Over 30 professionals and businesses have been announced as winners in the annual Australian AI Awards 2025.
The second annual Australian AI Awards was held on Wednesday, 5th November in Sydney to champion Australia’s AI innovation.
Launched by Momentum Media, and supported by industry partner AWS, the Australian AI Awards program reflects the extraordinary rise of AI across every corner of the economy, while recognising the trailblazers leading the sector.
A total of 33 winners have been selected from the 249 finalists for the prestigious awards program.
Click here to view the full list of winners.
Professionals spanning all industries across the nation gathered to celebrate the achievements of their colleagues and peers at the black-tie gala in Sydney, which also provided a unique opportunity to network with industry leaders across all sectors of the Australian economy.
There were over 30 categories on offer this year, including 10 individual and 23 group categories, including innovators in broking and banking.
Lendi Group took home the award for innovation in mortgage broking while Apate.ai/Macquarie University won the award for consumer banking for its Australian-first deployment of anti-scam technology that uses conversational AI-powered bots to help extract scam intelligence and combat scam phone calls.
Shahroz Tariq of CSIRO’s Data61 took home the trophy in the AI Rising Star of the Year - Enterprise category this year, while iOmniscient was rewarded with the AI Innovator - Information Technology award in the group category.
Leading AI consultants, rising stars, and academics were also rewarded this year alongside cybersecurity companies, mortgage broking businesses, real estate agencies, healthcare companies, information technology professionals, and defence and aerospace companies.
The Australian AI Awards, in conjunction with event stakeholders Momentum Media, and a panel of leading AI professionals, involves a robust awards methodology to form the backbone for assessing and benchmarking Australia’s leading AI professionals and businesses.
All submissions underwent a thorough audit process, checking demographic and other information against category eligibility criteria based on the information provided in the submission.
Finalist submissions were delivered to a panel of respected professionals and business leaders who assessed each submission against the criteria of each award category.
The combined judging scores for each submission in each category were then tabulated, with the highest-scoring submission deemed the winner.
To learn more about the awards program, click here.
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