Sound Scouts Wins 2017 Data Innovation Award: Best Start Up

Sound Scouts was awarded the 2017 BigInsights Data Innovation Award for “Best Start Up” at the awards ceremony held on 2 November at KPMG’s Barangaroo offices in Darling Harbour, Sydney.

The BigInsights Data Innovation Awards recognise teams and companies doing groundbreaking work by using data analytics and technology to deliver business outcomes.

Sound Scouts Founder, Carolyn Mee, on the award:

“Sound Scouts is honoured to have received the Data Innovation Award for Best Startup this year. The award recognises our unique approach to using game play to collect data and deliver fast, clinically validated indications of hearing impairment in children. Data collected by Sound Scouts is analysed via a cloud-based algorithm and over our development cycle we have continuously refined our ability to interpret the data generated from the game.

We are proud to be collaborating with Australia’s premier hearing research lab, the National Acoustic Laboratories, and their colleagues at Hearing Australia. Professor Harvey Dillon, our Chief Scientist, has been uncompromising in his rigorous assessment of our data collection and analysis.”

Presenting the awards on the day were Australia’s Federal Assistant Minister for Innovation & Science, the Hon. Craig Laundy MP, and New South Wales Minister for Innovation & Better Regulation, the Hon. Matt Kean MP.

The Data Innovation Awards attracted organisations from across the world, with five awards conferred demonstrating best practices in developing and implementing emerging technologies.