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BOSS Most Innovative Companies pave the road to Australia’s future
AI agents and virtual teams provide new ways to scale talent, adapt and collaborate. But Australian firms lag in linking technology investments to business goals.
- Jane Livesey
This non-profit plays to the strengths of autistic young adults
Australian Spatial Analytics aims to find jobs for a group who are 10 times more likely to be unemployed than the national average.
- Christopher Niesche
Lawyers double check this AI tool’s answers
LawY, a function of LEAP Legal Software that allows users to query a legal database to carry out common tasks, uses an old-school way to ensure accuracy.
- Edmund Tadros
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This Month
Emissions tracking tool a winner for super funds and Pathzero
Aware Super and Hesta use Pathzero software. So do 600 fund managers. It’s already the world’s largest data sharing network for private market carbon emissions.
- James Eyers
You’ll thank this bank for making you wait hours for your savings
This neo-bank wants to do money differently, and teach its customers how to take control of their budgets.
- Lucy Dean
Assessing innovation hands on with AI and experts
Cognizant employed a multifaceted approach in judging of The Australian Financial Review 2024 BOSS Most Innovative Companies Awards.
- George Evans
This AI agent can spare you inconvenient meetings by deputising
Mindhive has developed AI-enhanced avatar software that allows users to create digital ‘twins’ of themselves to stand in when they are unavailable.
- Alexandra Cain
Space is finite – this company helps retailers maximise it
Scalene helps retailers make the best use of their footprint, while Samsara Eco is tackling fashion’s huge plastic waste problem.
- Lauren Sams
Why hydrogen is better than batteries for long-distance trucks
H2X is focusing the rollout of its hydrogen-powered trucks on Europe and Scandinavia where incentives and refuelling are better.
- Agnes King
Marketers get ‘freedom to play’ using automated research tool
The marketing aid uses artificial intelligence to quickly ask customers what they think about new products and deliver the research results overnight.
- Edmund Tadros
How one agency found a way to juice its clients’ Google search results
Impressive Digital has spent the past two years building Skailed, a platform that can generate thousands of e-com landing pages to improve Google rankings.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
‘The cabin is the driver’s office’ for filters maker Ryco
Ryco’s fine-particle vehicle filters offer a medical-grade ‘face mask for your truck’ – a game changer for the health of commercial transport drivers.
- Sylvia Ramsay
The start-up revolutionising male fertility tests
A home testing kit for men helps avoid the inconvenience and embarrassment of trips to IVF clinics.
- Michael Smith
AI greenhouses feed remote communities and educate children
Food Ladder installs AI greenhouses in remote communities to feed people and educate their children about the benefits of healthy fresh produce.
- Christopher Niesche
How this Aussie mining tech company is doing its bit for the planet
ElectraLith is named the 2024 AFR BOSS Most Innovative Company in the Agriculture, Mining, Engineering and Utilities sector.
- Sally Patten
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The winners of the Higher Education Awards
Meet the winners of the 2024 Higher Education Awards, across eight categories.
- Community Engagement
- Higher Education Awards
A 50pc improvement: Unis turn the tide on disadvantage
The winner of the community engagement category is reversing the fortunes of disadvantaged children in a partnership that has lifted HSC results.
- Agnes King
- Industry Engagement
- Higher Education Awards
La Trobe’s pioneering model to transform healthcare
The winner of the industry engagement award used COVID and a pinch of serendipity to create a world-leading virtual medical emergency model in Melbourne.
- Sylvia Ramsey
- Analysis
- Higher Education Awards
Winning strategy: Setting guardrails for generative AI
Comment provided by the winner of the Teaching & Learning Excellence category, UNSW.
- Jake Renzella and Sasha Vassar
- Analysis
- Higher Education Awards
Winning strategy: Matching students with industry partners
Comment provided by the joint winners of the Employability award, Monash and Swinburne.
- Laurence Orlando and Laura-Anne Bull
- Analysis
- Higher Education Awards
Winning strategy: Remarkable results lifting HSC scores by 50pc
Comment provided by the winner of the Community Engagement category, the University of Newcastle.
- Drew Miller
- Analysis
- Higher Education Awards
Winning strategy: A virtual lifeline for emergency departments
Comment provided by the winner of the Industry Engagement award, La Trobe University.
- James Boyd
- Opinion
- Higher Education Awards
The judging panel for the 2024 awards
Here are the judges for the 2024 AFR Higher Education Awards.
