2024 Winners and finalists

AI Academic / Researcher of the Year

Ehsan Abbasnejad, University of Adelaide
Arnick Abdollahi, University of Technology Sydney
Mitchell Adams, Swinburne University of Technology
Belal Alsinglawi, Swinburne University of Technology

Amin Beheshti, Macquarie University

Mohammed Bennamoun, The University of Western Australia
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Deakin University
Chris Sherley, EY
Toby Walsh, UNSW Sydney
Nigel Wilson, Australis Chambers

AI Consultant of the Year - Enterprise

Gaurav Chauhan, EY
Danielle Froes, EY
Shveta Gupta, EY
Faizal Janif, Oreta
Rocco Musumeci, AMP Services

Tom Pagram, PwC

Chris Seebacher, NSW Telco Authority
Kenrick Setiobudi, EY
Emily Whitney, EY
Michelle Zhao, EY

AI Consultant of the Year - SME

Rohit Borekar, Solution Tech Group
Geoffrey Gourley, ESG&I.

Yule Guttenbeil, Attune Legal

Beau-lea Miller, Beau Miller Consulting
Nathan Organ, Norgan Networks
Inbal Rodnay, Inbal Rodnay
Kayla Russell, Palfreyman Chartered Accountants
Janey Treleaven, Intelligence Assist
Denny Wan, Reasonable Security Institute
Nigel Wilson, Australis Chambers

AI Female Leader of the Year - Enterprise

Michelle Bey, Lander & Rogers
Lisa Bouari, EY

Aruna Kolluru, Dell Technologies

Vi Le, NSW Telco Authority
Kristen Moore, CSIRO’s Data61
Terri Mottershead, Centre for Legal Innovation at the College of Law
Catherine Roberts, Thomson Reuters
Caryn Sandler, Gilbert + Tobin
Erin Scarrow, Accenture
Angelica Veness,IBM (formally Salesforce)

AI Female Leader of the Year - SME

Sarah Butler, Caseware Australia

Sarah Mateljan, LawCPD

Ganna Pogrebna, AI and Cyber Futures Institute
Cler Ribeiro, ISaidUSaid
Inbal Rodnay, Inbal Rodnay
Kayla Russell, Palfreyman Chartered Accountants
Rachel Scanlon, D2 Legal Technology
Samantha Sneddon, WollemAI
Janey Treleaven, Intelligence Assist
Laura Vickers, Nest Legal

AI Leader of the Year - Enterprise

Amin Beheshti, Macquarie University
Lisa Bouari, EY
Alex Cato, Thomson Reuters
Vi Le, NSW Telco Authority
Keiko Minami, Darktrace
Tom Pagram, PwC
Caryn Sandler, Gilbert + Tobin
Andrew Underwood, Dell Technologies

Seth Watts, CampaignAgent (REA Group)

Baber Zaka, Commonwealth Bank

AI Leader of the Year - SME

Nigel Dennis, BidWrite
Deepan Gnanajothi, EFFI Technologies
Yule Guttenbeil, Attune Legal
Hrvoje Hancevic-Grabic, IT Strategy Hub

Nishq Ravindranath, Akula Tech

Inbal Rodnay, Inbal Rodnay
Dan Saldi, Xaana.Ai
Jamie Twiss, Carrington Labs
Anton van den Hengel, Australian Institute for Machine Learning
Nigel Wilson, Australis Chambers

AI Rising Star of the Year - Enterprise

Arnick Abdollahi, University of Technology Sydney
Amin Beheshti, Macquarie University
Ziggy Cheng, Thomson Reuters

Danielle Froes, EY

Muhammad Usman, CSIRO
Sara Webb, Swinburne University of Technology

Michelle Zhao, EY

AI Rising Star of the Year - SME

Christopher Borg, My Virtual Broker
Aaron Breed, Infinity Financial Consultants
Sean Fagan, THDR Group
Colm Flanagan, HIROCO
Vicky Fu, Titan Capital
Sasha Kutabah Sarago, AI and Cyber Futures Institute
Joe Nguyen, Carrington Labs
Nishq Ravindranath, Akula Tech Pty Ltd

Gitarth Vaishnav, DroneShield

AI Software Engineer of the Year

Paul Ang, DroneShield
Sarah Butler, Caseware Australia
Nelton D’Souza, EY

Kiriya Keat, Penten

Thomas McCabe, Mission Systems
Nishq Ravindranath, Akula Tech
Ke Zhu, Carrington Labs