Digital and Smart Technologies finalists

Advanced Navigation delivers Australian-founded Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (A-PNT) technology worldwide. Its goal is to strengthen Australia’s sovereign defence, industrial, marine, and technology capabilities while enhancing global security.

Electronic warfare has exposed the vulnerability of satellite-based navigation through jamming, spoofing, and denial of access. Advanced Navigation pioneers AI-based navigation, ensuring reliable positioning when traditional GPS signals can no longer be trusted.

Advanced Navigation drives economic prosperity across Australia’s manufacturing, digital tech, and space sectors by transforming deep-tech research into high-value global exports.

Its top export markets include the US, the UAE and Norway.

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Berry growers make high-stakes commercial decisions every week. These decisions rely on forecasting what is coming off the farm. Yet traditional yield forecasting, done by hand, can be difficult to get right.

Bitwise Agronomy builds AI-powered yield forecasting tools for the global berry industry. This technology helps large-scale growers know, with confidence, what they are going to harvest and when.

Founded in Tasmania in 2019, Bitwise Agronomy has built an Australian-made AI platform earning export revenue from customers across the world. The company employs a core team of technology specialists, creating skilled jobs in Tasmania across machine learning, agronomy, and software development.

Its top export markets include Spain, Portugal, the UK and Peru.

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BixeLab is strengthening Australia's reputation in the global digital trust economy. The biometric and digital identity assurance laboratory delivers independent testing, certification and training for trusted identity systems worldwide. Its services help governments, banks and technology providers mitigate the risks of identity fraud, deepfakes and bias, while supporting secure and inclusive digital identity systems.

BixeLab makes a significant contribution to Australia’s economic prosperity, national security and digital technology capability. Its workforce has grown by 67% year-on-year, supported by BixeAcademy training programs and graduate and student pathways with Canberra institutions.

Its top export markets include the US, India, New Zealand, Malaysia and Vietnam.

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Emesent helps industries map and navigate the world's most complex and dangerous environments.        

The deep-tech company builds hardware, software, and autonomy technology that allows robots and drones to capture precise spatial data. Faster, safer and more accurate mapping supports better decisions across mining operations, infrastructure projects, and defence applications.

Headquartered in Brisbane, Emesent operates local research and manufacturing facilities. The company demonstrates how deep-tech innovation born in Queensland can generate lasting economic benefit for Australia.

Its top export markets include the US, Japan, Canada, China and South Africa.

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MetroCount delivers world-leading traffic monitoring technology to more than 140 countries.

The company combines innovative hardware, software and subscription services. These solutions help organisations collect, understand and make better decisions with transport data.

Headquartered in Fremantle, MetroCount oversees research, design, manufacturing and global distribution. This keeps high-value capability, technical knowledge and operational control in Australia, while serving customers globally.

Its top export markets include the US, the UK, the Philippines, the Netherlands and Sri Lanka.

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At a packed stadium, thousands of fans want food and drinks before play resumes. Serving them quickly requires much more than processing payments.

Developed in Adelaide, MyVenue’s point-of-sale software connects ordering, payments, stock control, and reporting across an entire venue. It helps operators serve more customers and track business performance in real time as sales happen. Hundreds of stadiums, arenas, convention centres and hospitality venues use MyVenue worldwide.

By helping major venues improve operational efficiency and customer experiences, MyVenue supports skilled technology jobs and innovation in the Australian digital technology sector.

Its top export markets include the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and Singapore.

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The modern world works by moving data. That data is vulnerable at every point of transit. Senetas exists to keep the world's most sensitive data safe.

Founded in 1999, Senetas works with governments, militaries, intelligence agencies and critical infrastructure operators around the world. It delivers its certified, quantum-ready network encryption services across more than 60 countries.

Senetas contributes to Australia’s economic prosperity by exporting defence-grade cyber technologies to high-value international markets. It does so while keeping core capability, IP and decision-making anchored in Australia.

Its top export markets include the US, Netherlands, Kuwait, the UAE and Brazil.

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