9 November 2026, Sydney: ResetData has opened applications for its 2027 AI Impact Award, offering a $1 million grant to support Australian organisations developing high-impact AI solutions. Delivered as part of ResetData's broader AI Growth Program, the award provides the winning organisation with $1 million in credits to access ResetData's sovereign AI services, helping accelerate AI innovation and deliver meaningful outcomes for Australian businesses, industries and communities.
The AI Growth Program is ResetData's commitment to advancing Australian AI capability, supporting businesses and organisations of all sizes through access to sovereign AI infrastructure, services and partnerships, including collaboration with government agencies. The annual AI Impact Award recognises Australian organisations with the technical readiness, ambition and potential to deliver meaningful real-world impact through AI.
Last year, Children’s Medical Research Institute’s (CMRI) ProCan cancer research project was awarded $1million worth of ResetData's sovereign AI services. The project sought to use AI compute capability to better understand the molecular characteristics of cancer and investigate how those characteristics could be used to predict patient outcomes and treatment response.
Over the course of the year, the team at CMRI and ProCan have demonstrated the calibre of Australian research expertise. Leveraging ResetData’s high-performance AI compute, the ProCan team have accelerated the analysis of cancer protein samples, sixfold; creating one of the largest databases of its kind worldwide.
“We started digitising pathology microscope slides right from the beginning of the ProCan project in the hope that one day the computation would become available to allow us to solve the problem of connecting the information embedded in the slides with the protein data,” said Professor Roger Reddel, Director of Children’s Medical Research Institute, Head of the Cancer Research Unit and Co-Director of ProCan. “That day has arrived now because that’s exactly what the ResetData computation power is allowing us to do. By combining our unique proteomic data and pathology resources with ResetData’s cutting-edge AI, we’re unlocking new possibilities for personalised treatment planning that has the potential to benefit every cancer patient.”
“Through the AI Growth Program, ResetData is backing the Australian organisations that are ready to scale and are demanding access to sovereign AI compute capacity to create meaningful business and research outcomes,” Bass Salah, Joint CEO of ResetData said. “We are proud to do our part in showcasing Australian AI expertise, through this year's AI Impact Award and as we roll out the AI Growth Program to more and more partners.”
ResetData invites Australian organisation who are ready to implement AI to apply for the AI Impact Award. Organisations will need to demonstrate their technical readiness, requirement for compute and the showcase the potential impacts/outcomes that could be unlocked through access to AI capability.
Australian startups, scaleups, enterprises, research institutes, not-for-profits and selected public sector organisations with high-potential AI use cases are encouraged to apply.
Finalists will be assessed by Bass Salah (Joint CEO, ResetData), Brendan Hopper (Managing Director Innovation Ecosystems, CBA) and Dr. Catherine Ball (Scientific Futurist), with judging focused on technical readiness, demonstrated traction, compute need, potential Australian impact and future growth.
Applications for the ResetData 2027 AI Impact Award are open on 4 November 2026 and close on 20 January 2026. Apply at: https://resetdata.com.au/2027-ai-impact
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Winner of the 2026 AI National Innovation Award: ProCan. Watch their case study video:
https://resetdata.com.au/newsroom/2026-ai-impact-award-procan