Aishwarya Kansakar is a multi-award-winning AI and automation entrepreneur, Not-for profit (NFPO) Executive, STEM education innovator, and Automation engineer based in Melbourne, Victoria. SBS World News (2024) featured Aishwarya as a “global role model for STEM entrepreneurship and technology leadership.” Digital Innovations Futures Victoria (DIFVIC) named Aishwarya as one of Victoria's Top women in STEM alongside the likes of late Victorian innovator Alice Anderson. In 2022, Aishwarya became one of the youngest people in the State of Victoria to be inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women by the Minister for Women and Minister for Jobs and Industry, Hon. Natalie Hutchins MP. She was nominated for the Prime Minister's Science Prize for Innovation in 2024 for developing novel technology systems. Aishwarya has been awarded the Australian National Women in Digital Rising Star Award in 2021, Australia’s Top 50 People in Electronic Commerce Award in 2020, the Tech Diversity Education Award in 2024, and the 7 News Young Achievers IKON Award in 2020.  Aishwarya continues to be a global role model and champion for STEM careers and entrepreneurship. 

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Aishwarya is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Women 4 STEM; Australia's leading STEM non-profit organization established in 2005. Aishwarya leads over 300 volunteers who contribute over 35,000 volunteer hours every year. Her leadership enables operations of programs that create over 44 events and training programs annually impacting over 70 schools and 66,000 women and girls in STEM (Link: Women 4 STEM). 

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Aishwarya is the CEO and Co-founder of Syncrowin pioneering a World First AI powered industrial autopilot revolutionising sustainability in mining, power and manufacturing. Aishwarya leads a team of engineers and software developers building this technology. The industrial sector, including mining, manufacturing, and power, accounts for more than 56% of Australia's hazardous waste generation and one thirds of energy consumption. Aishwarya and her team of engineers have built technologies that make these industries more sustainable. 

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In 2024, Aishwarya co-developed a Worlds First STEM teaching Model with Monash Universities Faculty or Education. This model is backed by Monash CPW (Fleer’s Conceptual Play World - Monash University) larger supported by a AUD $3.2 Million Federal Laureate Fellowship Grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). The model has been featured on ABC News Radio and SBS World News. It has been nominated for the world's highest education award the prestigious Yidan Prize of Education (HK$15 million) (The Yidan Prize). This model contributes for the national evidence-based model of intentional STEM teaching for play-based settings through CPW which directly impacts 2700 educators and 40000 young girls across Australia. 

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Growing up during a civil war in Nepal with no access to basic resources, Aishwarya believes that education gave her an opportunity to change her life which is why she continues to giveback through education. She teaches Generative AI to students from CALD and BIPOC backgrounds at the ADRA AFRI- AUS Care Center in Springvale, Victoria. She is also serves as a STEM mentor for Post Graduate students at The University of Melbourne along with mentoring professionals in the Joan Kirner Emerging Leaders Program by Leadership Victoria. She also served as a mentor for Leadership Vicotria's Joan Kirner Emerging Leaders Program for the State Government of Victoria. 

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Aishwarya has spoken at global conferences including the Generate 22 - National AI and Robotics Conference in Australia, World Assembly for Women in Japan, Yenching Global Symposium in China, Australasian Science Education Research Association in New Zealand and the Victoria IT Leadership Summit 2022 to name a few. She continues to speak on topics such as RPA, digital transformation, hyper-automation, and AI strategy to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to thrive in technology.