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Sarah Moran is co-founder of Girl Geek Academy, a movement to bring one million women and girls into technology careers by 2030. In 2014, Sarah and four fellow co-founders came together to run the world's first hackathon for women, #SheHacks, which became the catalyst for establishing Girl Geek Academy.

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Sarah is also co-founder of PatientNotes, an AI-powered clinical documentation platform she co-founded in 2023. PatientNotes uses speech recognition and generative artificial intelligence to automatically draft clinical notes for healthcare professionals based on patient conversations, crafting user-friendly clinical notes that are easy to review and finalise. As a woman founder in the AI space, Sarah is leading innovation in healthcare technology, focused on supporting 1000s of customers for PatientNotes and driving the company's mission of revolutionising clinical documentation.

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Sarah has leveraged her AI skills to teach thousands: AI High, a program with Telstra Foundation and Microsoft, empowers high school girls and gender-diverse students with skills in artificial intelligence and technology through free online workshops every week. #SheHacksSwift is a one-week work experience program teaching girls Swift, the programming language used to create apps for Apple devices. Through these programs, Sarah has built communities teaching AI to thousands of high school girls and continues to advocate for systemic change in technology education.

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In 2025, Sarah assembled a partnership which secured a $4.9 million investment under the federal government's Building Women's Careers Program through the FemTech project, working with partners including TAFE Queensland, Gender Lens Australia, Koorie Women Mean Business and Women's Agenda to support women throughout their technology careers.

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Sarah has worked with more than 1000 teachers in delivering the Australian National Digital Technologies Curriculum, and released the "Girl Geeks" series of middle-grade fiction books with Penguin Random House about girls exploring the world of STEM. Working to shift the way political leaders, schools, young girls and professional women think about and practice STEM, Girl Geek Academy is for girls from the age of five right through to 95.

Sarah won the Australian Women's Weekly Woman of the Future award in the Entrepreneur and Business category in 2018 and subsequently went on to be a judge alongside fellow judges such as Julie Bishop, Ita Buttrose and Narelda Jacobs.

Her achievements have been recognised through numerous accolades including the QUT Young Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alumni Award (2018), the Cisco Women in IT Awards Community Award (2019) for Girl Geek Academy, being named among Queensland's 40 Under 40 young leaders, and being featured as one of Time Out Melbourne's Future Shapers in Community and Culture (2021). She was also a finalist for Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year in 2018.

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She has served on the Victorian Minister's Advisory Council for Gender Equality, the RMIT Games Industry Advisory Committee, and the Melbourne International Games Week Steering Committee.

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Sarah is regularly called upon by the media as an expert on gender equality, AI, and STEM issues. She appears as a regular expert on Channel 9's Today Show and on Download This Show on ABC Radio National, where she provides insights on technology, AI developments, and digital innovation.