Sunday, February 8, 2026

And the winner is ... at the Defence Hackerthon

Greetings from the last day of the Australian Defense Tech Hackathon at UNSW Canberra. The wining teams were Crowdshield, a crowd-sourced defence to identify, classify and neutralize unauthorized drone activities, Circinus Corp,with a Low cost integrated standalone platform for remote threat detection and categorisation and HPM Shielding Solutions refining the process for designing EM shielded systems that can be manufactured in small distributed labs. After we had a group photo in the UNSW Canberra indoor drone range (aka basketball court). Appropriately the photo was taken by a drone, when then, appropriately, crashed into the wall. ;-)