SURROUND is an Australian software engineering company that develops and delivers advanced semantic, knowledge graph, and machine learning (ML) systems and services. Our forté is in working with complex, multi-dimensional data. Our vision is to solve the world's most complex data and metadata management problems ethically to achieve real world outcomes for society. SURROUND's core mission is to provide value to our customers and the broader citizen community by providing government agencies and businesses with cost-effective solutions that address and solve organisational complexity. Our solutions leverage global standards and world-class algorithms in the design of generic or customised solutions. OUR DIFFERENCE We believe there is no such thing as a ‘magic’ AI. Our core values demonstrate a promise of traceable, explainable AI. Our product suite delivers on this promise within a value framework of 5 pillars: > Explainable decisions through enriched data > Locate, categorise and connect data Make sense of connected knowledge by providing context and using prediction techniques Govern the use of language in identified domains > Use semantically-led explainable AI to unlock, transform and deploy static knowledge sources OUR EXPERIENCE Collectively we have over a century of software and data architecture, design and operations experience. Our staff include seasoned veterans of Australian government IT and international technology giants as well as internationally-renowned Semantic Web, spatial data and machine reasoning and conceptual modelling experts. In 2015, SURROUND's two founders (Dr Brad McCusker and Marcus Jowsey) set out to transform the way government and business work. Our focus is linking knowledge in order to assist organisations to make improved empirical, traceable, and explainable decisions. The SURROUND team has created an integrated knowledge engineering platform using semantic, knowledge graph, and machine learning (ML) technologies.