H2O.ai, the industry-leading company in enterprise artificial intelligence, has announced a strategic partnership with Australian technology advisory firm CAN.B Group. This collaboration is intended to help speed up the adoption of secure, compliant, and governed artificial intelligence systems that are suitable for the Australian government, critical infrastructures, and other highly regulated industries.
The use of H2O.ai’s predictive, generative, and agentic AI capabilities within the sovereign ecosystem of CAN.B Group, which is called AUSOVRN®, offers organizations a clear path to using AI while remaining fully in control of their data and regulations.
Driving Secure and Governed AI Adoption in Australia
With developments in regulatory frameworks and data privacy, there is an expectation on the part of Australian businesses that there needs to be a shift from AI strategy to scalable and governed operations. This is where the collaboration of H2O.ai and CAN.B Group brings in much needed expertise to overcome some important adoption challenges.
Through the AUSOVRN® ecosystem, clients gain access to a practical framework spanning initial use-case design, solution development, secure model deployment, continuous governance, and long-term capability building.
“Australian government and critical infrastructure buyers don’t just want AI, they want sovereign AI they can prove is compliant and under their control before it touches a live system,” said Jamie Lim, Vice President of Partnerships, APAC, at H2O.ai. “That’s what AUSOVRN gives them, and why H2O.ai belongs inside it.”
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Core Focus Areas and Strategic Impact
The partnership initially targets federal, state, territory, and local government bodies alongside key regulated industries, including defense, national security, law enforcement, healthcare, financial services, insurance, and critical utilities.
Key operational focus areas include:
- Enterprise AI for Governance & Lifecycle Management: Efficient implementation and audit capabilities for predictive and generative models.
- Agentic Workflows & Secure Assistants: Cutting-edge decision-intelligence and task automation technologies for difficult operational scenarios.
- Broad Deployment Strategies: Deployments done on-premise, air-gap and sovereign clouds to satisfy strict security requirements.
- Risk & Anomaly Detection: Predictive analytics to support fraud detection, threat analysis and forecast operational outcomes.
- Easier Procurement Process: Improved procurement experience through CAN.B Group membership in the Australian Government’s Digital Marketplace Panel 2.
“H2O.ai brings the enterprise-grade AI capability required to support complex and highly regulated environments. Through AUSOVRN®, we can integrate that capability into a sovereign operating model that gives customers greater control, flexibility and confidence as their missions and technology requirements evolve,” said Alex McNamara, Managing Director and Co-Founder at CanB.
