Kablamo wins AWS Global Public Sector Award for Most Innovative AI and ML Solution

We're proud to announce that Kablamo has won the 2021 AWS Global Public Sector Partners Award for Most Innovative AI and ML Solution.

The award recognises our work with the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) Victoria, building a fully scalable, future-proof cloud platform for performing bushfire risk assessments at scale. It's the same foundational work that became Firestory.

Allan Waddell, Co-CEO and founder of Kablamo, said:

"Waking up to news like this has left me stunned. Global recognition for any Australian company is a big deal to me. This is a special moment and another crazy big step for Kablamo. Proud of the team, proud of all the hard work."

Sandy Carter, Vice President of AWS Worldwide Public Sector Partners and Programs, said award winners including Kablamo are "essential in driving innovation, accelerating digital transformation, and delivering results for our AWS customers, and in helping public sector customers achieve their mission."

What we built

The platform integrates disparate data streams (satellite imagery, weather data, historical fire records, ground sensor feeds) into a single decision-making environment for firefighting agencies. Engineers spent over a year embedded with firefighters to understand the actual workflows before writing the first line of production code.

As our team said at the time: the goal was integrating a vast amount of disparate data flows into a single, user-friendly platform that could handle near-limitless data, and doing it in a way that let people on the ground do their jobs faster.

What it means

This is the first time an Australian company has won in this category at the AWS Global Public Sector Partner Awards. Being recognised alongside Palantir and Deloitte speaks to the calibre of the work Australian engineers can do when given the right problem to solve.

The technology we built for DELWP became the foundation for Firestory, now deployed with the NSW Rural Fire Service, where it has tracked over 15,000 fire incidents with 100% uptime across continuous production deployments.

Media coverage: Information Age · Silicon Angle · ARN