We are proud to announce that Patient Zero has been named a triple finalist at the ARN Innovation Awards 2025. This recognition underscores our commitment to 100% onshore capability and technical excellence in delivering complex enterprise software solutions across Australia.
Our nomination in the Enterprise Innovation category validates our unique embedded engineering model. Unlike traditional outsourcing that simply fills seats, our approach focuses on deep integration to solve high-stakes challenges for Australia's largest organisations.
This recognition highlights our success in helping 1000+ employee organisations tackle technical debt, enhance security, and drive digital transformation. It proves that 100% onshore teams, working in real-time collaboration with client stakeholders, can deliver complex modernisation outcomes at scale that offshore models cannot match.
Co-CEO Paul Seymour has been named a finalist for Technical Excellence, highlighting his leadership in DevSecOps maturity and software engineering.
Paul’s focus on 'Developer Experience' is a strategic lever for reducing delivery risk. By empowering teams with AI-augmented workflows and modern tooling, Paul helps our clients build sustainable internal capability, ensuring they own the assets and the knowledge long after delivery is complete.
Co-CEO Demelza Green has been recognised for Marketing Excellence, celebrating her strategic approach to building Patient Zero's brand presence in the Australian technology market.
Drawing on a deep background in Product Management and UX Design, verified by her win as Women in Digital UX Leader Award in 2023 and a previous ARN Innovation Management Award, Demelza applies rigorous delivery principles to brand strategy.
She approached the Patient Zero brand as an experience design challenge: gathering market feedback, testing hypotheses, and rolling out iterative changes just as we would for a software product. The result is a reconnection to the company's heritage, which is embedded in zombie culture, fun, and innovative thinking, positioning Patient Zero as a genuine thought leader in the channel.
For our clients and partners, these nominations serve as independent validation of our delivery model.
Being named a finalist for Enterprise Innovation verifies that Patient Zero is a top-tier partner for large-scale digital transformation, capable of solving high-stakes challenges for organisations with 1000+ employees.
Our leadership in modern software engineering practices, specifically DevSecOps maturity and AI-augmented workflows, has been recognised as a strategic asset that reduces delivery risk and technical debt.
Our unique approach combines technical depth with Product and UX mastery. This acknowledgment of our marketing strategy, led by a former UX Leader of the Year, proves that we apply rigorous delivery principles to every part of our business.
As one of only a handful of finalists selected from over 470 nominations, this cements the value of our 100% onshore model. It confirms that Australian-based teams drive better outcomes than offshore alternatives.
The ARN Innovation Awards are the market-leading platform for the Australian ICT ecosystem, celebrating the achievements of partners, vendors, and distributors. In 2025, the awards received over 470 nominations, making Patient Zero's selection as a finalist in three categories a significant mark of distinction in the Australian channel.
"The calibre of this year's Innovation Awards finalists is a true reflection of the creativity, resilience and forward-thinking spirit driving the tech industry forward," said Julia Talevski, ARN Editor.
Embedded Software Teams
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App Modernisation & AI
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Product Strategy & UX
Learn how we apply experience design principles to solve complex B2B challenges. View Product Strategy
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Patient Zero is a sovereign capability partner for Government and Enterprise. We don't just write code; we deliver rigorous, secure engineering solutions for mission-critical systems. Verified on Federal (BuyICT) and State (QITC, eServices) panels.
