At a glance
Austrade is taking 26 Australian AI companies to Singapore from 28 to 30 September 2026, exhibiting as Team Australia at Tech Week Singapore.
Twelve of the 26 sell AI security, identity, fraud or compliance software, the largest group in the delegate directory Austrade published for the trip.
Three sell AI compute: the ASX-listed inference provider SCX.ai, the GPU cloud Sharon AI and XENON, a Melbourne builder of NVIDIA AI factories.
SCX.ai has published a plan for eight inference nodes across Asia in 2027, Singapore among them, after a second Australian node due by the end of 2026.
Data Centres Australia chief executive Belinda Dennett joins the mission, including a discussion on AI at scale with OpenAI, Sharon AI, Coevolve and XENON.
Austrade, Australia's trade and investment agency, is taking 26 Australian AI companies to Singapore from 28 to 30 September 2026, and vendors of AI security and compliance software make up the largest group. The companies exhibit as Team Australia at Tech Week Singapore at the Sands Expo on 29 and 30 September, on a mission Austrade runs with the Tech Council of Australia, the technology industry's peak body.
Austrade has promoted the pavilion under five headings: AI infrastructure platforms, data and analytics, enterprise AI solutions, AI governance and cybersecurity, and industry applications. Its delegate directory describes what each company sells and to whom. Twelve of the 26 delegates sell AI governance and cybersecurity software, and three sell AI compute, one of which, SCX.ai, has published a plan for a Singapore node in 2027.
The compute sellers are pitching into a market that releases capacity by allocation. Singapore's data centres hold more than 1.6GW, and the government awarded its latest 200MW on 21 August 2026 in four 50MW lots on Jurong Island, the industrial island southwest of the city. Australia holds about the same: 1.6GW of data centres in Australia on a count published on 26 August 2026 by the industry body Data Centres Australia and the consultancy Mandala. The same report valued Australian AI compute exports at up to A$4.1 billion a year.
AI security and compliance vendors make up the largest group
Seven of the 12 sell tools that control or protect AI systems. Aigentsphere and ViewDS Identity Solutions manage the identity and permissions of AI agents, DTEX monitors insider risk, and FIRCY plants decoys to expose rogue agents on a network. GuardWare encrypts files so they stay locked when an AI tool opens them, TomorrowX sells what it calls a "sovereign control plane" for prompts, data and models, and Audacix automates security testing for software companies.
The other five work in compliance and investigation. DHI automates market surveillance and counts Bursa Malaysia, Malaysia's stock exchange, and ASIC, Australia's corporate regulator, among its engagements. IDmeta verifies customer identity for banks and fintechs in Australia and Southeast Asia, Vericent flags fraud and audit anomalies, and Connecting Dots sells cyber risk platforms to government and critical infrastructure. Nuix, the ASX-listed investigations software company, processes large unstructured datasets for regulators and enterprises.
SCX.ai, Sharon AI and XENON bring the compute
SCX.ai sells AI inference, the work of answering queries on a trained model, from chips designed by US company SambaNova. The company listed on the ASX on 21 August 2026 after raising A$40 million at 30 cents a share, and reported 49 paying customers and A$6.5 million of contracted annual recurring revenue at 31 July 2026. Its first node runs in Equinix's SY5 facility in Alexandria, one of the Sydney sites in the Australian data centre directory.
A second node is due in South Australia by the end of 2026. Equinix's case study on SCX.ai then puts eight more across Asia in 2027, naming Singapore, Jakarta and Manila, built out on Equinix's global footprint.
Sharon AI, one of the neocloud providers in Australia that rent GPUs to AI developers, reported 212MW of secured AI factory capacity for deployment in 2026 and 2027 in its second-quarter results on 6 August 2026. Its total contract value stood at US$8.8 billion.
XENON, based in Melbourne's south-east, designs and builds AI factories on NVIDIA hardware and holds NVIDIA's Elite partner status with AI Factory, SuperPOD and networking certifications for Asia Pacific. NVIDIA gave it its Enterprise Partner of the Year award for 2025 at the GTC conference in San Jose on 16 March 2026.
Two other delegates sell into data centre construction and networks. SyncEzy, whose software links the Procore construction platform with Microsoft SharePoint, names builders of hyperscale data centre projects as its target market. Coevolve, a Sydney managed network and security provider, has offices in Singapore and in Cyberjaya, Malaysia.
Mentana, Xephyr and Veyor already name Southeast Asian markets
The remaining ten sell applications, and three already name Southeast Asian markets. Mentana sells supply chain planning agents and serves enterprises in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. Xephyr, which builds agents for Wesfarmers, Telstra and Bupa, plans to expand into Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. Veyor, which runs deliveries and site access on construction projects, names Singapore as a growth market for its Asia Pacific expansion.
Company | Austrade heading | What it sells |
|---|---|---|
AI infrastructure | Design, build and operation of NVIDIA AI factories | |
AI infrastructure | Sovereign AI inference on SambaNova chips, ASX-listed | |
AI infrastructure | GPU cloud, AI platform and storage | |
AI infrastructure | Managed network and security for multinationals | |
Governance and cyber | Oversight and accountability for AI agents | |
Governance and cyber | Automated security testing for software companies | |
Governance and cyber | Cyber risk and compliance platforms for government | |
Governance and cyber | Compliance automation and market surveillance | |
Governance and cyber | Insider risk and AI behaviour monitoring | |
Governance and cyber | Cyber deception that exposes rogue AI agents | |
Governance and cyber | Data discovery, monitoring and file encryption | |
Governance and cyber | Identity verification and anti-money-laundering checks | |
Governance and cyber | Investigations software for unstructured data | |
Governance and cyber | Control of AI data flows inside the customer network | |
Governance and cyber | Audit and fraud anomaly detection | |
Governance and cyber | Identity and authorisation for AI agents | |
Data and analytics | Causal analytics for defence, resources and energy | |
Data and analytics | Analytics agents run inside the client's environment | |
Enterprise AI | AI venture building and product development | |
Enterprise AI | Knowledge capture that finds automation candidates | |
Enterprise AI | Legal, claims and procurement workflow software | |
Industry applications | Supply chain forecasting and planning agents | |
Industry applications | Wearables and edge AI tracking worker fatigue | |
Industry applications | Computer vision for water safety and maritime security | |
Industry applications | Procore to SharePoint integration for builders | |
Industry applications | Logistics software for construction sites |
Source: Austrade, Australian AI Innovators delegate directory, Tech Week Singapore 2026, grouped under Austrade's pavilion headings. September 2026.
The mission runs under a renewed AI agreement
Australia and Singapore renewed their memorandum of understanding on AI cooperation on 16 December 2024. On 8 October 2025, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong committed to advance joint work under it and under a companion cybersecurity memorandum, on top of a digital economy agreement in force since 8 December 2020.
Austrade's directory says the trip is supported by the A$50 million Accessing New Markets Initiative, which Trade Minister Don Farrell announced on 15 September 2025. Three state trade agencies, Investment NSW, Global Victoria and South Australia's, are delivery partners, and Global Victoria covers Austrade's A$3,000 participation fee for Victorian companies. The 2025 mission took 35 companies to the same show.
Singaporean capital already runs the other way. Keppel, one of the four operators awarded capacity on Jurong Island, has secured the rights to lease a 123-hectare site near Morwell in Victoria's Latrobe Valley with up to 720MW of power.
The two direct cables between Perth and Singapore, the Australia to Singapore cable and INDIGO West, were both out of service in early September 2026.
Software dominates the cohort as AirTrunk and NEXTDC sell into Asia directly
Austrade's call went to "export-ready" technology companies with "solutions ready for deployment" into enterprises, at a A$3,000 fee. Global Victoria's listing names four focus areas: enterprise AI, specialised applications, trusted AI and cybersecurity, and digital infrastructure and data platforms. Quantum, which shared the billing with AI on the 2025 mission to the same show, is left off this year's list.
The 12 governance and cybersecurity vendors arrive as Singapore legislates the security of its digital infrastructure. The Digital Infrastructure Bill, introduced on 8 September 2026, would license data centres of 10MW or more, and cloud providers averaging at least S$100 million a year in Singapore revenue over three years, for security and resilience.
AirTrunk and NEXTDC already run data centres in Southeast Asia and sell into the region on their own. AirTrunk counted three Singapore facilities totalling 180MW in March 2026 and was reported in July to be preparing a Singapore REIT float of up to US$1.5 billion. NEXTDC opened KL1 in Kuala Lumpur on 14 May 2026.
Firmus, the Australian AI factory developer, is seeking about US$10 billion for NVIDIA chips for its 360MW campus on Batam, the Indonesian island across the strait, ahead of a targeted 22 October ASX listing.
Belinda Dennett, chief executive of the industry body Data Centres Australia, is travelling with the mission. She will join a discussion on the foundations for AI at scale with OpenAI, Sharon AI, Coevolve and XENON, and moderate a Data Centre World Asia panel on Australia's political, physical and power constraints. The five shows at Tech Week cover cloud and AI infrastructure, DevOps, cybersecurity, big data and AI, and data centres.
What to watch
The pavilion. Team Australia exhibits at booth 5-C13 in Big Data & AI World Asia on 29 and 30 September 2026, on Austrade's listing. The directory names Austrade's Singapore trade and investment commissioner, David Wise, as the mission's contact, and Dennett will be on the pavilion on 29 September.
SCX.ai's second node. South Australia is due by the end of 2026, and the eight Asian nodes, Singapore among them, follow in 2027 on the Equinix plan.
Sharon AI's ASX listing. The company approved seeking an ASX dual listing through CHESS Depositary Interests on 13 April 2026.
Singapore's Digital Infrastructure Bill. The ministry expects debate at the next sitting of Parliament, with licence conditions set in rules after it passes.