Victoria’s Young Australian of the Year Aishwarya Kansakar is a globally renowned AI and automation entrepreneur, ​n​ot-for-​​profit ​​executive, ​​STEM education innovator and an automation engineer who speaks six languages. ​​

Kansakar was raised in Nepal’s civil war, she survived an arson attack at school but went on to teach herself computing, launching her career.

She now heads up Syncrowin, ​​building a world-first AI-powered ​​automation system.

She also works as Women 4 STEM’s​​ chief operating officer, where she leads 300 volunteers, impacting 70 schools and 66,000 women’s STEM careers.