With the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence finalists now locked-in for 2024, the voting has now opened to the public to find a worthy winner of the prestigious People’s Choice Award.
The People’s Choice Award is how we identify the crowd favourite from among all of our 2024 finalists. The voting is open to the public on a one person, one vote basis – so make you vote count, and share your favourite through social media channels.
The list of all of our outstanding 2024 finalists is published below. You can cast your votes through this link.
To vote on this award, you will need to register on our awards platform to ensure the one-person, one-vote rule. This is a quick and easy process and don’t worry, your email address will not be used for any purpose other than the voting.
Each of the finalists have recorded a short video presentation describing their product or service, which you can view through the Awards voting page to help you make a decision.
The winner of the People’s Choice Awards will be announced at the 2024 InnovationAus Awards for Excellence black-tie gala dinner being held on Wednesday October 30 at The Venue in Sydney’s Alexandria. You can book you seat here.
Each of the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence category finalists are now in the running for the People’s Choice Award. These finalists are:
- DroneShield – DroneShield is an Australian defence company that specialises in technology for drone detection and security. Its current product lineup includes handheld, vehicular and fixed hardware that can detect, analyse and shut down drones within a certain area.
- SAPHI – SAPHI specialises in developing and integrating new technologies. The company delivers technology-agnostic solutions to meet user needs, with a focus on cutting-edge technologies to support the strategic priorities of mining, heavy industry and government.
- Baymatob – Baymatob produces AI-guided solutions to improve health outcomes for mothers and their babies, an area of healthcare that has been ignored for far too long. The company aims to deliver completely disruptive technologies that mothers love to use and clinicians find irreplaceable.
- MyLot – MyLot is a generative AI assistant built to simplify planning approvals for applicants and councils. In the context of the housing crisis, growing application delays and a nation-wide shortage of planners, MyLot is a game changer for all stakeholders in the system.
- EncompaaS – EncompaaS simplifies information management by helping enterprise users to navigate and harness structured and unstructured data across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments. It empowers highly regulated enterprises to rapidly mitigate compliance and privacy risks, while unlocking the full potential of their data.
- Fivecast – Fivecast is a global provider of AI-driven open-source intelligence solutions, delivering targeted data collection and AI-enabled risk analytics. Its Matrix solution builds on its open source intelligence solution, Onyx, for automated, ongoing background checks.
- Outcomex – Outcomex is a systems integrator, devoted to providing intuitive solutions in IT across Australia. In today’s digitally connected world, the company believes it is essential for organisations to align every part of their strategy in order to become industry leaders.
- Cyber Security Certification Australia (CSCAU) – Cyber Security Certification Australia is an organisation that develops dynamic cyber security standards to help SMEs improve their cyber security practices and protect their data.
- Tide Foundation – Tide generates keys in a fragmented (sharded) state across a fully decentralised network in a zero-knowledge process. The keys are also operated in hermetic secrecy, without ever being combined – made possible by new decentralised, threshold based multi-party cryptography.
- Kaine Mathrick Tech – Kaine Mathrick Tech is a managed service provider specialising in cybersecurity service delivery. The company includes products that helps users achieve and maintain compliance with the ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Level 2.
- HB11 Energy – HB11 Energy is developing a nuclear fusion technology that will produce low greenhouse gas emissions electricity by using lasers to compress and ignite Boron fuel pellets.
- Equatorial Launch Australia – Equatorial Launch Australia is the owner of Australia’s first and currently only operational multi-user commercial spaceport, the Arnhem Space Centre in northern Australia. The company also provides testing, launch and recovery services.
- Diraq – Diraq is a world-leading builder of quantum processors, having invented and patented the revolutionary technology of using electron spins in CMOS quantum dots a decade ago in Sydney.
- Innofocus Photonics Technology – Innofocus Photonics Technology produces advanced laser nanofabrication and holographic imaging equipment for photonic device manufacturing and nanotech development.
- Fleet Space Technologies – Fleet Space Technologies is a satellite company providing a range of services to the space, defence, and minerals exploration sectors. The company has developed its own small-scale satellites and has already sent eight of these craft into space.
- ClearVue Technologies – ClearVue Technologies has developed a technology that enables transparent glass windows to generate solar energy. It also developed photovoltaic cladding that enables walls and other non-transparent areas to generate solar energy.
- Green Gravity – Green Gravity converts old mines into gravitational energy storage sites. Excess renewable energy is used to raise heavy weights to the top off the disused mine, which can then be dropped, using gravity to spin an electricity generator.
- Edith Cowan University – The Western Australian university’s Nutrition and Health Innovation Research Institute is using 3D-food printing technology to transform fruit and vegetable that could not be sold due their ‘imperfect’ appearance despite being edible.
- Refilled – Refilled has developed a drink dispenser for water and more than 100 flavoured drink combinations, without plastic bottles or cans. The fridge-sized machine also tracks the carbon emissions associated with the number of single-use plastic bottles it replaces.
- Southern Ocean Subsea – Southern Ocean Subsea develops underwater drones and provides maintenance and repair services to the aquaculture industry, including the world’s first remotely operated vehicle Net Repair System.
- NSW Smart Sensing Network – The NSW Smart Sensing Network is state-funded innovation network bringing universities, industry, and government through the Operational Network of Air Quality Impact Resources (OPENAIR), driving the use of low-cost air quality sensing.
- Jobs and Skills Australia – Jobs and Skills Australia is a Commonwealth agency charged with supporting Australia’s workforce needs. It has developed the Jobs and Skills Atlas to provide a national overview of the labour market.
- Payble – Payable is a Sydney-based company that modernises local government payments, specifically citizen-centric payment experiences, flexible billing options and simplified rate collection.
- Navbit – Navbit is an Australian MedTech company that has developed smart sensor technology for Australian orthopaedic surgeons. The guidance technology, dubbed Navbit Sprint, enables surgeons to perform hips replacements with precision alignment.
- Artrya – Artrya is an applied AI-driven MedTech company based in Perth that works with clinicians to improve the diagnosis of coronary heart disease using non-invasive methods.
- Nuroflux – Nuroflux is a strategic partnership with The George Institute for Global Health, a leading not-for-profit medical research institute, that has developed a device called the nuroflex to monitor brain activity.
- VueMotion – VueMotion is a Sydney-based technology company that has developed computer vision, AI and machine learning, and augmented reality applications for the sports and health industries.
- Verbotics Weld – Verbotics Weld was founded in 2017 to revolutionise the way robots are programmed. Removing the skill barrier, time and effort involved, the technology makes robotic automation accessible for low-volume production.
- SciDev – SciDev is a leader in environmental solutions focused on water-intensive industries, allowing clients to reuse water, improve operational efficiencies and minimise their environmental footprints.
- Provectus Algae – Provectus Algae strives to improve the world’s environmental impact, leveraging proprietary technologies and advanced photobioreactors to develop natural solutions that greatly reduce methane emissions from cattle.
- BlockTexx – BlockTexx is a leading global movement towards a circular economy for its customers and production partners by developing planet-focused solutions that divert textile waste from landfill into sustainable products.
- Zepto – Zepto is a Byron Bay-based developer of real-time, account-to-account merchant payment solutions through its API. The fintech is connected to the New Payments Platform and is accredited under the Consumer Data Right.
- Nansen.io – Nansen.io is an independent specialist in digital forensics and online personal safety whose mission is to highest quality digital forensic and cybersecurity services to its clients.
- Acusensus – Acusensus pioneers intelligent solutions that can be rapidly deployed to address road-safety challenges. It’s technology is used to detect illegal mobile phone use by drivers in New South Wales.
- See Me Please – See Me Please provides a one-stop-shop for digital teams to access a broad range of diverse and disabled customers for user testing in a way that supports the fast, iterative nature of modern software development.
- Artya – Artrya is an applied AI-driven MedTech company based in Perth that works with clinicians to improve the diagnosis of coronary heart disease using non-invasive methods.
- Rux Energy – Rux Energy is developing a low-cost, safe and efficient hydrogen storage solution that promises to be a game changer for the implementation of low carbon-emission technologies.
Don’t forget, the winner of the People’s Choice Award for the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence will be announced at our black-tie gala dinner at The Venue in Sydney’s Alexandria on the evening of Wednesday October 30. You can reserve your tickets to the event here.
The InnovationAus 2024 Awards for Excellence are supported by: Australian Computer Society, Investment NSW, Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Technology Council of Australia, TechnologyOne, National Artificial Intelligence Centre, CSIRO’s ON Innovation Program, Reason Group, Q-CTRL, University of New South Wales, South by Southwest Sydney and IP Australia.
Protecting your great ideas with intellectual property (IP) rights can lead to lasting benefits for your growing business. IP refers to creations of the mind, such as a brand, logo, invention, design or artistic work. Head to the IP Australia website to find out more about IP, and how it might help your business.
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