Open Summit AI Awards
The frontier.
The impact.
Recognising the labs, teams and businesses putting AI to work.
Four ways to move AI forward.
A lab whose shipped work changed what others could build. Follow the worldwide frontier race and explore Australian labs.
Frontier lab race
Enter or nominateAI Business Impact of the Year
AI creating a measurable business result, with the evidence behind it.
Enter or nominateAI Transformation of the Year
An organisation whose operating model changed through AI, with evidence of the before and after.
Enter or nominateAI in Production Award
AI running in production with real users, inside a business or in a customer-facing product.
Enter or nominateFrom your country to a world stage.
Australian entries close 10 October 2026. Winners are announced at Brisbane City Hall on 11 November 2026.
The room awards five points and the judging panel awards five. National winners progress through regional finals towards the global final in New York on 18 February 2027. Global entries close 1 February 2027.
Make the case
Show us the result.
Include a measurable outcome, the change you made and the evidence behind it.
For nominations, we contact the nominee before publishing anything.
Eligibility questions: team@opensummit.ai