2025 winners and finalists

Anton De Weger, The Florey - Australian Epilepsy Project
Yule Guttenbeil, Attune Legal
Hrvoje (Hal) Hancevic-Grabic, IT Strategy Hub
Samuel Junghenn, AI Legal Assistant
Robert Jurcec, 3DLogistiX
Tim Lillyman, XPON Technologies Group

Sarah Mateljan, GenLearn / LawCPD

Leif Pedersen, Lumify Work
Nici Sweaney, Ai Her Way
Harshana Withanapathirana, Atlato

Amin Beheshti, Macquarie University
Vishal Bhanage, Adactin Group
Samson Blackburn, BDO Australia
Anupam Das, EY
Amir H Gandomi, University of Technology Sydney
Luke Kendall, Gadens
Katrina Leslie, swipejobs
Jeremiah Mannings, Capgemini Invent
Rohan Raghavan, EY

Danny Wu, Canva

Nicola Cosgrove, Lext
Geoff Gourley, ESG&I (ChatESG)
Yule Guttenbeil, Attune Legal
Hrvoje (Hal) Hancevic-Grabic, IT Strategy Hub

Amantha Imber, Inventium

Mark Lai, Forward Finance Group
Keval Oza, Absolut Financial
Bart Puszko, Blue Seas AI Consulting
Yiya Sun, Optimise AI Consulting
Sadish Visvalingam, Broker vs AI

Samson Blackburn, BDO Australia
Sam Burrett, MinterEllison
Dalvin Chien, Mills Oakley

Anupam Das, EY

Ian Gard, Tecala
Sean Gurney, Data#3
Richard Hawes, Atturra
Jeremiah Mannings, Capgemini Invent
Rohan Raghavan, EY
Daniel Siew, Lendi Group

Christel Cherryadi, Creart Digital Media
Vicky Fu, Titan Capital
Hrvoje (Hal) Hancevic-Grabic, IT Strategy Hub
Jarryd Holmes, Bolder Digital
Brodie Kay, Codex
Amol Khuntale, Ask Financials

Marcus Manduci, JustFund

Lindsay Page, Pathfindr
Adrianna San Jose, Polaris Lawyers
Sadish Visvalingam, Broker vs AI

Arnick Abdollahi, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Matthew Beard, EY
Samson Blackburn, BDO Australia
Ziggy Cheng, Thomson Reuters
Carl Fernandes, Adactin Group
Benjamin Karnaghan, Lendi Group
Bo Peng, DroneShield
Isabelle Sijan, AFL

Shahroz Tariq, CSIRO’s Data61

Zain Zama, National Australia Bank

Joanne Chenn, LegalVision
Nicola Cosgrove, Lext
Iolanthe Gabrie, Ruby Assembly
Brooke Hall-Carney, LK Law
Amantha Imber, Inventium
Ivy Li, iOmniscient
Andrea Roberts, Aivana
Inbal Rodnay, Inbal Rodnay

Nici Sweaney, Ai Her Way

Laura Vickers, Nest Legal

Michelle Bey, Lander & Rogers

Sarah Bradley, Nasdaq
Efrosini Combis & Lily Encina, Lendi Group
Bobbie MacDougall, Lendi Group
Sharryn Napier, GitHub
Neena Narayanan, EY
Caryn Sandler, Gilbert + Tobin
Maxine Wee, PwC
Lily Xia, EY
Poonam Zham, IBM

Zain Ali Agharia, Akula Tech
Andrew Bird, Affinda
Connor Brendish, PentenAmio
Kyle Jackson, Sekuro
Adam Norman Jenkins, ISaidUSaid
Samuel Junghenn, AI Legal Assistant
Tran Nhut Le, Lawpath
Jannes Mingram, Lendi Group
Timur Vafin, EY

Andrew Vassili, Stake

Mohiuddin Ahmed, Edith Cowan University
Mona Chiha, JurisTechne
Sophia Duan, La Trobe University
Shankar Dutt, Australian National University
Amir H Gandomi, University of Technology Sydney

Dali Kaafar, Apate.ai/Macquarie University

Ben Kereopa-Yorke, nbn
Seyedali Mirjalili, Torrens University Australia
Kathiravan Thangavel, GroundZero Space
Muhammad Usman, CSIRO