Name: CISO Melbourne 2026 + Co-Located Events
Start: 2026-07-14
End: 2026-07-15
Location: National

2026 ACT Winners and Merit Recipients

Technology Platform Solution

Lemoncello.ai Pty Ltd

Lemoncello.ai is an Australian-built AI Visibility Platform that reveals how AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Perplexity perceive and recommend any brand, delivering a GEO visibility score accessible to everyone, from sole traders to global enterprises. As AI reshapes how the world discovers brands, Lemoncello.ai ensures no one gets left behind.

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Sustainability & Environmental Solution

Geoscience Australia

Integrating decades of Earth observation data from Digital Earth Australia into the Digital Atlas of Australia enables clear, interactive explorers that visualise environmental change. Combine this data with trusted datasets to compare places and time periods, supporting sustainability, resilience, and better environmental decisions.

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Student Solution

Innovation Central Canberra, University of Canberra

We built an automated platform that gives security teams a complete picture of their network risk in minutes. By integrating compliance data, software vulnerability intelligence, and hardware lifecycle status into a single unified view, what previously took hours of manual work now happens at the click of a button.

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Start-Up Solution

RAVEN.AI Pty Ltd

RAVEN is an Australian-owned, sovereign intelligence platform that combines advanced AI, big data architecture and real-time analytics into a single, operationally embedded capability. Purpose-built for government & commercial environments, RAVEN empowers analysts and investigators to uncover threats, disrupt criminal networks and make decisive, court-ready intelligence judgements. RAVEN. Data to Decision. Fast.

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Not-For-Profit / Community Solution

Australian Pharmacy Council

The Australian Pharmacy Council Accreditation Management System (AMS) digitised manual pharmacy accreditation processes using the Armature Fabric cloud platform. This automation enhances efficiency by reducing administrative costs, strengthens regulatory compliance and provides APC stakeholders with a modern, scalable system to safeguard public health standards across Australia.

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Government & Public Sector Solution

Nuvento, Jones Hope Legal and Advisory, LCMS

Comply FOI is a world-first, purpose-built AI platform that reduces Freedom of Information processing time by up to 95%! Developed in Canberra by Nuvento and Jones Hope Legal and Advisory, it combines proprietary AI engineering with deep legal expertise to deliver faster transparency, full auditability, and human-supervised decision-making at scale.

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Diversity Solution

Innovation Central Canberra, University of Canberra

Innovation Central Canberra (ICC) delivers a scalable, commercially driven inclusion model that transitions diverse students into enterprise technology roles. Through paid industry engagement, behavioural mentoring, and strong partnerships, ICC dismantles systemic barriers, exceeds national diversity benchmarks, and builds a sustainable pipeline of enterprise‑ready talent.

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Business & Industry Solution

Airgentic Pty Ltd

Airgentic is an AI-powered customer service platform that transforms websites into active service and conversion channels. At BCIT, it reduced enrolment friction and delivered a measured 5,326% monthly ROI, guiding users to accurate answers and next steps across complex institutional information.

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Artificial Intelligence Technology Solution

Nuvento

Cortex Orchestrator v2 is a sovereign neural AI routing engine that intelligently dispatches analytical queries across 1B, 8B, and 32B language models. Its novel five-head transformer and budget-aware routing deliver up to 85% cost reduction at 98% accuracy, fully on-premises for immediate public and private sector use.

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