustainable solution for rapid uptake of renewable energy.

Business & Industry Solution

Ascend Health Group

Business & Industry Solution

Eyes of AI™ and CSIRO Data61

The Eyes of AI™ platform is a purpose built, cloud-based solution that utilises the latest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to address the unmet diagnostic and treatment planning needs of the dental industry.